Read the following extract carefully and answer the following questions:

 I saw a play in Dublin not long ago in which the chief character was an elderly corn-merchant in a small Irish country town. He was a man of many anxieties-his heart was dicky. His nephew was cheating him; his wife had the fantastic notion of spending 10 on a holiday. Altogether the pace of life was getting too much for him, and a moment of despair he uttered a great cry from the heart. They tell me there’s an acroplane now that goes at 1,000 miles an hour. Now that’s too fast!” For me that was the most enchanting line in the play the man’s complaint was so gloriously irrelevant to his own situation. And besides being comic, it struck me as a

perfect illustration of the way the Irish get at subtle truths by the most unlikely approaches. You saw what the old fool meant.

Questions:

(i) Name the title and the writer of this passage.

(ii) What kind of a man was the corn- merchant?

(iii) What was his nephew doing?

(iv) What were his anxieties?

(v) What was the most enchanting line in the play for the writer?