WBCHSE HS English Suggestion 2022- 'Three Questions'(Leo Tolstoy) | Chapter wise suggestion

1.How was the wounded man revived and nursed? Why did he ask forgiveness of the Tsar? What did the Tsar do when he had gained the man for a friend? [2+2+2=6]
Ans-When the man fainted before them, the Tsar and the hermit unfastened his clothes and washed the wound in his stomach and bandaged it with Tsar’s handkerchief and the hermit’s towel. After nursing him in this way when the blood stopped flowing the wounded man revived and he was taken into the hermit’s cottage for the shelter at night.
                      The man had come to kill the Tsar and was waiting for him in the forest to attack him. But when he himself was mortally wounded, it was the Tsar who saved his life by nursing him with care. This attitude of the Tsar changed the wounded man’s mind and forgetting about his revengefulness he became repentent and asked for forgiveness.

                     The Tsar was pleased to get the enemy as a friend and promised to return the seized property of the wounded man’s brother. He also arranged to send his own royal physician for the treatment of the wounded man.

2.“All the answers being different, the Tsar agreed with none of them”-What were the questions to which the Tsar got different answers? Whom did the Tsar decide to consult when he was not satisfied? Where did that person live whom the Tsar decided to consult? What was he famous for?
[3+1+1+1=6]
Ans-Once three questions arose in the mind of a certain Tsar. The first question was about the right time to begin an action. The second question was about the person who was the most important to him. The third question was about what was the most important work for him to do. The learned men and the scholars who came to answer these questions gave different answers to these questions.
               When the Tsar was not satisfied with the answers to these questions he decided to consult with a hermit.
               The hermit lived in a hut in the wood which he never quitted.
                                  The hermit was widely well-known for his wisdom.

3.Why did the bearded man become an enemy of the Tsar? What did the man swear and resolve to do? Why did he ask forgiveness of the Tsar and what did he promise him? [1+2+3=6]
Ans-The bearded man became an enemy of the Tsar because the Tsar executed his brother and confiscated his property.

                The man swore to take revenge of his brother’s killing and resolved to kill the Tsar. He got the news that the Tsar had gone alone to meet the hermit and he ambushed in the wood to attack and kill the Tsar when he would return from the hermit’s cottage.
                  The bearded man asked for forgiveness because the Tsar had saved his life. When after being wounded by the Tsar’s bodyguards he fell faint near the Tsar and the hermit, the Tsar nursed him by washing and bandaging his wound with care and after giving him fresh water to drink sheltered him into the hermit’s hut for the night. The man promised that he would serve the Tsar as a slave so long he would live and would tell his sons to do so.

4.What were the questions that had occurred to the Tsar? Why did he need correct answers to those questions? What did he do when he was not satisfied with the answers of the learned men?[3+1+2 =6]
Ans-The first question that the Tsar wanted to know was about the right time when he should do any work. The second question was about the person whom the Tsar should pay heed to. The third question was about the most important activity that he should undertake.

              The Tsar felt that he would never fail in anything if he could know the answers to these questions.

                 Being dissatisfied with the answers given by the learned men, the Tsar decided to meet and consult with a hermit who was famous for his wisdom.