Post-UTME Chemistry 2016 Objective — Question 5

[Passage: from Camara Laye's 'The African Child' - describes childhood breakfast customs, with the mother enforcing strict rules of conduct and cleanliness at meals (e.g. no talking, no gazing at older guests, only taking food from directly in front of oneself unless given more), even though the father was nominally the head of the household.] '...my own portion was always so generous that I should never have been tempted to take more than I was given.' This statement implies that the narrator

• A. did take more than he was given
• B. never took more than he was givenCorrect
• C. gave other people from his generous portion
• D. was never given any generous portion