Question

Rajput Boy”
Pratap, a Rajput boy, lived with his parents in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Riding on his white pony outside the town one day, he saw a rainbow in the sky, and wandered off in search of the pot of gold believed to be at its other end. He ended up getting lost in the desert.

He got off his pony and made a big pile of rocks and stones. ’Now I shall know if I am going round and round in a ring,’ he said and rode off.

Sometime later, he saw the pile of stones in front of him!

Pratap looked at the Sun. It was midday and the Sun was almost overhead. Which way was it moving? He knew Jodhpur was on the East side of the desert. ‘I’ll see which way the Sun moves, “he said,” and then I ‘ll go the other way. That will take me to Jodhpur.”
He watched the moving shadow cast by the pile of stones. “That’s the way I must go,” said Pratap and pointed to the East.

He set off but all along the way, he stopped now and then and made piles of stones at regular intervals. Whenever he looked back, he saw the piles of stones stretching in a line across the desert behind him, and it ensured he would not get lost.
When he reached home, his parents were overjoyed to see their lost child. They admired his cleverness in making piles of stones to keep himself on track.
Pratap sipped some water very slowly, -water was very scarce in their region-had some supper and went to bed. He dreamed that he found the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. But the pot contained something more precious than gold. It contained water-lots and lots of lovely, cold water.
1) From the events in the story, the reader can say that the child used his ____to reach home. *
a)common sense and alertness
b) understanding and strength
c) memory and parents’ advice
d) money and helpful nature​

Answer 1

common sense and alertness

Answer 2

Answer:

understanding and strength