Question
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
But we would not give up. We would climb a bench or the parapet and peep into the basket, somehow. I can still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves. Loaves for the elders and the bangles for the children.
1. When would the children give up?
2. What does the narrator remember even after many years?
3. Find the world in the passage that means ‘to accept defeat’.
Solution
1. The children would give up only when they are scolded.
2. He remembers the sweet fragrance of the loaves.
3. Give up.
