Multiple choice

Directions: Read following passage and answer the given question. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.

The unseasonable man tends to

  1. be a successful arbitrator when dissenting parties are rather reluctant to agree

  2. be helpful when not solicited

  3. tell a long story to people who have heard it many times before

  4. both (1) and (2)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) Neither 1 nor 2 is unwanted; only 3 is.