Read the following passage and answer the next five questions by choosing the correct options:
"This evening there is going to be a ball at the Embassy. The Countess will be there. We shall remain until two o'clock. You now have an opportunity of seeing me alone. As soon as the Countess is gone, the servants will very probably go out, and there will be nobody left but Swiss, but he usually goes to sleep in his lodge. Come about half-past eleven. Walk straight upstairs. If you meet anybody in the ante-room, ask if the Countess is at home. You will be told 'No', in which case there will be nothing left for you to do but to go away again. But it is most probable that you will meet nobody. The maidservants will all be together in one room. On leaving the ante-room, turn to the left, and walk straight on until you reach the Countess's bedroom. In the bedroom, behind a screen, you will find two doors: the one on the right leads to a cabinet, which the Countess never enters; the one on the left leads to a corridor, at the end of which is a little winding staircase; this leads to my room."
Hermann trembled like a leaf, as he waited for the appointed time to arrive. At ten o'clock in the evening he was already in front of the Countess's house. The weather was terrible; the wind blew with great violence; the sleety snow fell in large flakes; the lamps emitted a feeble light, the streets were deserted; from time to time a sledge, drawn by a sorry-looking hack, passed by, on the look-out for a belated passenger. Hermann was enveloped in a thick overcoat, and felt neither wind nor snow.
At last the Countess's carriage drew up. Hermann saw two footmen carry out in their arms the bent form of the old lady, wrapped in sable fur, and immediately behind her clad in a warm mantle, and with her head ornamented with a wreath of fresh flowers, followed Lizaveta. The door was closed. The carriage rolled away heavily through the yielding snow. The porter shut the street-door; the windows became dark.
As per the passage, which of the following are TRUE
(A) In Countess's bedroom, there are three doors.
(B) If the Countess is gone, the servants will probably go out.
(C) Hermann trembled like a leaf.
(D) Hermann saw two old ladies on his way to the Countess's room.
(E) Hermann was in front of the Countess's house at ten o'clock in the evening.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (B), (C) and (E) Only
(A) In Countess's bedroom, there are three doors. — Does not hold true.
- Contradicted: behind the screen in the bedroom "you will find two doors": one leads to a cabinet, the other to a corridor.
(B) If the Countess is gone, the servants will probably go out. — Holds true.
- "As soon as the Countess is gone, the servants will very probably go out."
(C) Hermann trembled like a leaf. — Holds true.
- "Hermann trembled like a leaf, as he waited for the appointed time to arrive."
(D) Hermann saw two old ladies on his way to the Countess's room. — Does not hold true.
- Contradicted: Hermann waits outside the house and sees the old Countess carried out to her carriage, followed by Lizaveta, who is not described as old.
- The passage ends before he goes to any room.
(E) Hermann was in front of the Countess's house at ten o'clock in the evening. — Holds true.
- "At ten o'clock in the evening he was already in front of the Countess's house."