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Question 4
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
With dry lips, parched throat, and ink-stained fingers, and exhaustion on one side and exaltation
on the other, Swaminathan strode out of the examination hall on the last day
Standing in the veranda, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt slightly uneasy,
He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given their papers as he had done,
twenty minutes before time. With his left shoulder resting against the wall, Sankar was lost
to the world. Rajam, sitting under the second ventilator, between two third-Norm boys, had
become a writing machine. Mani was still gazing at the rafters, scratching his chin with the
pen. The Pea was leaning back in his seat, revising his answers. One supervisor was drowsing
in his chair; another was pacing up and down with an abstracted look in his eyes. The scratchy
noise of active nibs, the rustle of papers, and the clearing of the throats, came through the 10
brooding silence of the hall,
Swaminathan suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon. But how could he have​

Answer 1

Answer:

One supervisor was drowsing

in his chair; another was pacing up and down with an abstracted look in his eyes. The scratchy

noise of active nibs, the rustle of papers, and the clearing of the throats, came through the 10

brooding silence of the hall,

Swaminathan suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon. But how could he have