The lady refused to move from the middle of the street because (a) she was not afraid of being killed.
ENGLISH PASSAGE
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-passengers, but she replied “I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got liberty now.” It did not occur to the dear lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road it also entitled the taxi-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everything would be getting in everybody else’s way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.
The lady refused to move from the middle of the street because
(a) she was not afraid of being killed.
(b) she felt that she is entitled to do whatever she liked.
(c) she did not like walking on the payment.
(d) she was confused.
1 Answers
(b) She felt so because she was arrogant and newly achieved liberty had gone into her head in a wrong way