Great comic art is never otherwordly, it does not seek to mystify us,'

OEs-

1.Because of the use of the verb ‘suggests’, this is an ‘inference’ question, the key phrase being ‘optimistic about the ability of human to… The penultimate sentence says that comic artists ‘are willing to assume the human risks of acting rationally’. Obviously, they are optimistic that it is possible for human beings to act rationally.

So, (B) is the answer.

You may be tempted to make the mistake of choosing D, because the words ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are found in the first sentence. But what the first sentence means is that, for the comic artist, whatever differs from good is not evil or, in other words, he does not distinguish clearly between good and evil, because even something which is evil may contain some good.

2.This is also an ‘inference’ question, the key phrase being ‘the author admires great comic artists primarily for’. Every sentence in the passage is in praise of comic artist. But, in the sixth line, the author says, “…. The moment of transcendence in great comic art is born out of the conviction that we are human, though we try to be gods". The admiration of the author for great comic artists is therefore based primarily on their insistence on (or conviction about) the truth of the human condition.

So, (D) is the answer.

You can easily see that none of the other choices is mentioned as attributes of great comic artists.

3.This is a ‘Technique’ question, and should be answered by examining each answer choice and eliminating the inappropriate ones. Since there is no ‘prediction’ regarding comic art in the passage, (A) is wrong.

Each sentence in the passage stands by itself, and describes a fact about comic art and comic artists. The passage does not therefore form a ‘list of inferences’ based on a set of facts. So, (B) is also wrong.

(D) is wrong because no specific examples of comic artists are enumerated in the passage.

(E) is wrong because all the ideas in the passage are general in nature, and there is no transition of ideas from the specific to the general.

(C) is the best choice, because the passage contains a series of assertions about one general subject, namely, great comic art.

The difficult words in the passage are-
otherworldly (strange), mystify (puzzle), ambiguity (doubt), accentuate (emphasize), gloss over (disregard), transcend (go beyond), compassionate (sympathetic) and rationally(logically).