1. When her mother came home one day, the narrator of the story _________.
A) was teaching half a dozen babies to dance
B) was teaching half a dozen babies to walk
C) was collecting babies of the neighbourhood
D) was making babies of the neighbourhood sit before her on the floor
2. The attitude of the narrator’s mother toward her school of dance was one of _________.
A) despise B) contempt C) support D) indifference
3. The narrator thought that ballet was _________.
A) the most graceful dance
B) stiff, ugly and unnatural
C) a dance that she had dreamed of
D) an invisible world into which she guessed she might enter
4. According to the narrator, she owed her success in art to ______________.
A) the good education her parents gave her
B) the support of her understanding and adventurous mother
C) her inborn talent
D) her ballet teacher
5. The central idea of the passage is that _____________.
A) parents should try to discover the natural gift in their children and help to develop it while they are young
B) the so-called good education parents give their children only drives them into the commonplace and deprives them of any chance of doing anything orginal
C) mother should be heroic and adventurous
D) ballet is no good as a form of dance
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