2. Extract Based Questions: 1x5=5
It offered riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing, exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork, and
as soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, it closed in on him, and then everything came to an
end. The world had, of course, never been very kind to him, so it gave him unwonted joy to think ill of it in this
way. (Rattrap)
(i) How can the peddler describe the world?
(a) Unjust and hostile (b) Unequal and brutal (c) Kind and Compassionate
(ii) Select the option that matches the reference 'riches and joys, shelter and food'.
(a) Deceit
(b) Temptation
(iii) The given extract does not talk about
(a) how people treated the peddler
(c) the characteristics of the peddler
(c) Materialism
(d) Luxury
(b) the philosophy of the rattrap seller
(d) the monotony of the peddler's life
(iv) Why do you think that the world was not very kind to him?
(v) How had the peddler come across the philosophy elucidated in the given extract?


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