Question

The elder went straight up to the landlord, bowed low and extended the packet towards him, cupping the hand that held the string with his other hand. The landlord opened the parcel and began to eat the vadais. After I had watched all this, at last, I went home. My elder brother was there. I told him the story in all its comic detail. I fell about with laughter at the memory of a big man, and an elder at that, making such a game out of carrying the parcel. But Annan was not amused. Annan told me the man wasn't being funny when he carried the package like that. He said everybody believed that they were upper caste and therefore must not touch us. If they did, they would be polluted. That's why he had to carry the package by its string.

Read the line: 'The elder went straight up to the landlord, bowed low and extended the packet towards him ....' What does the phrase 'extended the packet' mean?

Options

• Stretched the packet

• Outspread the packet

• Outstretched the packet

• Gave the packet

Answer 1

Gave the packet

Explanation:

The term 'extended' refers to being stretched out, spread out, and so forth. In context to the passage, it means to give.