Strong Roots MCQ QUIZ

According to Kalam’s father, every human being is a specific element within the whole of the manifest divine being.

The words of Abdul Kalam’s father filled him with a strange energy and enthusiasm.

According to Kalam’s father, whenever human beings find themselves alone, they start looking for company.

Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for a company.

According to Kalam’s father, whenever people reach an impasse, they look for someone to show them the way out.

Kalam's father believed that for people in distress, he was a mere mediator in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings.

Dr Kalam's father, Jainulabdeen would start his day at 4 a.m. by reading the namaz before dawn.

Kalam's father started his day by reading the namaz before dawn.

After the namaz, his father used to go to the coconut grove which was about four miles from their home.

The coconut grove, where Abdul Kalam’s father used to walk down every morning was about four miles from their home.

Kalam's father would return from the grove with about a dozen coconuts tied together thrown over his shoulder.

After returning from the coconut grove, Kalam's father would have his breakfast.

Kalam throughout his life, had tried to emulate his father in his own world of science and technology.

Despite being a scientist, Abdul Kalam felt convinced that there exists a divine power.

Kalam is also spiritual like his father because he believes in the power of divine.

Severing all physical bond leads one to the road of freedom, happiness and peace of mind.

APJ Abdul Kalam’s own world was concerned with science and technology.

After reading the namaz before dawn, Abdul Kalam’s father used to go to the coconut grove about four miles from their home.

Kalam's ancestral house was made of limestone and brick.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.

APJ Abdul Kalam’s father had neither much formal education nor much wealth.

Kalam’s father, Jainulabdeen possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit.

APJ Abdul Kalam’s parents were widely regarded as an ideal couple in their locality.

About the meaning of the Arabic prayers chanted in the mosque Kalam had not the faintest idea.

In Kalam's locality the Hindu and the Muslim lived amicably.

The full name of APJ Abdul Kalam is Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam who was a great scientist of India.

The extract 'Strong Roots' has been taken from Dr Kalam's best-selling autobiographical book 'Wings of Fire'.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state under the British rule.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father was Jainulabdeen who was an ideal man in his locality.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father Jainulabdeen had neither much formal education nor much wealth.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father had an ideal helpmate in Dr Kalam's mother Ashiamma who was an ideal woman in their locality.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father Jainulabdeen had neither much formal education nor much wealth. But despite these disadvantages he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s parents were widely regarded as an ideal couple in their locality.

One of Kalam’s mother's forebears having been bestowed by the British the title of Bahadur.

In his childhood in Rameswaram Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was a short boy with rather undistinguished looks, born to tall and handsome parents.

In his childhood Dr Kalam lived in their ancestral house which was built in the middle of the nineteenth century.

In his childhood Dr Kalam lived in their ancestral house which was a fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s ancestral house was situated on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram.

The famous Shiva temple of Rameswaram was about a ten-minute walk from Dr Kalam's house.

The locality in which Dr APJ Abdul Kalam lived was a predominant Muslim locality close to the famous Shiva temple where quite a lot of Hindu families lived amicably with their Muslim neighbours.

About the meaning of the Arabic prayers Kalam had not the faintest idea, but he was totally convinced that those prayers would reach god.

The high priest of Rameswaram temple was Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry who was a very close friend of Kalam's father.

In the locality in which Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was born people of two communities - Hindu and Muslim lived amicably.

There was a very old mosque in their locality where Kalam's father would take him to the mosque for evening prayers.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father used to avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries. He led a very austere and peaceful life.

In his childhood Dr Kalam normally ate with his mother sitting on the floor of the kitchen.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father was acknowledged as a spiritual person.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was also considered as spiritual because he believed in the power of divine.

Kalam respected his father much because his father led an honest and austere life.

In the very old mosque in their locality where Kalam's father would take young Kalam for evenings prayers prayers were chanted in Arabic.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s father started his day at 4 a.m. by reading the namaz before dawn.

According to Abdul Kalam, the divine power can lift up one from confusion, misery, melancholy and failure.

Kalam's father would start his day at 4 a.m. by reading the namaz before dawn.

At the end of the first chapter of Dr Kalam's autobiography Wings of Fire Dr APJ Abdul Kalam says once an individual severs his emotional and physical bond from this materialistic world, he is on the road to freedom, happiness and peace of mind.