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.

Year by year this contrast with the past becomes more marked as, I think, every college teacher, everyone who is brought into contact with the development of thoughtful young men and women, must note. For nearly twenty years I have been giving a course on the history of religions. I remember with what hesitancy and with what precaution, in the first years of my teaching, I turned from China, India, and Persia, and approached the religion of the Old Testament. The transition had to be made with all the sympathetic skill I could muster; and never a year went by but some of my students came to me after sleepless nights, wearied with inner struggle, sometimes with indignant voices, to talk out, after class, the implications involved in the Higher Criticism and in the attempt to deal with the Hebrew religion in the same historical light as we had studied Hinduism and Buddhism. All this is change now.

Which of the following options best represents the theme of the passage?

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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.

Year by year this contrast with the past becomes more marked as, I think, every college teacher, everyone who is brought into contact with the development of thoughtful young men and women, must note. For nearly twenty years I have been giving a course on the history of religions. I remember with what hesitancy and with what precaution, in the first years of my teaching, I turned from China, India, and Persia, and approached the religion of the Old Testament. The transition had to be made with all the sympathetic skill I could muster; and never a year went by but some of my students came to me after sleepless nights, wearied with inner struggle, sometimes with indignant voices, to talk out, after class, the implications involved in the Higher Criticism and in the attempt to deal with the Hebrew religion in the same historical light as we had studied Hinduism and Buddhism. All this is change now.

Which of the following options best represents the theme of the passage?

All of us surrender ourselves to the Higher Power when wearied with inner struggle.
The time when author was a lecturer, students were more interested in Hebrew religion than in Hinduism and Buddhism.
The lack of interest, on part of the students over the years, in the study of the history of religion has acted as a dampener for the author.

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Accepted Answer

Something has happened to the religion of our young people as they do not believe what their predecessors believed, neither do they act as their predecessors did.

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