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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answers the questions given below it.
In the town of Agra there lived a rich businessman. But he was also quite a miser. Various people used to flock outside his house
everydayhopping for some kind of generosity, but they always had to return home disappointed. He used toward them off with false
promises and then never lived up to his word. Then one day, a poet named Raidas arrived at his house and said that he wanted to
read out his poems to the rich man. As the rich man was very fond of poetry, he welcomed him In with open arms.
Raidas started to recite all his poems one by one. The rich man was very pleased and especially so when he heard the poem that
Raidas had written on him. In those days it was a custom for rich men and kings to show their appreciation through a reward or a gift,
as that was the only means of earning that a poor poet possessed. So the rich man promised Raidas some gifts and asked him to
come and collect them the next day. Raidas was pleased.
The next morning when he arrived at the house, the rich man pretended that he had never laid eyes on him before. When Raidas
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reminded him of his promise, he said that although Raidas was a good poet he liked the poem which was written on him and the rest
of the poems were very ordinary. He also said that he had earlier promised a reward to Raidas not because he was really pleased or
impressed, but to simply encourage him. Raidas was extremely upset, but as there was nothing that he could do, he quietly left the
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house. On his way home he saw his brother Kuber riding a horse. So he a towed him and asked for his help after narrating the whole
incident. Kuber took him to his own house in Order to come up with a plan. After giving it some thought he asked Raidas to go to a
friend's house with five gold coins end request the friend to plan a dinner where the rich man would also be invited. He then narrated
his plan to him.
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Raidas had one trustworthy friend whose name was Mayadas. So he went up to him and told him the plan. The next day, Mayadas
went to the rich man's house and invited him for dinner. He said that he intended to serve his guests in vessels of gold, which the
guests would get to take home after the meal. The rich man was thrilled to hear this and jumped at the offer. After the rich man
arrived at Mayadas's house, he was surprised to see no other guests there but Raidas. Anyhow, they welcomed him in and started a
polite conversation. The rich man had come on an empty stomach and so was getting hungrier by the minute.
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Finally at midnight the rich man could bear hit hunger no longer and asked Mayadas to serve the food. Mayadas sounded extremely
surprised when he asked him what food he was talking about. The rich man tried to remind him that he had been invited for dinner.
At this point Raidas asked him for proof of the invitation. The rich man had no answer. At that point Raidas reminded the rich man of
the serene treatment that he had meted out to him. The rich man realized his mistake and begged for forgiveness. He said that Raidas
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was a good poet and had not asked him for any reward. He himself had promised to give him some gifts and then cheated him out of
them. To make up for his mistake he took out the necklace that he was wearing and gifted H to Raidas. Then they all sat down to eat a
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happy meal.1. why was the rich businessman thrilled on being invited over to dinner by Mayadas?
2. What did Raidas and Mayadas do when the rich businessman came over for dinner?
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3. Which of the following best describes Kuber?

4. Why was the rich businessman pleased with Raidas?
5. Why did the people always return home disappointed from the rich businessman's house?
6. How did the rich businessman react when he realized his mistake of not keeping his promise which he had made to Raidas?
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7. Why did people flock outside the rich businessman's house every day?
8. which of the following is true in context of the passage?
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9. Which of the following is the moral of the story?

10. The sum of the first five prime numbers is:
11. The sum of first 45 natural numbers is:
12. When a number is divided by 13, the remainder is 11. When the same number is divided by 17, then remainder is 9. What is the
number ?
13. Odometer is to mileage as compass is to
14. Marathon is to race as hibernation is to
15. Cup is to coffee as bowl is to
16. Look at this series: 8, 43, 11, 41, __, 39, 17, ... What number should fill in the blank?
17. Look at this series: 83, 73, 93, 63, __, 93, 43, ... What number should fill the blank?
18. Look at this series: 15, __, 27, 27, 39, 39, ... What number should fill the blank?
19. Look at this series: 72, 76, 73, 77, 74, __, 75, ... What number should fill the blank?
20. Look at this series: J14, L16, __, P20, R22, ... What number should fill the blank?
21. Look at this series: 4, 7, 25, 10, __, 20, 16, 19, ... What number should fill the blank?
22. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
23. A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, the how old is B?
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3. Which of the following best describes Kuber?

9. Which of the following is the moral of the story?

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