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Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                       (1 x 3 = 3) "Not that the lust to kill had suddenly descended on her, or that she felt that she would leave India safer and more wholesome than she had found it, with one fraction less of wild beast per million of inhabitants". (a) Identify 'she' in the extract given above. (b) Why did she want to shoot a tiger? (c) What is the tone of the narrator?

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  (a) She refers to Mrs Packletide. (b) She wanted to prove that she was more adventurous than her arch rival Loona Bim berton. (c) The tone of the narrator is 'satirical'.