JKBOSE Class 9 English Tulip Prose Chapter 3 Saint of the Gutters Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 9 English Solution Chapter 3 Saint of the Gutters all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 9 Standard can download all Answer.
SAINT OF THE GUTTERS
Thinking about the Text
1.) What activities made Mother Theresa so exceptional?
Answer: Since very age young, Mother Theresa devoted her life towards the betterment of the poor and the needy people of the society. She didn’t have any material possession and dedicated to the service of the poor which is why she was exceptional.
2.) Why did Mother Theresa leave St. Mary High school?
Answer: One day Mother Theresa heard a voice as if from the God and asked her to serve people.
3.) What did Mother Theresa mean by ‘to fail would be to break faith’?
Answer: For the second time, Mother Theresa heard a voice, telling her that now she must leave the convent and help the poor by living with them. She believed in the God and couldn’t disobey it.
4.) What kind of life did Mother Theresa lead?
Answer: Mother Theresa lead a very simple life.She was always dressed in a cotton blue bordered white sari which reflected her simplicity.
5.) Why do you think Mother Theresa learnt Bengali?
Answer: Mother Theresa learnt Bengali so that she could speak to the people whom she had come to serve.
6.) What did Malcolm Muggeridge see on the streets of Calcutta?
Answer: Malcolm Muggeridge was a well-known British writer who once came to Kolkata. While walking through a street of Kolkata, he happened to see a small little figure in a slum, cleaning the sores on the body of a half-dead man without the slightest trace of disgust at the stench. He could not believe that a human being could look so happy while doing such a repelling task.
Fill in the blanks:
1.) Her wrinkled face in the passage means her age.
2.) Him refers to God.
3.) Mother Theresa was a philanthropist because she loved mankind.
4.) Her spirit to serve the poor and the needy was never marred by her old age.
5.) To live a life of poor was the hallmark of Mother Theresa’s personality.
Make sentences of the following:
1.) Flock – Birds of same feather flock together.
2.) Humble – My father was a humble man.
3.) Dignity – One should think about his/her dignity.
4.) Mystic – Mother Theresa had a mystic gift.
5.) Desperate – He was desperate to meet his children.
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