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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:There were sudden fierce dark clouds in the sky blowing across as if the wind god himself were chasing them. I could smell moisture in the earth and knew it was raining somewhere. Hariya busily scrambled amongst the mud and stones and wrapped all our tools and vessels in one large cloth.When packed it looked like a swollen pillow that he expertly loaded onto his head. “Let’s go, master,” he said. “The air doesn’t smell good to me. Looks like thunder and storms. We’d better be home before they strike.”? I nodded and pulled at the rope attached? to the neck of our bullock. “If it rains,” I was S thinking, “the fields are not ploughed, and the mud will become sticky.” “Hariya,” I said, “Did you and Mauliya milk the cow this morning ?” “Oh, yes,” said Hariya.“We woke up before l dawn. You were snoring away and got up just s in time for tea. You had a tiring day yesterday” “Yes,” I admitted. I could still feel my; shoulders aching with the effort spent in building the mud bunds all around the field.I was grateful to the Reddy boys who had come to help me in the work. Alone I would never have s been able to put up the mud embankment all around the field in just one day. “At least that is done, and I ought to be grateful,” I thought to myself. “Even if it rains, they will protect S the good soil of the farmland.” (1) Where was Hariya? Why did he want to leave the place soon?(2) What work did Hariya and Mauliya do that morning?(3) Why was the writer tired?(4) Which works done by a farmer are mentioned in this extract?

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(1) Hariya was in his field. He smelt moisture in the earth and knew that very soon there would be thunder and storms. So he wanted to leave the field before they struck.

(2) Hariya and Mauliya milked the cow that morning.

(3) The writer was tired of working with the Reddy boys the previous day, putting up mud? embankment all around the field.

(4) The works done by a farmer mentioned in this extract are – ploughing the field, milking the cow and putting up a mud embankment around the field.



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