GLIMPSE OF INDIA:
TEA FROM ASSAM
Arup Kumar Dutt
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Very Short Type Q&A
Q1. Who is Rajvir?
Ans: Rajvir is a classmate of Pranjol who studies at school in
Delhi.
Q2. Who is Pranjol?
Ans: Pranjol is a youngster of Assam who studies in Delhi.
Q3. Where did Rajvir come to accompaniment with
Pranjol?
Ans: Rajvir came to Assam to accompaniment with Pranjol.
Q4. What did Rajvir and Pranjol sip in the
train?
Ans: Both of Rajvir and Pranjol sipped the steaming hot liquid.
Q5. What was read by Pranjol in the train
compartment?
Ans: A detective book.
Q6. What presented a magnificent view?
Ans: The natural scenery of Assam that is mainly tea-bushes
presented a magnificent view.
Q7. What is the name of the tea-garden that
managed by Pranjol’s father?
Ans: Dekhiabari tea-garden.
Q8. What was worn by the tea-pluckers?
Ans: Plastic aprons was worn by the tea pluckers.
Q9. What did the tea pluckers pluck?
Ans: The tea-pluckers pluck the newly sprouted leaves.
Q10. What is the name of the junction where
they finally got?
Ans: The name of the junction where they finally got was
‘Mariani’.
Short & Long type Q&A
Q1. What have been never seen by Rajvir before?
Ans: When the train pulled out of the station Rajvir saw a
magnificent scenery outside the train. As it is seen the scenery was very
beautiful. It was green and green everywhere. Here this is the scenery which
was so much greenery which Rajvir had never seen before.
Q2. What did the Chinese emperor do before
drink water?
Ans: As it is mentioned in the story, the Chinese emperor always
boiled water before drink it.
Q3. Who was Bodhidharma? Or What did
Bodhidharma do?
Ans: Bodhidharma was an ancient Buddhist ascetic who cut off his
eyelids as he felt sleepy during meditation.
Q4. What banished Bodhidharma’s sleep?
Ans: Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during
meditation. Then tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants
when put in hot water it made tea. By drinking it Bodhidharma banished his
sleep.
Q5. What is the Chinese legend about tea?
Ans: As it is mentioned in the story, long ago a Chinese emperor
always boiled water before drink it. As usual one day, when he was boiling
water, suddenly a few leaves of the twigs fell into the burning water and it gave
a delicious flavor. So, it is assumed that were tea leaves.
Q6. What is the Indian legend about tea?
Ans: As it is mentioned in the story, there is an Indian legend
about tea. According to the Indian legend, Bodhidharma, a Buddhist ascetic cut
off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditation. Then tea leaves grew
out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk
then banished his sleep.
Q7. What were the doll-like figures actually
moving busily amidst the olderly rows of the tea-bushes?
Ans: The doll like figures actually moving busily amidst the
olderly rows of tea-bushes were the pluckers working in the garden.
Q8. What was it that Rajvir wasn’t interested
in reading his favourite detective stories during his journey to Assam?
Ans: The beautiful scenery of the soft green paddy field and the
green tea-bushes deviated Rajvir from reading his favourite detective stories
during his train journey.
Q9. What do you mean by ‘second flush’?
Ans: Flush means sprouting period. Hence the second flush refers
to second sprouting period. It lasts from May to July and produces the best
tea.
Q10. What did Rajvir and Pranjol do when the
train pulled out of the station?
Ans: When the train pulled out of the station, Pranjol started
reading his detective book. Though Rajvir was also a detective story lover, he
was keen looking at the beautiful scenery outside the train.
Q11. Why didn’t Pranjol share the excitement of
Rajvir on seeing a tea garden?
Ans: Pranjol didn’t share the excitement of Rajvir on seeing a tea
garden as he was born and brought up on the tea plantation.
Q12. What did Pranjol reply when Rajvir cried
excitedly seeing a tea garden?
Ans: Pranjol replied that Assam is the tea country. Assam has the
largest concentration of tea plantation in the World.
Q13. When did tea come to Europe? What did the
Europeans drink tea when it first came to Europe?
Ans: Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century. The Europeans,
when they took tea first, regarded it more as a medicine than as beverage.
Q14. Reproduce briefly your own words the
information you get about tea in the lesson ‘Tea from Assam’.
Ans: Almost over eighty crore cups of tea are drunk everyday
throughout the world. Tea is a popular drink. Assam has the largest
concentration of tea plantations in the world. No one really knows who
discovered tea, there are many legends attached to it.
Q15. Narrate briefly Rajvir’s remarks on the
discovery of tea and the legends that surround it.
Ans: According to Rajvir though no one really knows who discovered
tea, but there are many legends attached to it. According to the Chinese
legend, long ago a Chinese emperor always boiled water before drink it. As
usual one day, when he was boiling water, suddenly a few leaves of the twigs
fell into the burning water and it gave a delicious flavor. So, it is assumed
that were tea leaves.
The
Indian legends says, Bodhidharma, a Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids
because he felt sleepy during meditation. Then tea leaves grew out of the
eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk then
banished his sleep.
Q16. Describe the tea garden managed by
Pranjol’s father?
Ans: As described in the story, on the both sides of the
gravel-road were acre upon acre of tea bushes, all neatly pruned to the same
height. Groups of tea-pluckers, with bamboo baskets on their backs, wearing
plastic aprons, were plucking the newly sprouted leaves.
Q17. Describe the natural scenery of Assam seen
by Rajvir. (For3/4 marks)
Ans: When the train pulled out of the station, Pranjol started to
read his detective book. Though Rajvir was detective story lover, but at that
moment he was keener on looking at the beautiful scenery. It was green and
green everywhere which had never seen by Rajvir before. Then the soft green
paddy field gave way to tea-bushes.
It was a
magnificent view. Against the backdrops of densely wooden hills a sea of tea
bushes stretched as far as the eye could see. Dwarfing the tiny tea plants were
tall sturdy shade trees.
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