1) What were the qualities that Abdul Kalam admired in is parents ?
Ans: Kalam’s parents were noble and generous people. His father was an austere man, he provided his families with all necessities. He admired his father’s honesty and self discipline and his mother’s faith in goodness and kindness. He admired his parents for respecting all religions.
2) What happened when India was forced to join the Allied Forces during The second world war of 1939?
Ans: When India was forced to join the Allied Forces a state of emergency was declared and the train halt at Rameswaram station was suspended. So, the newspaper were bundled and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi.
3) What happened one day in the fifth standard at Rameswaram Elementry School?
Ans: A day in the fifth standard at the Ramaeswaram Elementry School, a new teacher could not tolerate a Muslim boy sitting with a Hindu priest’s son and so asked Kalam to sit in n the last row.
4) What did Lakshman Sastry tell the school teacher ?
Ans: Lakshman Sastry told the teacher that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He asked the teacher to apologies or quit the school and the island.
Complete the Following Sentences:
1) Sivasubramania Iyer did his best to break social barriers so that people from varying background could mingle easily.
2) Once you decided to change the system, such problem have to be confronted.
3) The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left a lasting impression on me.
4) My brother- in- law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the war which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines of Dinaman.
5) We lived in our ancestral house, which was build in the middle of the nineteenth century.