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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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29/01/2021 4:44 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Remember the first lesson we had in musketry. We stood in an attentive circle while a Sergeant, a man as dark and sun-dried as raisins, wearing North-West Frontier ribbons, described the mechanism of a service rifle.
(a) What is the meaning of musketry?
(b) Describe the Sergeant.
(c) What does the phrase ‘North-West Frontier Ribbons’ convey about the person mentioned?
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29/01/2021 4:45 pm
(a) It means the art of using musket, a type of gun.
(b) The Sergeant was a dark-complexioned, experienced soldier.
(c) It means that the Sergeant had won an honour fighting on the North-West Frontier.