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.

But there is a higher reason in the human individual which, though it gets stifled many a time due to the clamours of the senses and the needs of life, raises its voice now and then, and in rare specimens of stalwarts among people in the world, the reason manifests itself as a brilliant radiance shedding a light which is not of this world, because anything that is totally a part of this world cannot know the world. An object cannot know itself. There is a necessity for something else to even know that there is such a thing as the object or the world. Who knows that there is a world? Does the world itself know it?

  1. Objects that belong to this world can only be known by objects that belong to the ‘other’ world.

  2. A need for an individual to know himself surfaces from time to time and has the potential to lead one to enlightenment.

  3. Questioning one’s individuality in this world is a brilliant idea for the few who tend to pursue it.

  4. Anything which forms an integral part of something is incapable to know itself.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. The concept of “other” world is not in the given paragraph.
    1. True. This is the higher need or reason that the author talks about here. This, when heeded by stalwarts, has the potential to bestow enlightenment.
    2. Not true. The paragraph’s essence is not about the nature of ideas.
    3. True but not applicable. Because there is no discussion on the higher reason or need here.

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