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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

And immediately I regretted it.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!

I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.

(a) What was the mean act?

OR

"Well, you needn't be, because I just came to tell you to stop bothering us for assistance; you ain't going to get it. Were going on strike!"

(a) Who speaks these words and to whom?

 

Answer:

(a) The mean act was when he threw the log at the snake.

OR

(a) Helen is speaking these words to John.