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Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
The Bengal Renaissance refers to a social reform movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the region of Bengal in Undivided India during the period of British rule. The Bengal renaissance can be said to have started with Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1775-1833) and ended with Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) although there have been many stalwarts thereafter embodying particular aspects of the unique intellectual and creative output. Nineteenth century Bengal was a unique blend of religious and social reformers, scholars, literary giants, journalists, patriotic orators and scientists all merging to form the image of a renaissance and marked the transition from the medieval to the modern .During this period Bengal witnessed an intellectual awakening that is in some way similar to the European Renaissance during the 16th century although Europeans of that age were not confronted with the challenge and Influence of alien colonialism. This movement questioned existing orthodoxies particularly with respect to women marriage, the dowry system, the caste system and religion. One of the earliest social movements that emerged during this time was the Young Bengal movement that espoused rationalism and atheism as the common denominators of civil conduct among upper caste educated Hindus. The parallel socio- religious movement, the Brahmo Samaj developed during this time period and counted many of the leaders of the Bengal Renaissance among its followers.
Q1. Find the option that is opposite in meaning to alien.
(a) disputable
(b) indigenous
(c) unethical
(d) unscientific
Q2. The Bengal Renaissance was different from the 16th century European Renaissance because
(a)Europeans did not have the dowry system.
(b)Raja Rammohan Roy and Tagore were not born in the 16th century.
(c)The Bengal Renaissance was an essentially Hindu Movement.
(d)Unlike the Bengalis, Europeans were not under foreign rule.
Q3. The spirit of Renaissance
(a)is to embrace atheism.
(b)is to get inspiration from Western-intellectual thought.
(c)lies in breaking all shackles of backwardness and narrow mindedness.
(d)is essentially scientific
Q4. The Bengal Renaissance movement
(a)wanted to overthrow colonialism.
(b)wanted to propagate Brahmoism.
(c)wanted social reform to improve the lot of the weak and the downtrodden.
(d)None of the above.
Q5. The Bengal Renaissance gathered momentum in the19th century because
(a)the British had colonised India.
(b)there was an abundance of intellectual and creative activities in Bengal then.
(c)the Brahmo Samai was formed.
(d)Raja Rammohan Roy and Tagore lived at that time.
Directions (6-10): Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
The third defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them/that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern masters. They must be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink, and oil to wash with and they must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blow up, and spread ruin and destruction all around them. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machines, and a time may come when they rule us altogether, just as we rule animals. And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy that they have given us?” On, the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little. For the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines; but more and better machines will only give us still more time and more energy, and what we do with them? The answer I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines themselves, and the power which machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization.
Q6. What were the machines made for?
(a) For serving men
(b) To be stern masters
(c) To give us extra time
(d) To make other machines
Q7. What are the machines turning out to be?
(a) Man’s servants
(b) Better machines
(c) The masters of men
(d) To give new energy
Q8. What do we usually do with the time and energy saved for us by the machines?
(a) Spend our lives looking after them
(b) Make more and better machines
(c) Become civilized
(d) Rule animals
Q9. In ‘if they do not get their meals’, ‘they’ refers to
(a) machines
(b) scientists
(c) gods
(d) people
Q10. How do we use the power given to us by Science?
(a) Intelligently
(b) Like Small children
(c) Like machines
(d) Like a scientist
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Solutions
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. Alien means belonging to a foreign country and indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
S2. Ans. (d)
Sol. The Bengal Renaissance was different from the 16th century European Renaissance because unlike the Bengalis, Europeans were not under foreign rule.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. The spirit” of Renaissance lies in breaking all shackles of backwardness and narrow mindedness.
S4. Ans. (c)
Sol. The Bengal Renaissance movement wanted social reform to improve the lot of the weak and the downtrodden.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. The Bengal Renaissance gathered momentum in the19th century because there was an abundance of intellectual and creative activities in Bengal then.
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. Refer to, “Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them/that they are in a fair way to become his masters.”
S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. Refer to, “Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them/that they are in a fair way to become his masters.”
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. Refer to, “For the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines.”
S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. In ‘if they do not get their meals’, ‘they’ refers to “machines”
S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Refer to, “Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small children”.
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