Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows.
For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yards outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards founds a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evening in search of prey.
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The author of the passage seems to suggest that ?
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- it is possible to adjust oneself to uncongenial surroundings
- the condition in Indian prisons are not bad
- it is not difficult to spend one's time in a prison
- there is a need to improve the condition in our jails
Correct Option: A
Option (b) and (d) do not capture the essence of the passage. The passage indicates that how author has acclimatised to the surroundings as a means of survival and to set apart his loneliness. Option (a) comes closest to what is tried to be conveyed in the passage