Multiple choice

A shrewd peasant was always well enough protected against impostors in the market place, and we have all sorts of businessmen who have made themselves excellent judges of phoniness without the benefit of a high-school diploma; but this kind of shrewdness goes along with a great deal of credulity. Outside the limited field within which experience has taught the peasant or the illiterate businessman his lessons, he is often hopelessly gullible.The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. The skepticism and the gullibility go hand in hand.

  2. The situation has, however, changed remarkably of late.

  3. The educated man, by contrast, has tried to develop a critical faculty for general use, and feels fortified against imposture in all its forms.

  4. The peasant and the businessman of today can hardly make do with such crude differentiation.

  5. It is this gullibility which is ultimately exploited by the unscrupulous.
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Explanation

The comparison is between an educated man and an uneducated one. (1), (2) and (4) are unrelated, hence eliminated. (5) would be the second best choice, but (3) is correct option as it continues the idea.

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