[A] Answer the following questions:
Q.1. How did the charity home celebrate Christmas every year?
Ans. Every year charity home celebrates Christ – mas in the form of a party with children
Q.2. What did the man hand over to the Mother?
Ans. The man handed over an envelope to the Mother in which there were new hundred rupee notes.
Q.3. What does it mean by “When the doorbell did not ring?”
Ans. “When the doorbell did not ring” means when they did not get any help from anyone.
Q.4. What did the admirer say?
Ans. The admirer said that she had no idea where the money would come from. But if a project was needed she would go ahead.
Q.5. What is Nirmal Hriday?
Ans.’ Nirmal Hriday is a shelter for those poor people who are seriously ill and unacceptable elsewhere.
Q.6. What did Mother do on the streets of Kolkata?
Ans. On the streets of Kolkata. Mother collected children to teach them hygiene.
Q.7.How was the ‘Missionaries of Charity formed?
Ans. When the mother was looking for a centre for her work, a family offered rooms on the top floor of their house. She appointed 26 as assistants. In this way “Missionaries of charity” was formed.
Q.8. Find out words that describe Mother’s simplicity.
Ans. The following words describe Mother’s simplicity: She lived a simple life and travelled by second class. She wore a shawl more darned than knitted.
Q.9. What did she want the people to know about the poor?
Ans. She wanted the people to know about the greatness of the poor.
Q. 10. What was Mother Teresa’s real wealth?
Ans. The real wealth of Mother Teresa was 7500 children in 60 schools. 9,60,000 patients in 213 dispensaries, 47,000 victims of leprosy in 54 clinics, 1600 abandoned children in 20 homes and 3400 destitute in 23 homes
Q. 11. How do people remember Mother Teresa?
Ans. People remember Mother Teresa for her to- tal commitment to the poor that transcends all barriers.
[B] Write True or False for each of the sentences given below :
(a) The children of charity-home used to enjoy Christmas party every year. (True)
(b) The envelope contained new thousand (1000) rupee notes. (False)
(c) Many times the inmates of the charity home had no Christmas party. (False)
(d) Mother knew from where the money would come for a project. (True)
(e) The municipal authorities refused to pro- vide her a place for the poor. (False)
(f) Most of the members of ‘The Missionaries of Charity’ are Indians, (True)
(g) Mother Teresa knew the greatness of the (True)