Question

from The Coral Island

een, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart,
existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man's
er; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and
own native land, but an enthusiastic rover throughout
of the wide, wide world.
ight of howling storm, the night in which I was born on
he broad Atlantic Ocean. My father was a sea-captain; my
aptain; my great-grandfather had been a marine.
vely what occupation his father had followed; but my
sert that he had been a midshipman, whose grandfather,
ad been an admiral in the royal navy. At any rate, we
s our family could be traced, it had been intimately
t watery waste. Indeed this was the case on both sides
ther always went to sea with my father on his long
he greater part of her life upon the water.

ael Ballantyne)

What does this passage most clearly suggest is the caus
of the narrator's passion for roving?

1. His birth happened during an ocean storm.

2. His mother went on voyages with his father.

3. His mother spent most of her life on the water.

4. His family on both sides had long careers at sea

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Answer 1

4. His family on both sides had long careers at sea.

The passage emphasizes a multigenerational sea tradition (father a sea-captain, grandfather a captain, great‑grandfather a marine, and both sides of the family tied to the sea), implying his roving passion comes from that family background.