Question

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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
(5 Marks)
Your son is here, the nurse said to the old man, She had to repeat the words several times before the man's
eyes opened. He was heavily sedated and partially conscious after a massive heart attack he had suffered the
night before. He could see the dim outline of a young man in a Marine Corps uniform, standing alongside his
bed. The old man reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp
hand and squeezed gently. The nurse brought a chair and the tired serviceman sat down at the bedside. All
through the night, the young Marine sat in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering
words of encouragement. The dying man said nothing. Due to noise of the oxygen tank, the moans of the
patients and the bustle of the night staff coming in and out of the ward, the Marine remained awake at the
old man's side.
Near dawn the old man died. The Marine placed the old man's lifeless hand on the bed and left to find the
nurse. While the nurse took the old man away and attended to the necessary duties, the young man waited.
When the nurse returned, she began to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was
that man ?" asked the Marine.
Started, the nurse replied, "He was your father."
"No, he wasn't," the young man said. "Yve never seen him before in my life."
"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"
"I knew there had been a mistake by the people who sent me home on an emergency furlough. What
happened was, there were two of us with the same name, from the same town and we had similar serial
numbers. They sent me by mistake," "the young man explained. "But I also knew he needed his son, and his
son wasn't there. I could tell he was too sick to know whether I was his son or not. When I realized how
much he needed to have someone there, I just decided to stay."
(a) Why had the nurse to repeat her words
several times? What had happened to the
man ?
(b) What can we say about the young man in
the Marine Corps uniform ?
(c) Why did the young man stay with the old
man ?
(d) What did the young man tell the nurse after
the death of the old man ?
(e) Find the word which means the same as
excited activity.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.

Explanation:

nurse said to the old man