Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
If thou dost bend pray and for him,
I spurn three like a cur out of my way.
(i) Identify the speaker of the above extract.
(ii) Who was bending, praying and fawning?
(iii) In what context have the above words been spoken?
(iv) What do these words reveal about the character of the speaker?
OR
“They will be useful to you, and they can never be to me. But will you do one thing?” ‘What?”
What do you see up there? Said Ali, pointing to be sky.
(i) Identify the person spoken to.
(ii) What does the word ‘They’ refer to?
(iii) Why did Ali say ‘They’ can never be useful to him?
(iv) What opinion do you form of Ali on the basis of the given extract?
1. Caesar is the speaker of the above extract.
2. Metellus Cimber was bending, praying and fawning
3. Cimber brother’s Publius Cimber was imprisoned and he requests to Caesar to forgive his brother and to revoke his banishment.
4. These words reveal a lot about the character of the speaker. It shows that he was very determined and was stone-hearted, with strong will power that doesn’t show any mercy to the traitors.
OR
1. The person spoken to is the Clerk
2. They refer to five golden guineas
3. Ali says that they can never be useful to him because that was his last day and he was unable to use those five golden guineas properly and couldn’t buy happiness from them.
4. From the given extract, it can be inferred that Ali was an understanding man who very well knows the pain of separation. He was a very changed man and knows the triviality of material things.
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