Read the passage and answer the questions.
If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books, my answer would certainly have been in favour of books. In later years, this has become less and less the case. Not that I have had so much better experiences with men than with books, on the contrary, purely delightful book even now come my way more often than purely delightful men. But the many bad experiences with men have nourished the meadow of my life as the noblest book could not do.
In his early youth, the author :
(a) preferred to have dealing only with books
(b) liked to have dealings more with men than with books
(c) liked to have more dealings with men than with books
(d) liked to have more dealings with books than with men
