12th English Important Question Answer Flamingo Chapter 05

12th English Important Question Answer Flamingo Chapter 05 

Q. 1. List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran ?

 

Ans. Gandhi's first meeting with Shukla was at Lucknow. Then he went to Cawnpore and other parts of India and returned to his ashram near Ahmedabad. Later, he went to Calcutta, Patna and Muzaffarpur before arriving at Champaran

 

Q. 2. Why do you think the servants thought Gandhiji to be another peasant?

 

Ans. In Patna, Shukla led Gandhiji to the house of a lawyer Rajendra Prasad. The servants know shukla. He was a poor peasant of Champaran. He always troubled Rajendra Prasad to take up the cause of the indigo sharecroppers of Champaran. So, the servants took Gandhiji to be another peasants.

 

Q. 3. How was Gandhiji able to influence the lawyers?

 

Ans. Gandhiji told the lawyers to become the example of selfless service. As he himself prepared to go to jail for the sake of the poor peasants who were quite strangers to him. The lawyers were impress with him.

 

Q. 4. How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?

Ans. The ordinary people were also interested in freedom movemend and they always stood with Gandhiji at every juncture. At Motihari, they flocked in thousands when they come across that Gandhiji was in trouble with the authorities. They were ready to do anything in this movement. Thus, here, we can say that ordinary people too contributed in the freedom movement.

 

Q. 5. Why Gandhi chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur?

 

Ans. Muzaffarpur lawyer called in Gandhi to brief him. They had frequently represented peasants in courts. Gandhi chided them for collecting fees from the poor sharecroppers. When peasants were so poor and crushed, it was inhuman to charge heavy fees from them.