Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Narrative / Factual)

Question:

Read the following passage and answer the question given below:

The House in the mist

My path toward this light was by no means an easy one. After confused wanderings through tangled hedges, and a struggle with obstacles of whose nature I received the most curious impression in the surrounding murk. I arrived in front of a long, low building which, to my astonishment. I found standing with doors and windows open to the pervading mist, save for one square casement through which the light shone from a row of candles placed on a long mahogany table.

The quiet and seeming emptiness of this odd and picturesque building made me pause. I am not much affected by visible danger, but this silent room, with its air of sinister expectancy, struck me most unpleasantly, and I was about to reconsider my first impulse and withdraw again to the road, when a second look, thrown back upon the comfortable interior I was leaving, convinced me of my folly and sent me straight toward the door which stood so invitingly open.

But halfway up the path, my progress was halted by the sight of a man coming out of the house that I had wrongly assumed to be empty. He seemed to be in a hurry and, at the moment when I first saw him, was busy putting his watch back in his pocket. He did not shut the door behind him, which I thought odd, especially as he had been looking behind him. He seemed to take in all the details of the place he was so hurriedly leaving.

Narrator, though he was reluctant to go inside the house even then he entered into the room as he was drawn by:

Options:

row of candles

comfortable interior

pervading mist

mahogany table

Correct Answer:

comfortable interior

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → comfortable interior

The passage mentions that the narrator, despite initially reconsidering his impulse and thinking of withdrawing to the road, was drawn back toward the door by a second look at the comfortable interior he was leaving. Therefore, the correct answer is "comfortable interior."

Here's the breakdown:

Row of candles: The narrator is drawn to the light coming from the candles, which leads him to the house.

  • Comfortable interior: The narrator describes the interior as "comfortable," but this is before he sees the man and changes his mind.
  • Pervading mist: The mist is simply the surrounding environment, not something that draws the narrator inside.
  • Mahogany table: Similar to the mist, the table is part of the setting, not a specific reason for the narrator to enter.