Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:
Gangadharpant pressed home his advantage. “I had inadvertently slipped the Bakhar in my pocket as I left the library. I discovered my error when I was paying for my meal. I had intended to return it the next morning. But it seems that in the melee of Azad Maidan, the book was lost; only this torn-off page remained. And, luckily for me, the page contains vital evidence.”
Rajendra again read the page. It described how Vishwasrao narrowly missed the bullet; and how that event, taken as an omen by the Maratha army, turned the tide in their favour.
“Now look at this.” Gangadharpant produced his own copy of Bhausahebanchi Bakhar, opened at the relevant page. The account ran thus:
………….And then Vishwasrao guided his horse to the melee where the elite troops were fighting, and he attacked them. And God expressed his displeasure. He was hit by the bullet.
“Prof. Gaitonde, you have given me food for thought. Until I saw this material evidence. I had simply put your experience down to fantasy. But facts can be stranger than fantasies, as I am beginning to realise.”
1. The meaning of the phrase ‘pressed home’ in this extract is …………
A. ‘went home’.
B. ‘returned to his country’.
C. ‘make clear by special emphasis’.
D. ‘make something avail of’.
2. The meaning of the word ‘inadvertently’ is ………….
A. ‘carefully’.
B. ‘unknowingly’.
C. ‘deliberately’.
D. ‘desperately’.
3. Here the words ‘God expressed his displeasure’ are used for indicating that …………….
A. Gangadharpant had lost his copy of book.
B. Vishwasrao narrowly missed the bullet.
C. Vishwasrao was killed in a bullet-shot.
D. The elite troops were fighting severely.
4. Prof. Gaitonde gave …………….. to Gangadharpant.
A. some fantastic evidences
B. account of his own experiences
C. his own copy of Bakhar
D. Both ‘A’ and B’
