SSLC 10th Standard, English,
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Many years ago, china was in the middle of a great war. The emperor said that one man from each Chinese family must leave his family to join the army. Mulan, a teenage girl who lived in a faraway village of China, heard the news when she was outside, washing clothes.
Mulan ran into the house. Her father was sitting in a chair, carving a piece of wood. “Father” she said, “Did you hear what the Emperor says each family must do?”. “Yes” said her old father, I heard about it in town. Well, I may as well go pack up”. He put down his carving, stood up and walked very slowly to his room.
Questions:
a. What was the condition of China?
b. What did the Emperor say?
c. Who heard the news?
d. What did Mulan ask her father?
e. What did Mulan say?
Answer: a) China was in the middle of a great war
b)The emperor said that one man from each Chinese family must leave his family to join the army
c) Mulan heard the news
d) Mulan asked if he had heard the news.
e) Mulan was washing clothes outside.
