Question 11.
Based on the passage, which of the following statements CANNOT be inferred?
Question Explanation
Let's look at each option individually:
Option A: This is what the entire penultimate paragraph builds towards, that comedy works when one is indifferent and not close to the situation being laughed at. Hence, this statement can be inferred.
Option B: This is what the first paragraph talks about. A hat is laughed at because of the traits humans have given it and what human characteristics it resembles; no squirrel is laughing at a "hat"; hence, this too can be inferred.
Option C: While this might seem like an extreme option, this is what the passage conveys, "In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter." Hence, this, too, can be inferred.
Option D: Similar to option B, this can be inferred from the passage's first paragraph. "...if any other animal, or some lifeless object, produces the same effect, it is always because of some resemblance to man, of the stamp he gives it or the use he puts it to." Hence, this too can be inferred from the passage.
Option E: Although the penultimate paragraph has the line: "To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart." The options distort it by omitting the heart; it is not that we need actual anaesthesia but that we need to put our feelings and pity on hold. Hence, of all the given statements only option E can not be inferred and would be the correct answer.
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