Question

School Breaks Up

With dry lips, parched throat, ink-stained fingers, and exhaustion on one side and exaltation on the other, Swaminathan strode out of the examination hall on the last day.

He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given their papers as he had done, twenty minutes before time. Standing in the verandah, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt slightly uneasy when he saw his friends, busy writing, thinking or revising their answers.

Swami suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon. But how could he have stayed in the hall longer? The Tamil paper was set to go on till five o'clock. He had found himself writing the last question at four-thirty. Out of the six questions set, he had answered the first and third questions satisfactorily, the second was doubtful; the fourth, he knew, was clearly wrong. He took only a minute to answer the sixth question.

The question was: 'What moral do you infer from the story of the Brahmin and the Tiger?' (A Brahmin was passing along the edge of a pond. The tiger hailed him from the other bank and offered him a gold bangle. The Brahmin first declined the offer, but when the tiger protested its innocence and sincerity and insisted upon his taking the bangle, he waded through the water. Before he could hold out his hand for the bangle, he was inside the tiger.) Swami had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it. He took a minute to decide whether the moral was: 'We must never accept a gold bangle when it is offered by a tiger' or 'Love of gold bangles can cost one one's life'. He saw more logic in the latter and wrote it down. He tried to check his paper after that but before he had read a few lines of the first question, he was bored. He then set his pen to work and went on improving the little dash under the last line indicating the end, till it became an elaborate complicated pattern. Ten minutes had passed. He saw two or three boys giving in their papers and going out, and felt happy. He briskly folded his paper and submitted his paper too.


Q2 of total 25 questions Not Answered: 24
Q2 The observations expressed in the first paragraph are probably signs preceding a sense of _____________.
1 relief
2 dislike
3 guilt
4 ignorance

Answer 1

Answer:

In my opinion the Answer is Relief