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Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Ernest Rutherford was the son of a Scot emigrant to New Zealand. His parents had twelve children, of whom Ernest was the fourth. His education was in a state primary school from which children at the age of thirteen could get grants of scholarships to secondary schools and to the universities. Rutherford had no intention of following an academic career. He was no book-worm. He was good in any rough-and-tumble and a keen football player. But he was good at Latin and he had a passion for music and a mechanical bent of mind. At Nelson College/a state boarding school, he was an outstanding pupil. He sat for a scholarship examination to Canterbury College as because his masters expected and won it. There, Rutherford as a student was fascinated by Hertz's work on radio waves. Soon he began to conduct his own experiment in the cloak room of the college, where the students used to hung their gowns.

Rutherford parents were:

A) British

B) Scottish

C) Native of New Zealand

D) American

E) None of these