Stealing and Atonement | Lesson 1 | Class 8 English Lesson 1 Question and Answer Assam Jatiya Bidyalay | Class 8 English Chapter 1 Solution AJB | Jatiya Bidyalay Class 8 English Chapter 1 Important Answer |

Exercise

Comprehension 

1. Answer the following questions in single sentences from your text. 

a) At what age did Gandhi steal for the first time ? 

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b) What did Gandhi steal gold from ? 

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c) To whom did Gandhi decide to confess ? 

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d) What did Gandhi write on the note to his father ?  

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e) Why was Gandhi’s father confined to bed ? 

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f) What was Gandhi’s father’s first reaction after reading the note ? 

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g) What did Gandhi think his father would do after reading the note ?

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2 Give brief answers to the following questions. 2×4-8 

a) Why and how did Gandhi steal gold? 

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b) How did Gandhi feel after stealing ? 

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c) What did Gandhi’s father do after receiving the confession note ? 

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d)What is the purest type of repentance ?

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3. Why did Gandhi call the incident an object lesson in ‘Ahimsa’ ?

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4.What qualities of Gandhi’s character are reflected in this lesson ?

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5.5. Write true or false.

a) One of Gandhi’s brother ran into a debt. 

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b Gandhi’s father often beat him. 

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c) Gandhi requested his father to punish him for stealing 

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d) Gandhi’s father wept after reading the confession.

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e) The power of Ahimsa is limited.

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 f) Gandhi’s father’s love for him decreased after the incident.

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6. Find out the transitive and intransitive verbs from the following sentences. 

a. She is a teacher. 

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b) I go to school. 

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c) Seema was reading a book.  

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d) The sun gives heat and light. 

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e) We sleep at night. 

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f) I fed the dog. 

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g) Everybody has blamed him.

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h) The birds fly in the sky.

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7. Rewrite the following sentences underlining the finite verbs and circling the non-finite verbs. One is done for you.

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