Mobile Post Office

Royal and Ruby Fernandez of West Virginia moved recently. They’re beginning to be very sorry that they ever did move. Their new mobile home is large enough and it’s very nicely furnished. They have running water and enough heat. Why are they sorry they moved? Their new quarters are nicer than their old ones, but they were more content before.
Royal and Ruby are tired of strangers walking into their new home. At all hours of the business day, people walk right in carrying letters and packages and looking for the stamp machine. The people sometimes get angry when they can’t find what they want.
Lovely as their new mobile house is, Mr. and Mrs. Fernandez have found that it has one major drawback. It used to be the Skelton, West Virginia, post office. When the post office moved to another site, the Fernandez family took over the mobile home. Unfortunately, many residents of Skelton (Zip Code 25919) didn’t notice. They continued to come to the same old place to mail their letters and buy stamps.

1. Mr. and Mrs. Fernandez live
(a) in a very large city.
(b) behind the post office.
(c) in a mobile home.
(d) without any stamps.

2. The mobile home has
(a) many good qualities.
(b) nothing very nice.
(c) four stamp machines.
(d) a counter in the bedroom.

3. People looking for the post office
(a) sometimes aren’t pleasant.
(b) never find one.
(c) are always correct.
(d) bring presents to Ruby.

4. Something mobile
(a) contains too many things.
(b) is difficult to see.
(c) could be moved.
(d) costs a lot of money.

5. People bothered the Fernandezes
(a) because they were nasty.
(b) on every other weekend.
(c) looking for the post office.
(d) who bothered them right back.

6. A drawback is a
(a) long drapery.
(b) small bridge.
(c) sales area.
(d) problem or disadvantage.

7. Which happened first? The
(a) mobile home was a post office.
(b) Fernandez family moved.
(c) post office moved.
(d) people came to the wrong place.

8. This story suggests that people
(a) don’t like other people.
(b) don’t like to write letters.
(c) should buy more stamps.
(d) don’t always pay attention.

Answer Key: 1. c; 2. a; 3. a; 4. c; 5. c; 6. d; 7. a; 8. d