Make use of the article to answer the questions.

CHAPTER XXX

MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND

Two years have elapsed and Mike is home again for the Easter holidays.

If Mike had been in time for breakfast that morning he might have gathered from the expression on his father's face, as Mr. Jackson opened the envelope containing his school report and read the contents, that the document in question was not exactly a paean of praise from beginning to end. But he was late, as usual. Mike always was late for breakfast in the holidays.

When he came down on this particular morning, the meal was nearly over. Mr. Jackson had disappeared, taking his correspondence with him; Mrs. Jackson had gone into the kitchen, and when Mike appeared the thing had resolved itself into a mere vulgar brawl between Phyllis and Ella for the jam, while Marjory, who had put her hair up a fortnight before, looked on in a detached sort of way, as if these juvenile gambols distressed her.

"Hullo, Mike," she said, jumping up as he entered; "here you are--I've been keeping everything hot for you."

"Have you? Thanks awfully. I say--" his eye wandered in mild surprise round the table. "I'm a bit late."

Marjory was bustling about, fetching and carrying for Mike, as she always did. She had adopted him at an early age, and did the thing thoroughly. She was fond of her other brothers, especially when they made centuries in first-class cricket, but Mike was her favourite. She would field out in the deep as a natural thing when Mike was batting at the net in the paddock, though for the others, even for Joe, who had played in all five Test Matches in the previous summer, she would do it only as a favour.

1. How long had it been since Mike had been home for the Easter holiday?
2. Was mike in time for breakfast that moring?
3. What was it that phyllis and Ella were fighting about?
4. When was the woman particularly fond of her brothers?
5. What was in the envelope Mr. Jackson opened?
6. Was it a good report?
7. What as it Joe had played in the previous summer?
8. Has Mr. Jackson stayed in the room when Mike came down that morning?
9. What is it he took with him when he left?
10. Where had Mrs. Jackson gone to?

Numbered answers:
1. Two years
2. no
3. the jam
4. when they made centuries in cricket
5. Mike's school report
6. not exactly
7. unknown
8. no
9. the report
10. the kitchen