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.

It is, however, necessary for the idea of perfection to be proposed, that we may have some object to which our endeavours are to be directed; and he that is most deficient in the duties of life makes some atonement for his faults if he warns others against his own failings, and hinders, by the salubrity of his admonitions, the contagion of his example.

  1. The best and the worst can be calibrated on the yardstick of perfection.

  2. Perfection as an idea is worthwhile to conceive both as a coveted goal and a cause to be protected and professed.

  3. Perfection is indispensable to the direction of human efforts either on the positive side to gain success or on the negative side causing utter failure.

  4. The ones conscious of one’s duties and those deficient in the same could have never compared their endeavours in absence of the notion of perfection.
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Explanation
  1. True. This is possible according to the paragraph, the reason or conception of the notion of perfection is not made clear by the option.
    1. True. The words “our endeavours are to be directed” and “… salubrity of his admonishments…” makes it clear that perfection is a desired goal and a cause that needs to be protected by the ones who have failed to achieve perfection.
    2. Not true for negative side causing utter failure.
    3. Not true. The essence of the paragraph is not in comparing the endeavours of the conscious and the deficient.

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