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.

The longing not to die but to persist forever cannot arise in the mind which is locked up in time. Thus it is that man is not limited by time, really speaking. Otherwise, this desire to live long cannot arise in the mind. He is not even limited to space; otherwise, the desire to break the limitations of the world outside and probe into the corners of creation cannot arise in him. The longing to possess the whole world is not possible if it is locked up in a little space.

  1. A provincial mind with no idea of the limits of time is removed from the notion of surpassing time and space.

  2. A cloistered mind restrained in time is untrained in transcending the limits of time and space.

  3. A mind immune to the effects of time and space is incapable of crossing the limits of time and space.

  4. Time and space give rise to the concepts of immortality and liberty to think unconventionally.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. A provincial mind would itself be limited in thought, so it would have an idea of time or space.
    1. True. A mind restricted in space and bound by time is not trained to make a flight beyond time and space.
    2. Not true. It is not the mind “immune” but the one that is “limited” that is incapable to go beyond the limits of time and space.
    3. Not true, as this is only true for a man not bound by the limits of time and space.

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