Multiple choice

What is the theme of the passage?

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The student should not habitually think that the problems with which he believes himself beset are really as grave as they appear. If he can surrender his entire life with all its circumstances, and even all its aspirations, to the Higher Power, he should then patiently await the outcome of this surrender, in whatever form it manifests itself.

It is the power of the other which pulls him upward out of his attachments, cajoling him to do what he cannot do of himself. This power, when so felt, we call grace. Let Grace in by responding positively to the teaching and by letting go of the ego. Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. It isn’t the things that happen to us, it’s the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

  1. The Higher Power always takes care of our difficulties and troubles.

  2. The pathway from black despair to healing peace begins with learning to 'let go'.

  3. Power lies in the hand that rocks the cradle.

  4. Some unexpected opportunity is waiting for us at some corner that can transform our lives; we must learn to figure them out.
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Explanation

Option (A): Note the words “Higher Power”, “Grace” given in capitals. Obviously the reference is to the Almighty. That makes it a spiritual passage. Only options (A) and (B) are spiritual, but (A) is rather extreme (always takes care of our difficulties). Option (B): Note the words “Higher Power”, “Grace” given in capitals. Obviously the reference is to the Almighty. That makes it a spiritual passage. Only options (A) and (B) are spiritual, but (A) is rather extreme. “The problems with which he believes himself beset” cause black despair. Grace is healing peace. “If he can surrender” is 'let go'. Option (C): Note the words “Higher Power”, “Grace” given in capitals. Obviously the reference is to the Almighty. That makes it a spiritual passage. (C) Is not spiritual in orientation. Option (D): Note the words “Higher Power”, “Grace” given in capitals. Obviously the reference is to the Almighty. That makes it a spiritual passage. (D) Is not spiritual in orientation. Option (E): Note the words “Higher Power”, “Grace” given in capitals. Obviously the reference is to the Almighty. That makes it a spiritual passage. (E) Is not spiritual in orientation.

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