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(8} Read the given excerpts and answer the questions briefly, for ANY TWO
exCerpts, of the three, given. (4+4=8)
(A)The voice of my education saidto me He must be killed,
For in Sicily, the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.
And vOIce in me said, if yOu were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.
() What is the Sicilian belief? (1)
(1) What does the poetmean by "Thevoice of education'? (1)
(üi) Which poetic devicehas been used in the 2nd line?
(1)
(iv) Why doesthe poet not killthesnake?
(1)
()What did the augurers (priests) say about the sacrifice? (1)
(ii) Why do the gods do this tothe beast? (1)
(iii) What logic does Caesar put forward to go out after the sacrifice ceremony was over?
(1)
(iv) Explain: 'Caesar is more dangerous than he'. (1)
(C)Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down inthe glow of the charcoal sigri to wait
(1) Whosat by the charcoal sigri?
(1)
(i) What was he waiting for?
(1)
(iii) Why was 'he' feeling tortured?
(iv) The word
(1)
In the extract means 'deep regret.
(1)