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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"There's no magic formula, my friend.


If I was a godman would I be wasting my time here with you ?”


1. What does the beggar refer to as 'magic formula'?


2. Who is a godman ?


3. Why does he say, 'I wouldn't be wasting my time ?"

1. Here, the beggar means that there is no miraculous shortcut to the achieving of one’s dreams.

2. A godman refers to a self-proclaimed messenger of god and his/her words.


3. Godmen were supposed to be busy people, as they were engaged in the act of benefiting their community. This comment however, could be a comment on the money-minting scheme that many fraudulent godmen take up, thus keepin them ‘busy’.


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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?

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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 ?

 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:

"Live long, my friend, be wise and strong


But do not take from any man his song."


1. Who sang these lines ?


2. What does 'song' refer to in the second line ?