Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

A dream pictures earthly beauty to our eyes in a truly heavenly splendour and clothes dignity with the highest majesty. It shows us everyday fears in the ghastliest shape and turns our amusement into jokes of indescribable pungency. And sometimes when we are awake and still under the full impact of an experience like one of these, we cannot but feel that never in our life has the real world offered us its equal.

  1. Dreams help envision the good and bad of life in their weirdest forms.

  2. A dream often enhances the effects of everything corporal through a somewhat strangely idealistic interpretation.

  3. Life’s experiences in their utmost manifestation nearest to reality can only be sensed in one’s dreams.

  4. A dream tends to have a deep understanding of real-life experiences, thereby pushing the limits of a sane and sober mind.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. The forms cannot be said to be weird but exaggerated.
    1. True. The very first sentence with words “truly heavenly” and “clothes dignity with the highest majesty” would be a strange idealistic interpretation.
    2. Not true. These won’t be nearest to reality (refer last sentence of the paragraph).
    3. Not true. A dream only enhances the effects of real-life experiences. No way can it be said that it has deep understanding of them. Also, pushing the limits of a sane and sober mind is out of context.

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