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So I lay in the old dentist’s chair, And I gaze up his nose in despair, And his drill it do whine, In these molars of mine. “Two amalgams,” he’ll say, “for in there.”

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

So I lay in the old dentist’s chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine.
“Two amalgams,” he’ll say, “for in there.”

Paraphrase: The poet lay in the old dentist’s chair and gazed up his nose in disappointment. She heard the whining noise of the drilling machine working into the molars or the big teeth.

(a) Where did the poet lie?

(b) Why was the poet in despair?

(c) What are molars?

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(a) The poet lay in the old dentist’s chair.

(b) The poet was in despair as she had developed many tooth ailments.

(c) The molars are twelve big teeth used for chewing food.

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