Question

Read the passage given below :
It is only if we have character that freedom will produce happiness for the millions of our country. Character is not merely a copy-book ideal. It is the wisest national policy that can be conceived by any statesman. It is only if we have character that all things will work. Otherwise, not only freedom, education and the universities but the whole constitution will be mere waste paper. Hence, the emphasis on character that has to be formed by the best type. I welcome the growing number of the girls in schools and colleges because it means that the schools and colleges are carried bodily into families. We will not need to multiply universities if only our mothers are all university products. Then every home will, in itself, be a university. All boys and girls that have to be looked after, will be looked after from the earliest stages in home by a worthy principal, namely the mother of the family. Do you, then, doubt the evaluation and I make that every girl graduate is worth five boy graduates taking the average of a family to be five?
We are in very serious time because we are free. If we had not got freedom, the task would have been less serious. In the old days, our task was only to fight, to wrest freedom, enthuse one another and carry on the work. That was easy, as we know but now that we have freedom and the entire burden of the future structure of our country is on our own shoulders, we must be as true in our conduct and thoughts as a brick that supports a building is true.
We can deceive one another but can we deceive dynamics? Can we deceive the laws of nature? If bricks are not true and good and if they are not laid properly, the building will tumble down, whatever may be engineer's words or promises. In the natural structure we are dealing with, deception has no place.
Answer the following questions briefly :
(i) According to the narrator, what is the prerequisite for producing happiness for the masses after gaining independence?
(ii) Why does the narrator emphasize so much on education of girls?
(iii) Why does he say that before gaining independence, our task was simpler?
(iv) Why, according to the narrator, is being free a more serious state?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the following :
(a) Just, only
(b) Form or devise a plan or idea in mussed.
(c) Increases in number or quantity.
(d) Making of a judgement about the amount, number or value of something.

Answer 1

(i) The prerequisite for producing happiness for the masses after gaining independence is to have a sound and honest character. If we have such character, only then all things work.

(ii) Because women/girls are responsible for the upbringing of a family and their level of education is important. That's why the narrator emphasizes so much on education of girls.

(iii) Because earlier the task was only to fight, to wrest freedom, enthuse one another and carry on the work but now, the entire burden of the future structure of our country is on our own shoulders.
(iv) It is because now we are responsible for our own actions and can’t blame others.
(v) (a) Merely
(b) Conceived
(c) Multiply
((1) Evaluation

Answer 2

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