question_answer

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

Was it humility, to feel so honoured?

I felt so honoured.

And yet those voices:

(a) Why did the poet feel honoured?

OR

And I had never found it healthy to contradict Jenkins. Jenkins always seemed to have an uncanny knowledge as to when the landlord or the grocer was pestering me, and he dunned me for a ghost. And somehow I'd always been able to dig one up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability.

(a) Why couldn't John contradict Jenkins?

 

Answer:

(a) The post felt honored because he had an unexpected guest at his water trough.

OR

(a) John never contradicted Jenkins because Jenkin magazine printed John's ghost stories; which further helped him to earn extra-money.