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.

With two hands, how can you receive the abundance which God can bestow on you with His infinite hands? And why do you cling to petty things? If He starts drawing everything from you with His infinite hands, how much can you grab? He will suck everything if He wants. So there is no use clinging to small things, and also no use craving too much as if we are poverty-stricken, uncared for. Nothing of the kind. We have become poverty-stricken due to our own making.

  1. Greed has no bounds and so does the feeling of self-pity induced by deprivation.

  2. The notions of greed and privation contrived by us are delusional.

  3. God has his own ways to make us experience richness and poverty.

  4. We deserve to feel rich and impoverished as long as we long for material things.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. The author has talked about both greed and self-pity; however, has not mentioned whether these have any limits or not.
    1. True. This captures the essence of the paragraph. The ideas of greed and need are within us and these are misleading.
    2. Not true. This is not meant by the paragraph. God, though, wants us to be free from greed and self-pity.
    3. Not true. Nowhere in the paragraph has attachment or detachment to material things talked of or the outcomes thereof (rich or poor).

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