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Read the passage and answer the question given below.

There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.
"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".

The oak is ____________________.

A
double the age of the birches
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three times as thick as the birches
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twice as tall as the birches
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D
five times as strong as the fir trees
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Solution

The correct option is C twice as tall as the birches
According to the passage, the oak tree is ten times the age of the birch trees. It is ten times as thick and twice as tall as the birch trees. Out of all the options, C mentions a correct statement about the oak tree. C is the correct answer.
A, B and D are incorrect.

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