Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:
As the years rolled by we saw less of each other. For some time she continued to wake me up and get me ready for school. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had taught me. I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning, the law of gravity, Archimedes’ Principle, the world being round, etc. This made her unhappy. She could not help me with my lessons.
She did not believe in the things they taught at the English school and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures. One day I announced that we were being given music lessons. She was very disturbed. To her music had lewd associations. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence meant disapproval. She rarely talked to me after that.
1. What made the grandmother unhappy?
A. The repentance that she was illiterate.
B. That she had to stay away from her grandson when he was at school.
C. That she could not help her grandson with his lessons.
D. That her grandson had to do a lot of homework everyday.
2. What distressed the grandmother regarding her grandson’s studies ?
A. That he was very poor at studies.
B. That his teachers did not teach up to the mark.
C. That there was no teaching about God and the scriptures in his syllabus.
D. That her grandson did not believe in God.
3. To the grandmother, music…
A. should be a compulsory subject at school.
B. turned children vicious.
C. had indecent connections.
D. should be discarded from the syllabus.
4. The grandmother had almost stopped talking with the writer …………
A. since the writer told him that he learnt music at school.
B. since she started regarding scriptures.
C. since the writer stopped reporting to her the school activities.
D. None of these three.
