Directions: Read the following passage to answer the given questions based on it. Some words/phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Last year I suffered a stroke I had to be hospitalized. I was put in a general ward for there was no room in the intensive coronary care unit. Not far from my bed was a patient in obvious indigent circumstances and on hospital diet. For breakfast he used to get two eggs, besides other things.

The man was regularly visited by a twelve year old boy, perhaps his son, dressed in worn-out cloths. The man always kept one egg for that boy when he arrived soon after the doctors had done their rounds. One day was a shortfall in the supply of eggs to the hospital and our man got only one egg. He looked at it for a long time, turning it over in his hands and then put it away. He thought the boy’s need was greater than his perhaps.