Question

From the beginning I never could work up much interest in the labour of farming. I wanted to have something to do with machinery. My father was not entirely in sympathy with my bent toward mechanics. He thought that I ought to be a farmer. When I left school at seventeen and became an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works I was all but given up for lost. What can best be inferred from this excerpt

Answer 1

Answer: Henry Ford’s father disapproves of Henry’s work in the machine shop.

Explanation:

From the excerpt, it's stated that despite the fact that he loved machinery, his father was not entirely in sympathy with his bent toward mechanics as his father wanted him to become a farmer.

Therefore, the statement that can best be inferred from the excerpt is that Henry Ford’s father disapproves of Henry’s work in the machine shop.