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Name the British General who was responsible for the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre.

A) Hastings B) Cornwallis
C) Dyer D) Dalhousie
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Dyer

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Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.

It is hard these days to cope with the rising prices

 

A) cope by B) cope up with
C) to be coped with D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) No improvement

Explanation:

No improvement is required. The verb cope means to deal with. Cope when followed by the preposition with, it means to deal with some difficulty. Also, the sentence is in simple present tense. The sentence is correct.

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four
alternatives.

Morality is _____ with ethics and symbolises the doctrine of actions right or wrong. Politics is the _____ of expediency and need not always be _____. If something is wrong and _____ expedient, it cannot be _____.

If something is wrong and _____ expedient,

A) merely B) essentially
C) surely D) hardly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) merely

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In the given question, a statement divided into different segments is given. The first segment is fixed, rearrange the other segments to form a coherent statement.

As the files were being arranged/ been lost for several decades now (P)/ which were believed to have (Q)/ into a stack, the butler cam (R)/ across information about several of the family heirlooms (S)

A) RSQP B) PQRS
C) SRQP D) QSRP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) RSQP

Explanation:

The most logical segment that can follow the first segment is R, 'being arranged into a stack'. This leaves us with only one option i.e. option 1. Hence, the correct answer is RSQP.

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The ___ has abundant white fibres.

A) cartilage B) ligament
C) tendon D) bone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) tendon

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Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

A) Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Allan Octavian Hume D) Dadabhai Naorji
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

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Which of the following IAF man has been posthumously awarded Ashoka Chakra, the country’s highest peace time gallantry medal?

 

A) Rajinder Kumar B) Jyoti Prakash Nirala
C) Harshvardhan Negi D) Anant Thakur
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Jyoti Prakash Nirala

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism.

 

 

A) well B) nice
C) good D) fine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) well

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