Question

Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

‘… and these are the millionfold chorus of life-the magnified echo of his own pleasure in being alive.’ (Para 3)

1. What does the author refer to as the ‘millionfold chorus of life’?
2. What do the sounds in nature echo?
3. Give the adjectival form of ‘chorus’.

Answer 1

1. The ‘millionfold chorus of life’ refers to the many sounds made by insects and other living things in nature.
2. These sounds echo the joy of being alive.
3. The adjectival form of ‘chorus’ is ‘choral’.