CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

MY CHILDHOOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Kalam was born in a ____ family.
A
rich
B
poor
C
middle-class
D
gangster
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Abdul Kalam, his family was a Tamil middle-class family from Rameshwaram. Jainulabdeen’s father was not well educated, nor wealthy, but he was a generous, intelligent, and simple guy who was also stern and tough. Ashiamma, his mother, was a kind woman who used to feed an endless number of people at their house.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam was born to a poor Tamil Muslim family. He lived with his family in the temple city of Tamilnadu, Rameswaram, where his father, Jainulabdeen, had a boat and was an imam of a local mosque. At the same time, his mother, Ashiamma, was a housewife.

Detailed explanation-3: -Early life and education. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 to a Tamil Muslim family in the pilgrimage centre of Rameswaram on Pamban Island, then in the Madras Presidency and now in the State of Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-4: -I WAS born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras State. My father, Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit.

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