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Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

Then all the people looked, and saw that what the poet said was true. The prophecy was fulfilled. But Ernest, having finished what he had to say, look the poet's arm and walked slowly towards home, still hoping that some wiser and better man than himself would appear, bearing a resemblance to the Great Stone Face.

(i) What prophecy was fulfilled?

(ii) Where did the poet and Ernest walk to?

(iii) What did Ernest still hope for?

(iv) What does the word 'prophecy' means?

Answer:

(i) The prophecy that a man resembling the Great Stone Face would come one day was fulfilled.

(ii) The poet and Ernest walked towards home.

(iii) Ernest still hoped that a man would come back bearing a resemblance to the Great Stone face.

(iv) Statement that tells what will happen in the future.