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Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Sarojini Naidu was educated in her early years under her father'* own care. He wanted her to become a great Mathematician or scientist but she loved to dream and write poems. She was hardly eleven when she wrote her first poem. At thirteen she wrote a long poem in the manner of famous English poets. After her matriculation in India she went to England for her higher education in literature. She met Sir Edmund cross a distinguished man of letters. He was impressed by her knowledege and intelligence. He was surprised to see that she had written poems in flawless English but felt disappointed to find that they had nothing of the east in them. They were all about English sights from this day on wards; she devoted herself to writing verses about India.

Questions :

(a) What did her father want her to do?

(b) When did she write her first poem?

(c) Why did Edmund disappoint despite poem written in flawless English?

(d) Where did she go for higher education?

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(a) Her father wanted her to became a great mathematician or scientist.

(b) She wrote her first poem when she was eleven.

(c) Edmund was disappointed because her poems had nothing of the cast in them.

(d) She went to England for higher education.

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