Que : 414. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions given below :

Driving from my parent's

home to Cochin last Friday

morning, I saw my mother,

besides me,

doze, open mouthed, her face

ashen like that

of a corpse and realised with

pain

That she was as old as she

looked but soon.

Questions :

(i) Which day is described in the above extract ?

(a) Monday

(b) Friday

(c) Tuesday

(d) Sunday

 

(ii) Who was sitting beside the speaker of the poem ?

(a) her mother

(b) her father

(c) her brother

(d) her sister

 

(iii) Give the opposite of the word 'soon'.

(a) early

(b) hurry

(c) late

(d) quick