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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"It was a startling question coming from that ragged old man on the street"


1. Where was the narrator when he was drawn into the conversation?


2. Give a brief description of the old man


3. Why was the narrator perplexed by the question?

1. The narrator was sitting on the litchi tree, which grew in the garden of his house.

2. The old beggar had a flowing white beard and piercing grey eyes, and he spoke to the narrator in English.


3. As the question was quite personal, and was asked in the English language by a beggar on the other side of the garden wall, the narrator was a little perplexed.


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1

Answer the question briefly:

The boy in the story was out of the ordinary. How?

 2

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"Yes, because it's so easy to lose it all, to let someone take it away from you."


1. What does the speaker refer to as 'it'?


2. When does one lose 'it'?


3. How had the speaker gained such profound knowledge about it'?

 2

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"It was a starting question coming from that ragged old man on the street’


1. Where was the narrator when he was drawn into the conversation?


2. Give a brief description of the old man


3. Why was the narrator perplexed by the question?

 2

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"Other boys didn't dream, they had catapults".


1. What does the narrator mean by saying that the other boys have catapults?


2. Why does the narrator refuse to admit that he is a dreamer ?


3. It is advisable to be a dreamer ? Why / Why not ?