Question

English [CHAPTER. THE LAST LESSON ]
Q1. Read the given extract and answer the following questions:
a. I had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained everything
with so much patience. It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give us all he
knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one stroke.
i. Who is ‘I’ and ‘the poor man’ in these lines?
ii. Why is the poor man going away?
iii What did he want to put in the heads at one stroke?
iv What qualities can be seen in the ‘I’ and ‘the poor man’ in this extract?

Answer 1

Answers

1) I refers to the Franz and poor man refers to the M hamel .

2) poor man is m hamel he is going away because a new order from Berlin arrived to teach german in school but M HAMEL teaches french so that's why he needs to go away.

3) M hamel wants from all the students to be careful and attentive in class because he was giving his last french lesson (mother tongue of france).

4) I (Franz) never listened m hamel carefully,he is trying to figure that what's happening in the surrounding.M. HAMEL was explaining everything with so much patience. he was trying to give students all the knowledge whatever he knows.