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Read the passage from the story’ The Mysterious Picture’ and answer the questions that follow. The Captain of the Guards was a tall, well built, red haired man of about twenty- five. He was handsomely dressed in his gold braided uniform. Tyl looked at him coolly and then dismounted from his donkey. He bowed low and said,’ May God bless you ,Sir Captain!. If I look like a skeleton, It is not my fault. I ‘m very hungry. I’ve come here because I’m forced to. If you will be so good as to give me a piece of the gold cord that you wear on your coat, I’ll go and hang myself by the teeth on that large leg of mutton that I see hanging in that butcher’s shop.’ The Captain was playing a game of chess with another officer. He looked curiously at Tyl. ‘ Where do you come from? he asked. ‘ From Flanders,’ replied Tyl. a. Describe the appearance of ‘ The Captain of the Guards’. b. Name the game The Captain of the Guards played? c. What did Tyl demand to the Captain of the Guards? d. Find out a polite expression used by Tyl. e. Pick out one word for ‘ To get off a horse’; bicycle or motorcycle. (Looked; bowed; dismounted; forced )

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a. Captain of Guards was a tall, well- built, red-haired man of about twenty-five. He was handsomely dressed in his gold braided uniform. 

b. Chess 

c. A piece of gold cord 

d. May God bless you Sir Captain 

e. Dismounted



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