What did you next observe?

• A. I was presented with a lambskin apron.
• B. The lesser lights were explained.
• C. The Worshipful Master approached me from the East, under the due guard and sign of an Entered Apprentice Mason. He presented to me his right hand in token of friendship and brotherly love, invested me with the grip and word of this degree. Bade me arise, go and salute the Jr and Sr Wardens as an Entered Apprentice Mason.
• D. I was reconducted to the Sr Warden.

Answer: (C)

This tests understanding of the sequence of actions in the Entered Apprentice initiation. After the candidate has been prepared and brought into the lodge, the next observable moment is the Worshipful Master coming to you from the East, performing the ritual signs, and presenting the right hand as a token of friendship and brotherly love. He then invests you with the grip and word of this degree and directs you to arise and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as an Entered Apprentice Mason. This moment marks the formal recognition and investiture into the degree and sets up the proper greeting to the lodge leadership that follows.

The other options don’t fit as the immediate next observation. The lambskin apron is a symbol and is presented at a different point in the ceremony, not the exact next moment after entering the lodge. The lesser lights being explained belongs to the lodge’s opening and general instruction phase, not the post-initiation moment described here. Being reconducted to the Senior Warden would be a later or separate step, not the next observed action after the initial investiture.