Read the passage and answer the following questions.

My brothers,

I stand before you today with a heart overflowing with grief. You are fully aware of the events that are going on and understand their import. We have been trying to do our best to cope with the situation. And yet, unfortunately, the streets of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur are awashed with the blood of our brothers. The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live, and the people of Bengal now want their rights. What have we done that was wrong? After the elections, the people of Bangladesh voted as one for me, for the Awami League. We were to sit in the National Assembly, draft a constitution for ourselves there, and build our country; the people of this land would thereby get economic political and cultural freedom. But it is with regret that I have to report to you today that we have passed through twenty-three tragic years; Bengal's history of those years is full of stories of torture inflicted on our people, of blood shed by them repeatedly. Twenty-three years of a history of men and women in agony! The history of Bengal is the history of a people who have repeatedly made their highways crimson with their blood. We shed blood in 1952; even though we were the victors in the elections of 1954 we could not form a government then. In 1958 Ayub Khan declared Martial Law to enslave us for the next ten years, In 1966 when we launched the Six Point Movement our boys were shot dead on 7 June. When after the movement of 1969 Ayub Khan fell from power and Yahya Khan assumed the reins of the government he declared that he would give us a constitution and restore democracy; we listened to him then. A lot has happened since and elections have taken place.

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Choose the correct answer from the alternatives:

a. The world 'grief' refers to

i) pleasure

ii) sadness

iii) severe pain

iv) surprise

b. The phrase 'aware of' in the second sentence indicates-----

i) think of

ii) conscious of

iii) free of

iv) sure of

c. How many cities have been mentioned here?

i). two

ii) seven

iii) four

iv) five

d. The people of Bengal voted for-----

i) the Awami League

ii) the Muslim League

iii) Ayub Khan

iv) Yahya Khan

e. Why did Ayub Khan declared Martial Law?

i) to enslave us

ii) to serve us

iii) to develop this state

iv) to win the election

f. When was the six-point-movement launched?

i) in 1970

ii) in 1966

iii) in 1990

iv) in 1958

g. Who fell from power after the movement of 1969?

i) Ayub Khan

ii) Yahya Khan

iii) Shahbaz Khan

iv) Tikka Khan

$\\$ h. The word 'torture' in line 14 indicates----

i) physical comfort

ii) physical and mental pain

iii) mental peace

iv) feeling of boredom

i. How many years did the people of Bengal pass in agony?

i) 25 years

ii) 24 years

iii) 30 years

iv) 23 years

j. During the six-point-movement, people were shot dead on-----

i) 7 March

ii) 26 March

iii) 16 December

iv) 7 June