Exams

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

A saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________, freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality __________ in amber. Rather than _____________ a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue __________ inflexibly. Goodness becomes a stencil fixed _________ time.

a statue __________ inflexibly.

Who won Nobel prize for Physics in 2015?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Opprobrium

The 4th and 7th term of an arithmetic progression are 11 and -4 respectively. What is the 15th term?

The weights of 4 boxes are 20, 40, 80 and 90 kilograms. Which of the following cannot be the total weight, in kilograms, of any combination of these boxes and in a combination a box can be used only once?

Which of the following places presents the oldest evidence of Neolithic Era?

Find the perimeter (in cm) of a semicircle of radius 14 cm.

Which Indian author in May 2016 won the prestigious 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award for her work 'Codex : The Lost Treasure of the Indus' ?