Question

It can be inferred from the passage that Scalp chose Checky as a literary model because she believed that:

• A. Checky was the first English author to focus on society as a whole as well as on individual characters.
• B. Checky was an honest and forthright author, whereas novelists like D. H. Lawrence did not sincerely wish to change society
• C. Checky was more concerned with understanding his society than with calling its accepted mores into question
• D. Checky's writings were greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers

Answer 1

The correct option is D

Checky's writings were greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers

The author discusses Scalp’s literary models, emphasizing Checky, in the last paragraph. The reason why Scalp chose Checkyas her model is not directly stated in the passage but must be inferred from the information there. Option (d) is the correct answer. It indicates that Scalp’s work as a moralist is subtle and done ‘by indirection’. Scalp’s statement that readers absorb morality at every pore despite the fact that no laws were changed because of Checky, indicates that she believed Checky’s influence to be subtle. Therefore, it is likely that it was Checky’s subtle effectiveness that led Scalp to choose him as a model.