The Passing Away of Bapu – Nayantara Sehgal | class ten x suggestion | madhyamik importance | The Passing Away of Bapu importance question | comprehension exercises | The Passing Away of Bapu unit 3 questions and answers

1.       Choose the correct alternative to completethe following sentences:

(a)    Gandhiji’s ashes were taken to

(i)                  Ahmedabad

(ii)                Allahabad

(iii)               Delhi

(iv)              Benaras

(v)                Ans: (ii) Allahabad

(b)   A huge crowd had gathered by the

(i)                  Ganges

(ii)                Yamuna

(iii)               Brahmaputra

(iv)              Narmada

Ans: (i) Ganges

(c)    Gandhiji awakened people to one another’s

(i)                  indifference

(ii)                jealousy

(iii)               suffering

(iv)              greed

Ans:- (iii) suffering

2.       complete the following sentences with information from the text

(a)    people on the special train sang bhajans

(b)   the author felt she had grown up within a magic circle

(c)    Bapu had passed away but his India would continue to live in his children

3.       Fill in the chart with information from the text

cause	Effect
People could feel Gandhiji’s presence amid the flowers and the songs	People did not weep anymore
The magic circle vanished	The author felt unprotected
The author’s moral values were not so weak	The author felt that she would n’t lose courage so easily