UNIT TEST....1 ENGLISH LITERATURE CLASS IX Time : 40 mins. F.M.: 20 Read the extract and answer the questions that follow : The third one sat in tattered clothes . He gave his coat a hitch. Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich ? i ) Who is referred to as ' the third one ' ? Where was he sitting ? Why was he there ? [ 3] ii) Who is the first person ? what did she see ? What does this tell us about her ? [ 3] iii) What were the rich man's thoughts ? [3] iv ) Who is the sixth person in the poem? Why did he not put his log into the fire ? [3 ] v) What happens to all these people in the end ? Who was responsible for their downfall ? [4 ] vi ) Who is the fifth person in the poem ? What did he see in his stick of wood ? [ 2 ] vii ) Mention any figure of speech that you have come across in the poem . Give an example. [ 2 ]
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The third man was a poor man. It was evident in his tattered (old and torn) clothes. ‘He gave his coat a hitch’ indicates that his short coat was not adequate to keep him warm in the cold weather. He found that another man in the group was a rich person. Being a poor, he was prejudiced against the rich and thought him to be idle. That is why he decided not to spend his log ‘to warm the idle rich’. So, it was all about the clash of social class that made him stay away from sharing his piece of log.
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