Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 27
4. Who wrote the following best-known collections - Pillars of Society, Pebbles on the Shore, Many Furrows and Leaves in the Wind etc.?
Directions (33-40): Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follow: Jyoti, a gardener's son, was once invited to attend the marriage ceremony Brahmin friend. Since he loved his friend sincerely, he attended the ceremony. The bridegroom was going in a procession to the house of the bride. "The procession consisted of Brahmins, men, women and children. There was hardly any person from other communities. Jyoti was walking along with the processionists. One orthodox Brahmin recognized him and was annoyed at the sight of a low-caste boy in the marriage procession walking along with the Brahmins. Unable to contain himself, he shouted, "How dare you walk along with us? You are not our equal. Get behind, otherwise go away". Jyoti felt insulted. He abandoned the procession and returned home. slavery? He narrated the whole incident to his father with anger in his eyes but his father advised him to observe the old customs. That night Jyoti could not sleep. He thought what he could do for the equality of human beings. The caste stem was deep-rooted. As lower- caste people had no education, they had accepted this mental slavery for ages. Jyoti, therefore, resolved to revolt against the mental slavery and to educate the lower-caste people. He became the first Indian to start a school for the untouchables and a girls' school in Maharashtra. We recognize hin today as Mahatma Phooley. (UPTGT-2002)Question: 33. According to the passage, which of the following has primarily made low-caste people accept the mental
48. From whose novel, do the following lines come, When I die, put near me Something that has loved the light, and had the sky above it always ?