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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

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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.

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Reading Comprehension: Main Idea Practice MCQ

Question Statement:

I was born in the working-class. Early I discovered enthusiasm, ambition, and ideals; and to satisfy these became the problem of my child-life. My environment was crude and rough and raw. I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom. Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.

Above me towered the colossal edifice of society, and to my mind, the only way out was up. Into this edifice, I early resolved to climb. … In short, as I accepted the rising of the sun, I accepted that up above me was all that was fine and noble and gracious, all that gave decency and dignity to life, all that made life worth living and that remunerated one for his travail and misery.

Which of the following is one of the main ideas of the passage?

The desire to increase one's social position

An optimism that the government will provide needed services

The post-second The yearning the prosperity of days gone by any education options available in the early 20th century

The yearning the prosperity of days gone by

Explanation:

Correct Answer: A

This passage is all about the desire to attain a higher social position. The author states that he started as a working-class citizen, and that his ambition was "to climb" to a better position for multiple reasons, including comfort and nobility. He does not address the government's influence on matters, nor the role of higher education. He also does not seem to long for days gone by. For these reasons, the best choice is "The desire to increase one's social position."

Question: 5 Test: 3 of 18 Next Test

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You are taking Aptitude Test No. 3

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 5 and Test Number 3 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:

I was born in the working-class. Early I discovered enthusiasm, ambition, and ideals; and to sati .... with options: The desire to increase one's social position, An optimism that the government will provide needed services, The post-second The yearning the prosperity of days gone by any education options available in the early 20th century, The yearning the prosperity of days gone by can be solved with the concepts and understanding of Reading Comprehension.