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Comprehension:
A. Answer the following in one sentence.
1. Whose soul does the poet say is ‘dead’?
The poet says that a person who is not patriotic has a dead soul.
2. Who does the poet ask to mark well?
The poet asks to make well a non-patriotic person who goes to a foreign country and praises that country.
3. What delights the minstrel?
The return of a patriotic person to his motherland delights the minstrel.
4. How can a person doubly die?
Non-patriotic person can doubly die by forfeiting their reputation.
5. What is meant by ‘Vile dust’?
Vile dust stands for wretched soil. Here it is used in the sense that it has given birth to a person who has no
love for his native land.