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Directions (191–195) : Read the following passage and answer the questions.
My childhood was. on the whole, happy and straight forward, and I felt affection for most of the grown-ups with whom I was brought in contact. 1 remember a very definite change when I reached what in modem child psychology is called the ‘latency period’. At this stage. I began to enjoy using slang, pretending to have no feelings, and being generally ‘manly’ I began to despise my people, chiefly because of their extreme horror of slang and their absurd notion that it was dangerous to climb trees. So many things were forbidden to me that I acquired the habit of deceit in which I persisted up to the age of twenty one. It became second nature to me to think that whatever I was doing had better be kept to myself and I have never quite overcome the impulse to concealment which was thus generated. I still have an impulse to hide what I am reading when anybody came into the room, and to hold my tongue generally as to where I have been, and what I have done. It is only by a certain effort of will that I have overcome the impulse, which was generated by the years during which I had to find my way among a set of foolish prohibitions.
The years of adolescence were to me very lonely and very unhappy. Both in the life of the emotions and in the life of the intellect. I was obliged to preserve an impenetrable secrecy towards my people. My interests were divided between sex, religion and mathematics
My childhood was. on the whole, happy and straight forward, and I felt affection for most of the grown-ups with whom I was brought in contact. 1 remember a very definite change when I reached what in modem child psychology is called the ‘latency period’. At this stage. I began to enjoy using slang, pretending to have no feelings, and being generally ‘manly’ I began to despise my people, chiefly because of their extreme horror of slang and their absurd notion that it was dangerous to climb trees. So many things were forbidden to me that I acquired the habit of deceit in which I persisted up to the age of twenty one. It became second nature to me to think that whatever I was doing had better be kept to myself and I have never quite overcome the impulse to concealment which was thus generated. I still have an impulse to hide what I am reading when anybody came into the room, and to hold my tongue generally as to where I have been, and what I have done. It is only by a certain effort of will that I have overcome the impulse, which was generated by the years during which I had to find my way among a set of foolish prohibitions.
The years of adolescence were to me very lonely and very unhappy. Both in the life of the emotions and in the life of the intellect. I was obliged to preserve an impenetrable secrecy towards my people. My interests were divided between sex, religion and mathematics
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