The Crooked Path Questions & Answer
A. Answer in one word or phrase:
1. Whom did the Minister see on his way?
Answer: A labourer
2. By whom was the Minister impressed?
Answer: The labourer
3. Who was in close companionship with the Prime Minister?
Answer: The counsellor
4. To whom did the Prime Minister send the wise man?
Answer: The state executioner
5. Who delivered the letter to the State Executioner instead?
Answer: The minister's son
B. Answer briefly:
1. What did the Minister ask the labourer?
Answer: The minister asked the labourer why he was digging a pit in which someone could fall.
2. What was the Minister impressed with?
Answer: The minister was impressed by the wise reply of the labourer.
3. How did the Minister rise to be the Prime Minister quickly?
Answer: The minister rose to be the Prime Minister quickly on the strength of the wise counsels he got from his counsellor.
4. Why did the Prime Minister decide to get rid of the wise man?
Answer: The Prime Minister decided to get rid of the wise man because people had come to know about the source of his wisdom.
5. How was the wise man saved from death?
Answer: The wise man was saved from death when the minister's son took away the letter which he was going to deliver to the state executioner.
6. What led to the Prime Minister's doom?
Answer: The Prime Minister's wile led him to the doom.
C. Write TRUE or FALSE:
1. A fool could only fall in the pit on the roadside.
Answer: TRUE
2. The Minister was angry at the labourer for his retort.
Answer: FALSE
3. The wise man was in close companionship with the Minister.
Answer: TRUE
4. The Minister was afraid that the source of his borrowed wisdom would be known.
The Prime Minister decided to kill his son.
Answer: TRUE
5. The Prime Minister was the cause of his own son's death.
Answer: FALSE
6. The prime minister was responsible for his own _______
Answer: TRUE
D. Choose and fill in the blanks:
1. A Minister was riding through the __________ to know how people lived.
Answer: Country
2. Only a ___________ could stumble in the pit on the roadside.
Answer: Fool
3. The Minister was __________ by the wisdom of the retort.
Answer: Impressed
4. The Minister thrived on _________ wisdom.
Answer: borrowed
5. The Prime Minister sent the wise man to the State __________
Answer: executioner
6. The Prime Minister was responsible for his own ___________
Answer: doom
Hots Cultivation
1. You have been able to do your home assignment excellently because your sister helps you. Some students have come to know about this fact. What will you do?
Answer: There is nothing negative or bad about seeking help in matters which you are not able to do yourself. I will be proud to declare that I am able to do my home assignment excellently only because of her.
2. What do you think the Prime Minister should have done in place of thinking of the wise man's death?
Answer: The Prime Minister should rather have sought the wise man's counsel how he could ward off the problem that he had perceived, and maybe the wise man would provide an easy solution to it.
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