Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Radical action can also be attributed to mild surrender where one acts against societal expectations. 2. Submitting to one's limitations, given the effect of age and other factors, ought not to be conflated with laziness. 3. 'Leading man' usually refers to one who plays the lead role in a movie; in this instance the implication is that Hugh Grant is performing the role of not an action hero, but that of a resting one! Select the answer using the code given below.

Passage

Was it the sun-dappled ambience, the strawberries and cream, the frustration of Flavio Cobolli's unforced errors against Serbian Novak Djokovic on Centre Court or simply the crushing weight of being a 64-year-old man in the third act of a very public life? Whatever the reason, Hugh Grant, the actor, deserves empathy. There he was, in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, flanked by Britain's well-dressed and well-rested spectators, watching the men's singles quarterfinals, when the actor did something quietly radical : head at a tilt, eyes closed, utterly unbothered, he took a nap. So praise be to Grant for serving up an unexpected ace. In that small, delicious moment, he didn't merely catch forty winks, he made an elegant case for surrender. Not to laziness, but to limits. To the body's quiet wisdom over society's relentless performance metrics. Wimbledon had its tennis. The perpetually sleep-deprived discovered a leading man, not of action, but of rest.

QUESTION

CSAT

Medium

Comprehension

Prelims 2026

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Radical action can also be attributed to mild surrender where one acts against societal expectations.
Submitting to one's limitations, given the effect of age and other factors, ought not to be conflated with laziness.
'Leading man' usually refers to one who plays the lead role in a movie; in this instance the implication is that Hugh Grant is performing the role of not an action hero, but that of a resting one!

Select the answer using the code given below.

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Explanation

Let us evaluate each statement based on the passage:

Statement 1 is correct: The passage describes Hugh Grant's nap as "quietly radical" and an "elegant case for surrender... to the body's quiet wisdom over society's relentless performance metrics." This directly supports the idea that a radical action can be a form of mild surrender against societal expectations.

Statement 2 is correct: The author explicitly mentions the "crushing weight of being a 64-year-old man" (effect of age) and states that his nap was a surrender "Not to laziness, but to limits." This means submitting to one's physical limitations should not be mistaken for laziness.

Statement 3 is correct: The passage concludes with a clever play on words: "The perpetually sleep-deprived discovered a leading man, not of action, but of rest." Since Hugh Grant is a famous actor, the term "leading man" usually refers to a movie's main star (often an action hero). Here, the author implies that by napping publicly, Grant metaphorically performed the role of a "resting hero" for sleep-deprived people to look up to.

Since all three statements accurately reflect the passage's contents and tone, Option C is the correct answer.