Question

Based on the last paragraph of the passage, what is likely to happen next in the story?



Soapy will go on a holiday to a foreign country.



Soapy will try to get himself arrested and imprisoned.



Soapy will try to approach a charitable institution.



Soapy will try to get himself a job.

Answer 1

On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when
women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his
bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.

A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison
Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard
to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make
ready.

Soapy's mind became cognisant of the fact that the time had come for him to resolve himself into a
singular Committee of Ways and Means to provide against the coming rigour. And therefore he moved
uneasily on his bench.

The hibernatorial ambitions of Soapy were not of the highest. In them there were no considerations of
Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the
Island was what his soul craved. Three months of assured board and bed and congenial company, safe
from Boreas and bluecoats, seemed to Soapy the essence of things desirable.

For years the hospitable Blackwell's had been his winter quarters. Just as his more fortunate fellow New
Yorkers had bought their tickets to Palm Beach and the Riviera each winter, so Soapy had made his
humble arrangements for his annual hegira to the Island. And now the time was come. On the previous
night three Sabbath newspapers, distributed beneath his coat, about his ankles and over his lap, had
failed to repulse the cold as he slept on his bench near the spurting fountain in the ancient square. So
the Island loomed big and timely in Soapy's mind. He scorned the provisions made in the name of
charity for the city's dependents. In Soapy's opinion the Law was more benign than Philanthropy. There
was an endless round of institutions, municipal and eleemosynary, on which he might set out and
receive lodging and food accordant with the simple life. But to one of Soapy's proud spirit the gifts of

Answer 2

either A or C

Answer 3

it talks about charity

Answer 4

c was right for me