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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

At night the house seems to be alive, 

Lights flicker on and off.

I am often tempted to go to the house, 

To just take a look and see what it is really about, 

But fear takes over me.

(а) When is the house filled with life? 

(b) How does one know that there is life in the house? 

(c) What is the temptation of the poetess? 

(d) Does the poetess go inside the house? 

(e) Why doesn’t the poetess go inside the house? 

(f) What is ‘flicker’?

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(a) The house is filled with life at night. 

(b) One knows that there is life in the house when you see the lights switched on and switched off. 

(c) The temptation of the poetess is to enter the house and see what is inside.

(d) The poetess doesn’t go inside the house. 

(e) The poetess doesn’t go inside the house because she is frightened because of the mystery behind the house. 

(f) ‘Flicker’ is flash or glimmer.

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