(ii) Write an email an artist inviting him/her to the art exhibition and asking

Question 4
select the best entry.
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follow:
Read the following passage caretully and answer the questions that
The wind was frolicking among the yellow leaves of the old birch trees, and a sh
ofthick drops fell upon us from the leaves. A man in a shabby overcoat, with a sha
bluish-erimson countenance, overtook us. "Where is the grave of Mushkin, the actor so
before?" he asked us.
had died two vears
sunken, was overoro..
It was with difficulty that we found the actor's grave. It had
air of aged dejectio
with weeds, and had lost all the appearance of a grave. It had an
was got up amono
and looked, as it were, ailing. "A subscription for a monument to him
money, the dear fellows." sighed th
actors and journalists, but they drank up the
earth with his knees and
visiting actor, bowing down to the ground and touching the wet
it in the newspaper,1h
his cap. "They collected the money, published a paragraph about
them good, dear things!
and spernt it on drink... I don't say it to blame them...I hope it did
Good health to them, and eternal memory to him."
wreaths on the coffin, and he
"Mushkin was a well-known man, ; there were a dozen
have forgotten him, but those to whom
is already forgotten. Those to whom he was dear
forget him, for Igot nothing but
he did harm remember him. I, for instance, shall never
deceased."
harm from him. I have no love for the
expression of bitter resentment
"He did me great harm," sighed the actor, and an
looking at
overspread his face. "To me he was a villain and a scoundrel! It was through
he lured me from the parental
him and listening to him that I became an actor. By his art
me all sorts of 20
home, he enticed me with the excitements of an actor's life, promised
a bitter one! Ihave lost youth,
things and brought tears and sorrow. An actor's lot is
with, my shoes
sobriety, and the divine semblance. I haven't a half-penny to bless myself
have been something if l
are down at heel, my breeches are frayed and patched. It would
and though
had had talent, but as it is, Iam ruined for nothing. Though Idon't like him
was the only one I had in the world, the only one. It's the last time I shall
he's dead, he
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eit bim. The doctors say I shall soon die of drink, so here I have come to
sav good-bve
One must forgive one's enemies."

() For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the
options provided: [3|
1. frolicking (line 1)
(a) hastening (b) pushing (c) blowing mischievously (d) rushing

2. countenance (line 3)
(a) appearance (6) colour (c) spirits (d) cheerfulness

3. enticed (line 20)

(a) repulsed (b) dissuaded (c) rejoiced (d) lured

(ii) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.

Describe his physical
(i) Who had come looking for the grave of Mushkin?
appearance.
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(ii) What was the condition of Mushkin's grave? [2

(iii) Why did Mushkin's friends not erect a mnonument over his grave? [1]

Who remembered or
(iv) How can you conclude that Mushkin was a famous man?
didn't remember him? [2

to
(v) What was the reaction of the actor to the fact of squandering money collected
build a monument over the grave? [2]

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(iii) In not more than 50 words, narrate the relationship between Mushkin and the actor. [81