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.

As far as superior knowledge and talent confer on their possessor a natural charter of privilege to control his associates and exert an influence on the direction of the general affairs of the community, the free and natural action of that privilege is best secured by a perfectly free democratic system, which will abolish all artificial distinctions, and, preventing the accumulation of any social obstacles to advancement, will permit the free development of every germ of talent, wherever it may chance to exist.

  1. Superior knowledge engenders their possessors superior authority and control over others.

  2. Obstacles of an undemocratic society suppress talent and breed systems of knowledge that are inferior and conservative.

  3. Society can only advance when liberties are unbridled and privileges unencumbered as in a democracy.

  4. Superior abilities anywhere manifest themselves organically in an uninhibited environment.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. This has not be said in the paragraph.
    1. Not true. Obstacles need to be removed. It cannot be deduced that these make society conservative. Also, the message in the paragraph is that free talent naturally grows and flourishes in a free society.
    2. Not true. Liberties cannot be said to be unbridled in a democracy.
    3. True. Superior knowledge or talent or abilities flourish organically or naturally in a free environment.

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