Question

the refusal - comprehension questions
1 which of these inferences about the refusal is best supported by the passage?
in all important matters, however, the citizens can always count on a refusal. and even if the things that a refusal cannot get along, yet at the same time these official occasions designed to receive the refusal are by - means a formality. for all one gives there last of importance and in all seriousness and then one returns if not exactly overjoyed, nevertheless satisfied or tired. about these things i do not have to ask the opinion of anyone else. i feel them to myself, as everyone does, and have any great desire to find out how these things are connected.
as a matter of fact, there is, so far as my observations go, a certain age group that is not content - those are the young people ranging between seventeen and twenty. quite young fellows, in fact, who are utterly incapable of foreseeing the consequences of even the significant, far less a revolutionary idea. and it is among just them that discontent creeps in.
the citizens who attend the ceremony hope for a refusal, and are happy when it occurs
the narrator does not seem to care one way or the other about the refusal
the tax - collector is an older, stoic man with a strong allegiance to the distant capital
young people, who dont fully understand the risk of opposing the capital, are upset about the refusal

Explanation:

The passage mentions that young people between seventeen and twenty are not content and are the ones among whom discontent creeps in, as they are utterly incapable of foreseeing the consequences of significant or revolutionary ideas. This supports the idea that young people, who don't fully understand the risk of opposing the capital, are upset about the refusal. The other options are not well - supported by the given text.

Answer:

Young people, who don't fully understand the risk of opposing the capital, are upset about the refusal