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Directions: In the following questions read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. Those of us who already possess knives and use them as a matter of course at- our meals can hardly understand the longing of an infant to be given the freedom of so perilous an instrument. Man has been defined as a tool-using animal and there is no another tool that appeals to the imagination so strongly as a knife. It is through long months and years a forbidden thing and all the more fascinating on that count. There is no glory in using a spoon. There is no honour in holding a fork in the right hand and in taking up on it little squares of meat that have been cut with a knife by some more privileged hand. Fork and spoon are little more than an extension of the fingers and a spoon, at least, is so safe that it can be left in the hands of an infant in the cradle, but a knife is a danger against which constant warning is necessary-something out of reach and waiting as a prize at the end of a long avenue of years.

The child

A) longs to be a tool-using animal

B) desires the freedom to use the perilous instrument

C) wants to use the knife because he wants to become a soldier

D) dreams of crime and adventure