Question

excerpt from The Jolliest School of All
by Angela Brazil


In a top-story bedroom in an old-fashioned house, a girl was kneeling on the floor, turning out the contents of the bottom cupboards of a big bookcase. Her method of doing so was hardly tidy; she just tossed the miscellaneous assortment of articles down anywhere, till she was surrounded by a mixed-up jumble of books, papers, paint-boxes, music, chalks, pencils, picture post-cards, balls of knitting wool, and odds and ends of all kinds. She groaned as the circle grew wider, yet the apparently inexhaustible cupboards were still uncleared.
"Couldn't have ever believed I'd have stowed so many things away here. And, of course, the one book I want isn't to be found. That's what always happens. It's just my bad luck. Hello! Who's calling 'Renie'? I'm here! Here! In my bedroom! Don't yell the house down. Really, Vin, you've got a voice like a megaphone! You might think I was on the top of the roof. What d'you want now? I'm busy!"
"So it seems," commented the boy of seventeen, sauntering into his sister's room and taking a somewhat insecure seat upon a fancy table, where, with hands in pockets, he regarded her quizzically. "Great Scott, what a turn out! You look like a magician in the midst of a magic circle. Are you going to witch the lot into newts and toads?"
"Hardly," replied Irene, with her head inside a cupboard. "Fact is, I'm looking for my history book. I can't think where the wretched thing has gone to. School begins tomorrow, and I haven't touched my holiday tasks yet; and what Miss Gordon will say if I come without even those exercises I can't imagine. I'm sure I flung all my books into this cupboard, and, of course, here's the chemistry, which I don't want, but never so much as a single leaf of the history. Don't grin! You aggravate me. I believe you've taken it away to tease me. Have you? Confess now! It's in your pocket all the time?"
"Never seen it! What should I want with your old history book?"

1Question 1
Which of the following details from the passage supports the inference that Vin is surprised when he sees what his sister is doing?
A.
Great Scott, what a turn out!
B.
So it seems,
C.
What should I want with your old history book?
D.
Never seen it!

Answer 1

A. "Great Scott, what a turn out!" — this exclamation shows Vin's surprise at the mess his sister has made.