Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Without confidence in an enduring social order, people find that they have to devote all their psychic energies to survival, rather than being able to direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them.

  1. rather than being able to direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them

  2. rather than being able to direct themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them

  3. rather than direct them outwards to enriching the world and the society around them

  4. rather than direct themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them

  5. rather than directing themselves outwards to enriching the world and the society around them

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A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is correct as given.