Questions

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

Abstract' in the passage means

To be eligible to contest election under the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015, a candidate should

1.have a functional toilet at home

2.have payment slips of power bills

3.not be a cooperative loan defaulter

4.have studied  minimum   matriculation irrespective of category.

Select the  correct  answer  using  the  code given below.

$$\begin{gathered} ∆ABC is similar to ∆PQR. If ratio of perimeters of ∆ABC and ∆PQR is 1:2 and \\ if PQ = 10 cm then what is the length of AB (in cm)? \end{gathered}$$

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

The family said, "We were watching TV when we heard the news."

In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

He succeeded in proving his point with ______________ logic.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Baneful

Where in India was the first French factory established?

An increase in price of which of these products will have a ripple effect in increasing the prices of many products, thereby resulting in inflation?