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MISCHIEF OF PARTY SPIRIT : SHORT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

1. Who has written the essay " Mischief of party spirit?"

ANS. Joseph Addison has written the essay "Mischief of party spirit."

2. Who is Sir Roger?

ANS. Sir Roger is the worthy friend of Joseph Addison.

3.What does Sir Roger very frequently tell his friend?

ANS. Sir Roger very frequently tells his friends an accident that happened to him when he was a school boy.

4. What ran high?

ANS. The feuds ran high.

5. Between whom did the feuds ran high?

ANS. The feuds ran high between the Round-heads and Cavaliers.

6. Who called Sir Roger a young popish-cur?

ANS. The person whom Sir Roger first met on the way and he asked the way to St.Anne's Lane, called Sir Roger a young popish-cur.

7. Who called Sir Roger a prick-eared cur and why?

ANS. The next person whom Sir Roger asked the way to Anne's Lane, called him a prick-eared cur. He was abused so because he did not mention the word saint before Anne.

8. "I did not think fit to repeat the former question-----" Who is the speaker? Why did he not think fit to repeat the former question? What was the former question?

ANS. The speaker of the quoted line is Sir Roger, the friend of the author Joseph Addison who has written the essay "Mischief of party spirit" to which the above quotation belongs.

   Sir Roger did not think fit to repeat the former question because of having been abused by two men for his asking the way to St.Anne's Lane and the way to Anne's lane.

   "Which is the way to Anne's Lane?" is the former question of the author's friend Sir Roger.

9. "----- She had been a saint before he was born" -- In the above quoted line, Whom does the word "she" refer to? Here who is "he?"

ANS. In the above quoted line, the word "she" refers to Anne and the word "he" refers to Sir Roger, the worthy friend of the author Joseph Addison.

10. "----- what they called the name of that lane ---" Here who is "they?"

ANS. The word "they" in the above quoted line is used for men in general.

11. "It sinks the virtue of a nation" --- What does the word "it" refer to here?

ANS. The word "it" refers to a dreadful spirit of division.

12.Who was Plutarch?

ANS. Plutarch was a great philosopher.

13. What has Plutarch said?

ANS. Plutarch has said that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.


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