Q.1.
What is taking place in this poem?
Q.2.
Who wishes to do his job well?
Q.3.
When the patrol leader says 'the whole must come out now', he implies that he already knows what the people he is interrogating have done. Which words contradict this implied meaning?
Q.4.
'The careless lovers in pairs go by, / Hand linked in hand, wandering another star, / So near we could shout to them.' This is an example of...
Q.5.
In the lines quoted in question four, what is the significance of the word 'could'?
Q.6.
Which word best describes the group under interrogation?
Q.7.
Considering the answer to question six, which words reinforce this impression?
Q.8.
What does the narrator see as the cause of this everlasting interrogation?
Q.9.
What might the narrator mean by 'we are on the very edge'?
Q.10.
Which of the following does NOT reinforce the sense of endurance?