Directions (Q. 1-5):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 so evocatively 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 self-discovery is that the quantum of self-professed ‘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 one’s existential dilemmas to the vanaprasthashrama. It is nautically permissible today for spiritual sailors to be grihast has in their 20s and 30s. Intriguing, given Jung’s belief that the spiritual bug usually attacks in the 40s.
1.What makes the dismissal easy? (d)
(a) The desire to make peace
(b) The doctrine of Camus
(c) Not yet being in the 40s
(d) None of these
2.‘The arks … Noahs’ means that (a)
(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.
Directions (Q. 3-4): Choose the word that is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word as used in the passage.
3.Abracadabra (c)
(a) Trick
(b) Jargon
(c) Meaningless formula
(d) Magic
4.Catamarans (c)
(a) Full sails
(b) Raft
(c) Boats
(c) Schooners
5.What is the passage all about? (d)
(a) Philosophers of spiritualism
(b) Sceptical view of spiritualism
(c) Path of salvation
(d) A voyage to seek salvation