Question

1. Read the extracts and answer the questions that
follow. 8x1= 8marks
a. "You are disillusioned", Ausable told him. "But take
cheer, my young friend. Presently you will see a paper, a
quite important paper for which several men and women
have risked their lives, come to me. Someday soon that
paper may well affect the course of history. In that thought
is drama, is there not?"
a) Who is ‘my young friend’ in the above extract?
(b) What is the ‘important paper’ referred to here?
(c) Find a word from the passage that means the same as
‘disappointed’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘important’?

Answer 1

Answer:

a. The young friend is Fowler.

b. The important paper is the one for which many people have risked their lives and is said to might have changed the course of history someday.

c. disillusioned

d. unimportant or useless.