There is a story of a man who thought he had a right to do what he liked. One day this gentleman was walking along a busy road

Question

Read the following passages and answer the questions given below :

There is a story of a man who thought he had a right to do what he liked. One day this gentleman was walking along a busy road, spinning his walking stick round and round in his hand and trying to look important. A man walking behind him objected. “You ought not to spin your walking-stick round and round like that!” he said.

“I am free to do what I like with my walking-stick” argued the gentleman.

“Of course, you are,” said the other man, “but you ought to know that your freedom ends where my nose begins:”

The story tells us that we can enjoy our rights and freedom only if they do not interfere with other people’* rights and freedoms.

1. Write name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken.

2. What did the man in the above story think about his right?

3. How did the man try to look important?

4. In what words did the other man object to the spinning of the walking-stick?

5. Use the word ‘freedom’ in a sentence of your own.

Answer 1

1. The name of the lesson is “The Rules of the Road’.

2. The man in the above story thinks about his right that he is free to do anything he likes.

3. The man was walking along a busy road, spinning his walking-stick round and round in his hand. He was doing so to look important.

4. The other man objected and said, “You ought not to spin your walking-stick round and round.”

5. India got freedom in 1947.