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. bring a higher bid to a salesman who has just closed a deal

  2. disclose confidential information to others even when not solicited

  3. sing the praises of the bride when he goes to a wedding from the groom's side

  4. both (1) and (2)
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) Only (1) is at the wrong time and rather unwelcome.

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