Question

Q1. Read the following extract and answer the following questions
About this time there went a rumour throughout the valley that the
(3 marks)
great man
who was to a bear a resemblance to the great stone face, had appeared at last. It seems
many years before a young man had left the valley and settled at a distant seaport.
that
Gathergold ,which was his name, had
set up as a shopkeeper and, being sharp in
business matters., had become so very rich that it would have taken him a hundred
years only to count his wealth. In time he thought of his native valley, and decided to go
back there, and end his days where he had been born.
Questions
1. What rumor went about the valley?
2. How rich had Gathergold become?
3. Who is the author of the lesson 'The great stone face?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) About this time there went a rumour throughout the valley that the great man who was to a bear a resemblance to the great stone face, had appeared at last.

2) Gathergold had set up as a shopkeeper and, being sharp in business matters., had become so very rich that it would have taken him a hundred years only to count his wealth.

3) Gathergold