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                                               IN THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS

        Questions based on an extract

        A. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
        IN the Kingdom of Fools, both the king and the minister were idiots. They didn’t want to run things like other
        kings, so they decided to change night into day and day into night. They ordered that everyone should be
        awake at night, till their fields and run their businesses only after dark, and go to bed as soon as the sun
        came up. Anyone who disobeyed would be punished with death. The people did as they were told for fear of
        death.

        Q1. Name the chapter from where this extract has been taken?
        Q2. Who is the author of this story?
        Q3. What would happen if someone disobeyed the king’s orders?
        Q4. What time do people in the kingdom of fools’ work?

        B. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
        The two men were hungry. Now that the shops were open, they went to buy some groceries. To their
        astonishment, they found that everything cost the same, a single duddu — whether they bought a measure
        of rice or a bunch of bananas, it cost a duddu. The guru and his disciple were delighted. They had never
        heard of anything like this. They could buy all the food they wanted for a rupee.

        Q1. Who are the two men? (In the first line of the extract)
        Q2. What astonished the disciple?
        Q3. How much did everything cost?
        Q4. When did people of the kingdom sleep?

        C. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
        “This is no place for us. Let’s go,” he said to his disciple. But the disciple didn’t want to leave the place.
        Everything was cheap here. All he wanted was good, cheap food. The guru said, “They are all fools. This
        won’t last very long, and you can’t tell what they’ll do to you next.”
        But the disciple wouldn’t listen to the guru’s wisdom. He wanted to stay. The guru finally gave up and said,
        “Do what you want. I’m going,” and left. The disciple stayed on, ate his fill every day — bananas and ghee
        and rice and wheat, and grew fat like a street-side sacred bull.

        Q1. What did the Guru advise his disciple to do?
        Q2. Why did the disciple refuse to leave the town?
        Q3. Who sensed some danger in the city?
        Q4. Find a word that means the same as “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good
        judgement; the quality of being wise”






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