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But as for that mark, I don't believe it was made by a nail after all; it's too big, too round, for that. I might get up, but if I got up and looked at it, ten to one I shouldn't be able to say for certain. Once a thing's done, no one ever knows how it happened. Dear me, the mystery of life; the inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization - let me just count the array of things lost in one lifetime, beginning, for that seems always the most mysterious of losses - what cat would gnaw, what rat would nibble - three pale blue canisters of book binding tools? Then there were the bird cages, the iron hoops, the steel skates, the coal bucket, the accordion - all gone, and jewels, too. Opals and emeralds, they lie about the roots of turnips. The wonder is that I've any clothes on my back, that I sit surrounded by solid furniture at this moment. Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through an underground railway at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair!
Question:
Which statement best describes the narrator's point of view on possessions in paragraph 3?
A. People's possessions can reveal much about them.
B. People are likely to lose their possessions over time.
C. People need far fewer possessions than they believe.
D. People's lost possessions tend to find their way back to people.

Answer 1

The statement that best describes the narrator's point of view on possessions in paragraph 3 is:

B. People are likely to lose their possessions over time.

The narrator reflects on the various items lost throughout a lifetime, emphasizing the randomness and inevitability of such losses, which aligns with this statement.