Song of the Vagabond Tomato

This task is about making inferences from a poem.
Read the poem Song of the Vagabond Tomato by Fiona Farrell (School Journal, Part 2, No. 4, 1993) and look at the illustration. Then answer the questions below. 

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a)  What is the meaning of the word "vagabond" from the title of the poem and line 20?

    • A brand of tomatoes

    • A careless character

    • A wandering rascal

    • A scruffy character

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b)  What does the tomato mean when he says, "I feel no remorse?" [line 6]

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c)  Why do the tomatoes talked about in this poem end up costing only "fifty cents a kilogram"? [line 12]

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d)  When the tomato says, "No, no!" what is he talking about? [line 13]

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e)  What word is "'neath" short for? [line 16]  

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f)  What do the dots at the end of line 20 show?
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