Answer all the following questions:

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1. How were the rude forefathers of the hamlet received at home when they returned from work? 2. What is meant by rude forefathers of the hamlet? What was the works of the villagers? 3. What is meant by the short and simple annals of the poor? 4. What is the meaning of the paths of glory? What is Grays view about them? 5. What does the poet mean by back to its mansion the fleeting breath? 6. What is meant by the moping owl? What does it complain to the moon? 7. Who were Hampden, Cromwell, and Milton? How are they related to the villagers? 8. Knowledge to their eyes her ample pageHow is knowledge conceived here? 9. What is the image suggested in spoils of time? 10. Their lot forbadewhose lot is referred to? What did their lot forbid? 11. What is an elegy? Comment on Grays elegy? 12. Write a brief note on the Epitaph of the poem.