Question

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Reading Section

I. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions :-



Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realized that he was dead

serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the
written word. Shahid knew all too well that for those writers for whom things become real only in

the process of writing, there is an inbuilt resistance to dealing with loss and bereavement. He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would
have told myself that I was not a poet: that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many
others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was

still time. ‘You must write about me.’


Questions:-

a) How does Shahid wanted to be remember by the writer ?

b) Writer would avoid writing about what ?

c) What writer would have told himself ?

d) Give meaning of the words : (a) Entrust (b) Bereavement or Instinct​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) shahid wanted to be remembered by the writer by written words

b) writer would avoid writing about his death

c) writer jas told about himself that he was not a poet that his friendship was recent date that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge

d)