Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:

Question 1.
Gandhi protested against the delay. He read a statement pleading guilty. He was involved, he told the court, in a “conflict of duties” – on the one hand, not to set a bad example as a lawbreaker; on the other hand, to render the “humanitarian and national service” for which he had come.

He disregarded the order to leave, “not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience”. He asked the penalty due. The magistrate announced that he would pronounce sentence after a two-hour recess and asked Gandhi to furnish bail for those 120 minutes. Gandhi refused. The judge released him without bail. When the court reconvened, the judge said he would not deliver the judgment for several days. Meanwhile, he allowed Gandhi to remain at liberty.

Questions :
1. What was Gandhiji involved in?
A. Lawbreaking with the indigo farmers.
B. Rendering humanitarian and national service.
C. Ignoring his duties.
D. Not setting a bad example as a lawbreaker.
Answer:
A. Lawbreaking with the indigo farmers.

2. One of these sentences is false :
A. Gandhiji protested against the delay.
B. He set a bad example as a lawbreaker.
C. He did not want to follow the voice of conscience.
D. He did not obey the order to leave.
Answer:
C. He did not want to follow the voice of conscience.

3. What do the words ‘the higher law of our being’ mean?
A. Law of his superior.
B. What his conscience dictates.
C. Law of court.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
B. What his conscience dictates.

4. Gandhiji was free from the sentence ………………. .
A. for those 120 minutes.
B. till the judgment comes for several days.
C. till he gets bail.
D. till the court reconvened.
Answer:
B. till the judgment comes for several days.

Question 2.

Health conditions were miserable. Gandhi got a doctor to volunteer his services for six months. Three medicines were available – castor oil, quinine and sulphur ointment. Anybody who showed a coated tongue was given a dose of castor oil; anybody with malaria fever received quinine plus castor oil; anybody with skin eruptions received ointment plus castor oil.

Gandhi noticed the filthy state of women’s clothes. He asked Kasturbai to talk to them about it. One woman took Kasturbai into her hut and said, “Look, there is no box or cupboard here for clothes. The sari I am wearing is the only one I have.” During his long stay in Champaran, Gandhi kept a long-distance watch on the ashram. He sent regular instructions by mail and asked for financial accounts. Once he wrote to the residents that it was time to fill in the old latrine trenches and dig new ones otherwise the old ones would begin to smell bad.
Questions :
1. Castor oil was given to the patient who …
A. was suffering from Malaria.
B. had some gastric problem.
C. had some skin problem.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’

2. The clothes of the women in Champaran kept filthy because ……………………. .
A. they were illiterate.
B. they did not have the sense of cleanliness.
C. they had only one sari to wear.
D. they had no time to wash the clothes.
Answer:
C. they had only one sari to wear.

3. One of the following sentences is not true: During his long stay in Champaran, Gandhiji ………………….. .
A. lived in the Ashram.
B. kept on travelling all through region.
C. sent regular instructions to Ashram by mail.
D. kept on demanding financial accounts.
Answer:
A. lived in the Ashram.

4. At the Ashram, new latrine trenches were to be made because …………………………… .
A. old latrine trenches were overflowing.
B. old latrine trenches would start smelling bad.
C. old latrine trenches were not in enough number.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’.
Answer:
B. old latrine trenches would start smelling bad.

Question 3.
In everything Gandhi did, moreover, he tried to mould a new free Indian who could stand on his own feet and thus make India free. Early in the Champaran action, Charles Freer Andrews, the English pacifist who had become a devoted follower of the Mahatma, came to bid Gandhi farewell before going on a tour of duty to the Fiji Islands. Gandhi’s lawyer friends thought it would be a good idea for Andrews to stay in Champaran and help them.

Andrews was willing if Gandhi agreed. But Gandhi was vehemently opposed. He said, “You think that in this unequal fight it would be helpful if we have an Englishman on our side. This shows the weakness of your heart. The cause is just and you must rely upon yourselves to win the battle. You should not seek a prop in Mr Andrews because he happens to be an Englishman”. “He had read our minds correctly,” Rajendra Prasad comments, “and we had no reply… Gandhi in this way taught us a lesson in self-reliance”. Self-reliance, Indian independence and help to sharecroppers were all bound together.
Questions:
1. In his efforts to make India free, Gandhiji tried to …………………… .
A. do everything.
B. shape a new free Indian.
C. make each individual independent.
D. None of these three
Answer:
B. shape a new free Indian.

2. Gandhiji’s lawyer friends wanted Andrews ………………………. .
A. to stay in Champaran and help them.
B. to bid Gandhi farewell.
C. to go to the Fiji Islands.
D. oppose Gandhiji.
Answer:
A. to stay in Champaran and help them.

3. Gandhiji did not want Andrews to stay back and help them because ……………….. .
A. he was an Englishman.
B. Gandhiji believed that they should not seek support from other than Indian.
C. Mr Andrews was not a reliable. man.
D. Both A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
D. Both A’ and ‘B’

4. The word in the passage which means ‘strongly’ is :
A. ‘mould’.
B. ‘vehemently’.
C. ‘self-reliance’.
D. ‘sharecroppers’.
Answer:
B. ‘vehemently’.