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Question
Based on your reading of the poem, answer the following question by ticking the correct option:
- 'I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act' -The poet is referring to
Options
the snake going into the dreadful hole
the accursed modern education
the act of throwing a log of wood at the snake
the act of killing the snake
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Solution
the act of throwing a log of wood at the snake
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The snake trying to escape the
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| But must I confess how I liked him, How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless, Into the burning bowels of this earth? |
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