There was a farewell ceremony on her last day at school. to which my parents and I were invited. It was a touching ceremony in a solemn kind of way. The City Corporation sent a representative and so did the two main political parties. There are many speeches and my grandmother was garlanded by a girl from every class. Then the head-girl, a particular favourite of hers, unveiled the farewell present the girls had bought for her by subscription. It was a large marble model of the ‘Taj Mahal; it had a bulb inside and could be lit up like a table lamp. My grandmother made a speech too, but she couldn’t finish it properly, for she began to cry before she got to the end of it and to stop to wipe away her tears. I turned away when she began dabbing at her eyes with a huge green handkerchief and discovered, to my surprise, that many of the girls sitting around me ere wiping their eyes too. I was very jealous, I remember. I had always taken it four grated that it was my own special right to love her; I did not know how to cope with the discovery that may right had been infringed by a whole school.
1. The farewell ceremony described in the passage is for the
(a) author’s mother used to teach at his/her school
(b) mother of head-girl teaching at her school
(c) grandmother of head-girl no longer teaching at her school
(d) grandmother of the author who used to teach at his/her school
Ans: ()
2. The farewell ceremony made everyone feel
(a) sad
(b) unhappy
(c) happy
(d) bad
Ans: ()
3. Before the writer attended the ceremony he/she had thought
(a) he/she was the only child who loved his/her grandmother
(b) all the girls in the school loved his/her grandmother
(c) only a few girls in the school loved his/her grandmother.
(d) only his/her parents loved his/her grandmother
Ans: ()
(Source: NDA II 2012 GAT Question Paper)
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