CBSE Class 12 English HOTs Indigo

Passages for Comprehension: -

Passage-1
When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in Sevagram, in central India, he said, “I will tell you how it happened that I decided to urge the departure of the British. It was in 1917.”
He had gone to the December 1916 annual convention of the Indian National Congress party in Lucknow. There were 2,301 delegates and many visitors. During the proceedings, Gandhi recounted, “a peasant came up to me looking like any other peasant in India, poor and emaciated, and said, `I am Rajkumar Shukla. I am from Champaran and I want you to come to my district’!” Gandhi had never heard of the place. It was in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, near the kingdom of Nepal.

Question. Where was the ashram of Gandhi Ji situated?
(a) Rohtak
(b) New Delhi
(c) Champaran
(d) Sevagram.
Answer. D

Question. When did the annual convention of Congress party hold?
(a) 1916
(b) 1917
(c) 1920
(d) 1942
Answer. A

Question. In which part of India was Gandhi Ji’s ashram situated?
(a) Central India
(b) Eastern India
(c) Northern India
(d) Southern India
Answer. A

Question. What was the name of peasant who took Gandhi Ji to Champaran?
(a) Rajkumar Shukla
(b) Malkani
(c) Gandhi
(d) Kripalani
Answer. A

Question. Why did Shukla meet Gandhi?
(a) to permit him to attend the convention of Congress Party.
(b) to allow him to see the foothills of Himalayas.
(c) to complain about the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar.
(d) none of the above.
Answer. C

Question. Find the word in the passage which means the same as ‘supressed’
Answer. emaciated

Passage -2
Shukla was sitting on his haunches at the appointed spot in Calcutta when Gandhi arrived; he waited till Gandhi was free. Then the two of them boarded a train for the city of Patna in Bihar. There Shukla led him to the house of a lawyer named Rajendra Prasad who later became President of the Congress party and of India. Rajendra Prasad was out of town, but the servants knew Shukla as a poor yeoman who pestered their master to help the indigo sharecroppers. So they let him stay on the grounds with his companion, Gandhi, whom they took to be another peasant. But Gandhi was not permitted to draw water from the well lest some drops from his bucket pollute the entire source; how did they know that he was not an untouchable?

Question. Where was Shukla waiting for Gandhi Ji?
(a) in New Delhi
(b) in Patna
(c) in Lucknow
(d) in Calcutta
Answer. D

Question. Where did Gandhi Ji and Shukla board a train for?
(a) Champaran
(b) Patna
(c) Delhi
(d) Agra
Answer. B

Question. Whose house did they go to?
(a) Malkani’s
(b) Rajender Prasad’s
(c) The Magistrate’s
(d) Kripalani’s
Answer. B

Question. The servants mistook Gandhi Ji for……….
(a) a lawyer
(b) an untouchable
(c) ateacher
(d) a doctor
Answer. B

Question. Why was Gandhi Ji not permitted to draw water from the well?
(a) because he looked like a peasant
(b) because he was against the villagers
(c) because he was thought to be an untouchable
(d) bone of the above
Answer. C

Question. Find the word in the passage which means the same as ‘farmer’
Answer. peasant