Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
The voice of my education said to me He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.And voices in me said, if you were a man You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.
Paraphrase. The knowledge of his social education urged the poet that he must kill the snake. In Sicily, the black-snakes are innocent but the snakes of golden colour (as this snake was) are poisonous. The voices inside him urged him that if he were a brave man, he must take a stick and break him into pieces and kill him at once.
Questions
(a) What did his ‘education’ say to the poet?
(b) What is the colour of the poisonous snakes in Sicily?
(c) What is the synonym for ‘poisonous’ in the passage?
