Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: I tell you what Jones," one of them said, "I shall never forget my first few years in this town. When I first struck this place, I hadn't more than fifteen cents to my name, hadn't a rag except what I stood up in, and all the place I had to sleep was an empty tar barrel."

pia "My dear Robinson, replied Jones, "if you imagine I've had no experience of hardship of that sort you never made a bigger mistake in your life. When I first walked into this town I hadn't a cent, sir, not a cent, and as for lodging, all the place I had for months and months was an old piano box up a lane, behind a factory." "My dear Jones," Robinson broke in, "You merely show that you don't know what a tar barrel is like. Why, on winter nights, when you'd be shut i there in your piano box

just as snug as you please, I used to lie awake shivering, with the wind running in at the hole at the back. "Wind!" sneered Jones! "Don't talk to me about winds. This piano box had a whole darned plank off it. I used to sit there studying in the evenings, and the snow would blow a foot deep. And yet, sir," he continued "I don't mind admitting that some of the happiest days of my life were spent in that same old box. I'd wake up there in the mornings and shout with high spirits. Of course, you may not be able to stand that kind of life."

"Not stand it!" cried Robinson fiercely! "By God! I am made for it. I just wish I had a taste of the old life again for a while. What a grand old life it was! I can remember evenings when I'd have two or three fellows in, and we would sit round and play cards by a candle half the night."

"Two or three!" laughed Jones; "why, my dear fellow, half dozen of used to sit down to supper in my piano box, and have a game of cards afterwards. Mighty good suppers they were too! By God, Robinson, you fellows have ruined your digestions with high living

Then the waiter appeared with the question: "What may I bring you for dinner, gentlemen?"

"Dinner!" said Jones. Oh, anything, nothing-I never care what I eat-give me a little cold porridge, if you've got it, anything you like, it's all the same to me."

The waiter turned with an impassive face to Robinson."You can bring me some of that cold porridge too," he said, with a defiant look at Jones. There was a pause Jones sat back in his chair and looked hard across at Robinson. Then Robinson turned slowly round in his seat and beckoned to the waiter, who was moving

off with the muttered order on his lips. "Here, waiter," he said, "I guess I'll change that order a little. Instead of that cold porridge I'll take a cheese sandwich. And you might as well bring me an omlette and

a mouthful of soup and perhaps you might fetch along a dab of fish, and a grape, or a walnut

The waiter turned to Jones.

"I guess I'll take the same," he said.

(a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: One word answers [3

or short phrases will be accepted.

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(ii) defiant (line 29)

(iii) muttered (line 32).

(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.

(i) Describe the type of life Jones had in the piano box.

(s) Why de poverty

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(ii) What was the condition of Robinson when he arrived in the city?

(iii) How did Robinson suffer in the tar barrel? (iv) What recreation facilities were there in the barrel and in the piano box?

(v) Why do you think that these businessmen say that they led a life of utter poverty?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Answer:

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