Read the following carefully and answer the questions set on it.

Quiet and the night came early and Leonard sat there feeling a flicker of restlessness. He needed his books, a radio perhaps, he wasn't sure why he had been delaying going into Kingston to fetch his things. The pattern he had established of working on the house had completely absorbed him, but, he thought, stretching lazily, it was time to make the trip into town. He would go there the next day, get it over with. If he went like that, mid-week, there would be nobody there. He could simply pick up his two boxes and leave the key with the next-door neighbour. He would not have to face his parents and their angry comments, the small guilt-making jabs, 'after all they had done', giving up his job, 'such good prospects', to hide himself away 'in the depths of beyond', as they put it. And, of course, he could not explain. He could not say that the prospect of working to buy things did not interest him, of drifting into a marriage, much like theirs, did not interest him. It was all sound, solid, and it frightened him, the years stretching ahead, known even before they had happened. He wanted to make something very simple, very different, for himself. He could not explain because they were so proud of having lived out Grandma Miriam's dream, to be educated, professionals, a far remove from Grandpa Sam, travelling in on the country bus with his country talk and his bag of yams. a) Why was Leonard feeling a "flicker of restlessness" (line 2)? (2 marks) b) What does the phrase "get it over with" (line 12) tell us about Leonard's reaction to the idea of the trip into town? (2 marks) c) How did Leonard decide to avoid his parents? (2 marks) d) How did Leonard's parents feel about his chosen lifestyle? (2 marks) e) What was Grandma Miriam's ambition for her children? (1 mark) f) What does the last sentence suggest about Grandma Miriam's' reaction to the lifestyle of Grandpa Sam? (2 marks) Total: 11 marks Next week, we will do some work on figurative language. Until then, think about the following words from John Dewey: Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.