Practice Questions

Read the given paragraph and answer the following question:

The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed and groped his way to the window. He was obliged to rub the frost off with the sleeve of his dressing-gown before he could see anything and could see very little then. All he could make out was that it was still very foggy and extremely cold and that there was no noise of people running to and fro and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would’ve been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.

This story takes place

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Answer: (C) on a winter night.

Explanation

The passage doesn’t state the locale of the story, so Choices (A) and (D) are incorrect. The references to extreme cold and lack of light makes Choice (B) an incorrect answer. In sentence three, the author says it was still very foggy and extremely cold, so Choice (C) is the answer.
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