Text-1 Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for questions 1-2

16. The writer left his home feeling that ...
A) this was the end of an important part of his life.
B) he would soon be back to his village.
C) he could not stand the smallness of his village.
D) life outside the village would be difficult.
17. Before the writer left the house his mother...
A) had helped him to prepare for the journey but asked him not to go.
B) had let him make his own preparations to leave.
C) had looked at him to be sure that he really wanted to go.
D) had asked him to take his brothers with him.