Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential element in 'The Republic' (his most important work on philosophy and political theory, written around 360 B.C.). In it, he advocates some rather extreme methods: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, music, and art. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are not distributed genetically and thus can be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.

Aristotle considered human nature, habit, and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading, writing, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.

Question:
Which of these methods is NOT advocated in 'The Republic'?

Option 1: Differentiating children based on castes

Option 2: Imparting similar education to all children

Option 3: Bringing up children under state guardianship

Option 4: Keeping children away from mothers

Question : Which of the following are the features of Management as an art?
 

Option 1: Personalized application

Option 2:  Existence of theoretical knowledge

Option 3:  Based on practice and creativity

Option 4:  All of the above

Question : There are certain words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

How did Facebook become a huge business 1) ___________________ $1 trillion at one point last year? Not just by fulfilling its motto of “connecting people,” but by also keeping them constantly 2) ___________________ on the site, sometimes for hours on end.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Twitter Inc. have spent many years 3) ___________________ the art of building 4) ___________________ -forming products, whether through the social affirmation of “likes,” the temptaion of a never-ending newsfeed or the way YouTube hits your dopamine receptors every time it 5) ___________________ a new video.

Choose the correct word to be used in the blank number 2.

Option 1:  hooked
 

Option 2: admonished
 

Option 3: allure
 

Option 4:  stride

Question : Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
One who dislikes art and culture

Option 1: Expert

Option 2: Philistine

Option 3: Mercenary

Option 4: Professional

Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

In a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)_______ New York, paintings of a father and daughter (2)_______ face to face. Larger than life, the monumental portraits (3)_______ competing conceptions of royal power. The father, Henry VIII, (4)_______directly at the viewer, conveying aggression through his wide stance, bulging leg muscles, and (5)_____ padded clothing.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 2.

Option 1: rest

Option 2: hang

Option 3: poised

Option 4: hanged

Question : Who was awarded the 2017 Padma Bhushan Award in the field of Art-Music?

Option 1: Devi Prasad Dwivedi

Option 2: Anuradha Paudwal

Option 3: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Option 4: K.J.Yesudas

Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

In a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)_______ New York, paintings of a father and daughter (2)_______ face to face. Larger than life, the monumental portraits (3)_______ competing conceptions of royal power. The father, Henry VIII, (4)_______ directly at the viewer, conveying aggression through his wide stance, bulging leg muscles, and (5)_____ padded clothing.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: books

Option 2: shocks

Option 3: looks

Option 4: hooks

Question : Select the sentence which does NOT have a spelling error.

Option 1: The art and science of designing buildings is called architecchure.

Option 2: The art and science of designing buildings is called architecture.

Option 3: The art and science of designing buildings is called archtiecture.

Option 4: The art and science of designing buildings is called architectrue.

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

For birds to survive, they must learn to live with and off humans, and those birds, like crows, sparrows, and mynahs, who do this to perfection, continue to thrive as our cities grow, whereas the purely wild birds, who depend on forests for life, are rapidly disappearing because forests are disappearing. If you have just a bit of garden and perhaps a guava tree, you will be visited by innumerable bulbuls, mynahs, tailor birds, parrots, etc. Or, if you own an old house, you will have to share it with pigeons and sparrows. And, if you have neither a garden nor a rooftop, you will still be visited by the crows.

Where man goes, the crow follows. He has learned to perfect the art of living off of humans. He will, I am sure, be the first bird on the moon, scavenging among the paper bags and cartons left behind by untidy astronauts. Crows favour the densest areas of the human population, and there must be one for every human. Many crows seem to have been humans in their previous lives; they possess all the cunning and sense of self preservation of man. At the same time, there are many humans who have obviously been crows, we haven't lost their thieving instincts.

Watch a crow sidling along the garden wall with an eye at the kitchen door and any attendant humans. He waits in the background till his chance comes, and then he pounces! I have even known a crow to make off with an egg from the breakfast table. The mynah, however, is more of a gentleman. He prefers fruit on the tree to scraps from the kitchen and visits the garden in expectation of handouts. He is quite handsome, too, with his bright orange bill. Although the blue jay is quite capable of making his living in the forest, he seems to show a preference for human haunts. He would rather perch on a telegraph wire because he finds it a better launching pad for his sudden rocket flights and aerial acrobatics!

Question:

Which of these birds has been called a ‘thief’ by the narrator?

Option 1: parrot

Option 2: crow

Option 3: mynah

Option 4: bulbul

Question : Which directing activity highlighted in the given statement?
Statement: It refers to an art of transferring facts and ideas from one person to another and making him understand them.

 

Option 1: Supervision

Option 2: Communication

Option 3: Leadership

Option 4: Motivation