Multiple choice

Directions: The following passage is followed by a question with five options. Choose the best option.

To be mentally healthy, people must have self respect. People can maintain self respect only by continually earning the respect of others they esteem. They can earn this respect only by treating these others morally.

Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above?

  1. People who are mentally healthy will be treated morally by others.

  2. People who are mentally healthy will have treated morally those they esteem.

  3. People who are mentally healthy must have self respect in order to be treated morally by others.

  4. People can expect to be treated morally by others only if they do the same to others.

  5. Mental health and morality are irretrievably interlinked.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The last link in the chain will ultimately lead to the first. A (mentally healthy) results from B (self respect); B results from C (respect of others); and C results from D (treating others morally). Therefore, A results from D.

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