Question

Directions: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. No. 335 to 340) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! My soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And pointing to the east began to say. Look on the rising Sun: there God live And gives his light, and gives his heat away. And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning joy in the noonday. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love, And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. The mother of 'the Little Black Boy' says God put people on earth

• A. to learn to endure his love
• B. to work off their sins
• C. to prepare them for future trials
• D. to learn how to treat one another as equals

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

The mother of 'The Little Black Boy' says God put people on earth to learn to endure his love child relates how his loving mother taught him about God who lives in the East who gives light and life to all creation and comfort and joy to men.