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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'?

1. ‘It’ here refers to the dream of one’s life.

2. When one becomes greedy and starts to take his/her dream for granted, he/she ends up losing what they wanted the most out of life.


3. The speaker’s knowledge of this stemmed from his personal experience, where he had it all and ended up losing everything.


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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:

"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 ?"

 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 ?

 2

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

"I remained in the litchi tree, pondering over his wisdom and wondering how a man so wise


could be so poor."


1. What surprised the narrator ?


2. What were the poor man's pearls of wisdom ?