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The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means


The boy is


(i) sly and secretive


(ii) thin, hungry and weak


(iii) unpleasant looking

(ii) thin, hungry and weak.

Explanation: the boy describe in the poem is thin, hungry and weak as the face was pale and pitiful with full of vulnerabilities. And weak is because of the disease inherited from their parents. And all children in the slum are all with disastrous ad tragic.


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The tall girl with her head weighed down means


The girl


(i) is ill and exhausted


(ii) has her head bent with shame


(iii) has untidy hair

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The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means


The boy


(i) has an inherited disability


(ii) was short and bony

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His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means


The boy is


(i) full of hope in the future


(ii) mentally ill


(iii) distracted from the lesson

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The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’


This means they


(i) are insecure


(ii) are ill-fed


(iii) are wasters