Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

What on earth is an engaging ruffian. He must be a creature of literary imagination, I thought, for the two words do not match in my personal experience. It has happened to me to meet a few ruffians here and there, but I never found one of them engaging. I consoled myself, however, by reflecting that the friendly reviewer must have been talking like a parrot, which so often seems to understand what it says.

What message does the passage convey?

  1. To draw attention to bizarre descriptions at times given by the literary people

  2. To run down those who describe ruffians as engaging

  3. To draw a parallel between a writer and a parrot

  4. To castigate all ruffians of the world as creature of literary imagination

  5. To show that even as some writers find some critics as inane and gibberish, they do not openly resent it
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The writer minces no word to suggest that the writers do not openly resent the critics who make bizarre and inane observations.

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