Read the given passage and answer the four questions that follow:

I was prepared to dislike Max Kelada before I met him. The war had just ended, and accommodation on the ship was scarce. I was relieved to have a cabin with only one other passenger, but when I learned his name, I was dismayed. His large luggage, covered in numerous labels, suggested he was a man of excess. When we met, he greeted me warmly, claiming to be English, despite his foreign appearance and accent. Prohibition was in force and the ship was dry, but he insisted we share drinks. Mr. Kelada was chatty, boastful, and familiar, using no formality despite our status as strangers. I disliked his intrusive behaviour, especially when he interrupted my game of Patience and insisted on showing me card tricks.

Mr. Kelada soon became the centre of attention. He managed activities, organised events, and knew everyone on board. Though he was the most disliked person on the ship, he was oblivious to it, always assuming others were as happy to see him as he was to see them. At mealtimes, he monopolised conversations, arguing passionately. We called him Mr. Know-All which he took as a compliment. It was an affront to his overweening vanity that you should disagree with him. He would not drop a subject, however unimportant, till he had brought you round to his way of thinking. The possibility that he could be mistaken never occurred to him. The only other person who could match his arrogance was Ramsay, and their acrimonious and interminable debates made the trip even more unbearable.

Mr. Know-All seems to be a knowledgeable, sociable and humorous person, yet the narrator doesn't take to him. What does this tell you about the narrator?

He is able to really see through the irritable and intrusive character behind his veneer

The correct answer is Option (1) → He is able to really see through the irritable and intrusive character behind his veneer

The passage describes Mr. Kelada as superficially appealing ("sociable," "chattier," "centre of attention"), but immediately undercuts this with negative character traits observed by the narrator:

• He was "chatty, boastful, and familiar, using no formality despite our status as strangers."

• The narrator disliked his "intrusive behaviour," especially interrupting his game.

• He was ultimately the "most disliked person on the ship," due to his overweening vanity and inability to accept being mistaken.

The narrator's ability to focus on the negative qualities (intrusiveness, boastfulness, arrogance) despite the popular, humorous facade, suggests he is perceptive enough to recognize the genuinely irritable and disrespectful nature hidden behind Mr. Kelada's social veneer.