CUET English 2025 21 May Shift 1 PYQs

'There's not much brass there now' the underlined word refers to:

The passage compares our mind to a little bucket. It does so because:

(1) our brain is designed like a bucket to store the water needed by our metabolism

(2) our brain as the physical organ of our mind is capable of accepting and storing the information we acquire from life

(3) the shape of our brain is like that of a bucket

(4) the brain has a bucket like cavity for storage of physical matter

Mr. Know-All seems to be a knowledgeable, sociable and humorous person, yet the narrator doesn't take to him. What does this tell you about the narrator?