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.

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Abutting

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Artifice

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Analogous

 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

That game (were interrupted) by the rains, it resumed an hour after, when the rains stopped.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Lackadaisical

Who authored the book titled ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, which won the Man Booker Prize 2017?

Permanent settlement was a feature of___________.