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THE THREE QUESTIONS
A . Multiple Choice Questions:
1 ) The king announced that he would reward the person who would :
a ) suggest him how to rule properly
b) tell him his future
c) answer his three questions
d) recite the best poem in his praise
2) When the king arrived, he saw the hermit :
a ) digging the ground
b) making basket out of canes
c) grazing the animals
d) sitting in meditative position
3) The king turned around and saw ________________ come running out of the forest.
a ) a mad elephant
b) a huge gorilla
c) a fierce wolf
d) a bearded man
4) The wounded man whom the king saved actually came to take _________ from him.
a ) promise
b) revenge
c) reward
d) none of these
5) The story teaches us that the most important time is the __________.
a ) present
b) past
c) future
d) none of these
Answers: 1.c 2.a 3.d 4.b 5.a
B . Refer to Context:
1 ) “ Here comes someone running.”
a ) Who is the speaker?
b) Whom is he speaking to?
c) Who is coming to them?
2) “You do not know me, but I know you.”
a ) Who is the speaker?
b) Who is referred here as ‘You’?
c) In what context the speaker is saying so?
3) “For the last time, I pray you to answer my questions, wise man.”
a ) Who is the speaker?
b) Who is referred here as ‘wise man’?
c) Which questions is the speaker talking about?
Answers:
1 ) a) The Hermit is the speaker.
b) He is speaking to the King.
c) A wounded man who is bleeding from his stomach is coming to them.
2 ) a) The man whom the king saved is the speaker.
b) The King is referred here as ‘You’.
c) The king saved the wounded man’s life who had actually came to take revenge from him because the king
executed his brother and seized his property.
3 ) a) The King is the speaker.
b) The hermit is referred here as ‘wise man’.
c) The speaker is talking about his three questions for the answers which he has come to the hermit.
The three questions are as follows:
[Link] was the right time to begin anything?
[Link] are the most important person to listen to?
[Link] is the most important work to do?
C . Question/Answers:
Q1. What were the three questions that occurred to the king?
Answer: The three questions that occurred to the king were:
What was the right time to do anything?
Who were the most important people?
What were the most important affairs?
Q2. Was the king satisfied with the answers? Why?
Answer: No, the king was not satisfied with the answers because all the answers were different and the king could
not agree with any of them.
Q3. Explain the various answers given by the learned men for the first question of the king.
Answer: To know the right time for each action, the learned men said,
to draw in advance a table of days, months, and years and live according to it.
it is impossible to find the answer for the right time for each action.
not to be absorbed in idle pastimes, but to attend to all that was going on and do what was most-needful.
it was impossible for one man to decide the right time correctly.
the king must have a council of wise men to help him fix the proper time for everything.
Q4. Why was the king advised to go to the magicians?
Answer: Only the magicians knew beforehand what was going to happen. The king must consult the magicians to
know the right time for every right action. So the king was advised to consult a magician.
Q5. Whose advice did the people say would be important to the king in answer to the second question?
Answer: In answer to the second question, the advice of the councillors, priests, doctors, and warriors would be
important to the king.
Q6. Why did the king go to the wise hermit? Why did he go there alone and dressed like a commoner?
Answer: The king went to the wise hermit to get the answers to his three questions.
The hermit received only the commoners, so the king went alone and was dressed like a commoner.
Q7. Who was the bearded man who came running from the woods? How had he got wounded?
Answer: The bearded man who came running from the woods was the king’s enemy, who came to take revenge on
him for his brother’s execution.
He was intended to kill the king but the king’s bodyguards recognized him and wounded him.
Q8. How did the king and the hermit restore the life of a wounded man?
Answer: The king and the hermit unfastened the man’s clothing. The king washed the wound in his stomach and
bandaged it with his handkerchief and with a towel the hermit had. When the blood stopped flowing, the king gave
him fresh water for him to drink. Then the king, with the hermit’s help, carried the wounded man into the hut and
laid him on the bed.
Q9. How did digging of beds for the hermit save the king’s life?
Answer: If the king had not helped the hermit by digging the beds and had gone his way, the enemy in ambush
would have attacked him. So, the digging of beds for the hermit saved the king’s life.
Q10. Briefly explain the answer the king got to his three questions. Making these answers your base, comment on
the importance of the present moment in our life.
Answer: Present time is the important time. It is the time when we have some power to do, we are the master of
present time. We must not waste it idly our future depends on the best use of our present time. The people who are
with us in the present are the most important ones and to help the needy is the most important work.
Q11. What do you know about the hermit of this lesson?
Answer: The wise hermit lived in the wood which he never quitted. He met only common folks there. He was frail,
weak, tired in a hut and worked hard.
Q12.‘Knowledge gained through experience is far superior to and many times more useful than
theoretical knowledge.’
Discuss the above statement in the light of the fact that the hermit did not answer the king’s questions as soon as
they were put to him.
Answer: Knowledge gained through experience is far superior to that of theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge
is more convincing than theoretical knowledge. The hermit could have given the answer to the king’s question, but
he waited for the right moment as the incident took place with the bearded man the hermit explained the answer
and the king returned satisfactorily.
