WHAT LOMOV HAS COME FOR?

Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions that follow. Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of youl NATALYA: All, all, all! CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on... LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side.. My head.... Help! Water! CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler! If according to Chubukov and Natalya, Lomovs are not "honourable people, why do they still consider Lomov's proposal?

Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions that follow. Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of youl NATALYA: All, all, all! CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on... LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side.. My head.... Help! Water! CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler! The playwright's intention in the given extract is to

Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions that follow. Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of youl NATALYA: All, all, all! CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on... LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side.. My head.... Help! Water! CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler! Which of the following options comes closest to the meaning of 'tried' as used in the extract?