12th-Eng, Passages (Prose) Book-Flamingo

Q. 1 After dark she walked by the canal, along a sheltered path lighted only by the glare of the lamps from the wharf across the water and the unceasing drone of the city was muffled and distant. It was a place, she had often played in when she was a child.

There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm where lovers sometimes came. She sat down to wait. It was the perfect place, she had always thought so, for a meeting of this kind. For those who wished not to be observed. She knew he would approve.

Questions –

Q 1 Who is the writer of this story ?

Q. 2 What did Sophie do after dark ?

Q. 3. Who used to visit that place sometimes ?

Q. 4. What was there beneath a solitary elm ?

Q. 5. Who is ‘ he ‘ in the last line of this passage ?