DIRECTIONS: In each of the following questions part of sentence is in bold. Four alternative meanings of the bolded part of the sentence are given below in the sentence. Mark as your answer that alternative meaning which you think is correct He never liked the idea of keeping his wife under his thumb and so he let her do what she liked.

• A. Pressed down
• B. Unduly under control
• C. Below his thumb
• D. Under tyrannical conditions.