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Read the following passage carefully and on the basis of your reading answer the questions given below it :A man was kept in jail without any fault. When the King visited the jail, he told him that he was innocent. The King found out that this was true. He gave him a sum of money and set him free. He went straight to the market, where some birds were kept for sale. He purchased all the birds from the shopkeeper and set them free. At this, the shopkeeper was surprised. Then the man said to him, “If you had been in prison like me for no fault, you would have done the same.”1. What did the king do when he found out the prisoner innocent?2. Where did the prisoner go after he was set free by the king?3. Why was the shopkeeper surprised?4. What did the man say to the shopkeeper?5. Explain the italicized words in the passage.6. Give a suitable title to the above passage.

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1. The king gave the innocent prisoner a sum of money and released him from jail.
2. After his release from the jail, the man went straight to the market, where some birds were kept for sale.
3. The shopkeeper was surprised because the man set all the birds free which he had purchased.
4. The man told the shopkeeper that he too would have done the same thing if he had been in prison like him for no fault.
5. Set him free = released him.
surprised = astonished.
6. Change of heart.



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