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

 


All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 


According to the author, all art is

 

A) a reflection of life. B) art
C) an escape D) an important sense.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) an escape

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In which of the following situations is mechanical energy most likely to be conserved?

A) A feather falls from the sky. B) A football flies through the air.
C) A hockey player digs his skates into the ice. D) A skateboard rolls into the grass.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) A football flies through the air.

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Minamata disease is a nervous disorder caused by eating fish, polluted with _____

A) Iron B) Mercury
C) Lead D) Nickel
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Mercury

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The material carried by the glacier such as rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited, which are called glacial ________.

A) moraines B) deltas
C) plateaus D) grooves
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) moraines

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The outermost layer of sun is called

A) Lithosphere B) Chromosphere
C) Photosphere D) Corona
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Chromosphere

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In which year was Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) founded?

A) 1885 B) 1980
C) 1984 D) 1964
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1964

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Who was the first Speaker of Lok Sabha?

A) G. V. Mavalankar B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
C) M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar D) M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) G. V. Mavalankar

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Who was the Finance Minister of India during the New Economic Policy (1991)?

A) Manmohan Singh B) Uma Kapila
C) Pranab Mukherjee D) Jaswant Singh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Manmohan Singh

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