Multiple choice

What is the critical completion of the passage?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.

It is the arbitrary exemptions from the law provided to the privileged - often violent - sections among the less privileged that are the basis of the widespread sense of injustice, and of the collapse of the authority and legitimacy of the justice system, that would be more correctly identified as the    'root cause' of the pervasive sense of injury than any other failure of the state. Yet, we are constantly told, that we must create even more exceptions to the application of the law to accommodate these forces of violent disruption in order to address this sense of injury.

  1. Wow!

  2. Rubbing salt into the wounds!

  3. Squaring a problem does not halve it!

  4. Such a vicious irony!

  5. Ever heard of it?

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D Correct answer
Explanation

(1): Incorrect. Wow is used as an expression of praise or pleasant surprise. (2): Incorrect. The argument is about 'addressing the injury' by doing more of the same, not rubbing of salt or exacerbating the injury. (3): Incorrect. Creating more exceptions does not necessarily square the problems. (4): Correct. An irony is implied when the cause and cure are caused by the same instrument. In this case, remedy being worse than the malady which it is supposed to cure, creates the irony. (5): Incorrect. The phrase is used to imply something outrageously bizarre.