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in Class 12 by kratos

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

And he took my lovely crutches

Laughing with a fiend’* grimace

Broke them both across my back and Threw them in the fireplace.

(i) Who took the crutches?

(ii) How is the physician’* laugh described?

(iii) What does ‘both ’ refer to?

(iv) Where did the physician throw the crutches?

(v) The crutches are thrown into the fireplace because

(a) he no longer needs them

(b) the crutches did not help him in any way

(c) he may be tempted to use them again.

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by kratos
 
Best answer

(i) The great physician.

(ii) He laughed with a fiend’* grimace.

(iv) It refers to the pair of crutches that belonged to the speaker.

(v) After breaking them, the physician threw the crutches in the fireplace.

(iv) (c) he may be tempted to use them again.

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