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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. Whom Did Mr Oliver Meet in the Forest? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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When there was a strong wind, the pine trees made sad, eerie sounds that kept most people to the main road. But Mr. Oliver was not a nervous or imaginative man. He carried a torch – and on the night I write of, its pale gleam, the batteries were running down – moved fitfully over the narrow forest path. When its flickering light fell on the figure of a boy, who was sitting alone on a rock, Mr. Oliver stopped.

Boys were not supposed to be out of school after seven P.M. and it was now well past nine. What are you doing out here, boy, asked Mr. Oliver sharply, moving closer so that he could recognize the miscreant.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Whom did Mr Oliver meet in the forest?

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Mr Oiver while walking along the shortcut in the forest saw in the flickering light of his torch a boy, crouched down sitting on a rock and weeping.

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Chapter 2.05: A Face in the Dark - Passage 2

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Evergreen Publication Treasure Trove [English] Class 9 and 10 ICSE
Chapter 2.05 A Face in the Dark
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