Read the passage and use it to answer questions 1 — 4. As we both fed our eyes wistfully at the used underwear section, Vivian noticed a heap of women's underwear, a mixture of braziers of various sizes and designs, panties, g-strings and tongs, underskirts, lingerie of different colours, all heaped and scattered on a big bedspread like a pile of rubbish. Some were quite ancient and threadbare, while a few appeared not to have suffered much oppression in the hands and private parts of their previous owners. It was apparent that the international businessman who imported such inglorious assortment had agents with prongs, long enough to dig deep into the deepest and fathermost refuse bins and dumps of Europe to be able to meet the demand back home.