MORAL STUDIES

CHAPTER 6: SENSE OF DISCRIMINATION

Q/A
1.Where did Hercules’s journey bring him?
Ans: Hercules’s journey brought him to a place where two roads met. One road pass
through a green meadow full of beautiful flowers. The other road passed through barren
and covered with rough stone.

2.Who did Hercules meet there?

Ans: Hercules met two women. One of them was aged and plain looking and other one was
young and beautiful.

3.What did virtue tell Hercules?

Ans: Virtue told Hercules that she had looked after him since he was a child. The path she
leads is a difficult path but if he travels on it, he will get fame and respect.

4.What did vice tell Hercules?

Ans: Vice told Hercules that if he goes with her, he will always walk on flowers. He will not
have to do any work. He will always have fun and stay idle.

5.Whom did Hercules choose? What did he get through this choice?
Ans: Hercules finally chose the path of virtue. He earned name fame and glory by walking on
the path of hard work, pain and difficulty.

6.What does Virtue stand for?

Ans: virtue stands for all the qualities that make us good, responsible, sensitive human
beings.

7.What does Vice stands for?

Ans: Vice is the opposite of Virtue. It makes us do wrong things. It makes us hurt and harm
others as well as ourselves.
 Fill in the blanks with the correct answer.
a) Zeus was the Geek god of thunder.

b) The path of good is often full of difficulties.

c) It is not easy to choose good over bad

d) The path of good is often full of difficulties.

e) It is not easy to choose good over bad.

f) Virtue stands for the qualities that make us good, responsible and sensitive human

beings.

g) Vice is the opposite to virtue.

h) Hercules was a very strong and powerful man.

i) Zeus was the Greek god of thunder.