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.

While the workman concentrates his faculties more and more upon the study of a single detail, the master surveys an extensive whole, and the mind of the latter is enlarged in proportion as that of the former is narrowed. In a short time, the one will require nothing but physical strength without intelligence; the other stands in need of science, and almost of genius to ensure success. This man resembles more and more the administrator of a vast empire; that man, a brute. The master and the workman have then here no similarity, and their differences increase every day. Each of them fills the station which is made for him, and which he does not leave; the one is continually, closely and necessarily dependent upon the other and seems as much born to obey as that other is to command. What is this but aristocracy?

  1. A supervisor–subordinate relationship can best be delineated as an instantiation of an aristocratism.

  2. The aristocratic master is by nature more intelligent, responsible and exploitative than those he supervises.

  3. Aristocracy is automatically bred by one’s exposure to a work environment and its demands that promote discrimination, dissimilarity and segregation.

  4. Aristocracy gets spontaneously established by the perpetuation of the expansiveness of the master’s mind and the provinciality of his subordinates.
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Explanation
  1. Not correct. Not everywhere a supervisor–subordinate relationship can said to be so. The paragraph only describes a “workman” and his “master” and that the work is more of a kind of physical or manual.
    1. Not correct. The master by nature cannot be said to be more intelligent.
    2. Not correct. Aristocracy may not be bred in a workman in this manner but only in the master.
    3. Correct. A master’s mind as it continues to expand and his subordiantes’ minds as they tend to be more provincial automatically causes aristocracy to take birth.

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