Multiple choice

Directions: The last sentence in the following passage has been deleted. Select the sentence, out of the available options, that best suits the end of the passage.

Thus Simon tells us of a dream in which he saw some gigantic figures seated at table and clearly heard the frightful snapping noise made by their jaws coming together as they chewed. When he awoke he heard the beat of a horse's hooves galloping past his window. The noise made by the horse's hooves may have suggested ideas from a group of memories connected with Gu!liver's Travels—the Giants of Brobdingnag and the virtuous Houyhnhnms—if I may venture on an interpretation without the dreamer's assistance. Is it not probable, then, that the choice of such an unusual group of memories as these were facilitated by

  1. motives other than the objective stimulus alone

  2. the horse's hooves alone

  3. the ghost stories that Simon had read in his childhood

  4. Simon's notions of the extra-terrestrials
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Explanation

The passage is about a dream analysis. What appears in the dream as fearful and ghastly is strangely coincidental with a common occurrence in daily life. There has to be something other than the objective stimulus.

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