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Direction (5 - 8): Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room.

It was because they were sony, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.

Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as 'Poor man!'?

A) He empathises with M. Hamel as he had to leave the village.

B) He believes that M. Harriers 'fine Sunday clothes' clearly reflected that he was not rich.

C) He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson.

D) He thinks that M. Hamel's patriotism and sense of duty resulted in his poverty.