question_answer

Read one of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

They greeted us with friendly faces.

"I thought you picked fruit 'for a living', I said.

(a) Who are 'they'?

OR

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

(a) Why do princess get monuments made?

 

Answer:

(a) 'They' refer to the two boys, Nicola and Jacopo.

OR

(a) Princess get monuments made to make the dead immortal by preserving their memory for posterity. They wanted their memory to live on beyond their life.