Question

Which of these inferences about the refusal is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 7-8)?

In all important matters, however, the citizens can always count on a refusal. And now the strange fact is that without this refusal one simply cannot get along, yet at the same time these official occasions designed to receive the refusal are by no means a formality. Time after time one goes there full of expectation and in all seriousness and then one returns, if not exactly strengthened or happy, nevertheless not disappointed or tired. About these things I do not have to ask the opinion of anyone else, I feel them in myself, as everyone does; nor do I have any great desire to find out how these things are connected.

As a matter of fact, there is, so far as my observations go, a certain age group that is not content—these are the young people roughly between seventeen and twenty. Quite young fellows, in fact, who are utterly incapable of foreseeing the consequences of even the least significant, far less a revolutionary, idea. And it is among just them that discontent creeps in.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Young people, who don’t fully understand the risk of opposing the capital, are upset about the refusal.

Explanation:

A. The citizens who attend the ceremony hope for a refusal, and are happy when it occurs.

B. The narrator does not seem to care one way or the other about the refusal.

C. The tax-collector is an older, stoic man with a strong allegiance to the distant capital.

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