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.

There will always be produced native talent, vast power of influencing mankind, united with restless, aspiring and insatiate ambition. And this talent will be unfolded in greater proportion as common education is more generally diffused. The question then, is not whether such talent shall or shall not exist. The only practical question is, whether these rare endowments shall be cultivated and disciplined and cautioned and directed by the lessons of past wisdom, or whether they shall be allowed to grow up in reckless and headstrong arrogance. It is merely a question whether the extraordinary talent bestowed upon society by our Creator, shall be a blessing or a curse to us and to our children.

  1. Talent left rudderless and unguided by experience is potentially portentous.

  2. Diffusion of extraordinary talent can instil arrogance in a society that summarily forgets its humble beginnings.

  3. Proliferation of native talent in a society can prove to be both advantageous and disadvantageous to society and progeny.

  4. Native talent is like a child; it needs proper grooming, cultivation with discipline.
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Explanation
  1. True. It lays emphasis on how the talent is used and supports that unguided talent is potentially portentous.
  2. Not completely true. Nothing about humble beginnings of society has been indicated.
  3. Not true. It is only the “directionless” talent that can prove disadvantageous to society.
  4. True, however, the reason as to why talent or endowments need grooming is not captured. 

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