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Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Once while travelling by train, he was asked by the white passengers to leave the first class compartment and shift to the van compartment Gandhiji refused to do so. Thereafter, he was pushed forcibly out of the compartment and his luggage was thrown on the platform. It was winter and he kept shivering all night. He did not go to the waiting room because the white men sleeping there might insult him further. This event was a turning point in the life of Gandhiji and he decided to stay back in South Africa and fight against this blatant injustice.

Why did he not go to the waiting room to spend the night?

A) The room was unclean

B) He wanted to sleep in the open

C) He was badly hurt and unable to move.

D) He feared that white men there might insult him further

E) None of these