Question 282
MediumOriginal questionWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to , and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his like the rays in a sketch of the rising sun.
His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in , he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
What is Oak like on Sundays?
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
On Sundays he is "hampered by his best clothes and umbrella", yawns during the creed and thinks of dinner during the sermon.
Worth noting
On working days he has "proper dress"; it is his Sunday clothes that make him awkward.
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- Inferring character from details
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