Multiple choice

Directions: Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

Those kids include college students, who have been animated by ________ over mounting student-loan debt and declining job prospects, and have become visible participants in the protests.

  1. The second sentence provides additional evidence for the premise mentioned in the first sentence.

  2. The first sentence is a conclusion while the second supports the given conclusion.

  3. The first sentence elucidates the original tenets of the Knights of Columbus and the second sentence highlights how they have been corrupted.

  4. The first sentence highlights the values of the Order, and the second sentence points towards the successful perpetuation of the same.

  5. The first sentence provides additional evidence for the conclusion drawn in the second paragraph.
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Explanation

(1) Incorrect; the key words are ‘animated’ and ‘protests’. A state of dismay would more likely lead to giving up of a desired object, not lend ‘animation’ to the dismayed person.

(2) Correct; more than any other emotion, anger would lend animation to a person. Faced with dwindling job prospects, and mounting student loan debt, angry students would naturally resort to protests.

(3) Incorrect; hopelessness would not be the state of mind that would generate animation and protests. An emotion that demands outpouring would be better suited for the blank.

(4) Incorrect; concern about students’ problems would not make them animated as they would feel that someone cares about them.

(5) Correct; more than any other emotion, outrage would lend animation to a person. Faced with dwindling job prospects, and mounting student loan debt, outraged students would naturally resort to protests.

(6) Incorrect; cooperation would make one feel that someone cares. There would be no need to protest then.

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