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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - I

A book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to say it merely but to perpetuate it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful or helpfully beautiful. So far he knows no one has said it, so for as he knows no one else can say it. He is bound to say it clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly at all events, m the sum of his life, he finds this to be the thing or group of things, manifest him; this, the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. That is a book.

The opening sentence of the passage implies that the aim of writing a book is to

A)  repeat the message it contains

B) enable the author to express his ideas in writing

C) preserve from extinction the message it contains

D) propagate the ideology of the author