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Read the following and answer the questions given below.

Jack: No, no, Aunt Jane. You misunderstood me. We don’t pay rent because the house is ours. 

Aunt Jane: YOURS?

Jill: Why, yes; you just pay ten pounds and it’s yours. Jack: You see, Aunt Jane, we realized how uneconomic it is to go on paying rent year after year, when you can buy and enjoy a home of your own for ten pounds and a few quarterly payments, of course. Why be Mr .Tenant when you can be Mr. Owner?

Aunt Jane: I see. Yes, there’s something in that. Even so, you must be getting on very well to keep up a place like this.

Jill: Oh, he is, Aunt Jane. Why, only last year he had a five shilling rise—didn’t you, Jack? 

Jack (modestly): Of course that was nothing, really. I’m expecting ten this Christmas.

Aunt Jane (suddenly): Jack! I’ve just thought of something. That car—is it yours?

Jill: Of course it’s ours. 

Aunt Jane : All yours?

Jack : Well, no. Not exactly all.

(a) Why doesn’t Jack pay rent?

(b) How much had Jack paid for his house?

(c) Was Aunt Jane pleased to know Jack’s promotion to Mr. Owner from Mr. Tenant? How?

(d) How did Jill support her husband’s penny wise and pound foolish investments?

(e) What was Jack’s response to Aunt Jane’s questions about the ownership of the car?

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(a) Jack doesn’t pay rent because he has brought the house on EMI loan scheme.

(b) Jack had made an initial payment of ten pounds and was paying the rest in instalments.

(c) No, she was not pleased. Aunt Jane was a practical lady. She wondered how on earth Jack was maintaining such a lovely house with a lot of amenities.

(d) Jill said that they were well off as Jack was given a pay hike of five shillings.

(e) He said that the car was his but not all the parts.

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