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Aptitude Test Topic: Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension questions are designed to test a wide range of abilities that are required in order to read and understand the kinds of prose commonly encountered in advanced studies.

Directions

Directions

This passage is accompanied by questions about its content. For each question, select the best answer among the five choices. Answer all questions on the basis of what the passage states or implies.

To give the answer click/tap the option alphabet for your answer choice. for correct answer green check and for wrong answer a red cross will appear along with a button to show explanation with or without video of the question answer.

Reading Comprehension: Main Idea Practice MCQ

Question Statement:

From the very beginning — from the first moment, I may almost say — of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

The main idea of this passage is

The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because there are plenty of other men to marry.
The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because they do not have enough money.
The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because the speaker dislikes them.
The speaker wants to marry the person they are addressing because they believe this person is their only option.
The speaker wants to marry the person they are addressing because they find this person's fault's endearing.

Explanation:

Correct Answer: C

The speaker lists a number of negative qualities they've observed in the person they are addressing, including arrogance and selfishness. The speaker then cites their "immovable dislike" of this person, and essentially says that this is the last person in the world they would want to marry. Thus, the speaker does not way to marry the person they are addressing because they dislike this person.

Question: 10   Test: 2 of 18 Next Test

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You are taking Aptitude Test No. 2

Each aptitude test is comprised of 10 except the last test which might have fewer than 10 in some topics.

You are at question (MCQ) number 10 and Test Number 2 of Reading Comprehension: Main Idea. To deal with Reading Comprehension questions, you must take lesson on the subject. In case of science and Art subjects revise your text books and in case of general aptitude topics take lessons from the topic page.

The question:

From the very beginning — from the first moment, I may almost say — of my acquaintance with you, .... with options: The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because there are plenty of other men to marry., The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because they do not have enough money., The speaker does not want to marry the person they are addressing because the speaker dislikes them., The speaker wants to marry the person they are addressing because they believe this person is their only option. can be solved with the concepts and understanding of Reading Comprehension.