Analysing Textual Passages 13

Read the following passage from the story ‘The Bet’ and answer the questions
that follow.
It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his
study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one
autumn evening. There had been many clever men there and many interesting
conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment.
The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual
men, disapproved of death penalty. They considered that form of punishment
out of date, immoral and unsuitable for Christian states. In the opinion of
some of them, death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment
for life.
1. What was the weather like?
2. What was the major issue discussed by the banker and his friends?
3. Why did some of them disapprove death penalty?
4. The word 'immoral is derived from the word 'moral' by adding the prefix
'im' to it. Pick out two such words that are formed by adding prefixes other
than 'im' from the passage.