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Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:

One night a farmer was on his way back home on a boat. He traded far and wide. He was very rich and owned many acres of land. Shortly after the boat set sail, it capsized. He was distressed because he did not know how to swim. At that moment a boat- man happened to sail by. The farmer seeing him bagged to save him and promised all the land that he had in reward. Seeing the earnestness, the boat- man saved him and they sailed together. As they crossed the middle of the river, the farmer offered half of the land and the rest he said would be a bare necessity against his wife's rebukes. The boat-man did not reply. Again as they reached near the shore, he offered him one fourth of his total land and requested the boatman that he would require only a little for himself. As they reached the bank, the farmer reasoned out and said what could be use of land to a boatman who spends most of his time in the river and offered him only a coin worth rupee five.

What did the farmer offer the boatman first?

A) Half of his land

B) Whole of his land

C) One fourth of his land

D) Only a five rupee coin

E) None of these