Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Narrative / Factual)

Question:

Read the passage and answer the question:

This is an age-old table. A mother and her daughter Satto, lived in a village. During that time, the forests were full of fruits and flowers. The women and girls of the village used to go and pluck these fruits and flowers. All of them used to pluck the sweet flowers of the mahua (Bassia Latifolia) tree, stored them at home and consumed them later.

One day, all of them plucked the sweet flowers and kept them in their rooms without drying them. Satto's mother was not at home. Satto dried the sweet flowers. As the flowers died. They shrunks. Later on when Satto's mother came home, she found very little flowers and thought that either Satto had eaten the flowers or she had given them to the village girls. In her blind rage, she beat her daughter to death. The women and girls of the village told her that she killed her daughter for such a trivial issue. They asked her to soak the flowers in water. When she soaked the mahuas, they swelled up and the entire room was filled with the flowers. Satto's mother was full of remorse. She regretted the fact that she killed her daughter without thinking. She died because of grief.

She was reborn as the pandak bird. The pandak bird still sings this song-

'Daughter Satto, the mahuas were in proper quantity...'

According to the passage, What kind of tale is the translated story?

Options:

Fairy tale

Modern tale

Age-old tale

Disney tale

Correct Answer:

Age-old tale

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) - Age-old tale