Passage 1
Read the given
passage and answer the questions given below.
A learned
Pundit once visited the court of Akbar. He told the King and his courtiers that
he had mastery over many different languages.
The Pundit
could speak many languages fluently. He was so fluent that no one could find
out what his mother tongue was. He challenged everybody at the court to name
his mother tongue. When everyone failed, the challenge was taken up by Birbal.
1. Name the king
of the story.
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2. Who visited the
court of Akbar?
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3. What did the
pundit tell the king?
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4. What skill had
the pundit?
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5. What did he challenge
everybody at the court?
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6. Who took up the
challenge?
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7. Which word in
the passage means ‘great skill’?
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8. Find the
adjective in the sentence ‘a learned pundit once visited the court of Akbar’.
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9. Choose the
meaning of the phrase ‘taken up’.
|
Grabbed |
Accepted |
Donated |
Denied |
10. The people who assisted the king in ruling were called as
………………………………………………………………………….
Passage 2
Read the given
passage and answer the questions given below.
That night,
Birbal went quietly to the Pundit’s room when he was asleep. He whispered into
the Pundit’s ear and tickled it with a feather. The Pundit, half awake, cried
out suddenly and shouted out words in his mother tongue.
Birbal came to
the court the next day and told everyone that the Pundit’s mother tongue was
Telugu. The Pundit was surprised and accepted the truth.
King Akbar then
asked Birbal, “How did you find the truth?”
Birbal answered,
“In times of difficulty, a person speaks only in his mother tongue.” He also told
the King how he had gone to the Pundit’s room at night to find out the truth.
1. Who entered the
Pundit’s room when he was asleep?
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2. What did Birbal
do to the Pundit when he was asleep?
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3. In which
language did the Pundit shout out?
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4. What was the
Pundit’s mother tongue?
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5. Who found out
the Pundit’s mother tongue?
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6. In which
language does a person speak in times of difficulty?
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7. Which word in
the passage means spoke in a low voice?
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8. Which state did
the Pundit belong to? ( Guess the answer from his mother tongue )
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9. The present
form of the word tickled is
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10. Make a sentence
by using the word ‘mother tongue’.
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