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Question
The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.
He is obedient and simple.
Solution
The character is Policeman B.
He is obedient
- Policeman B: Would the barrel be a good place to put a notice up?
Sergeant: It might; you can put it there.
(They paste the notice up.)
Sergeant: (Furious.) Be off the two of you, yourselves, and your lantern! (They go out.)
He is simple
- Policeman B: Did anyone come this way?
Sergeant: (after a pause) No one.
Policeman B: No one at all?
Sergeant: No one at all.
Policeman B: We had no orders to go back to the station; we can stop along with you.
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