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“What about a song, chaps?” is not greeted politely at the end of thirty miles. (а) Who would suggest singing a song? (b) Why was this suggestion resented by his fellow trainees? (c) What do you mean by ‘chaps’?

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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:

“What about a song, chaps?” is not greeted politely at the end of thirty miles.

(а) Who would suggest singing a song?

(b) Why was this suggestion resented by his fellow trainees?

(c) What do you mean by ‘chaps’?

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(a) Private Quelch would suggest singing a song.

(b) The suggestion was resented because all the trainees, except perhaps Quelch, were dead tired at the end of a long thirty-mile route march.

(c) ‘boys’.

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