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

“At last a sympathetic audience! I’ll tell you the story of my life. How as a child I was stolen by the gypsies, and why at the age of thirty-two, I find myself in my lonely Essex cottage, how...”

(Page 140)

Why does the intruder want to know about Gerrard?

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

“That’s a lie. You’re not dealing with a fool. I’m as smart as you and smarter, and I know you run a car. Better be careful, wise guy!”

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Which of the following words is a synonym of ‘wise’?

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

“That’s a lie. You’re not dealing with a fool. I’m as smart as you and smarter, and I know you run a car. Better be careful, wise guy!”

(Page 140)

Which of the following statements about Gerard is correct?

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

Don’t be a fool. If you shoot, you’ll hang for sure. If not as yourself, then as Vincent Charles Gerrard.

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Why would it be foolish on the part of the listener to shoot the speaker?

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

Don’t be a fool. If you shoot, you’ll hang for sure. If not as yourself, then as Vincent Charles Gerrard.

(Page143)

Who is the speaker of the given lines?