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Question
Select and read sentences that show
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that the boy is tempted to eat jalebis
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that he is feeling guilty.
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that he is justifying a wrong deed
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Solution
(i) “But then, these jalebis are not common sort of jalebis either. They are crisp, fresh and full of sweet syrup.”
(ii) “Now for the crime of eating a few jalebis, for the first time in my life I was absent from school, and crouching in the shade of a tree in a deserted corner of the railway station.”
(iii) “So, Allah Miyan, just this once, help me out. There is no shortage of anything in your treasury. Even our chaprasi takes a whole lot of money home every month, and Allahji, after all I am the nephew of a big officer. Won’t you give me just four rupees.”
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