Question

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. [10]
1. The relation between students and politics is one of the vexed questions of the day. There are two classes of people in India – those who believe that students should, as a matter of duty, take part in politics; and those who are of the opinion that they should not. People frequently talk over the matter with me and ask for my opinion, knowing me to be interested in the subject, but I always tell them that their question cannot be answered off-hand.
2. The broadest definition that I think of politics is that it is a science concerned with the means of promoting the general welfare of the state. It is a science (like any other science) with laws which, if brought into operation, produces certain definite effects.
3. Politics has come to mean agitation, constitutional or otherwise, either against certain measures which the government of the country has thought fit to adopt, or in favour of certain measures which the government does not adopt and which the agitator thinks ought to be adopted. Another kind of agitation has come to involve the minds of many – the imputing of bad motives to the opposite party.
4. With this kind of politics, I strongly affirm the opinion that students should have nothing to do. Let me add that I am, by no means, of the opinion that agitation is wrong at all events. For instance, constitutional agitation in which the law is made to work for the agitator and in which he takes advantages of existing forms to secure his ends may not be so counter-productive as long as personalities are carefully avoided, together with the imputation of evil motives. In this way, indeed, the state makes progress.

On the basis of your reading of the passage given above, answer the following questions: [1X10=10]

i. The author supports the opinion that students

1 point

a) Should enter politics

b) Have nothing to do with politics

c) Should be active in both politics and studies

d) Have a greater role in the nation building

ii. Politics has become another name for

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a) Corruption

b) Progress

c) Agitation

d) Solidarity display

iii. According to the author, politics is a science concerned with

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a) Social Service

b) Welfare of the under privileged

c) Caste Elimination

d) General welfare of the state

iv. The author seems to be interested in which subject?

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a) Relation between leaders and politics

b) Relation between students and politics

c) Democratic aspects of a nation

d) Students career

v. Politics here is compared to science as it

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a) has definite shape

b) promotes scientific mind set

c) produces definite results

d) encourages students to study science

vi. Agitation is sometimes

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a) Beneficial for the state

b) Harmful for the state

c) Thought provoking

d) Highly inspirational

vii. (In paragraph 3) Favour is the

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a) Noun

b) Verb

c) Adjective

d) Adverb

viii. (In paragraph 4) What is the synonym of Imputation

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a) Complaint

b) Excuse

c) Apology

d) Defence

ix. (In paragraph 1) What is the antonym of Vexed

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a) Irritation

b) Annoyance

c) Distress

d) Content

x. The author is of the opinion that agitation is not …………..at all events

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a) Right

b) Wrong

c) Aware

d) Eligible

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