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Read the following passages and answer the questions given below?

1. “It’s all right, officer, ” he said, reassuringly. “I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain if you’d like to make certain it’s all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands- Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant.”

“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was tom down then.”

(a) What was the stranger waiting for?

(b) When was the appointment made? .

(c) What happened to Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant?

(d) Why were the two men talking about a non-existent restaurant?

(e) Why did the stranger try to reassure the patrol man on duty?

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(a) He was waiting for a friend,

(b) The appointment was made twenty years ago.

(c) It was pulled down five years ago.

(d) The stranger and his friend had made an appointment to meet at Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant h 20 years ago. The stranger did not know what became of the building.

(e) The stranger was the criminal wanted on Chicago. He did not want to raise any suspicion – in the mind of the patrol man. So, he spoke about the odd appointment to him reassuringly.

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