Multiple choice

Directions: The short passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

The student should not habitually think that the problems with which he believes himself beset are really as grave as they appear. If he can surrender his entire life with all its circumstances, and even all its aspirations, to the Higher Power, he should then patiently await the outcome of this surrender, in whatever form it manifests itself. It is the power of the other which pulls him upward out of his attachments, cajoling him to do what he cannot do of himself. This power, when so felt, we call grace. Let Grace in by responding positively to the teaching and by letting go of the ego. Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to oresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. It isn't the things that happen to us, it's the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

What is the primary purpose of the passage?

  1. The Higher Power always takes care of our difficulties and troubles.

  2. The pathway from black despair to healing peace begins with learning to 'let go'.

  3. Our ego creates an obstacle in achieving our goals and we should learn to let it go.

  4. Some unexpected opportunity is waiting for us at some corner that can transform our lives; we must learn to figure them out.

  5. Power lies in the hand that rocks the cradle.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Once we learn to 'let go' our problems, relax and surrender ourselves completely to God, we are at peace. (The first and second paragraph sums up this as the main idea of the passage). Let (God's) Grace in. Hence, (2) is the answer.