“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?
Answer
(C)
Explanation
The passage calls the pocket-knife “the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword”, so (C) is stated directly.
- (A) No mirror is mentioned; “reflected” here means “thought about”.
- (B) The author planned a book of poems about the things in his pocket, not a poem on epics, and he gave up the plan.
- (D) He says only that the age of great epics is past; he never calls epics inconvenient to write.
Answer: C