Question

Read the passage and answer the following:


People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted
belief that if people had plenty of money, they would be happy, and get

more out of life. As a rule there is more genuine satisfaction in life and
more is obtained from life in the humble cottage of the poor man than in the

palace of rich men, who are attended by servants and governesses at a
later stage. At the same time I am glad to think they do not know what they
have missed.

It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest
poverty is, how free from perplexing care and social envies and jealousies,

how loving and united the members are in the common interest of
supporting the family that I sympathies with the rich man’s boy and

congratulate the poor man’s son. It is for these reasons that from the ranks
of the poor so many strong eminent self–reliant men have sprung. If you
read the list of the “Immortals who were not born to die” you will find that
most of them have been poor.


1.What is the popular notion about poverty?


2. Where can one get more genuine satisfaction in life?


3. Why does the author pity the rich man’s.boy?


4. Find two other words in the passage with similar meanings to
‘confusing and self–dependent.


5. How has the author compared rich with the poor? What is his

conclusion?​

Answer 1

loving and united the members are in the common interest of

supporting the family that I sympathies with the rich man’s boy and

congratulate the poor man’s son. It is for these reasons that from the ranks

of the poor so many strong eminent self–reliant men have sprung. If you

read the list of the “Immortals who were not born to die” you will find that