Q) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
A tiny village lay among
the mountains of a country from which for four years the men had gone forth to
fight. First the best men had gone, then the older men, then the youths, and
lastly the school boys. It will be seen that no men could have been left in the
village except the very aged, and the bodily incapacitated, who soon died,
owing to the war policy of the Government which was to let the useless perish
that there might be more food for the useful. Now it chanced that while all the
men went away, save those left to die of slow starvation, only a few returned,
and these few were crippled and disfigured in various ways. One young man had
only part of a face, and had to wear a painted tin mask, like a holiday-maker.
Another had two legs but no arms, and another two arms but no legs. One man
could scarcely be looked at by his own mother, having had his eyes burned out
of his head until he stared like Death. One had neither arms nor legs, and was
mad of his misery besides, and lay all day in a cradle like a baby. And there
was a quite old man who strangled night and day from having sucked in
poison-gas; and another, a mere boy, who shook, like a leaf in a high wind,
from shellshock, and screamed at a sound. And he too had lost a hand, and part
of his face, though not enough to warrant the expense of a mask for him.
Questions:
1) What type of people could be seen in the village during the war?
2) How was the young man like?
3) How was the old man living in the village?
4) What was the trend of the people going to fight from the village?
5) What effects of the war can be noticed in the village?
6) What does the expression “let the useless perish” mean?
7) What does it seem that one man could scarcely be looked at by his own mother?
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