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Question
The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.
He is smart as well as brave.
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Solution
The character is the ballad- singer/prisoner/man.
He is smart
- And maybe the man you are watching for to-night used to be sitting on the wall when he was young and singing those same songs... It's a queer world…
It‘s a pity! It‘s a pity. You deceived me. You deceived me well.
He is brave
- There isn‘t another man in Ireland who would have broken gaol the way he did.
- I am. There are a hundred pounds on my head.
- Will you let me pass, or must I make you let me?
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| (ii) | alchemy | (b) | delicate |
| (iii) | frail | (c) | mysterious/magical power |
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