Multiple choice

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

It is time to censure a body which to many seems the mightiest outcome of our new national life; to some a precious urn in which are guarded our brightest and noblest hopes; to others a guiding star which shall lead us through the encircling gloom to a far distant paradise: and if we were not fully confident that this fixed idea of ours is a snare and a delusion, likely to have the most pernicious effects, we should simply have suppressed our own doubts and remained silent. As it is, we are fully confident, and hope to bring over one or two of our countrymen to our own way of thinking.

What is the underlying idea of the passage?

  1. To create awareness about the need for uprooting and dismantling certain established traditions practised over a long period of time

  2. To banish those beliefs and practices that have pernicious effects

  3. To reconcile to those beliefs and practices that have social sanction

  4. To remove misgivings about fixed ideas being a snare and a delusion

  5. To harness energy for creation of a utopia where each individual could live in amity with nature
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Explanation

The writer is bent upon creating awareness amongst people to stand up against beliefs and practices that have done them more harm than good.

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