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Read the following passage. “Will Your Majesty take off your clothes?” said the men. “Then you can put on your new clothes.” The Emperor took off all his clothes. The men made a show of putting new clothes on him. The Emperor stood in front of a mirror and turned round and round. “How well his Majesty looks in his new clothes!” cried all his officers. Then the Emperor walked along in the procession. People in the streets cried, “How beautiful the Emperor’s new clothes are!” “But he’s got nothing on at all!” said a little child. And one person said to the other, “He has nothing on at all. He has nothing on.” “He has nothing on!” cried all the people. The Emperor felt unhappy. He knew that the people were right; he had nothing on. But the procession had to go on. Now answer the following questions. a) Whose clothes were sewn by the weavers? b) How was the Emperor cheated by the weavers? c) Where did the Emperor go with his new clothes? d) Who dared to say the truth to the Emperor? e) Why was the Emperor unhappy? |
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Answer» a) The Emperor’s cloth b) The weavers said that only wise people could see their cloth and acted as if they were, making the cloth. c) The Emperor went on a procession. d) A little child e) The Emperor felt unhappy for having no clothes on his body. |
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