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Question 3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: In days of King Louis, there lived a poor juggler by the name of Bamabas, a native of Compiegne, who wandered from city to city performing tricks of skill prowess. On fair days, he would lay down in the public square a wom and aged carpet, and after having attracted a group of children and idlers by certain amusing remarks which he had learned from an old juggler, and which he invariably repeated in the same fashion without altering a word, he would assume the strangest postures, and balance a pewter plate on the tip of his nose. At first the crowd regarded him with indifference, but when, with his hands and head on the ground he threw into the air and caught with his feet, six copper balls that glittered in the sunlight, or when, throwing himself back until his neck touched his heels, heassumed the form of a perfect wheel in that position, juggled with twelve knives, he elicited a murmur of admiration from his audience, and small coins rained on his carpet. Still, Barnabas of Compiegne, like most of those who exist by their accomplishments, had a hard time making a living. Earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, he bore rather more than his share of those miseries we all are heir to, through the fault of our father Adam. Besides, he was unable to work as much as would have liked, for, in order to exhibit his wonderful talents, he required-like the trees-the warmth of the sun and the heat of the day. In winter time he was no more than a tree stripped of its leaves, in fact, half-dead. The frozen Earth was too hard for the juggler. Like the cicada mentioned by Marie de France, he suffered during the bad season from hunger and cold. But, since he had a simple heart, he suffered in silence. He had never thought much about the origin of wealth nor about the inequality of human conditions. He firmly believed that if this world was evil, the next could not but be good, and his faith upheld him. He was not like the clever fellows who sell their souls to the devil; het never took the name of God in vain, he lived the life of an honest, man, and though he had no wife of his own, he did not covet his neighbour's, for woman is the enemy of strong men, as we learn by the story Samson, which is written in the Scriptures. a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: [3] D) prowess altering elicited Answer the following questions briefly in your own Who was Barnabas? What did he do? [2] [2] b) words. ii) How did he attract the attention of children? iii) Why was he unable to work as much as he would have liked to? iv) What kept him going in spite of his miserable condition?​

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a] Bamabas, a native of Compiegne, who wandered from city to city performing tricks of skill pro

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