Question

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow.

‘Instead, he agreed, almost without argument, to marry a girl she had picked out for him in her own village.

1. Rakesh lived up to his mother’s expectation. How?
2. What had she feared?
3. Rakesh was a truly ‘devoted’ son. Why?

Answer 1

1. Rakesh lived up to his mother’s expectation by agreeing to marry the girl she had chosen for him from her own village, without much argument.
2. She had feared that Rakesh would marry a foreign girl in America and bring her home instead of following the family’s wishes.
3. Rakesh was a truly devoted son because he respected and obeyed his parents. He returned home after his studies abroad, touched his father’s feet and agreed to marry the girl chosen by his mother.