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Directions (Q. 110):Read the following passage very carefully and answer the
questions given below appropriately.There are certain words and phrases in the
passage printed in bold letters to help you find them out easily in order to answer
some of the question.
The dismissal is easy. But what it overlooks is that beneath the ostensible bourgeois
dilettantism and the age of abracadabra seethes a desire sometimes fuzzy and
inarticulate, but a desire nonetheless. A desire to make peace with what Camus
soevocatively termed the unreasonable silence of the world. The desire is as old as
silence, but it reinvents itself across culture and chronology, And one of the remarkable
features of the new Indian voyage of selfdiscovery is that the quantum of selfprofessed
voyagers is one the increase, even if the taste of the day runs to luxury liners rather
than catamarans. Additionally, the arks of today are no longer peopled by geriatric
Noahs.No longer does one have to defer ones existential dilemmas to
the vanaprasthashrama. It is nautically permissible today for spiritual sailors to be
grihast has in their 20s and 30s. Intriguing, given Jungs belief that the spiritual bug
usually attacks in the 40s.
1.What does the author imply by bourgeois dilettantism and it being ostensible?
(a) The ostentatious property owned by the middleclass
(b) Claiming to understand the bourgeoisie
(c) Showing apparent interest
(d) Showing concern for material possessions rather than spiritual growth
(e) None of these
2.What makes the dismissal easy?
(a) The desire to make peace
(b) The doctrine of Camus
(c) Not yet being in the 40s
(d) Love for materialism
(e) None of these
3.The arks Noahs means that
(a) Experience, today, does not pilot the boats.
(b) We want a leader like Noah.
(c) Boats capsize for want of direction.
(d) The Noahs are a forgotten race.
(e) None of these
4.What is true about the new Indian voyage to selfdiscovery?
(i) The voyage is luxury personified.
(ii) It has reiterated Jungs theory.
(iii) It makes the belief of Camus seem innocuous
(a) Only (i)
(b) Only (ii)
(c) Only (iii)
(d) Only (ii) & (iii)
(e) None of these
5.Why is the desire omnipresent?

(a) It has survived all the hurdles.

(b) The culture of India is deeprooted.
(c) It has not yet lost its sense of direction.
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of these
6.What is the passage all about?
(a) Philosophers of spiritualism
(b) Sceptical view of spiritualism
(c) Path of salvation
(d) A voyage to seek salvation
(e) None of these
Directions (Q. 78): Choose the word that is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the
word as used in the passage.
7.Abracadabra
(a) Trick
(b) Jargon
(c) Meaningless formula
(c) Magic
(e) Remarkable
8.Catamarans
(a) Full sails
(b) Raft
(c) Boats
(c) Schooners
(e) Flagship
Directions (Q. 910): Select the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning
of the word as used in the passage.
9.Evocatively
(a) Eloquently
(b) Forgetfully
(c) Ambiguous
(c) Blatantly
(e) None of these
10.Beneath
(a) Up
(b) Over
(c) Above
(c) On
(e) Out