Question

After reading paragraph 6, consider which sentence BEST summarizes the speaker’s thoughts in this paragraph. A) Monsieur Maillard ran his institution with liberal, loose rules, allowing mental patients to roam in virtual freedom in the normal clothes of the day. B) Patients, while they were secretly being watched, were, however, given the liberty to wear what they wanted, but were punished if they even questioned being confined. C) Monsieur Maillard himself was considered mentally unstable as evidenced by his cruel punishments, confining his patients to the house or grounds and allowing them the freedom to wear other people’s ordinary clothing. D) The institution’s ‘system of soothing’ was a system whereby the confinement of such patients admitted to Monsieur Maillard’s grounds were eventually granted their liberty and allowed to leave the institution.

Answer 1

it was A.)  Monsieur Maillard ran his institution with liberal, loose rules, allowing mental patients to roam in virtual freedom in the normal clothes of the day.

Answer 2

I believe it's C. Monsieur Maillard himself was considered mentally unstable as evidenced by his cruel punishments, confining his patients to the house or grounds and allowing them the freedom to wear other people’s ordinary clothing.
We can see this through the usage of the word 'patient' in the excerpt which indicates there is something wrong about him and this part of this sentence : were permitted to roam about the house and grounds in the ordinary apparel of persons in right mind. . . which indicates that he's losing his mind.