Question

Who is the narrator of the passage?

A. A doctor beginning his career in experimental chemistry
B. An ailing German businessman dictating his will to his lawyer
C. An older man recalling events that occurred many years before
D. A woman about to inherit her dying husband's business

Answer 1

Answer: C. An older man recalling events that occurred many years before

Explanation: in line 8 it says "i am writing these lines in the year 1878, and looking back through half a century..." and in line 12 "like other older men i recollect events which happened at the beginning of my career far more clearly than events which happened only two or three years since"