Ques. 06: Read the following extract and answer the following questions. (any two) (1 x 3 x 2)
The next morning she was taken ill. The doctor said it was a mild fever but she knew that her end was near. So
she did not intend to waste her time in talking. She kept praying and telling her beads. She died unexpectedly.
In the evening the people went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated. They found
thousand of sparrows in the room. There was no chirruping. They seemed to mourn her death. The author's
mother threw bread crumbs to them but they took no notice of the bread. When the people carried
grandmother's corpse away, they flew away quietly.
A. ........ of birds gathered on the Verandah to mourn grandmother's death.
a) Lakhs
b) Hundreds
c) Million
d) None of them
B. Meaning of underlined word in the extract is ...............
a) Large pieces of bread
b) Small pieces of bread
c) Huge pieces of bread
d) None of them
C. Author of the given extract is............
a) Gordon Cook
c) A.R. Williams
b) Alan East
d) None of them
OR
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Answer:
A. None of them
B. Small pieces of bread
Explanation:
as given in the paragraph thousand sparrows was found in the room so the answer in none of them
the member who posted this didn't underline any word but by seeing her/his answers I got to know that the underlined word might be bread crumbs so the meaning of the bread crumbs is small pieces of bread
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