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question_answer1) 'My dear sir, do nothing hasty. Think before you speak. Don't go and be so silly as to act like a mutton-head. I'd be ashamed to be so spiteful. Respect a father's feelings.' (i) Who is speaking to whom? (ii)Explain ... 'to act like a mutton-head'. (iii) The statement Td be ashamed to be so spiteful' implies what?View Answer play_arrowquestion_answer2)   A chap takes the trouble to study form and saves up his pocket money to have a bet on a good thing and then he goes and gets let down like this . It may be funny to you, but I call it rotten. And another thing I call rotten is you having kept it from me all this time that you were, 'Young Porky', pa. (i) Who is speaking to whom? (ii) 'It may be funny to you, but I call it rotten'. What does this statement imply? (iii) What is the irony here?View Answer play_arrowquestion_answer3)   I was to have fought an American named Murphy at National Next Monday, but I am not going to now. Not if the king of England came to me on his bended knees. (i) Who is speaking to whom? (ii) Bill had to have a boxing match with whom? (iii) He was adamant not to fight and it is indicated when he says that_View Answer play_arrowquestion_answer4)   'Yet Harold, defying the laws of heredity, had run to intellect as his father had run to muscle. He had learned to read and write with amazing quickness. He sang in the choir. (i) Explain ......... 'Defying the laws of heredity'. (ii) Harold's intellect is known by____ (iii) The difference between Harold and his father is____View Answer play_arrowquestion_answer5)   One chap's got a snapshop of Jimmy Wilde. At least he says it's Jimmy Wilde, but I believe it's just some ordinary fellow. Anyhow, its jolly blurred, so it might be anyone. Pa, can't you give me a picture of yourself boxing? I could swank like anything. And you do't know how sick a chap gets of having chaps call him. 'Goggles'. (i) Who is Jimmy Wilde in the extract? (ii) Why is Harold not sure that the person in the photograph is Jimmy Wilde? (iii) Why does Harold want Bill's snap?