india through a traveller’s eyes vvi questions
Bihar Board Class 12th English Chapter 10, India Through A Traveller’s Eyes, offers a fascinating journey through India’s rich cultural, historical, and geographical landscapes. This chapter provides an insightful exploration of India as seen through the eyes of travellers. In this article, we will explore the key themes and concepts of the chapter, along with a free PDF download link for the chapter summary.
India Through A Traveller’s Eyes is an extract written by Pearl S. Buck. She was an American by birth but she spent a large part of her life in China. In this essay, she describes her deep love and affection for the poorest Indian people’ life that is colourful, dramatic, highly sacred and the religious life of Indians.
She is very fond of India, Indian people and Indians way of life. She finds India is a country of unity amidst diversity. Her people are religious and passionate. They are polite, civilized and above all greatly hospitable. They have different faiths and religions, speak different languages, have different physical features but a kind of idealism permeates the life of every Indian.
They have clean habits and are fond of purity everywhere. They mostly live in joint families where the disabled elders are respected and the disabled are well looked after.
1. The prose piece “India Through A Traveller’s Eyes” is written by….
(A) Dorothy L. Sayers
(B) Bertrand Russell
(C) Pearl S. Buck
(D) Anton Chekhov | Ans- (C)
2. When was Pearl S. Buck born?
(A) 1872
(B) 1882
(C) 1892
(D) 1862 | Ans- (C)
3. Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel prize for literature in the year …….
(A) 1931
(B) 1918
(C) 1928
(D) 1938 | Ans- (D)
4. Pearl S. Buck is an ………….. writer.
(A) American
(B) Indian
(C) Iranian
(D) African | Ans- (A)
5. India Through A Traveller’s Eyes is written by …….
(A) Pearl S. Buck
(B) Anton P Chekhov
(C) H.E. Bates
(D) Shiga Naoya | Ans- (A)
6. ……… has praised Indian people and their lives.
(A) Shiga Naoya
(B) Pearl S. Buck
(C) Martin Luther King Jr.
(D) Kamala Das | Ans- (B)
7. Indian peasants are poorer than their ………….. counterparts.
(A) Chinese
(B) Pakistani
(C) Bhutanese
(D) Sri Lanka | Ans- (A)
8. The land between Bombay and …………… famished.
(A) Madras (Chennai)
(B) Kolkata
(C) Bengaluru
(D) Delhi | Ans- (A)
9. The people of the General Assembly of the UNO is a women …..
(A) China
(B) Canada
(C) Germany
(D) India | Ans- (D)
10. The life span in India was only …..
(A) 25 yrs.
(B) 27 yrs.
(C) 28 yrs.
(D) 29 yrs. | Ans- (B)
11. I was called to kill a dangerous person ……….
(A) snake
(B) dog
(C) cat
(D) lion | Ans- (A)
12. Our food was served on fresh green …………… leaves instead of plates.
(A) banyan
(B) peepal
(C) banana
(D) mango | Ans- (C)
13. Indian people are reckoned as belonging to which race?
(A) Hegemonic
(B) Caucasian
(C) Apartheid
(D) Capoid | Ans- (B)
1. What were the benefits of the English rule?
Ans- The benefit of the English rule is that they have put to good use the benefits the English gave and left acknowledgement of best woman education on both sides of the globe.
2. What are her views on the Christian Missionaries?
Ans- Pearl S. Buck says that for all the people that I have known the missionary is, in his way, the most dedicated, the most single-hearted. He believes that God is the one the father of mankind and that all men are brothers. At least the Christian says he believes and so he preaches.
3. What were the intellectuals in India restless and embittered?
Ans- The intellectuals in India were disappointed with the British rule because they were not happy to live a life of slavery. As such, they were restless and embittered.