Question

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.



We kids would be pushed aside with a mild rebuke and the loaves would be delivered to the servant.

But we would not give up. We would climb a bench or the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow.

I can still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the

children.

(a) Who are ‘we’ in the extract?

(b) Why were the children pushed aside?

(c) Which word/phrase in the extract means the same as ‘an expression of disapproval/a scolding’?

(d) What was there in the basket?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) the author Lucio Rodrigues and his friends

b) lest they could sneak a loaf or two out for themselves. Moreover their presence was creating hindrance in delivering the loaves to the servants.

c) rebuke

d) There were some loaves for the elders and some bangles for the children.