Questions

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

Aristotle's argument support the view that poetry shows

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

I rarely watch action movies.

In the following questions, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the button corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the "No error" option.

Had I been (A) / in my brother's position (B) / I would have refused the offer. (C) / No Error (D)

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

Excess energy intake from (A)/ food may fuel the (B)/ growth of several cancers. (C)/ No error (D)

Who is the author of "It's All in the Planets"?

Which of the following is the name of a medieval Indian book on mathematics?

If cos(A-B) - cos(A+B) = x, then the value of x is

In the question two statements are given, followed by two conclusions, I and II. You have to consider the statements to be true even if it seems to be atvariance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follows from the given statements.

Statement I: All sticks are canes

Statement II: Some wands are sticks

Conclusion I: Some canes are wands

Conclusion II: No wands are canes