Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Natalya : There’s some demon of contradiction in you today, Ivan Vassilevitch. First you pretend that the Meadows are yours; now, that Guess is better than Squeezer. I don’t like people who don’t say what they mean, because you know perfectly well that Squeezer is a hundred times better than your silly Guess. Why do you want to say he isn’t?
1. What does Natalya blame Lomov for?
2. What do Natalya and Lomov first argue about?
3. Find a word in the passage that means ‘opposition’.
1. Natalya blames Lomov for opposing whatever she says.
2. Natalya and Lomov first argue about the ownership of the Oxen Meadows.
3. Contradiction.
