Question : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction, and she let herself be married off to a bit of clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her, for women have no caste or class, their beauty, grace, and charm serving them for birth or family, their natural delicacy, their instinctive elegance, their nimbleness of wit, are their only mark of rank, and put the slum girl on a level with the highest lady in the land.
She suffered endlessly, feeling born for every delicacy and luxury. She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains. All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her. The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind. She imagined silent antechambers, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets, with two tall footmen in knee-breeches sleeping in large armchairs, overcome by the heavy warmth of the stove. She imagined vast saloons hung with antique silks, exquisite pieces of furniture supporting priceless ornaments, and small, charming, perfumed rooms created just for minor parties of intimate friends, men who were famous and sought after, whose homage roused every other woman's envious longings.
When she sat down for dinner at the round table covered with a three-days-old cloth, opposite her husband, who took the cover off the soup-tureen, exclaiming delightedly: "Aha! Scotch broth! What could be better?" she imagined delicate meals, gleaming silver, tapestries peopling the walls with the folk of a past age and strange birds in faery forests; she imagined delicate food served in great dishes, murmured gallantries, listened to with an inscrutable smile as one trifled with the rosy flesh of trout or wings of asparagus chicken.
Question:
Which of the following statements are true concerning the pretty and charming girl given in the passage?
A. The sight of the little American girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind.
B. She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans.
Option 1: A is false B is true
Option 2: A is true B is false
Option 3: Both A and B are true
Option 4: Both A and B are false
Correct Answer: A is false B is true
Solution : The correct answer is option 1.
A, which is false, and B, which is true.
Explanation
The answer can be determined by examining the lines in the passage's second and first paragraphs:
"The sight of the little Breton girl' who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind."
"She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans."
It is clear from the preceding lines that both statements A is correct and B is incorrect.
As a result, Option 1 is the correct answer.