Question

Intruder: Keep it to yourself, and just answer my questions. You live here alone? Well, do you?

Gerrard: I’m sorry. I thought you were telling me, not asking me. A question of inflexion; your voice is unfamiliar.

Intruder : (with emphasis) Do you live here alone?Gerrard: And ill don’t answer?

Intruder: You’ve got enough sense not to want to get hurt.

Gerrard: I think the good sense is shown more in the ability to avoid pain than in the mere desire to do so. What do you think? Mr—er—

1) Who is the intruder?
2) what does "it" refers to?
3) What does the intruder threaten to do?
4) Find the word from passage which means "strange"?​

Answer 1

Ntruder :Keep it to yourself and answer my questions. You !live here alone?Well, do you?
Gerrard : I am sorry. I thought you were telling me, not asking me. A question of inflexion; your

voice is un-familiar.

Intruder : (with emphasis) Do you live here alone?

Gerrard :And if I don't answer ?

Intruder:You've got enough sense not to want to get hurt.

(a) Why does the intruder ask some

personal questions to Gerrard?

(b) Why does Gerrard find the intruder's voice unfamiliar ?

(c) What will happen if Gerrard does

not answer the intruder's questions?

(d) What idea do you form of Gerrard's personality from the