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Class 11 English Elective (ESSAY)
2. MY THREE PASSIONS - Bertrand Russell
MAIN POINTS
☞ My
Three passions is an essay written by Bertrand Russell.
☞ There
are three passions which governed author's life.
☞ Three
passions are the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbeareable
pity for the suffering of mankind.
☞ The
author has sought love for three reasons- it brings ecstasy, it removes
loneliness, and in the union of love, there is mystic miniature.
☞ Secondly,
he sought knowledge because he wished to understand the hearts of men and know
why the stars shine.
☞ Love
and knowledge took him to the heaven but pity brought him back to the earth.
☞ The
pain that existed in this world made him suffer and wanted to remove the evil
and suffering.
☞ According
to the author, he found his life worth living therefore if he was offered life
again, he would happily live it.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The author of the story "My Three Passions" is:
a. Bertrand Russell
b.
D.H. Lawrence
c.
Mark Twain
d.
None of the above
2. The lesson "My Three Passion" is an excerpt from
Bertrand Russell's book:
a. Autobiography
b.
My Experiment With Truth
c.
Glimpses of India
d.
None of the above
3. Bertrand Russell has written numerous popular works on:
a.
Philosophy
b.
Politics
c.
Education
d. All of the above
4. Bertrand Russell was a-
a.
Philosopher
b.
Mathematician
c. Both (a) and (b)
d.
Neither (a) and(b)
5. Bertrand Russell was a /an:
a.
American
b. British
c.
Canadian
d.
Australian
6. In what did the author see a mystic miniature?
a. Union of love
b.
Union of hatred
c.
Union of soul
d.
None of the above
7. What would govern the life of the author?
a.
Love, knowledge,pain
b.
Love, wealth, knowledge
c.
Love, happiness, knowledge
d. Love, knowledge, pity
8. What had blown him hither and thither and had put him in deep
anguish?
a. His three passions
b.
The great winds
c.
His pain and suffering
d.
His friends
9. The first passion of the author is the longing for --------
a. love
b.
truth
c.
food
d.
soul
10. The second passion of the author is the search for -
a. Knowledge
b.
Truth
c.
Reality
d.
Water
11. The third passion of the author is to remove:
a. pain and suffering
b.
the king
c.
debt
d.
debris
12. The author wants to get rebirth with special skills and
-----
a. power
b.
magic
c.
wealth
d.
peace
13. The author says that in the search of knowledge he could
understand about stars and hearts of -----
a.
Angels
b. Human beings
c.
Animals
d.
None of the above
14. The author's three passions are compared with great -----
a. Winds
b.
Water
c.
Fire
d.
Mountain
15. The author has sought love first because it brings -----
a. Ecstasy
b.
Wisdom
c.
Truth
d.
Happiness
16. According to the author, what relieves loneliness?
a.
Happiness
b.
Friends
c. Love
d.
knowledge
17. Love and knowledge lead upward toward the-
a. Heaven
b.
Sky
c.
Happiness
d.
Wisdom
18. What brought him back to the earth from heaven?
a.
Love
b.
Knowledge
c. Pity
d.
All of these
19. What made a mockery of what human life should be?
a.
Victims tortured by oppressors
b.
Helpless old people, a hated burden to their sons
c.
Poverty and pain
d. All of these
20. The author longs to alleviate the evil but he cannot and he
.........
a. Suffers
b.
Cries
c.
Mourns
d.
Contemplates
VERY SHORT QUESTIONS
1. Who has written the essay, My Three Passions'?
Ans.
Bertrand Russell has written the essay, 'My Three Passions'.
2. What would govern the life of the author?
Ans.
The three passions that he had would govern the life of the author.
3. What are his three passions?
Ans.
His three passions are the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and
unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.
4. What are his three passions like?
Ans.
His three passions are like the great winds that have blown him here and there
and have put him in deep anguish and despair.
5. Which passion author wished to seek first?
Ans.
Firstly the author wished to have sought love.
6. Why did the author seek love first?
Ans.
The author has sought love first because it brings ecstasy, relieves loneliness
and has mystic miniature.
7. What did he wish to seek secondly?
Ans.
Secondly, the author seeks to have knowledge.
8. Why did he seek knowledge?
Ans.
He sought knowledge because he wished to understand the hearts of men and know
why the stars shine.
9. What brought him back to the earth from heaven?
Ans.
Pity brought him back to the earth from heaven.
10. Why did the author suffer?
Ans.
The author suffered to see the pain and suffering of the human beings.
SHORT QUESTIONS
1. What are the three passions that governed the author's life?
Ans.
The three passions are simple but overwhelming and have governed author's life.
They are the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable
pity for the suffering of mankind.
2. What impact have these three passions in author's life?
Ans.
The author says that these three passions were like great winds that have
touched his inner soul and due to which he was over a deep ocean of anguish and
despair.
3. The author had sought the love first for three reasons. What
are they?
Ans.
The author had sought love first because- love brings immense happiness and for
that he would sacrifice all the rest of his life, it relieves extreme
loneliness which is unfathomable.and union of love is like mystic miniature
which gives heavenly feeling.
4. What did the author try to apprehend?
Ans.
The author's second passion was to seek knowledge. And he tried to apprehend
the pythagorean power in which numbers keep on changing. He could understand
little of that.
5. "I long to alleviate the evil". What does the
author long to alleviate?
Ans
Bertrand longs to alleviate the evils that exist in human's life. He suffers to
see children starving,victims being tortured by the oppressors, helpless old
people being hated by their own sons and people being lonely, having pain and
suffering in life.
LONG QUESTIONS
1. Why does Russell call the three passions 'simple'?
Ans.
'My Three Passions' is an excerpt from Bertrand's Autobiography. He has three
passions- love, knowledge, and pity. His passions are simple like all others
passions. Every human being has some or other passions which lead their life.
Some desire to have lots of money and that money makes him to do hardwork. Few
may have luxury, fame, honesty, cars, as passion that drives their life. The
author calls his passions to be simple as these three passions are those which
are desired by ordinary and simple people. Without love one cannot imagine
life. Bertrand felt that love brought bliss in one's life, knowledge brought
understanding and pain and suffering brought pity.
2. Why has he compared the three passions to great winds?
Ans.
He compared his three passions to great winds for they are simple and strong.
They are like forces which drive the life of the author. His passions provided
directions to his life and are the base of his existence. They kept him
focussed as he found ecstasy in love, understanding in knowledge and these two
led him to heaven. But pain and suffering brought him back to the reality of
life. These three passions made his living worth and would lead his life
happily if offered again.
3. What, according to Russell, is the importance of love in
life?
Ans.
According to Russell, love has great importance in life. The author says that
love brings happiness in life and for that few hours of joy he would sacrifice
his whole life. Next love takes away the terrible loneliness from our life.
Love is a bliss and the author says that he has seen the heaven the great
saints and poets have imagined.
4. How does Russell's definition of knowledge differ from what
is commonly understood by the term?
Ans.
Knowledge commonly means to have bookish knowledge but Russell's definition is
different. He says he wants knowledge to understand the hearts of people. He
wants to know about the beautiful nature and functioning of natural phenomena
like why the stars shine and so on. He was a mathematician still he yearned to
learn more about numbers like Pythagorean power.
5. What is the quality of pity earth-bound while the other two
passions are elevating?
Ans. The author has three passions to make his life meaningful and worthy. His first passion is love and second passion is knowledge. These two passions are so strong that it made him feel like he had reached heaven. But his third passion- pity , brought him back to earth and made him realise the painful hardships of life. The author is deeply affected by the pain, suffering, loneliness, poverty, starvation, ill treatment towards the old parents and so on.
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