Who can at one stroke put these people out of their pain?

• The government

• Some charitable dispensary

• the city folk

• the rural folk

The items which were sold on the roadside stand were:

Beauty, according to Robert Frost, rests in:

Moneyed people are mean. It means:

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Here far from the city we make our roadside stand
And ask for some city money to feel in hand
To try if it will not make our being expand
And give us the life of the moving pictures promise
That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.

1. Who made a roadside stand and where?
2. Who wanted to feel the money in hand?
3. Who hoped to be helped and by whom?
4. What was the promise made and who made it?

The roadside stand was set up by:

From whom did the rural people desire to get money?

The promise of providing motion pictures for the rural folk was made by:

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
It is in the news that all these pitiful kin are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store
Where they won’t have to think for themselves anymore.

1. What was there in the news?
2. Where were the people to be settled?
3. What would be their state there?
4. Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ here?

The news was about:

The rural people will be resettled: