Multiple choice

Directions: The question is a logical sequence of statements with a missing link, the location of which is shown parenthetically. Choose the option which best fits the sequence logically.

Woolf's focus on society has not been generally recognized because of her intense antipathy to propaganda in art. (_______). Even when Woolf is fundamentally sympathetic to their causes, she portrays people anxious to reform their society and possessed of a message or program as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political ideas serve their own psychological needs. (Her writer's Diary notes: 'the only honest people are the artists' whereas 'these social reformers and philanthropists...harbor...discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind...'‌). Woolf detested what she called 'preaching'‌ in fiction, too.

  1. Her detestation of the apathetic is palpable.

  2. She disregards their objectives, howsoever noble they might have been.

  3. She feels that they unnecessarily force their views and judgments down the people's gullets.

  4. The pictures of reformers in her novels are usually satiric or sharply critical.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) makes no sense and options (2) and (5) are irrelevant; hence. eliminated. Option (3) is not justified in the passage. She detests propaganda and propagandists. Therefore, by POE, (4) is the answer (showing them in poor light).

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