Noble lecture

 VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE

TUTOR:- SWAPAN KUMAR RAY (M.A, B.ED)

CLASS:- XI; SUB:- ENGLISH(B)

PROSE:- NOBEL LECTURE

1)Describe Mother's visit to an old age home. [6] 

Or, "I never forget an opportunity " --- What was the opportunity ? Why Mother never forget the opportunity ?

Ans . When Mother Teresa came to visit an Old age Home in Calcutta , Mother saw that sons and daughters of those old people had put their parents in the home and forgot them . All the parents were looking towards the door  for their daughters and sons  to come and visit them , but they became disappointed to  finding none of them . Even all of them forgot to smile  . Looking towards the door , they were counting their remaining days in the earth with a single hope if their sons or daughters  could find time for once only to meet them . But that never happened .

2) ‘I had the most extraordinary experience with the Hindu family that had eight children.’ – Which experience is Mother Teresa speaking of? [6] 

Ans:- Mother had an extraordinary experience with a Hindu family which had eight children. Once a gentleman came to Mother Teresa in Calcutta and requested her to help the poor Hindu family who had been starving for few days. Mother immediately ran there with some rice. The mother of the starving children took the rice, divided it and went out. After her return,  Mother asked her why he had gone out. The Lady told Mother that she went out to share the rice with a neighboring Muslim family who had been starving for many days.

3) Why did Mother Teresa say that poor people are great people? [6] 

Or,

"And she died with a smile on her face" --- How did she die with a smile on her face? 

Ans:- According to Mother Teresa, The poor people are very great people.  The poor people could recognize the importance of family planning. The poor people may not have any home, may not have food or shelter, yet they are very simple, very pure in hearts. For example,  once Mother picked up four persons from drain. One of them was very critical condition.  But she had died without blaming others, without cursing anybody.  She said that she had lived a life of an animal but was going to die like an Angel.

4) Why does Mother Teresa think ‘abortion’ to the greatest destroyer of peace? How does Mother appeal to fight abortion?

Ans:- According to Mother,  the greatest destroyer of peace today in the world is abortion. To control the problem Mother appealed everywhere in India. The unborn children,  without getting the love of their mother, are murdered directly by abortion. 

Mother appealed the unwilling mothers not to kill there unwanted child. Mother said that she would take care of them and take the children from them. She requested every clinic,  hospital and police station not to kill any child and to give it to her.

5)Narrate the experience Mother Teresa had when there was great difficulty in getting sugar. [6] 

Ans:- Mother Teresa said that once they had to face a lot of difficulty in collecting sugar for their home. One day a little Hindu boy of four years old came to visit her with his parents. The little boy brought some sugar with him for the children of Mother's home. Mother Teresa came to know that the boy refused to eat sugar for three days because he wanted to give the sugar to Mother Teresa. That incident made Teresa really surprised.