Here is an excerpt from her first day:
“All went well, and I got to Georgetown one evening very tired. Was kindly welcomed, slept in my narrow bed with two other roommates, and on the morrow began my new life by seeing a poor man die at dawn, and sitting all day between a boy with pneumonia and a man shot through the lungs. A strange day, but I did my best; and when I put mother’s little black shawl round the boy while he sat up panting for breath, he smiled and said, “You are real motherly, ma’am.” I felt as if I was getting on. The man only lay and stared with his big black eyes, and made me very nervous. But all were well behaved; and I sat looking at the twenty strong faces as they looked back at me,—hoping that I looked “motherly” to them; for my thirty years made me feel old, and the suffering round me made me long to comfort every one.”
The correct answer is "I felt a little sorry, and would have called him back, but I found he was returning of his own accord."
Explanation: In "The Cabuliwallah" by Rabindranath Tagore, the narrator did not like the idea of the Cabuliwallah showing on the day of his daughter's wedding, and denied his request to see her. The narrator begins to feel bad for him, and before the Cabuliwallah leaves, he accepts the gifts he brought for her.
Answer:
1. The word 'tend' means 'disposed to', or 'frequently leads to' destruction.
2. He chose this subtitle for this section to explain how difficult it was for the French people to control the Vietnamese people.
3. Ruined means destruction.
4. The Vietnamese people were doing the ruining.
Explanation:
The article, "The Vietnam Wars," highlights the resistance put up by the Vietnamese people when other nations like the Chinese and French tried to subjugate them. In that section, the phrase, "Everything Tends to Ruin", was used by a French Military commander to summarize the frustration of the French people who tried to colonize the Vietnamese people.
The locals used their knowledge of the terrains to cause mayhem to their colonists. They resisted the schooling offered by the French people and rather embraced their culture. All ploys by the French colonists to subjugate them were met with resistance.
