MODERN VIDYA NIKETAN

GRADE IV
SUBJECT - ENGLISH
TOPIC – UNSEEN PASSAGE

Name ____________________ Sec ______ Date________

Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:-

Ramadin was fond of children. He had opened a school for the children of
his village. One day he decided to test the intelligence of his pupils. He
called two of them aside and gave them some money. He said, “Do you see
those rooms at the edge of the field? I want you to fill them up with
whatever you can. Each of you should fill one room. This is very little
money, I know. But use it to the best of your ability and fill up the whole
room.”
The two pupils went to the marketplace and started looking for things to
buy. The first pupil found a shop selling hay and thought, “Hay is cheap. It
may fill the entire room.” So he bought all the hay and carried it to the
room.
In the evening, he showed the room to his teacher. “Sir, I have filled the
room,” he said.
“Yes,” the teacher replied, “With greater gloom”.
Then they went to the other room. In the middle of the room was just a
candle. As they entered, the second pupil lit the candle. Immediately, its
light spread all around the room.
“You have done well,” the teacher replied. “Where it was dark, you made it
bright. Where it was empty, you filled in light.”
1. Why did Ramadin call his pupils and give them money?
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 2. What did the first pupil buy and why?
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Choose the correct answers and fill in the blanks

3. The teacher told the first pupil that he had filled the room with
____________.
a) fear b) gloom c) cheer

4. ____________ from the candle filled up the second room.

a) Silence b) Hay c) Light

State whether the following statements are true or false

a) Ramadin liked children. ___________

b) The rooms were at the centre of the field. ___________

c) The second pupil had bought just one candle. __________

d) The first pupil was more intelligent of the two. __________

Find words from the passage which mean the same as:

a) darkness - ________

b) student - ________