Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

“The voice of my education said to me

He must be killed,

For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent,

The gold are venomous.

And voices in me said, if you were a man 

You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.”

(a) His ‘education’ said to the poet that ……….

(b) The poisonous snakes in Sicily are …….. 

(c) ‘If you were a man’ here means ……..

(d) Black snakes are innocent means ……… .