Read the passage from Chapter 26 which begins "The idea was profound" and ends "Time for arithmetic, children" carefully before you choose your answer,

In the second paragraph, the phrase "a hundred years old in his knowledge" can best be interpreted to mean that Little Chuck Little

(A) has had to work so hardthat he has had no childhood

(B) has aged early due to backbreaking labor on a dairy farm

(C) seems senile to the other children due to his illiteracy

(D) is too old to still be going to school

(E) is a rural child with extensive agricultural wisdom