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Based on your reading of the story answer the following question by ticking the
correct option.
The narrator did not go inside Lucia's room as
Options
he did not want to intrude into their privacy
he thought that the boys would object
Lucia would not welcome a stranger
the boys would feel he was spying on them
Solution
he did not want to intrude into their privacy
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