Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
At about the age of twenty five, the Prince, there of shielded from the sufferings of the world, while hunting out glanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights so moved him that he at once became a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment concerning the sorrows he had witnessed.
Questions : i. Whose age has been referred here?
ii. What was the effect of sights on the prince? iii. How did witnessing sorrow change him?
iv. What does ‘ glance’ imply in the given lines?
(Class 10 ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Sample Question Paper)

Answer 1

i)Here the age of Gautam Buddha / The Prince has been referred.

ii) The effect of sights on the prince was that all the sights have moved him so much that he at once left his home and became a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment.

iii) Gautam Buddha left his Palace and went in search of enlightenment.

iv)‘ Glance’ imply in the given lines - LOOKED AT.

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Answer 2

i)Here the age of Gautam Buddha / The Prince has been referred.

ii) The effect of sights on the prince was that all the sights have moved him so much that he at once left his home and became a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment.

iii) Gautam Buddha left his Palace and went in search of enlightenment.

iv)‘ Glance’ imply in the given lines - LOOKED AT.