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Money Madness Questions and Answers

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Comprehension I. 


1. How do people feel when they give 

a. one pound?

Ans: A pang

 b. ten pounds? 

Ans: A tremor


2. “Money has got us down” could mean 

Ans: (d) it has made us its slaves. 

3. How are people without money, usually treated? 

Ans: They are made to eat dirt and go cold.

4. What things should be made available free of cost?

Ans: Bread, Shelter and Fire.

 5. The speaker is frightened of 

Ans: (c) eating dirt. 

6. What happens if we do not regain our sanity about money? 

Ans: We start killing one another. 

II. 

1. How does money trigger fear in an individual? 

Ans: The poet D.H. Lawrence in his poem “Money Madness” looks at money as madness of mankind. He takes us through the situations wherein money influences every individual from all walks of life. Money can trigger fears when one has it and when one doesn't have it. It can create pangs in an individual who has to hand out a pound note and it can even create a tremor in someone who has to hand out a ten-pound note. Money makes us quail and a strange terror envelops us without it. The poet says that this is all because money has a cruel power. The feeling of not having money makes one fear a wretched situation where one has to eat dirt. This fear can turn into a delirium. 


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