Question : Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
Quarantine and self-isolation need not be monotonous and stifling. They can be the gateway to work, be it in the arts or the sciences, that define the history of the world. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Milton and Lord Byron used much time to add to their formidable body of work in science and literature. It was not called lockdown in their time, but they spent long spells in isolation when medicine was not as developed as it is now.
The University of Cambridge, where all four were studied, delved into its archives to collate their activities during such periods of isolation centuries ago. Isaac Newton (Trinity College): Considered Trinity’s most accomplished alumni, he exemplified productivity during a pandemic. Like many in Cambridge during the Great Plague of 1655-56, he retreated to the countryside to escape the disease-ridden city and spent two extended periods at his family home in rural Lincolnshire. Newton thrived in isolation, and later described it as one of the most productive times in his life, finding the space to reflect on and develop his theories on optics, calculus, and the law of motion and gravity. It was during this time that he conducted his famous prism experiment. “He bored a hole through his window shutters to produce a single, thin beam of light to pass through two prisms, proving for the first time that prisms did not create colours, but merely separated colours that were already there,” the university’s researcher, Alisha Matthewson-Grand, wrote. “Indeed, Newton was so intellectually transformed by his period of isolation that later commentators have referred to his time away from Cambridge as his annus mirabilis, or his year of wonders.” Charles Darwin (Christ’s College): Darwin’s experience with isolation was not the result of a pandemic but his own chronic ill health. He suffered from a myriad of unexplained symptoms, including vertigo, vomiting, cramps, fatigue, anxiety and visual disturbances. He noted in his autobiography of 1876 that “few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [Darwin and his wife Emma] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere.” Darwin believed that periods of isolation and ill health helped his career. At home, he was free from the demands placed on other scientists (teaching, administrative work), and thus able to devote himself entirely to research; he wrote: “Ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” Lord Byron (Trinity College): In 1811, Lord Byron was forced to quarantine in Malta after returning from a cholera-ravaged Greece. He was furious at the prospect of spending 40 days in lockdown, a measure he considered to be draconian and unnecessary. While confined, he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’, a satirical poem attacking the island for (among other things) “Its smoky towns and cloudy sky” and its “cursed street of stairs”. He references his quarantine explicitly in the first verse “Adieu, thou damned’st quarantine / That gave me fever, and the spleen!’. John Milton (Christ’s College): The author of ‘Paradise Lost’ spent some time away from Cambridge as a first-year undergraduate in 1626, when the town was hit by bubonic plague. He was home in London when he wrote Elegia Prima, his first Latin elegy. The work is an early example of his aptitude for verse composition, as well as his impressive flair for comedy.
Question:
Lord Byron was a:

Option 1: teacher

Option 2: scientist

Option 3: poet

Option 4: researcher

Question : The three racers' speed ratio is 3 : 2 : 4. What is the respective ratio of time taken by the three racers to cover the same distance?

Option 1: 6 : 8 : 9

Option 2: 4 : 8 : 5

Option 3: 10 : 8 : 3

Option 4: 4 : 6 : 3

Question : Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement required’.

The smell of this flower make me felt dizzy.

Option 1: making I feel

Option 2: makes me feel

Option 3: make me feeling

Option 4: No improvement required

Question : Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.
A person who believes in the equality of all people

Option 1: Philologist

Option 2: Egalitarian

Option 3: Philodendron

Option 4: Philander

Question : If the cost of 3 dozen bananas is Rs. 180, what is the cost of 7 dozen bananas?

Option 1: Rs. 490

Option 2: Rs. 210

Option 3: Rs. 420

Option 4: Rs. 350

Question : Directions: Select the option that is related to the third letter cluster in the same way as the second letter cluster is related to the first letter cluster.
SB : VY :: GN : ?

Option 1: JL

Option 2: DR

Option 3: JK

Option 4: DQ

Question : The speed of a boat in still water is 44 km/hr and the speed of a stream is 26 km/hr. Find the upstream speed of the boat.

Option 1: 12 km/hr

Option 2: 18 km/hr

Option 3: 13 km/hr

Option 4: 14 km/hr

Question : Directions: Two Statements are given followed by two conclusions numbered I and II Assuming the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts, decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements.
Statements:
All notebooks are pencils.
Some pens are notebooks.
Conclusions:
I. All pens are pencils.
II Some pencils are pens.

Option 1: Only conclusion I follows

Option 2: Both conclusions I and II follow

Option 3: Only conclusion II follows

Option 4: Neither conclusion I nor II follow

Question : Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Interfere

Option 1: Activate

Option 2: Masquerade

Option 3: Hasten

Option 4: Restrict

Question : Lala Lajpat Rai was an active member of which organisation?

Option 1: Arya Samaj

Option 2: Brahmo Samaj

Option 3: Brahmo Sabha

Option 4: Prarthana Samaj