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Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below.

“The face is quite wrong, ” he said. “I know, ” I answered quietly; “I have always known it.” He sighed. “I think, ” he said, “the face would be better threequarters full.” “I’m sure it would, ” I said enthusiastically, for I was glad to find that the man had such a human side to him. “So would yours. In fact, ” I continued, “how many faces one sees that are apparently hard, narrow, limited, but the minute you get them threequarters full they get wide, large, almost boundless in-”

But the photographer had ceased to listen. He came over and took my head in his hands and twisted it sideways. I thought he meant to kiss me, and I closed my eyes. But I was wrong.

(a) What statement disturbed the author?

(b) What observation cheered up the author?

(c) How did the author respond to the photographer’s observation?

(d) Why did the photographer sigh?

(e) How was the author wrong?

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(a) The photographer said, “The face is quite wrong”. This statement disturbed the author.

(b) The photographer said, “The face would be better three quarters full”. This cheered up the author.

(c) The author, in a bid to please the photographer said that one comes across hard, narrow limited faces which become all right when they are three quarters full.

(d) The photographer had a feeling that the author’s face was not good for a photo. So, he 1 sighed. 

(e) When the photographer held the author’s head in his hand, he thought that he was going to kiss him. But he was wrong.

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