PASSAGE 20

People project their mental processes into their handwriting. They subconsciously shape and organise their letters, words and lines in ways that directly reflect their personalities. This explains why no two handwritings are – or even can be – alike; the medium is just too personal. Everyday observation confirms the link between handwriting and personality, at least in an elementary way. Precise people construct their words with care, slowly and exactly; dynamic people dash them off. Flamboyant people boldly cover half a page with a few words and a signature, whose size fittingly reflects their expansive sense of self. Most of us have made such observations. But it takes a practiced eye to discern the scores of variations and interpret the subtle interplay of forces at work in any given handwriting. In fact in Europe, handwriting analysis known as graphology, now enjoys scientific acceptance and common use.

1. If you are a showy and colourful person; your handwriting is likely to be
A) neat and slow
B) dashing and careless
C) bold and large
D) legible but small

2. Graphology is
A) the study of graphs
B) the analysis of handwriting
C) a special branch of phonetics
D) a graphical description of handwriting

3. Handwriting analysis is
A) not useful to us
B) an elementary study
C) an imprecise science
D) a means of studying personality

4. According to the author, people are
A) not conscious of what they write
B) aggressive in the nature of their writing
C) not conscious of the way they write
D) not used to personal writing

5. The fact that handwriting is related to personality
A) has been noticed by most people
B) is appreciated by dynamic people
C) is restricted to persons who write carefully
D) is known only to graphologists

Answer Key

Solution with explanation

1. Option ‘C’ (bold and large). COLOURFUL = A colourful character is a person who behaves in an interesting and amusing way. Flamboyant people too are like this; in other words COLOURFUL people means flamboyant people. According to the sentence of the passage — Flamboyant people boldly cover half a page with a few words and a signature, whose size fittingly reflects their expansive sense of self. Flamboyant (colourful) people write their words bigger in size that even a few words written by them consume almost half a page.

4. Option ‘C’ (not conscious of the way they write).  The word subconsciously in the second sentence means people are not conscious.

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