8th ENGLISH (TL) LBA 3.GURU NANAK

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Lesson Based Assessment – Class 8 English (Third Language)

Lesson 3: – “GURU NANAK” 

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Lesson Based Assessment Model Questions For Practice
Class – 8 Sub. – English (TL) LESSON -3 GURU NANAK

I. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) – Choose the correct option. (1 Mark Each)

1. Guru Nanak was the first guru of which religion?

  1. Hinduism
  2. Islam
  3. Sikhism
  4. Buddhism
Easy

2. In which village was Guru Nanak born?

  1. Lahore
  2. Sultanpur
  3. Talavandi
  4. Haridwar
Easy

3. What was Nanak’s main interest as a child?

  1. Playing with friends
  2. Thinking about God
  3. Worldly pleasures
  4. Buying and selling goods
Easy

4. What did Nanak do with the money his father gave him?

  1. Bought goods for profit
  2. Gave it to sanyasis
  3. Saved it for future
  4. Bought a gift for his wife
Easy

5. Why did Nanak’s father send him to his sister Nanaki?

  1. To get him a job
  2. Because he was pleased with him
  3. Because he was fed up with his strange behaviour
  4. To learn singing
Easy

6. Who was Mardana?

  1. Nanak’s brother
  2. Nanak’s servant and a good singer
  3. A sanyasi
  4. A peasant
Easy

7. What did Nanak and Mardana do every morning?

  1. Went to the market
  2. Worked in the fields
  3. Sang hymns together
  4. Discussed worldly matters
Easy

8. What was Bala’s role in Nanak’s group?

  1. He was a Muslim servant
  2. He was Nanak’s father
  3. He was a Hindu peasant and Nanak’s follower
  4. He was an old man from the crowd
Easy

9. What did Nanak do at Haridwar that surprised people?

  1. He bathed in the river Ganges
  2. He poured water towards the Sun
  3. He poured water in the opposite direction
  4. He sang hymns loudly
Easy

10. According to Nanak, how can we truly honour our forefathers?

  1. By pouring water towards heaven
  2. By giving money to sanyasis
  3. By good actions of ours
  4. By singing daily prayers
Easy

II. Fill in the Blanks with appropriate words. (1 Mark Each)

11. Guru Nanak was born on 15th April 1469 in a village _________ near Lahore. Easy

12. As a child, Nanak was always thinking about _________. Easy

13. Nanak’s father gave him some money to buy goods and get good _________. Easy

14. Nanak met some _________ who were starving on the way. Easy

15. Nanaki lived with her husband at _________ in Punjab. Easy

16. Mardana was a _________ and a good singer. Easy

17. Nanak used to write songs in praise of _________. Easy

18. Nanak travelled far and wide to preach his message of _________. Easy

19. At Haridwar, Nanak saw people bathing in the river _________. Easy

20. Nanak’s method of teaching was very _________. Easy

III. Match the following. (1 Mark Each Pair)

21. Match the words/phrases in Column A with their meanings/descriptions in Column B.

Column AColumn B
1. Worldly pleasuresa. Ancestors
2. Strangeb. Songs praising God
3. Hymnsc. Happiness from materialistic life
4. Holyd. Surprising, unfamiliar
5. Forefatherse. Religiously important
Easy

IV. Answer the following questions in one sentence. (1 Mark Each)

22. What is Talavandi called now?

Easy

23. What did Nanak do for hours in the forest?

Easy

24. How did the sanyasis look?

Easy

25. What was Mardana’s religion?

Easy

26. What happened to Nanak’s Songs of God?

Easy

27. What did people at Haridwar say they were doing by pouring water towards the Sun?

Easy

28. Where were Nanak’s fields?

Easy

29. What did people do when Nanak started pouring water in the other direction?

Easy

30. What was the main characteristic of Nanak’s teaching method?

Easy

V. Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences. (2 Marks Each)

31. How was Nanak different from other children even as a child?

Average

32. Describe the condition of the sanyasis Nanak met on his way to buy goods.

Average

33. How did Nanak’s sister Nanaki help him after he was sent to Sultanpur?

Average

34. What was the daily routine of Nanak, Mardana, and Bala?

Average

35. Explain Nanak’s logic when he poured water in the opposite direction at Haridwar.

Difficult

VI. Answer the following questions in 4-5 sentences. (3 Marks Each)

36. Describe the entire incident that happened at Haridwar involving Nanak and the crowd.

Difficult

37. How did Guru Nanak influence people with his noble thoughts and simple teaching methods?

Difficult

38. Explain the value of compassion (Bhootdaya) as demonstrated by Guru Nanak in the story.

Difficult

VII. Grammar and Vocabulary.

39. Choose the correct prefix for the word ‘possible’.

  1. un-
  2. im-
  3. dis-
  4. non-
Easy

40. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: “He was always thinking about God.”

  1. Verb
  2. Adjective
  3. Noun
  4. Adverb
Easy

41. Give the antonym of ‘weak’.

  1. Small
  2. Strong
  3. Pale
  4. Sick
Easy

42. Form a compound word using ‘sun’ and another word from the lesson’s context (e.g., ‘light’, ‘flower’).

Average

43. Fill in the blank with ‘must’ or ‘mustn’t’: “You _________ speak the truth.”

Easy

44. What is the meaning of ‘forefathers’?

Easy

45. What is the meaning of ‘strange’?

Easy

VIII. Unknown Passage Comprehension. Read the passage and answer the questions.

Nanak put all his ideas in his poetry. Soon his Songs of God became very popular. People sang them as their daily prayers. Nanak travelled far and wide to preach his message of love. He visited many holy places. At Haridwar, he saw a large crowd of people bathing in the river Ganges. Some of them were pouring water towards the Sun.

46. What did Nanak put his ideas into?

Easy

47. What did Nanak preach during his travels?

Easy

48. What were people doing at Haridwar?

Easy

IX. Complete the Sentences/Dialogue.

49. “If the water you throw up can reach heaven, why can’t water I throw reach my _________?”

Easy

50. “It is only through good _________ of ours, that we can do honour to our forefathers.”

Easy

Answer Key

I. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. C) Sikhism

2. C) Talavandi

3. B) Thinking about God

4. B) Gave it to sanyasis

5. C) Because he was fed up with his strange behaviour

6. B) Nanak’s servant and a good singer

7. C) Sang hymns together

8. C) He was a Hindu peasant and Nanak’s follower

9. C) He poured water in the opposite direction

10. C) By good actions of ours

II. Fill in the Blanks

11. Talavandi

12. God

13. profit

14. sanyasis

15. Sultanpur

16. Muslim

17. God

18. love

19. Ganges

20. simple

III. Match the Following

21. 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-e, 5-a

IV. Answer in One Sentence

22. Talavandi is now called Nanak Sahib.

23. Nanak used to go to the forest and sit for hours thinking about God.

24. The sanyasis looked pale and weak.

25. Mardana’s religion was Muslim.

26. Nanak’s Songs of God became very popular and people sang them as their daily prayers.

27. People at Haridwar said they were offering water to their forefathers.

28. Nanak’s fields were in Punjab.

29. People began to laugh and asked Nanak how the water could reach his fields.

30. Nanak’s method of teaching was very simple.

V. Answer in 2-3 Sentences

31. Even as a child, Nanak was different because he did not play with friends. He was always thinking about God and showed no interest in worldly pleasures.

32. Nanak saw some sanyasis on his way who were starving. They looked pale and weak, and Nanak came to know that they had not eaten anything for many days.

33. Nanaki found a job for Nanak, and he did his job well, pleasing everyone. She provided him a place to stay and supported his spiritual journey.

34. Every morning, Nanak and Mardana sang hymns in praise of God together. Bala, a Hindu peasant and Nanak’s follower, also joined them in singing these hymns.

35. Nanak reasoned that if the water people threw up could reach heaven (which was crores of miles away), then the water he threw in the other direction should easily reach his fields in Punjab. He used this to show the absurdity of their ritual.

VI. Answer in 4-5 Sentences

36. At Haridwar, Nanak saw people pouring water towards the Sun, believing they were offering it to their forefathers in heaven. Nanak then turned his back and started pouring water in the other direction, claiming he was watering his fields in Punjab. When people laughed, he explained that if water could reach heaven, it could surely reach his fields, teaching them that good actions, not rituals, truly honor ancestors.

37. Guru Nanak influenced people by putting his noble ideas into his poetry, which became popular as daily prayers. He travelled far and wide to preach his message of love. His teaching method was very simple, which made it easy for people to understand and follow his teachings, leading many to become his followers.

38. Guru Nanak demonstrated compassion (Bhootdaya) when he met the starving sanyasis. Instead of using the money for his father’s business, he immediately gave it to them, understanding their suffering. This act of kindness and selfless giving, prioritizing the needs of living beings over material gain, highlights his deep compassion.

VII. Grammar and Vocabulary

39. B) im-

40. C) Noun

41. B) Strong

42. Sunlight (or Sunflower, if applicable in a broader context)

43. must

44. Ancestors

45. Surprising, unfamiliar

VIII. Unknown Passage Comprehension

46. Nanak put all his ideas into his poetry.

47. Nanak preached his message of love.

48. People at Haridwar were bathing in the river Ganges and pouring water towards the Sun.

IX. Complete the Sentences/Dialogue

49. fields

50. actions

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