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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f 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 - III

It is fear that produces social conformity. Boys at school are apt to endure considerable physical and mental suffering if other boys consider them odd. This means that most boys of usual intelligence have to learn elaborate methods of concealment which are apt to cling to them through later life. They have to pretend to be more 'tough' and less intelligent than in fact they are. They have to learn to conceal any enjoyment they may derive from poetry or music. Above all they have to hide as deeply as they possibly can any powers of imagination that they may possess. If they lear to do all this successfully they may slip through without much outward suffering until they become old enough to go the university. But by this time many of them will have acquired an armour so thin that the living being underneath can hardly peep out.

Observance of social norms comes from

A)  fear of rejection 

B) respect for society

C) fellow feeling                 

D) faith in others