the passage. from The Coral Island Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man's estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hill-tops of my own native land, but an enthusiastic rover throughout the length and breadth of the wide, wide world. Iwa It was a wild, black night of howling storm, the night in which was born on the foaming bosom of the broad Atlantic Ocean. My father was a sea-captain; my grandfather was a sea-captain; my great-grandfather had been a marine. Nobody could tell positively what occupation his father had followed; but my dear mother used to assert that he had been a midshipman, whose grandfather, on the mother's side, had been an admiral in the royal navy. At any rate, we knew that, as far back as our family could be traced, it had been intimately connected with the great watery waste. Indeed this was the case on both sides of the house; for my mother always went to sea with my father on his long voyages, and so spent the greater part of her life upon the water. from The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne) What does this passage most clearly suggest is the cause of the narrator's passion for roving? 1. His birth happened during an ocean storm. 2. His mother went on voyages with his father. 3. His mother spent most of her life on the water. 4. His family on both sides had long careers at sea.
