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Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Today perhaps your only association with 'polio is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from disease. Fifty-five years ago, this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and the spinal cord, causes stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis-which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that it would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with a huge gap of 23 years between the first and the last. I was told that, unlike the others, I was so fair and brown-haired that I looked more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

In this passage the word 'brood' refers to;

A) Polio victims

B) Foreign children

C) Children in the family

D) Dawood Bohri

E) None of these