Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the given questions.

I was seven-year-old. I had lived in the same place for all of my life, but we were moving. We were moving from the farm with all of its animals, with its memories of searching for chicken eggs, and with the black and white cows that had to be milked each day. We were going from the place of scrub pines, pastures, of irrigation ditches to an unknown, unknowable place, far, far away. We had worked hard to get ready. Finally, dad piled all of us into the car. As we began to drive away, I looked out of the rear window of the car. As 1 looked back, 1 saw my dog and my cats. I could not see my horse. I asked my father what would happen to these pets. All that dad could tell me was that they had to remain there, that they could not come with us. There was no explanation – merely the declaration that we must go. I was bitterly disappointed, so disappointed that this memory is still seared into me. forty-three years later. Why could my father not change this? 1 could not. understand then, but I do now. But still don’t understand why there was no explanation.

Q:

Leaving the farm, the child was very disappointed because he could not understand:

• 1
  why his father could not stop him
• 2
  why his mother could not unpack the luggage
• 3
  why his father could not change the situation
• 4
  why his brother could not oppose his father