Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
(4 marks)
(a) To endeavour to understand and describe the India of today would be
the task of a brave man. To describe tomorrow’s India would verge on
rashness. What is India? That is a question which has come back again
and again to my mind. The early beginnings of our history filled me with
wonder. It was the past of a virile and vigorous race with a questing
spirit and an urge for free inquiry, and even in its earliest known period
giving evidence of a mature and tolerant civilization. Accepting life and
its joys and burdens, it was ever searching for the ultimate and the
universal.
(i) What according to the Speaker would be the task of a brave man?
(1)
(ii) What is it that has come back again and again to the speaker’s
mind? (1)
(iii) What impact did the early history of India have on the speaker’s
mind? (1)
(iv) Pick out only two expressions from the extract that describe the
early civilization of India (1)

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) To endeavour to understand and describe the India of today would be

the task of a brave man.

(ii) What is India? That is a question which has come back again

and again to the poets mind.

(iii) The early beginnings of our history filled the poet with wonder.

(iv) History of India, early beginnings of India.

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