Kovalf was a committee-man. He had been one for two years and he couldn't take that out of his own head. This only shows how much the Russian society used to value their titles back then and this might actually be true today.
Kovalf could never forget that he was once a committee-man, therefore to boost his own importance, even to himself, he started calling himself "Major".
<u>Answer:</u>
<em>Lupe’s grandfather was not right when he did not allowed her to quit the school. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
There are various factors which imagines the different decisions and the situations. Different approaches can be used for dealing with the situation instead of taking the decision of making her quit the school. Lupe’s grandfather was not right in this case and thus the passage describes the different aspect of teaching the view. The situation would have been handled in a "different way".