Comprehension Passage

Please read the below passage carefully and answer the questions based on it.

A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn't much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. A woman had dropped what appeared to be a one rupee coin. The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on the pavement is an attention-getter. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. It got me thinking about sounds again.

It's the quietest sounds that have the most effect on us, not the loudest. In the middle of the night, I can hear a dripping tap a hundred yards away through three closed doors. I've been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime? I'm quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are. I've turned against whistling, for instance. I used to think of it as the mark of a happy worker but lately I've been associating the whistler with a nervous person making compulsive noises. The tapping, tapping, tapping of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. I often like the sound of what I write better than the look of it.

How does the author relate to sounds at night?

1
He thinks nights are rather quiet.
2
He thinks people are walking in the house.
3
He imagines sounds that do not exist. 
4
He exaggerated quiet sounds. 

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