Read the excerpt from E. M. Forster’s famous novel ‘A Passage to India’ and answer the questions

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Read the excerpt from E. M. Forster’s famous novel ‘A Passage to India’ and answer the questions that follow:

‘A Passage to India’

Abandoning his bicycle, which fell before a servant could catch it, the young man sprang up on to the verandah. He was all animation. "Hamidullah, Hamidullah! am I late?" he cried.

"Do not apologize," said his host. "You are always late."

"Kindly answer my question. Am I late? Has Mahmoud Ali eaten all the food? If so I go elsewhere. Mr. Mahmoud Ali, how are you?"

 

"Thank you, Dr. Aziz, I am dying."

 

"Dying before your dinner? Oh, poor Malimoud Ali!"

 

"Hamidullah here is actually dead. He passed away just as you rode up on your bike."

"Yes, that is so," said the other. "Imagine us both as addressing you from another and a happier World."

 

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