Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
These meadows aren't worth much to me. They only come to ve dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can't stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can't stand unfairness.
(a) Who speaks the above lines and to whom?
(b) How much are the meadows worth?
(c) Find a word in the extract the means 'not based on what is just.'
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I even considered eeing to my hometown, where I could have been a real lawyer right away, without going through this unpleasant training period.
(a) Who is 'I'?
(b) How did 'I' suffer during the training period?
(c) What does the word, 'eeing' mean?
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a) Natalya is the person who had spoken about the worth and cost of meadows to Lomov.
b) The meadows are 300 rubles worth.
c) The word ""unfairness – lack of equality"" has the extract which means “not based on what is just”. Chubukov’s owned the meadows for past 300 years but now Lomov claims that the meadows as his own property. This is the fact for which Natlaya says for which “she can’t stand unfair”.
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a) Here, “I” refers to the narrator of the story.
b) The narrator worked in a law firm as a junior assistant clerk and his work was to send sermons to various parts of the city.
c) Here, ""fleeing” refers to escaping from the current unpleasant situation.
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