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Once a thief named Kalu had planned to loot the king's treasury. At midnight, he went to the palace and began

to drill a hole in the side wall of the treasury. The king, who was awake in his bedroom just above the treasury,

came out to investigate the whirring sound. He was dressed in a simple nightgown and the thief could not

recognize him. He asked Kalu who he was and what he was doing. The latter said, "Sir, I am a thief and intend

to loot this treasury. I presume that you are also a thief and have come with the same intentin. No matter, let us

both go inside and we shall share the loot equally. "Both entered the treasury and divided all the money and

the jewels equally between them. Inside a locker they found three big diamond pieces. As the thief was

puzzled as to how to divide the three pieces into two portions, the king siggested. "We have taken away

everything else. Let us leave one diamond piece for the poor king and share the rest equally". Kalu agreed and

when he took his leave, the king asked for his name and address. As Kalu had taken a vow of telling only the

truth, he have the correct information. The king took away his share of the loot and hid it in his room. Next

morning he asked his Prime Minister to inspect the treasury as he had heard some strange sounds during the

previous night. The Prime Minister saw to his horror that all the valuables were missing and only a single

diamond was left, perhaps inadvertantly, by the theif. He put the diamond in his oiwn shift pocket as its loss

could be ascribed to the thief and nobody would suspect the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister went back to

the king. The king particularly enquirerd. "Do you mean that the theif has completely denuded the treasury of

its valuables and not a single item has been left?" The Prime Minister confirmed it. The king asked the chief of

police to bring in Kalu. When Kalu came he was unable to recfognize the king as his accomplice of the

previous night. The king asked him, "Are you the theif who h as stolen everything from my treasury leaving

nothing back?" Kalu confirmed it but said, "Sir, I did leave one diamond back in the locker as advised by an

accomplice of mine and it should st ill be there." The Prime Minister interrupted saying, "Your Majesty, this thief

is lying. There is nothing left in the locker." The king asked the police chief to search the pockets of the Prime

Minister, from where the missing diamond was recovered. The kind told his courtiers, "Here is a Prime

Minister, who is a liar and a thief and here is a thief who is at truthful gentleman."

41. The king came out in the middle of the night in order to

a) Help kalu to break into the palace treasury

b) Share the loot equally between Kalu and himself

c) Find out the source of and reason for the sound he had heard

d) Catch the thief who had come to steal his valuables

e) None of these

42. Kalu could not recognize the king because

a) The king was wearing clothes like those of an ordinary person

b) The king’s clothes were covered by a simple nightdown

c) Kalu had never seen the king before

d) Kalu had not seen the king descending from his bedroom

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