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 ?

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 ?"

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'?

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 ?

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

'……. And discard all those things that come in the way of finding it.'

1. Identify the speaker

2. What does the speaker want the narrator to discard ?

3. What does 'it' in the second line refer to ?

4. Use the expression 'come in the way' in a sentence of your own.