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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 - III

The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion and are only alike in their ineffectuality. In Lavengro there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific, but that, was Burrow?s malice. The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile has never served my turn. I have herded imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue pigs and I defy and reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of swine.

The author uses 'impossible' for the character in Lavengro in the sense of

A) unrealistic                     

B) funny                      

C)  queer   

D) imaginary