Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it.Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.Once upon a time a dishonest King had a man call the Valuer in his court. The Valuer set the price which ought to

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it.Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Once upon a time a dishonest King had a man call the Valuer in his court. The Valuer set the price which ought to be paid for horses and elephants and the other animals.He also set the price on jewellery and gold.and things of that kind.

This man was honest and just and set the proper price to be paid to the owners of the goods.The King however was not pleased with this Valuer because he was honest ?If I had another sort of a man as Valuer I might gain more riches, he thought
One day the King saw a stupid miserly peasant come into the place yard.The King sent for the fellow and asked him if he would like to be Valuer.The peasant said he would like the position.So the King had him made Valuer He sent the honest Valuer away from the place.

Then the peasant began to set the prices on horses and elephants upon gold and jewels.He did not know their value so he would say anything he chose.As the King had made him Valuer the People had to sell their goods for the price he set. By and by a horse-dealer brought five hundred horses to the court of this King.The Valuer came and said they were worth a mere measure of rice and the horses to be put in the palace stables.
The horse-dealer went then to see the honest man who had been the Valuer and told him what had happened.?What shall I do ?? asked the horses-dealer ?I think you can give a present to the Valuer which will make him ?Go to him and give him a fine present then say to him You said the horses are worth a measure of rice,but now tell what a measure of rice is worth ! Can you value that standing in your place by the King ?? If he says he can go with him to the King and I will be there too?
The horses-dealer thought this was a good idea.So he took a fine present to the Valuer and said what the other man had told him to say.The stupid Valuer took the present,and said,?Yes, I can go before the King with you and tell what a measure of rice is worth.I can go before the King with you and tell what a measure of rice is worth. I can value now. Well let us go at once? said the horses-dealer.So they went before the king and his ministers in the palace.

The horses-dealer bowed down before the King and said ?O King I have learned that a measure of rice is the value of my five hundred horses.But will the King be pleased to ask the Valuer what had happened asked,How now Valuer what are five hundred horses worth ? ?A measure of rice O King !? said he ?very good then ! If five hundred horses are worth a measure of rice what is the measure of rice worth ?? The measure of rice is worth your whole city? replied the foolish fellow
The minister clapped their hands laughing and saying ?What a foolish Valuer! How can such a man hold that office ? We used to think this great city was beyond price but this man says it is worth only a measure of rice.Then the King was ashamed and drove out the foolish fellow ?I tried to please the King by setting a low price on the horses and now see what has happened to me !? said the Valuer as he ran away from the laughing crowd.

Why did the Minister laugh at the new Valuer ?
1). As he had sold the King’s city at a very low price
2). As he had displayed his stupidity by quoting a abysmally low price on the King’s city
3). As he had cheated the horse-dealer
4). As he had not calculated the price of the five hundred horses correctly

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