Passage

A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-passengers, but she replied, “I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got liberty now.” It did not occur to the dear lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road, it also entitled the taxi-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everything would be getting in everybody else’s way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.

QUESTION

CSAT

Easy

Comprehension

Prelims 2013

The lady refused to move from the middle of the street because

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Explanation

The correct answer is B. she felt that she was entitled to do whatever she liked.

The lady refused to move from the middle of the street because she believed that, with liberty now in place, she had the right to walk wherever she pleased, not realizing the consequences of such an attitude.