When the train had gone, I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform. I had no idea where to spend the night. I had no friends, believing that friends were more trouble than help. And I did not want to make anyone curious by staying at one of the small hotels near the station. The only person I knew really well was the man I had robbed. Leaving the station, I walked slowly through the bazaar. In my short career as a thief, I had made a study of men’s faces when they had lost their goods. The greedy man showed fear; the rich man showed anger; the poor man showed acceptance. But I knew that Anil’s face, when he discovered the theft, would show only a touch of sadness. Not for the loss of money, but for the loss of trust.

The narrator said that he knew people's reactions when they had been robbed. According to the thief, how would Anil feel?

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Anil would be furious.

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Anil would be dejected on learning the truth.

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Anil would feel helpless because of his inability to catch the thief.

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Anil would forgive the thief as he was his friend.

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Solution

The correct option is B Anil would be dejected on learning the truth.
The thief had had enough experience of stealing, and he also had an idea about the feelings of people after being robbed. The thief knew that Anil would be very sad and disheartened not because he had been robbed but because his trust was broken.

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It smiled at me wickedly .I started shaking with fear and perspiring profusely when I felt its skeletal hand upon my neck. I woke up with a start, relieved that it was only a nightmare.

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I was to attend a dinner at my friend's at Northanger Abbey that night. I had decided to narrate my experience to the group that would assemble there although I knew there was _________________________ that they would be convinced.

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