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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
"Please don't shout! You can shout yourself hoarse in your own house but here I must ask you to restrain yourself!"
(a) Who is speaking and to whom?
(b) What is the dispute over?
(c) What does the word, 'restrain' mean?
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उत्तर
(a) Natalya is speaking to Lomov.
(b) The dispute is over the Oxen Meadows, of who the owner is.
(c) Restrain means to prevent someone from doing something.
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