Read the extract and answer the following questions.
Extract:
There were brass spittoons on the floor, and across the station a glint of light caught my eye; a man was pulling a gold watch from his vest pocket. He snapped open the cover, glanced at his watch and frowned. He wore a derby hat, a black four-button suit with tiny lapels, and he had a big, black, handlebar mustache. Then I looked around and saw that everyone in the station was dressed like eighteen-ninety-something; I never saw so many beards, sideburns and fancy mustaches in my life. A woman walked in through the train gate; she wore a dress with leg-ofmutton sleeves and skirts to the top of her high-buttoned shoes. Back of her, out on the tracks, I caught a glimpse of a locomotive, a very small Currier & Ives locomotive with a funnel-shaped stack. And then I knew
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Question (i)
State True or False :
The narrator saw a man with a gold watch and a derby hat in the station.
Answer:
Answer as written by the student:
True
Step-by-step explanation: ✅
- To answer this question, we need to find the detail in the text that confirms or contradicts the statement.
- The detail that confirms the statement is in the second sentence of the extract: "a man was pulling a gold watch from his vest pocket. He snapped open the cover, glanced at his watch and frowned. He wore a derby hat". This shows that the narrator saw a man with a gold watch and a derby hat in the station. ⌚🎩
- Therefore, the answer to this question is true. ✔️
Question (ii)
The woman who walked in through the train gate wore a dress with _______-of-mutton sleeves and skirts to the top of her high-buttoned shoes.
Answer:
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