A total of 10 questions are based on the following passage. 
This passage is adapted from Saki, “The 
Schartz-Metterklume Method.” Originally published in 1911.Lady Carlotta stepped out on to the platform of 
the small wayside station and took a turn or two up 
and down its uninteresting length, to kill time till the 
train should be pleased to proceed on its way. Then, 5 in the roadway beyond, she saw a horse struggling 
with a more than ample load, and a carter of the sort 
that seems to bear a sullen hatred against the animal 
that helps him to earn a living. Lady Carlotta 
promptly betook her to the roadway, and put rather a 10 different complexion on the struggle. Certain of her 
acquaintances were wont to give her plentiful 
admonition as to the undesirability of interfering on 
behalf of a distressed animal, such interference being 
“none of her business.” Only once had she put the 15 doctrine of non-interference into practice, when one 
of its most eloquent exponents had been besieged for 
nearly three hours in a small and extremely 
uncomfortable may-tree by an angry boar-pig, while 
Lady Carlotta, on the other side of the fence, had 20 proceeded with the water-colour sketch she was 
engaged on, and refused to interfere between the 
boar and his prisoner. It is to be feared that she lost 
the friendship of the ultimately rescued lady. On this 
occasion she merely lost the train, which gave way to 25 the first sign of impatience it had shown throughout 
the journey, and steamed off without her. She bore 
the desertion with philosophical indifference; her 
friends and relations were thoroughly well used to 
the fact of her luggage arriving without her. 30 She wired a vague non-committal message to her 
destination to say that she was coming on “by 
another train.” Before she had time to think what her 
next move might be she was confronted by an 
imposingly attired lady, who seemed to be taking a 35 prolonged mental inventory of her clothes and looks. 
“You must be Miss Hope, the governess I’ve come 
to meet,” said the apparition, in a tone that admitted 
of very little argument. 
“Very well, if I must I must,” said Lady Carlotta to 40 herself with dangerous meekness. 
“I am Mrs. Quabarl,” continued the lady; “and 
where, pray, is your luggage?” 
“It’s gone astray,” said the alleged governess, 
falling in with the excellent rule of life that the absent 45 are always to blame; the luggage had, in point of fact, 
behaved with perfect correctitude. “I’ve just 
telegraphed about it,” she added, with a nearer 
approach to truth. 
“How provoking,” said Mrs. Quabarl; “these 50 railway companies are so careless. However, my 
maid can lend you things for the night,” and she led 
the way to her car.  
During the drive to the Quabarl mansion 
Lady Carlotta was impressively introduced to the 55 nature of the charge that had been thrust upon her; 
she learned that Claude and Wilfrid were delicate, 
sensitive young people, that Irene had the artistic 
temperament highly developed, and that Viola was 
something or other else of a mould equally 60 commonplace among children of that class and type 
in the twentieth century. 
“I wish them not only to be TAUGHT,” said Mrs. 
Quabarl, “but INTERESTED in what they learn. In 
their history lessons, for instance, you must try to 65 make them feel that they are being introduced to the 
life-stories of men and women who really lived, not 
merely committing a mass of names and dates to 
memory. French, of course, I shall expect you to talk 
at meal-times several days in the week.” 70 “I shall talk French four days of the week and 
Russian in the remaining three.” 
“Russian? My dear Miss Hope, no one in the 
house speaks or understands Russian.” 
“That will not embarrass me in the least,” said 75 Lady Carlotta coldly. 
Mrs. Quabarl, to use a colloquial expression, was 
knocked off her perch. She was one of those 
imperfectly self-assured individuals who are 
magnificent and autocratic as long as they are not 80 seriously opposed. The least show of unexpected 
resistance goes a long way towards rendering them 
cowed and apologetic. When the new governess 
failed to express wondering admiration of the large 
newly-purchased and expensive car, and lightly 85 alluded to the superior advantages of one or two 
makes which had just been put on the market, the 
discomfiture of her patroness became almost abject. 
Her feelings were those which might have animated a 
general of ancient warfaring days, on beholding his 90 heaviest battle-elephant ignominiously driven off the 
field by slingers and javelin throwers.(8 of 10) The narrator implies that Mrs. Quabarl favors a form of education that emphasizes