.What a thunderclap these words were to me!
Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put
up at the town hall!
My last French lesson! Why, I hardly knew how
to write! I should never learn any more.
(a) Whose words were a thunderclap?
(b) What is narrator’s mood at present?(c) What was the reason that the narrator
hardly knew how to write French?
(d) “that was what they had put up at the town
hall!” Who are ‘they’ here?
Answers
a) M. hamel's words were a thunderclap
b) the narrator was both shocked and sorry that he would not be able to learn his mother tongue in future. the narrator hardly knew how to write french because he used to put off learning till the next day.
c) they here refers to the Berlin people who sent order to Alsace and Lorraine.
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Answer:
(a) The following words of Mr. Hamel shocked and surprised little Franz. They were thunderclap to him.
(b) The narrator was both shocked and sorry that he would not be able to learn his mother tongue in future. The narrator hardly knew how to write french because he used to put off learning till the next day.
(c) He wanted his students to be very attentive. These words were like a thunderclap to Franz. It was going to be his last French lesson. But he hardly knew how to write it.
(d) The order from Berlin to teach only German in schools of Alsace and Lorraine.
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