She took me by the hand walked me into the lobby like a five-year old child. Didn’t she know I was pushing 15? This was the third home Nancy was placing me in-in a span of eight months! I guess she felt a little sorry for me. The bright fluorescence lights threatened to burn my skin as I walked towards a bouncy-looking lady with curly hair and a sweetly-smiling man. They called themselves Allie and Alex. Cute, I thought. 

After they exchanged the usual reams of paperwork, it was off in their Chevy Suburban to get situated into another new home. This time, there were no other foster children and nor another biological child. Anything could happen.

Over the next few weeks, Allie, Alex and I fell into quite a nice routine. She’d make pancakes for breakfast, or he’d fry up some sausage and eggs. They sang a lot, even danced as they cooked. They must have just bought the house because, most weekends, We were either painting a living room butter yellow or staining a coffee table mocha brown. 

I kept wating for the other shoe to drop. When would they start threatening a loss of pancakes if I didn’t mow the lawn? When would the sausage and eggs be replaced with unidentifiable slosh because he didn’t feel like cooking in the morning? But, It never happened. They kept cooking, singing, and dancing like a couple of happy fools. 

It was a Saturday afternoon when Allie decided it was time to paint the brick fireplace white. As we crawled closer to the dirty old firepit, we pulled out the petrified wood and noticed a teeny-tiny treasure box! We looked at each other in wonder and excitement. She actually said,” I wonder if the leprechauns left it!”

Match List - I with List - II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

In the given passage, the narrator describes their experiences in foster homes, particularly in the third home placed by a person named Nancy. Let's match the characters in the passage:

• A. Nancy: I. Treated the narrator as if he was a 5-year-old child

  • The passage mentions Nancy taking the narrator by the hand, walking them into the lobby like a five-year-old child, even though the narrator was pushing 15.

• B. Allie: II. Made pancakes for breakfast

  • The passage mentions Allie making pancakes for breakfast.

• C. Alex: III. Fried sausages and eggs

  • The passage mentions Alex frying up some sausage and eggs.

• D. Narrator: IV. Was placed in the 3rd home

  • The passage refers to the narrator being placed in the third home by Nancy.