Directions: in this section, you have two short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only. 'Now, ladies and gentlemen," said the conjurer, "having shown you that the cloth is absolutely empty. I will proceed to take from it a bowl of goldfish. Presto !"All around the hall people were saying, "Oh, how wonderful! How does he do it?" But the Quick Man on the front seat said in a big whisper to the people near him. 'He-had-it-up-his-sleeve.' Then the people nodded brightly at the Quick Man and said, 'Oh, of course"; and everybody whispered around the hall, "He-had-it-up-his-sleeve." 'My next trick,* said the conjurer, "is the famous Hindostanee rings. You will notice that the rings are apparently separate; at a blow, they all join (clang, clang, clang)—Presto. There was a general buzz of stupefaction till the Quick Man was heard to whisper, "He must-have-had-another-lot-up- his sleeve." Again everybody nodded and whispered, "The-rings-were-up-his-sleeve." The brow of the conjurer was clouded with a gathering frown. "l will now," he continued, "show you a most amusing trick by which I am enabled to take any number of eggs from a hat. Will some gentleman kindly lend me his hat? Ah, thank you—Presto !" He extracted seventeen eggs, and for thirty-five seconds, the audience began to think that he was wonderful. Then the Quick Man whispered along the front bench, "He-has-a-hen-up-his-sleeve," and all the people whispered it on. "He-has-a-lot-of-hens-up-his-sleeve." The egg trick was ruined. It went on like that all through. It transpired from the whispers of the Quick Man that the conjurer must have concealed up his sleeve, in addition to the rings, hens, and fish, several packs of cards, a loaf of bread, a doll's cradle, a live guinea pig, a fifty-cent piece, and a rocking chair.
The conjuror extracted seventeen eggs from the hat of:
one gentleman from the audience
Analyzing the Conjurer's Egg Trick in the Passage
The question asks whose hat the conjurer used when he extracted seventeen eggs. To find the answer, we need to look at the part of the passage where the egg trick is described.
The passage states:
"l will now," he continued, "show you a most amusing trick by which I am enabled to take any number of eggs from a hat. Will some gentleman kindly lend me his hat? Ah, thank you—Presto !" He extracted seventeen eggs...
Based on this excerpt:
- The conjurer announced he would take eggs from "a hat".
- He then asked, "Will some gentleman kindly lend me his hat?"
- He followed this request with "Ah, thank you", indicating someone had lent him a hat.
- Finally, he extracted seventeen eggs from that lent hat.
This clearly shows that the hat used for the egg trick was lent to him by a gentleman from the audience.
Let's examine the given options in light of this finding:
- Option 1: the Quick Man - The passage does not say the Quick Man lent his hat. The Quick Man's role was to whisper explanations.
- Option 2: his own - The conjurer asked for a hat, implying he wasn't using his own readily available hat for this specific act.
- Option 3: one gentleman from the audience - This directly matches the conjurer's request "Will some gentleman kindly lend me his hat?" and the subsequent description of extracting eggs after someone lent a hat.
- Option 4: None of the above - Option 3 is a direct match, so this is incorrect.
Therefore, the conjurer extracted seventeen eggs from the hat of one gentleman from the audience.
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