How To Answer Passage Based Questions

How To Answer Passage Based Questions

Once a clever man interviewed the Duke of Wellirgton. He said, "My lord! I have invented a bullet proof coat. It will be a boon for soldiers, for it will save many a precious life." The Duke examined the coat carefully but failed to find any peculiarity in it. "You may put it on," said he to the inventor, "And let me see for myself, if it really stops a bullet" The duke then went into fetch his gun. But when he returned with that, he found the man missing. He thought that the inventor had supposed the coat to be good for other people, but not for himself.

Questions:
I. Who interviwed the Duke of Wellington?
2. What, according to the clever man, would be a boon for soldiers?
3. What did the Duke find on examining the coat'?
4. What did the Duke say to the clever man?
5. What had the clever man supposed about the coat?




Answers:
I. A clever man interviewed the Duke of Wellington.
2. The bullet proof coat, according to the clever man, would be a boon for soldiers, for it would save many a precious life.
3.'lite Duke failed to find any peculiarity in it on examining the coat.
4. The Duke said to the clever man to put the bullet proof coat on.
5. The Duke thought that the clever man supposed the coat to be good for other people, but not for himself.