Question

I smiled and shook my head. “I can quite understand your thinking so,” I said. “Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is strange and bizarre. But here”—I picked up the morning paper from the ground—“let us put it to a practical test. Here is the first heading upon which I come. „A husband‟s cruelty to his wife.‟ There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.”Which phrase from the excerpt suggests that Holmes is arrogant?
F. I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me.

G. In your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled.

H. acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

J. I was engaged in clearing up some small points in connection with it

Answer 1

Answer:

H.

Explanation:

The given excerpt is taken from 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel is about a detective named Sherlock Holmes and the cases that he takes.

Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as an arrogant character by Doyle in the novel. In the given excerpt, the statement that shows that Sherlock Holmes is an arrogant person is, "Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example." In the given statement, Holmes is belittling the Doctor and asserting that he has outnumbered him in case study. This is an arrogant tone.

Therefore, option H is correct.