| Directions: You have a passage followed by questions based on it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. |
| 'I must find a hiding place," he thought, "in the next few seconds or 1 am done for." |
| Scarcely had the thought crossed his mind when the lane took a sudden turning so that he found himself hidden from his pursuers. There are circumstances in which the least energetic of mankind learn to act with speed and decision. This was such an occasion for Rehmat Ali and those who knew him best would have been the most astonished at the lad's boldness. He stopped dead, threw the box of Jewelry over a garden wall and, leaping upwards with incredible lightness, he seized the top of the walls with his hands and tumbled headlong into the garden. |
A) he had stopped dead.
B) he had acted with speed and decision.
C) he had gone around an unexpected bend.
D) his pursuers could not run fast enough.
Correct Answer: C
Solution :
The correct alternative is he had gone around an unexpected bend, as given in lines 4 to 6 of the paragraph.
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