Q A. Read the following passage carefully.
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A pupil of an Anglo Vernacular school in Allahabad was once asked to define a river. The clever little
fellow gave a perfectly correct definition. When he was asked what river he had seen,
this unfortunate mite,
living at the confluence of the Ganges and Jamuna, replied that he had not seen any. He dimly had an idea
that his familiar world ( which so easily came to him through the medium of his own direct consciousness )
could never be the great leamed world of geography. In later life, he must have got the information that
even his own country had its place in geography and actually had its rivers But suppose this news did not
reach him at all till some foreign traveller told him one day that his was great big country, that the
Himalayas were great big mountains that the Indus , Ganges and Brahmaputra were great big rivers - the
shock of it could not but upset his mental balance, and in the reaction against the self-contempt, he had
nursed so long, he would lose no time in making himself absurdly hoarse by shouting that other countries
were merely countries, but his was heaven itself! His previous understanding of the world was worse-it was
ludicrously false with the falsehood of sophisticated foolishness.
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