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Answer any four of the following questions:

(a) How did the king and the hermit help the wounded man?

(b) How does Ravi get milk for the kitten?

(c) What was Nishad's impression when he saw Mr. Nath?

(d) How fire is a good servant?

(e) "Nothing is easier than taking off the gear-case". Comment on or continue this sentence in the light of what actually happened.

(f) When has the poet has decided to go in the shed? Why does he still keep postponing it?

Answer:

(a) The king and the hermit dressed the bleeding wound of the man, but the bleeding did not stop. The King redressed it, till the wounded man was relieved and the bleeding stopped. Afterwards the king gave him fresh water to drink, and laid him on the bed.

(b) Ravi gets milk for the kitten on the pretext that it will drink the milk because it was hungry. The kitten even posed as if it was drinking the milk in front of its Ravi. It even drank some. It went out and poured the rest of the milk into a coconut shell and put the tumbler back after washing it so that Ravi may not be suspicious.

(c) Nishad's impression, when he saw Mr. Nath, was that he looked very thin and scared. It looked like that he could not afford to eat properly due to his poverty,

(d) Fire is a good servant. When kept under control fire helps us do many things. In most of our houses we cook food on fire. We use fire to keep us warm during winter. It is also used in generating electricity.

(e) "Nothing is easier than taking off the gear-case but is an impossible task to fix it back." The author's friend was totally confident about repairing it. The author believed him but in less than five minutes the gear-case was opened up in two pieces, everything was lying scattered about and the whole area was in a mess.

(f) Although the poet has decided to go to the shed he is still not going because he is afraid to go there alone. It is a closed shed which is dark and dusty so he feels scared.