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When I passed the town hall there was a crowd in front of the bulletin-board. For the last two years all our bad news had come from there — the lost battles, the draft, the orders of the commanding officer — and I thought to myself, without stopping, “What can be the matter now?” Then, as I hurried by as fast as I could go, the blacksmith, Watcher, who was there, with his apprentice, reading the bulletin, called after me, “Don’t go so fast, bub; you’ll get to your school in plenty of time!”i. It is the general tendency of human being to stop wherever there’s crowd, it shows that they are ________ a) Incurious b) Inquisitive c) Intuitive d) Dawdlerii. Why ‘there was a crowd in front of the bulletin board'? A. People had come to see what the news was. B. People had come to discuss about the news.a) Only Ab) Only B c) Both A & B d) None of theseiii. What was the motive of Blacksmith Wachter when he said, “Don’t go so fast, bub; you’ll get to your school in plenty of time!”? a) To ridicule Franz b) To boost the morale and make Franz comfortable c) To dominate little Franz d) To make him realize importance of his mother tongueiv. Franz saw a huge crowd assembled in front of the bulletin board, but did not stop. How would you evaluate his reaction? a) Franz was too little to care about the news of lost battles b) Nobody in Franz’s family was in the army, so it did not matter c) Bad news had become very normal, so he went about his task d) It was too crowded for Franz to find out what news was up on the board

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i. b) Inquisitive

ii. a) Only A

iii. b) To boost the morale and make Franz comfortable

iv. c) Bad news had become very normal, so he went about his task



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