Question

Read the following passage and answer the given questions that follow:
One bright June morning when I was nineteen, I packed all I had on to my back, but my
native village, and walked up to London looking for gold and glory. That was more than
fifteen years ago, and I have been here ever since. I shall probably stay here for the rest of my
life. Yet in spite of all that I still cannot think of myself as a Londoner, nor ever will, nor ever
went to For fifteen years I have lived in the flats, rooms and garrets of this city, the drawers
of the human filing cabinets that stand in blank rows down the streets of Kensington and
Notting Hill.
Questions: (two marks each)
1. Why did the writer leave his village to go to London?
2. When does he plan to go back to his village?
3. What does he mean by human filing cabinets? Why doesn’t he mention houses?
4. What is the passage about?

Answer 1

1. The writer left his village to go to London in search of gold and glory.

2. He doesn't plan to go back to his village anymore

3. In the city of London he has lived in same flats, rooms and garrets which is quite smaller to actual houses found in villages and hence he refers to them as human filling cabinets.

4. The passage tells us about the dilemma of every person who has migrated from villages to city in search of better living standards but still they can never make the city as their own.

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Answer 2

Answer 3. - Yet in spite of all that I still cannot think of myself as a Londoner, nor ever will, nor everwent to For fifteen years I have lived in the flats, rooms and garrets of this city, the drawers
of the human filing cabinets that stand in blank rows down the streets of Kensington and
Notting Hill.