Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. One day Gandhiji and Vallabhbhai Patel were talking in the Yeravda jail when Gandhijiremarked, “At times even a dead snake can be of use.” And he related the following story to illustrate his point: Once a snake entered the house of an old woman. The old woman was frightened and cried out for help. Hearing her, the neighbors rushed up and killed the snake. Then they returned to their homes. Instead of throwing the dead snake far away, the old woman flung it onto her roof
2. Sometime later a kite flying overhead spotted the dead snake. In its beak, the kite had a pearl necklace which it had picked up from somewhere. It dropped the necklace and flew away with the dead snake. When the old woman saw a bright, shining object on her roof she pulled it down with a pole. Finding that it was a pearl necklace she danced with joy!
3. One day a bania found a snake in his house. He could not find anyone to kill it for him andhad not the courage to kill it himself. Besides, he hated killing any living creature. So, he covered the snake with a pot and let it there. 4. As luck would have it, that night some thieves broke into the bania‟s house. They entered the kitchen and saw the overturned pot. “Ah”, they thought, “the bania has hidden something valuable here.” As they lifted the pot, the snake struck. Having come with the object of stealing, they barely left with their lives.
5. Once he came out of jail, Gandhiji went from city to city, village to village collecting funds for the Charkha Sangh. During one of his tours, he addressed a meeting in Orissa.
6. After his speech a poor old woman got up. She was bent with age, her hair was grey and her clothes were in tatters. The volunteers tried to stop her, but she fought her way to the place where Gandhiji was sitting. “I must see him,” she insisted and going up to Gandhiji and touched his feet.
7. Then from the folds of her sari, she brought out a copper coin and placed it at his feet.Gandhiji picked up the copper coin and put it away carefully.
8. The Charkha Sangh funds were under the charge of Jamnalal Bajaj. He asked Gandhi for the coin but Gandhi refused.
On the basis of your reading of the passage, select the suitable options-
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- (i) The old woman was frightened and cried out for help (a) on seeing a snake.
- (ii) The bania could not kill the snake because (d) All of these.
- (iii) The thieves thought the bania had hidden something valuable (c) under the pot.
- (iv) What did the old woman give to Gandhiji? - (a) Copper coin.
- (v) What is the synonym of the word ‘denied’ in para 8? - (c) Refused.
- (vi) Where did the old woman throw the dead snake? - (c) On the roof.
- (vii) What expresses best the meaning of ‘at times even a dead snake can be of use’? - (a) Even useless things can be used sometimes.
- (viii) What is the line that best sums up paragraph 2? - (c) Everything falls into place.
- (ix) What are the two correct meanings of the word ‘illustrate’? - (c) 1 and 4.
- (x) Select the option that makes the correct use of ‘address’ as used in the passage, to fill in the blanks. - (a) The parliament speaker has right to ………………. the audience sitting there.
- (xi) The kite did not know the value of …………….. and dropped it. - (b) pearl.
- (xii) The old woman wanted to touch Gandhiji’s feet (a) to pay him respect.
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