Reading passages

Devon ,the setting for 
Stalky and Co(1899).
At 
seventeen, he returned to India where he worked
as an assistant editor on 
The Lahore Civil and 
Military Gazette 
and later as an editor for 
The 

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Pioneer 
in Allahbad. Kipling's seven years as a 
journalist in India would provide him with a 
wealth of experience which he transformed into 
stories of enduring value.
16- The reason Rudyard Kipling experienced a 
nervous breakdown was that ............. .
A) he lived in miserable conditions 
B) Mrs Halloway made him work hard regardless 
of his age. 
C) Mrs Halloway behaved cruelly for more than a 
few years 
D) he was deprived form learning a language 
E) he was forced to move to England reluctantly 
17- As a result of working for seven years as a 
journalist in India, J.R.Kipling ............. .
A) made plenty of money that would be sufficient 
during his lifetime 
B) returned England to set up his own newspaper 
using his experience 
C) wrote lots of stories reflecting his hard years in 
India 
D) became the editor of 
The Pioneer 
in Allahbad 
E) collected a great deal of experience to make his 
works long-lived ones 
18- According to the passage, Rudyard 
Kipling............. .
A) spent his childhood in India where he was born 
in the second half of 18th century 
B) was assimilated by his Hindustani speaking 
babysitters to get him to accept their culture 
C) was a member of a poor family with whom he 
spent only his childhood 
D) worked for a company teaching nurses and 
medical people how to speak his language 
E) was under the duress of Hindustani speaking 
nurses for a dozen of years