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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:I could be well moved, if I were as you: If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star,Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament I was constant Cimber should be banish’d. And constant do remain to keep him so.Questions (a) Explain: ‘‘If I were as you.’’ (b) Why does Caesar compare himself to the Pole Star? (c) What is the synonym for ‘fixed/permanent’ in the passage?

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(a) Caesar is trying to say that he could be moved by Cimber’s crouchings and lowly courtesies’ if he were Cimber. 

(b) Caesar compares himself to the Pole Star for his unwavering attitude and resolution. He is always constant and unmoved like the Pole Star. 

(c) constant



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