Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Narrative / Factual)

Question:

All men are snobs about something. One is almost tempted to add: There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish. But this would doubtless be an exaggeration. There are certain disfiguring and mortal diseases about which there has probably never been any snobbery. I cannot imagine for example, that there are any leprosy-snobs. More picturesque diseases, even when they are dangerous, and less dangerous, diseases, particularly when they are the diseases of the rich, can be and very frequently are a source of snobbish self-importance. I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs, who thought that it would be romantic to fade away in the flower of youth, like Keats or Marie Bashkirtseff. Alas, the final stages of the consumptive fading are generally a good deal less romantic than these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs seem to imagine. To anyone who has actually witnessed these final stages, the complacent poeticizing of those adolescents must seem as exasperating as they are profoundly pathetic. In the case of those commoner disease-snobs, whose claim to distinction is that they suffer from one of the maladies of the rich, exasperation is not tempered by very much sympathy. People who possess sufficient leisure, sufficient wealth, not to mention sufficient health, to go travelling from spa to spa, from doctor to fashionable doctor, in search of cures from problematical diseases (which, in so far as they exist at all, probably have their source in overeating) cannot expect us to be very lavish in our solitude and pity. - Aldous Huxley

What does the author consider to be an exaggeration?

Options:

That all men are snobs about something

That there is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish

That modem men in particular are snobs

That all the adolescents are consumption-snobs

Correct Answer:

That there is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish

Explanation:

Based on the given excerpt, the author considers Option 2: "That there is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish" to be an exaggeration. The author mentions that while men can feel snobbish about many things, there are certain disfiguring and mortal diseases, like leprosy, which have probably never been a source of snobbery. Therefore, the statement that there is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish is seen as an exaggeration by the author.