Here are some sentences from the text. Say which of them tell you that the author:  (a) was afraid of the snake (b) was proud of his appearance (c) had a sense of humour  (d) was no longer afraid of the snake  

1. I was turned to stone.  

2. I was no mere image cut in granite.  

3. The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.  

4. I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words,  ‘O God’.  

5. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out.  

6. I looked into the mirror and smiled. It was an attractive smile.

7. I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.  

8. I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of it!  

9. The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness...! The rascal could have taken it and used  it after washing it with soap and water.

10. Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache or using  eye shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its forehead?

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(a) was afraid of the snake (b) was proud of his appearance   (c) had a sense of humour (d) was no longer afraid of   the snake
1 I was turned to stone.
2 I was no mere image cut in granite.  
3 The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.  
4 I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words, 'O God'.  
5 I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out. 
6 I looked into the mirror and smiled. It was an attractive smile.
7 I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.
8 I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of  it!
9 The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness...! The rascal could have taken it and used it after washing it with soap and water. 
10 Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache  or using eye shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its forehead. 

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