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

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.

Olive, after her parents' death became

Bhangra is a folk dance of

Khasi tribes live in _____.

The largest gland of the human body is

Who is the first woman ruler of India?

Sir Charles Wilkins is known and remembered for which of the following translations?

Which of the following monuments built by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah is said to be built to commemorate the eradication of plague?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Put one's foot down