Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Scholar’s Mother Tongue | Reading Comprehension | Class 4 | English

 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

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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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