Question

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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 villa ge, 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
life. Yet in spite of all that I still cannot think of myself as a Londoner, nor ever will, nor ev
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
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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

Answer:

1st answer

because of gold and glory

2nd answer

One bright June morning when I was nineteen, I packed all I had on to my back,