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Question
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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?


Solution

1. The news was about the resettlement of the poor rural people.
2. The people were to be resettled in villages next to the theatre and the store. They would be close to the cities.
3. There they won’t have to worry about themselves anymore.
4. The poor rural folk and the farmers are the ‘pitiful kin’ here.