Class XII EXAMINATION 2025
Strong Roots Page-3 EXAMINATION
PKG ENGLISH STUDY CENTRE:
F. M-40 Topic: Strong Roots Time :1 Hour
đ Answer the following Questions 1x40 =40
1. Kalam's father refers to himself as a ______.
(a) priest
(b) messenger
(c) teacher
(d) go-between
2. People come to Kalam's father in a state of ______.
(a) joy
(b) pride
(c) distress
(d) confusion
3. The people seek to propitiate ______ forces.
(a) divine
(b) natural
(c) friendly
(d) demonic
4. The method of using prayers and offerings is considered ______ by Kalam's father.
(a) correct
(b) spiritual
(c) incorrect
(d) logical
5. According to the speaker, this approach should ______.
(a) be encouraged
(b) never be followed
(c) be modernized
(d) be continued
6. Kalam's father urges people to understand the difference between ______.
(a) destiny and fate
(b) success and failure
(c) two visions
(d) religion and science
7. One of the visions is a fear-ridden view of ______.
(a) freedom
(b) destiny
(c) reality
(d) life
8. The better vision enables us to find the ______.
(a) truth of life
(b) joy of nature
(c) enemy of fulfilment within
(d) cause of success
9. The speaker recalls his father beginning his day at ______.
(a) 6 am
(b) 3 am
(c) 4 am
(d) 5 am
10. His father read the ______ before dawn.
(a) Quran
(b) Namaz
(c) Bible
(d) Geeta
11. After the prayer, the father walked to a ______.
(a) mosque
(b) pond
(c) market
(d) coconut grove
12. The coconut grove was about ______ miles from their home.
(a) two
(b) three
(c) four
(d) five
13. The father carried ______ coconuts back home.
(a) a dozen
(b) six
(c) twenty
(d) eight
14. The coconuts were tied together and ______.
(a) placed in a bag
(b) carried on his head
(c) thrown over his shoulder
(d) dragged on a cart
15. The father had his breakfast only ______.
(a) before the walk
(b) after returning
(c) during the walk
(d) at the grove
16. This routine was maintained even in his father's ______.
(a) youth
(b) late sixties
(c) old age
(d) childhood
17. Kalam tried to emulate his father in the world of ______.
(a) politics
(b) literature
(c) science and technology
(d) education
18. Kalam refers to the truths revealed by his ______.
(a) teachers
(b) father
(c) friends
(d) books
19. Kalam believes in a divine power that can lift one from ______.
(a) doubt
(b) laziness
(c) joy
(d) confusion and misery
20. According to the speaker, true peace begins when one severs ______.
(a) family ties
(b) emotional and physical bond
(c) ties with nature
(d) ambition and hope
21. The father’s daily routine began with ______.
(a) a bath
(b) reading newspapers
(c) offering namaz
(d) breakfast
22. The speaker’s father remained disciplined even in his ______.
(a) childhood
(b) middle age
(c) late sixties
(d) youth
23. The father returned from the grove with coconuts and then had his ______.
(a) lunch
(b) tea
(c) breakfast
(d) snacks
24. The speaker tried to ______ his father.
(a) criticize
(b) avoid
(c) emulate
(d) question
25. Kalam belonged to the world of ______.
(a) teaching
(b) agriculture
(c) philosophy
(d) science and technology
26. Kalam mentions “fundamental truths” revealed by ______.
(a) books
(b) religion
(c) his father
(d) nature
27. Kalam believes in a ______ that guides people.
(a) rule
(b) tradition
(c) divine power
(d) political system
28. Divine power lifts one from ______ and failure.
(a) discipline
(b) confusion
(c) laughter
(d) pride
29. The divine power leads a person to his or her ______.
(a) comfort zone
(b) religious place
(c) true place
(d) family
30. Kalam says emotional and physical bonds should be ______.
(a) maintained
(b) ignored
(c) strengthened
(d) severed
31. Once bonds are cut, the person begins the journey to ______.
(a) society
(b) freedom
(c) family
(d) sacrifice
32. The journey also leads to happiness and ______.
(a) failure
(b) pressure
(c) greed
(d) peace of mind
33. The prayer mentioned in the passage is called ______.
(a) salah
(b) bhajan
(c) namaz
(d) puja
34. The small land owned by the family was a ______.
(a) sugarcane field
(b) rice paddy
(c) mango orchard
(d) coconut grove
35. The coconut grove was ______ away from the house.
(a) one mile
(b) two miles
(c) four miles
(d) six miles
36. Kalam's father carried the coconuts ______.
(a) in a basket
(b) tied with a rope
(c) thrown over his back
(d) in a cart
37. Kalam refers to ______ power as uplifting in difficult times.
(a) social
(b) economic
(c) divine
(d) educational
38. Kalam identifies internal obstacles as ______.
(a) friends
(b) enemies
(c) enemies of fulfilment
(d) outer forces
39. The attitude of fear towards destiny is called a ______ vision.
(a) hopeful
(b) realistic
(c) enlightened
(d) fear-ridden
40. The idea of breaking physical and emotional bonds suggests a path to ______.
(a) laziness
(b) detachment
(c) growth
(d) superstition
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