If you refer to the short story “Next Term, We’ll Mash You”
by Penelope Lively, I believe that the correct answer is C. The sportsmanlike
values of the cricket.
In her short story “Next Term, We’ll Mash you”, Penelope
Lively writes about the British educational system (boarding schools), social
class and snobbery field, cruelty of children and indifference of parents to their children
needs with the high point of the story being Charles's (protagonist) miserable
fate at the school. She also writes about these themes in "A House
Unlocked” and "Making It Up".
