Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girdled at half its height by a gallery.

Why does the boy pay a shilling instead of finding a sixpence entrance?

a. He has no change.
b. He is excited and urgently rushes in.
c. The sixpence entrance is closed.
d. A shilling has less value than a sixpence.

Answer 1

b. He is excited and urgently rushes in.

Step-by-step explanation:

He fears that the bazaar would be closed, and he wants to get in as soon as possible so he tries the easiest way in that he thinks of, which is paying more that what he had planned but he is able to get in immidiately insted of keep looking for the sixpenny entrance.

Answer 2

It might be said that he pay a shilling instead of finding a sixpence because he is excited and urgently rushed in (option b) in fact, he was afraid the bazaar would be closed  and as he could not find a sixpence entrance, he decides to hurry up.