Question

Read the following passage and answers the questions that follow:

Freedom and power brings responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom, we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. That future is not one of ease, of resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease, and inequality of opportunity The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
(a) Answer the following questions :

(i) What does service of India mean?

(ii) Who holds the responsibility of India?

(iii) What is the ambition of the greatest man according to author?

(iv) Before freedom what we have endured?
(v) On which occasion this speech was delivered?


(b) Find out the words from the passage which are similar in meaning to the following:

(1) Rests upon this assembly
(ii) A sovereign body.
(iii) Endured all the pains of labour.
(iv) That beckons us now.​

Answer 1

Answers of A :-

1. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease .
2. Doesn't in given para
3. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.
4. Before the birth of freedom, we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow.
5. Name of the Occasion : assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India.

Answers of B :-

1. a sovereign body representing the sovereign people.
2. Doesn't in given para
3. Before the birth of freedom
4. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

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