Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.
Child,
Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all morning!
I smile atyour play with that little bit of a broken twig.
I am busy with my accounts, adding up figures by the hour,
(i) Where is the child sitting?
(ii) The child is playing with
(iii) How does the poet react to the child’* play?
(iv) What is the speaker doing?/What is the speaker busy with ?
(v) When the speaker says, 7 smile atyour play with that little bit of a broken twig”, it indicates that
(a) he is happy to see the child playing happily
(b) he laughs at the child for being content with having a broken twig for a toy
(c) he thinks twigs are useless things with no value
(d) he feels superior because he knows what is useless and what is worth possessing.
