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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:

(b) Which 'voices' are referred to in these lines?

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.

(b) What did John 'dig up' for Jenkins?

 

Answer:

(b) 'Voices' are the inner voices of the poet. The voices are of his education which taught him to kill the snake.

OR

(b) John used to write ghost stories for the magazine of Jenkins.