Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
A certain man had two sons and the younger
asked his father to divide his money and give him his share. The father did it
and soon the younger son left his father’s house and spent all his money with
companions like himself.-Then there was a famine in the country to which he had
gone and soon he was starving. He tried to get work and he was hired by a
farmer who sent him to feed swine. In his misery, he thought of home, of his
father who was so good even to his servants and he said, “I will go to my
father and will say to him, “Father, I
have sinned. I am not worthy to be called the son: make me one of the hired servants”.
He went back, and when his father saw him coming, ran to meet him. His son
began, “Father, I have sinned.” But his father seeing the stage in which he
was, told the servants to bring cloths and shoes and all that his son needed
and prepare a grand feast for him.
Questions:
(a) What did the younger son ask his father
to do?
(b) What did he do with the share of his
money?
(c) What happened to the country to which he
had gone?
(d) What did he think in his misery?
(e) What did he say to his father when he
came back?
(f) Mention the things that the father had
asked his servants to bring his younger son?
(g) Why did the father ask his servants to
arrange a grand feast?
(h) Which word in the passage means the
following:-
(i)
Suffering
from hunger.
(ii)
Extreme
scarcity of food.
(iii)
deserving.
(iv)
distress.
