Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 4
9. Which author has been referred by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature"?
A person who has changed their feelings of support and duty from one political, religious, national, etc. group to a new one:
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions (38-41) given below: The sad demise of Mother Teresa left the world weighed down by an unprecedented grief. The Yugoslav- born nun was the first person in India after M. K. Gandhi to be given a state funeral despite never holding any public office. What she will be remembered for is what she stood. She symbolized the ultimate indestructible memorandum of love lying beyond all contentions. The saint of the gutters was almost synonymous with the slums and the poverty of Calcutta. She adopted and loved the city as her own. She managed to make shrines out of the grimmest of penurial circumstances. Her saintliness did not have the conventional detachment from society. She was a personification of mercy and charity. Her charity was sublime and mellow, never keen to project godliness. She spurred as on to be simply humane. She held the human life with all its trauma in a compassionate embrace. A realization dawned on her early that love and the assurance of being cared for were what people needed most. Here was a simple message of concern, hope and new life for the unfed, unclothed and the unsheltered. I was her conviction that all is willed by God and it is our duty to serve Him by serving humanity. Malcolm Muggeridge, one of Mother Teresa's early biographers, was so moved by the mission which cuts across all limitations that he told the whole world about her. Thus she was catapulted to fame. People responded warmly and her arduous struggle to keep going was considerably eased as funds poured in. It was also the time that Mother started travelling to places in order to meet people and spread her word of God. Dominique Lapierre much went about making a film on her and his hurt her very This great woman could not avoid eyebrows being raised at her. She disapproved of abortion because it signified killing, of the foetus and the conscience of the mother. She took children to be the gift of God. She was also accused of almost making a fetish of human misery and using it as a ploy to raise funds. It is always simpler to criticize, it is much harder to defend. Mother did it unequivocally in her own fashion.(TGT-2004) Question:Mother Teresa:
