Matric Notes Class 9th English Grammar and Composition Comprehension Unsolved  3

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Comprehension Unsolved 3

Q. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end:

The Sultan sent agents to all parts of the East to buy rare manuscripts, and bring them back to Cordova. His men were constantly searching the bookseller’s shops at Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad for rare volumes for his library. When the book was not to be bought at any price, he would have it copied; and some times even hear of a book which was only in the author’s brain, and send him a handsome present, and beg him to send the first copy to Cordova. By such means he gathered no fewer than four hundred thousand books and this at a time when printing was unknown, and every copy had to be painfully copied, in the fine clear hand of the professional copyist.

Questions and Answers:

Q1. What for did Sultan send his agents to all parts of the East?

Ans. Sultan sent his agents to all parts of the East to buy rare manuscripts.

Q2. Where and what for they sent searching the bookseller’s shops?

Ans. They were searching the book seller’s shops at Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad for rare volumes.

Q3. What would he do when any book was not to be bought at any price?

Ans. When any book was not to be bought at any price, he would have it copied.

Q4. What would he do when the author had not yet written the book?

Ans. When the author had not yet written the book, he would send him a handsome present and request him to send him the first copy..

Q5. How many books had he gathered?

Ans. He had gathered no fewer than four hundred thousand books.

Q6. Why was it difficult to bring forth books in those days?

Ans. It was difficult to collect so many books in those days because printing was unknown and every copy had to be painfully copied by a professional copyist.