Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : (91-99)
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) Mr. Upadhyay met the boys inside the hostel.
(B) The boys were already getting late for the play.
Correct Answer :
(B) is True but (A) is False.
Solution :
Correct Answer: (B) is True but (A) is False.
Let's analyze the statements given in the question based on the passage:
Analysis of Statement (A): "Mr. Upadhyay met the boys inside the hostel."
According to the passage, the narrator states, "We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess... Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction." This shows that they met Mr. Upadhyay on the road to the station, not inside the hostel. Therefore, Statement (A) is False.
Analysis of Statement (B): "The boys were already getting late for the play."
The passage mentions, "The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station." Since they only had 15 minutes left before the start of the play and were still heading towards the station, they were in a rush and running behind schedule to reach the venue on time. Thus, Statement (B) is True.
Therefore, the correct conclusion is that (B) is True but (A) is False.
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