My father was passionate about two things

My father was passionate about two things: education and socialism. He was himself a born teacher. Indeed, he could never restrain himself from teaching, and as a small boy I was frequently embarrassed by his desire to instruct everybody - people in railway carriages, for instance - though I realized even then that it was an innocent desire, quite free from vanity. He was equally ready to receive instruction. Education, to men of his generation and temperament, was something it has largely ceased to be nowadays. It was the great golden gateway to the enchanted realms of the mind.

1. From the passage it is clear that the author

  1. loved and admired his father
  2. disapproved his father's love of teaching
  3. thought of him as vain
  4. considered his father's education inadequate

2. The author often felt embarrassed by the behaviour of his father because

  1. he taught badly
  2. he lost self-control while teaching
  3. he taught even at odd places
  4. he wanted to show off his learning

3. The author wants us to know that his father

  1. loved teaching
  2. was a school teacher
  3. used to travel a lot
  4. was an educationist and socialist

4. To the generation of the writer's father, education was

  1. one aspect of socialism
  2. the result of good teaching
  3. an exploration of the world of imagination
  4. an old fashioned enterprise

Answers

  1. A
  2. C
  3. A
  4. C