Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: comes through the interaction with social situations.

The passage says education comes through the stimulation of the child’s powers by the demands of the social situations he finds himself in, and that those demands make him act as a member of a unity and see himself from the standpoint of the group. Every clause is about the social setting doing the educating. Physical strength is never mentioned, and the passage is a definition of real education, not a complaint about existing schools.

Answer: C

Correct answer: the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.

The passage concedes two things before making its point: the expenditure is large, and fashion is here to stay. What it then asks for is that strong efforts be made to displace the excessive craze from young minds. That is a call to remove the obsession while accepting the thing itself, which is what this option says. The option about fashion being detrimental to personality states a harm the passage never claims.

Answer: D

Correct answer: mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

The passage sets forgiveness against vengeance throughout: yielding to resentment is easy, restraining it takes a strong character, and the man who forgives proves himself the superior of the wrongdoer and puts him to shame.

That last clause is decisive. Forgiveness here is not merely kind - it defeats the offender more completely than retaliation would, which is exactly what calling mercy a form of revenge means.

Answer: C

Correct answer: economic development plays a crucial role

The passage gives one reason why the school matters more today than before: through the modern development of the economy, the family as a bearer of tradition has been weakened. Economic change is therefore the force that has shifted the burden of transmission from the family to the school - it plays a crucial role, though an indirect one. The other options all contradict the passage, which names the school as the most important means and the family as weakened.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power.

The argument is one of misallocation. Agriculture is over-manned; fewer agriculturists would mean more purchasing power each; the new demand from a prosperous agrarian class would create a shortage of workers elsewhere; and that shortage would be met by the surplus released from agriculture.

Every step turns on where labour sits rather than on how much of it there is, and the passage opens by asking government and planners to devise means of mobilisation. That is the theme.

Answer: C

Correct answer: relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth need.

The passage reports the link twice, with opposite results. Among employees with strong growth needs, satisfaction accompanies high performance; among those with weak growth needs there is no such relationship, and satisfaction with promotion opportunities even goes with low performance.

A relationship that changes direction depending on a third variable is, by definition, moderated by it. That is why the option claiming a direct and close link is wrong - it holds for only one of the two groups.

Answer: C

Correct answer: the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.

Each sentence describes something a press can do only if it is free: uphold a just cause, criticise the government, protect the rights of workers and suppressed sections, and give a balanced view so people can form a healthy public opinion.

Informed public opinion is the mechanism democracy runs on, so freedom is being presented as a requirement rather than a privilege. The option that the press merely has a great role to play states less than the passage argues.

Answer: C

Correct answer: art is for the sake of art alone.

All three sentences make the same claim from different angles: art may not be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself; it alone shall touch the work; nothing shall reach the work except through art itself. The repetition is the theme.

Adding and life, or bringing in society or the artist’s dreams, introduces exactly the outside authority the passage rules out.

Answer: C

Correct answer: interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place.

The passage draws one conclusion from the shift to services: managers will work more with people and less with objects from the assembly line. Working more with people is exactly what makes interpersonal skill more important. The passage does not say assembly lines will exist in service organisations, nor that manufacturing firms ignore people - only that the balance of a manager’s attention is moving.

Answer: C

Correct answer: human labour has dignity and value.

The passage opens by naming its subject: one of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value it imparts to human labour. Everything that follows - the irrelevance of caste and creed, productivity fixing pay and pay fixing status - is offered as evidence for that opening claim. The option about industrial society levelling men describes the mechanism the passage uses; this one states the conclusion it is used to support.