Read the given extract carefully and answer the question :
For Parading their power and her helplessness, the young visitors are reprimanded, told they are responsible not only for the act of mockery but also for the small bundle of life sacrificed to achieve its aims the ***** woman shifts attention away from assertions of power to the instrument through which that power is exercised.
Speculation on what (other than its own frail body) that bird in the hand might signify has always been attractive to me, but especially so now, thinking as I have been about work I do that has brought me to this company. So I choose to read the bird as "language" and the woman as a 'practiced writer.'
(i) Name the topic and the author.
(ii) Why were the young visitor'* reprimanded ?
(iii) What did the woman do?
(iv) What did the visitors think?
(v) Find the word from the passage which means: 'affirmation'.
