Question

Now the audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. If these were graded from A to Z, decreasing with succeeding letters to the zero of the hysterical shop-girl, I should say its mental capacity would come around about the letter O. According to the above statement,

• A. some members in the audience are more intelligent than any of its other members.
• B. the net intelligence of the audience is a little less than average.
• C. Only (a)
• D. Both (a) and (b)

Hint:

For inference questions, match each option against explicit statements and logical consequences from the passage—include all that are true.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The passage compares the intelligence of the audience to that of its smartest members and states it is less, which directly supports (a). It also places the audience’s intelligence around “O” on a scale from A (highest) to Z (lowest), which implies slightly below average—supporting (b). - Choosing only (a) ignores the implied intelligence level. - Choosing only (b) ignores the comparison with its most intelligent members. Thus, (d) correctly incorporates both truths.