Question

look within and life, it seems, is very far from being \like that\. examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. the mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. from all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of monday or tuesday, the accent falls differently from of the moment of importance came not here but there; so that if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the bond street tailors would have it.
(from “modern fiction” by virginia woolf)
this sentence is from the passage.
“the mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.”
which is closest in meaning to myriad as it is used in the passage?

1. list of
2. category of
3. description of
4. great number of

Explanation:

To determine the meaning of "myriad" in the passage, we analyze the context. The sentence describes the mind receiving impressions that come "from all sides" as an "incessant stream". This implies a large quantity of impressions. "List of" (1) suggests a numbered or ordered list, which doesn't fit. "Category of" (2) implies grouping, not quantity. "Description of" (3) focuses on explaining, not quantity. "Great number of" (4) matches the idea of many impressions coming continuously.

Answer:

1. great number of