Kathmandu Test ...

Read the given extract and answer the question that follows by choosing the most appropriate option.

The sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. He plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the fruit seller.

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Who does ‘he’ refer to in the given lines?

Read the given extract and answer the question that follows by choosing the most appropriate option.

The sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. He plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the fruit seller.

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What is the meaning of the word ‘offhanded’?

Read the given extract and answer the question that follows by choosing the most appropriate option.

The sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. He plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the fruit seller.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

Read the given extract and answer the question that follows by choosing the most appropriate option.

The sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. He plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the fruit seller.

(Page 130)

What “sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries”?

Read the given extract and answer the question that follows by choosing the most appropriate option.

The sound rises clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. He plays slowly, meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the fruit seller.

(Page 130)

He plays slowly, ________________ and without much show off.