Q1Written answer
What were the preparations in the palace for?
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In the palace, there were preparations for a grand feast.
NCERT · Class 5 · English
Unit 1: Ice Cream and Wonderful Waste
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Wonderful Waste
5 questionsQ2Written answer
Why did the Maharaja go into the kitchen in the afternoon?
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The Maharaja went into the kitchen in the afternoon to inspect the dishes that had been prepared for the feast.
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What had the cook planned to do with the vegetable scraps?
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The cook planned to throw away the vegetable scraps considering them as waste.
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Ingredients are the things that are used to make a dish.
Circle the ingredients of avial in the box below.
| chillies | groundnut | wood | vegetable scraps |
| coconut | roasted peanuts | curd | pot |
| garlic | broken bangles | basket | curry leaves |
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State whether the following are True or False.
(i) The king had ordered a dinner in the palace.
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(ii) No one had heard of or tasted avial before.
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(iii) The cook had planned to make another dish using the vegetable scraps.
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(i) True
(ii) True
(iii) False