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If non-Hindi speaking people fought for one of their own languages to be declared as the official language, it should not have been so great matter of surprise, as it is when one finds these brave patriotic people fighting tooth and nail to retain English as the lingua franca which is as best as a foreign language. Mahatma Gandhi never gave the problem of the necessity of a national language any lesser degree of importance than the problem of national independence. He was strongly opposed to those blind protagonists of English who failed to realize the worth of a national language. He held it a crime against the children to educate them through the medium of a foreign language.
1. Which of the following is the first step towards the progress of a nation?
(a) Promotion of national language
 (b) Achievement of independence
(c) Educating the children through the medium of the national language
(d) Having a foreign language as the official language
2. “lb fight tooth and nail’ means
 (a) to oppose
(b) to do work with all possible ideas
(c) to fight with every possible effort
(d) to retain English as the official language
3. Which of the following represents Gandhiji’s views on the education of children through a foreign language?
(a) Nothing could be done as there was no national language.
(b) It was necessary for the moral development of the nation.
 (c) It was a necessary step to develop relations with other countries.
(d) It was not the right to act.
4. Which of the following is true in the context of the given passage?
 (a) English should be made the national language.
 (b) Non-Hindi speaking people should fight for one of their own languages to be declared as the official language.
 (c) Gandhi laid more stress on having a national language than on achieving independence.
(d) Gandhi was of the opinion that children should be educated through the medium of the national language.
ANSWERS:-
1. (b)
2. (c)Â
3. (d)
 4. (d)
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