Question

(Questions 6-10) Read the following passage and Answer the questions given below. 5 x 2=10

I saw it now. It was indeed a game I had played as a child. Each boy took it in turn every alternate day to

be the boss, the other the slave. It had been great fun to me as a youngster. I smiled as I remembered. I

looked at the man standing by the gate. He was a white man. I remembered what I thought yesterday.

He , no doubt, I thought to myself, was wondering if the black race is superior to the White. I laughed

gently to myself. How silly grown-ups are, how clever we are, how wonderfully able we are, to impute

deep motives to childish actions ! This Man, I said to myself, will puzzle all day on whether the Blacks

will eventually rise and rule the world because he thinks he sees a little black boy realizing at a tender

age his superiority over the White. I will save him from his puzzle. I will explain it to him. I went across

to him.

' I know what you're thinking', I said. 'You're thinking that may be the Black race is superior to the

White, because you just saw the little dark youngster on the lawn ordering the little white boy around.

Don't think that; it's a game they play. Alternate days one is the boss, the other the servant. It's a grand

game. I used to play it and may be so did you. Yesterday I saw the little white boy bossing the dark one

and I worried all day over the dark boy's realization of his inferiority so young in life! We are silly, we

grown-ups, aren't we?'
The man was surprised at my outburst. He looked at me smiling. ' I know all about the game,' he

said. "The boys are brothers - my sons". He pointed to a handsome brown woman on the verandah who

had just come out to call in the children. "That's my wife," he said.

I smiled. My spirit laughed within me. This is Jamaica, I said in my heart, this is my country-my

people. I looked at the white man. He smiled at me. 'We'll miss the tram if we don't hurry,' he said.

6. Why did the Jamaican's remembrance made him smile ?

7. What Qualities in grown-ups are mentioned in the given passage?

8. Was the Jamaican proud of his country people? How can you say?

9. What did the writer want to explain to the white man at the gate?

10. Why did the writer feel that the grown-ups are silly?​

Answer 1

Answer:

6th question answer is I think second paragraph.