6. Read the passage given below and answer the questions:The eeriness of the place was increased by the neighbouring hills which overhung the main linethreateningly. On entering the cutting with its sheer rock walls towering High above the rails,Baldeo could not help thinking about the wild animals he might encounter. He had heard manytales of the famous tunnel tiger, a man -eater who was supposed to frequent his spot; but hehardly believed these stories, for since his arrival at this place a month ago, he had not seen oreven heard a tiger....Baldeo walked confidently, for being a tribal himself, he was used to the jungle and its ways. Likehis forefathers, he carried a small axe , fragile to look at, but deadly when in use. With it, in three orfour swift strokes, he could cut down a tree as neatly as if it had been sawn; and he prided himselfin wielding it against wild animals. He had killed a young boar with it once, and the family hadfeasted on the flesh for three days. The axe-head of pure steel, thin but ringing through like a belt,had been made by his father over a charcoal fire. This axe was part of himself, and wherever hewent, be it to the local market seven miles away, or to a tribal dance, the axe was always in hishand. Occasionally, an official who had come to the station had offered him good money for theweapon, but Baldeo had no intention of parting with it._ from The Tiger in the Tunnelby Ruskin Bond1. Answer these questions:1)What made Baldeo confident?Why did Baldeo not believe the stories he had heard?iii)What would Baldeo always carry to defend himself?iv)Which sentence in the passage tells you that Baldeo was not attracted to money?​

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