Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The library was destroyed because it was set on fire by the soldiers.

The passage says only about 2,000 volumes could be salvaged from Tipu's famed library 'when it was burnt by the soldiers', so the cause was fire set by the soldiers.

Flooding and white ants are not mentioned, and as the passage names the cause, 'none of these' is wrong.

Answer: B

The gentleman was walking along a busy road.

The passage's second sentence says he was 'walking along a busy road, spinning his walking-stick'. The other roads named in the options (lonely, narrow, hilly) are never mentioned.

Answer: C

The gentleman was spinning his walking-stick.

The passage says he was 'spinning his walking-stick round and round in his hand'. He was walking, not running, and no dogs appear in the story, so options A and B are wrong. Option D fails because option C is stated outright.

Answer: A

He was trying to look important.

The passage says he 'was trying to look important' as he walked along swinging his stick. Honest, hard-working and caring are not said of him anywhere.

Answer: B

The man walking behind him objected his action.

The passage says 'A man walking behind him objected' and quotes his words: 'You ought not to spin your walking-stick round and round like that!' He did not praise or enjoy it, and nobody complained to a policeman.

Answer: D

The man who protested was a passer-by.

The passage calls him only 'a man walking behind him' and 'the other man', an ordinary person on the road. It gives him no occupation, so teacher, policeman and lawyer are unsupported; the only option that fits a stranger walking behind on the road is passer-by.

Answer: B

Children should be educated without pressure.

The first sentence of Passage II reads 'Children should be educated without pressure.' Fear and damaging effects of tradition are things they should be kept free from, but the sentence itself names pressure. Money and books are not mentioned.

Answer: A

The blank is filled by love.

Krishnamurthy says 'if you love something, you never get tired of it.' Hate and enjoy do not appear in that sentence, and express is not what he is speaking of.

Answer: C

The expression given to children should be free.

The passage says 'Free expression of thought should be given to the children.' Complex, busy and damaging are not applied to expression; 'damaging' appears only in 'damaging effects of tradition and fear'.

Answer: D

The quality that excited the child was talking.

The child asked 'Is it your hobby to give lecture? Don't you get tired of talking?' The child was struck by Krishnamurthy's talking, a lecturing that never seemed to tire him. Enjoying, listening and eating are not mentioned as his qualities.