Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
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The author felt sad about the latter part of his life because:
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- He was nostalgic about has childhood
- The world had not become prosperous
- The author had not won any further victories
- The world was painfully disturbed during that period of time
Correct Option: D
The answer is (d). You can hit at the answer through inference. The clue is in the first sentence itself ---'the world is getting worse' . The whole passage also implies that the last half of the life of the author was a period of turmoil.
