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Read the given passage and the questions given below carefully and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet: India’s recent achievement in science and technology, or in world literature, or in international business, has all involved a good deal of global interaction. The important point to note in the present context is that these interactions are not unprecedented in Indian history. Indeed, interactions have been part and parcel of the Indian civilizations, from very early days. Consider Sanskrit - a splendid language with a rich literature – which has been one of the robust pillars of Indian civilization. Despite its quintessential ‘Indianness’, there is a general understanding that, in an early form, Sanskrit came to India from abroad in the second millennium BCE, with the migration of Indo-Europeans, and then it developed further and flourished magnificently in India. It is also interesting to note that the greatest grammarian in Sanskrit, namely Panini, who systemized and transformed Sanskrit grammar and phonetics around the fourth century BCE, was of Afghan origin. These foreign connections have not diminished the pride of classically minded Indians in that great language, nor in the exceptional achievements of the literature, culture and science that found its expression in Sanskrit. Indeed, interactions have enriched as well as spread Sanskrit beyond India’s borders over many centuries. The seventh-century Chinese scholar Yi Jing learned his Sanskrit in Java (in the city of Shri Vijaya) on his way from China to India. Enter your answer 4.India’s progress in Science and Technology involved (1 Point) a) rich literature. b) Indian civilizations. c) Indian history. d) a good deal of global interaction. 5.Sanskrit came to India with the migration of (1 Point) a) Indo-Europeans. b) French. c) Afghans. d) Chinese. 6.The transformation of Sanskrit grammar can be credited to (1 Point) a) Chinese scholars. b) Indo-Europeans. c) Panini. d) Rich literature. 7.The word ‘quintessential’ means (1 Point) a) typical. b) strange. c) exceptional. d) wonderful. 8.Find a word in para 1 that means opposite of 'increased' (1 Point) robust transformed diminished systematized

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