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Tea From Assam



                    Short Questions & Answers

                    Q1. Describe the scenery outside the train. Where were Pranjol and Rajvir going by train?
                    A: There were greenery everywhere. Rajvir had never seen such greenery before. He was
                    going to Assam with his friend. Soon the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes.
                    Both of them were going to Assam. Pranjol’s father Mr. Barua was the manager of a tea
                    garden in Upper Assam.

                    Q2. What did they see on both side of the gravel-road?
                    A: While travelling they saw tea bushes. On both sides they saw acres of tea bushes. They
                    were all neatly pruned to the same height. Groups of tea-pluckers had bamboo-baskets on
                    their back.

                    Q3. Why was Pranjol’s father surprised?
                    A: Pranjol’s father was surprised when Rajvir showed how much he knew about tea by
                    saying that it was the second flush or sprouting period and that it lasted from May to July and
                    yielded the best tea

                    Q4.  At which station did the boys stop and who received them?
                    A: The boy got down at Mariani junction.

                    Q5. What are the two Legends about Tea?
                    A:   Chinese legend :-
                    A Chinese emperor always boiled water before drinking it. One day a few leaves of branches
                    burning under the pot fell into the water. It gave a delicious flavour. These were tea leaves.
                    B: Indian legend:-
                    Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations.
                    Ten tea plants grew out of his eyelids. These leaves when put in hot water and drunk,
                    banished sleep.
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