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Bluntschli : [promptly] Instinct, dear young lady. Instinct, and experience of the world. Raina …
Bluntschli : [promptly] Instinct, dear young lady. Instinct, and experience of the world.
Raina : [wonderingly] Do you know, you are the first man I ever met who did not take me seriously?
Bluntschli : You mean, dont you, that I am the first man that has ever taken you quite seriously?
Raina : Yes: I suppose I do mean that. [Cosily, quite at ease with him] How strange it is to be talked to in such a way! You know, Ive always gone on like that.
Bluntschli : You mean the-?
ARMS AND THE MAN — George Bernard Shaw
Question 2
Choose two of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:
(i)[1.0]
What reasons did Bluntschli give for disbelieving Raina?
(ii)[2.0]
How has his ‘instinct’ and ‘experience’ helped him?
(iii)[2.0]
What confession does Raina make soon after this?
(iv)[2.0]
How does Bluntschli reassure Raina that he does not despise her?
(v)[2.0]
How did Raina react to the observation made by Bluntschli?
(vi)[1.0]
Which action of Bluntschli makes Raina very happy?
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From ISC 2017 English Literature Paper 1, question 2(c).