Questions

Which one of the following is not an assumption in the law of demand?

Rate of the growth of an economy is measured in terms of

Identify a type of asexual reproduction which involves reproduction through parts of a plant such as roots, stem and leaves?

T cell activation requires

Which of the following hormone is not secreted by pituitary gland?

What is the effective discount (in %) on two successive discounts of 20% and 10%?

Who received the Man Booker Prize in 2015 for his novel ' A brief history of seven killings'?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and has done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

Which of the following does the author appear to highlight in this essay?