Read the following passages and
choose the correct option to
answer the questions that follow :
When Adversity Knocks
This is a story that explains how adversity is
met differently by different people. There was a
girl named Asha who lived with her mother and
father in a village. One day, her father assigned
her a simple task. He took three vessels filled with
boiling water. He placed an egg in one vessel, a
potato in the second vessel, and some tea leaves
in the third vessel. He asked Asha to keep an eye
on the vessels for about ten to fifteen minutes
while the three ingredients in three separate
vessels boiled. After the said time, he asked Asha
to peel the potato and the egg and strain the tea
leaves. Asha was left puzzled; she understood her
father was trying to explain something, but she
didn’t know what it was.
Her father explained, “All three items were put
in the same circumstances. See, how they’ve
responded differently.” He said that the potato
turned soft, the egg turned hard, and the tea
leaves changed the colour and taste of the water.
He further said, “We are all like one of these
items.” When adversity calls, we respond in the
same way it does. “Now, are you a potato, an egg,
or tea leaves?”
What is the meaning of ‘adversity’?
A An easy situation
B A difficult situation
C A boring situation
D An interesting situation