Question
"I put the brown paper in my pocket along with the chalks, and possibly other things. I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket: the pocket-knife, for instance the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long: and the age of the great epics is past."
(From G.K. Chesterton's "A Piece of Chalk")
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- C
- From
- Official GATE 2025 answer key
Solution
Verify each statement directly against the explicit wording of the passage.
- (A) False: 'reflected' in the passage means pondered/thought about, not looking into a mirror.
- (B) False: The author planned to write a book of poems about the things in his pocket, not about epics.
- (C) True: The passage explicitly states: 'the pocket-knife, for instance the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword.'
- (D) False: The passage only states that 'the age of the great epics is past.'
Option (C)
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2025 Computer Science and Information Technology - Session 1 (CS1)
- Question
- 6 of 65
- Section
- General Aptitude
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