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Direction for [ Question No: 41 To 44 ] :

Direction : Here two passages have been given. Read the passages carefully and select your answer from the given alternatives below each item (question).

PASSAGE - I

Frederick the Great was a king with a difference. He was extraordinary, but he loved to mix with ordinary subjects. He amused himself daily by mixing with the people and often going into the coffee-house incognito. Soon after his arrival one day, he met with a person with whom he played a game of chess. The king lost the game and wished to play another, but the gentleman desired to be excused, saying, he must go to the opera to see the king. "What do you expect to see in the King ? I can assure you he is just like any other man." "No matter," said the gentleman, " he is a very great man. I have an irresistible curiosity to see him, and I will not be disappointed." "Is that your only motive for going to the opera ?" "It really is" he replied. "If that is the case, we may as well play another game now, for you. See him before you".

41.

Frederick loved to ______.

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Tripura Public Service Commission - 2021,

Answer: B

The answer is mix with ordinary people.

The second sentence says he 'loved to mix with ordinary subjects', and the next says he amused himself daily by mixing with the people.

Mixing with rich people, soldiers only or noblemen is not mentioned anywhere. The point of the opening is that this king, unlike most, preferred the company of common subjects.

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42.

To amuse himself Frederick went to ______.

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Answer: C

The answer is Coffee house.

The passage says he amused himself daily by mixing with the people and 'often going into the coffee-house incognito'. That is where he went for his amusement, and where he met the man he played chess with.

A cinema hall, a banquet hall and a conference hall are not named in the passage. The only places mentioned are the coffee-house and the opera.

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43.

Frederick played a game of ______.

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Answer: D

The answer is Chess.

The passage states that he met a person 'with whom he played a game of chess'. The king lost and wished to play another game, which is why he tried to keep the stranger from leaving for the opera.

Badminton, polo and golf are not mentioned. The setting of a coffee-house also suits a table game rather than an outdoor sport.

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44.

The gentleman wanted to go to the opera to ______.

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Tripura Public Service Commission - 2021,

Answer: C

The answer is see the king.

The gentleman, who did not know he was talking to the king, asked to be excused because 'he must go to the opera to see the king'. When asked whether that was his only motive, he answered, 'It really is'.

He did not want to see the queen, who is never mentioned. Listening to music or spending time were not his reason either; he confirmed that seeing the king was his only purpose.

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Direction for [ Question No: 45 To 49 ] :

Passage II

Children should be educated without pressure. They should enter into adulthood free from damaging effects of tradition and fear. Free expression of thought should be given to the children. A child once asked Krishnamurthy, "Is it your hobby to give lecture ? Don't you get tired of talking ?"

Krishnamurthy replied, "I am glad you asked that question. You know if you love something, you never get tired of it." He meant love, in which there is no desire or want to get something out of it. He also said that if someone thinks getting something out of it - money, reward, importance, etc. - then there is only weariness.

45.

Children should be educated without

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Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

Children should be educated without pressure.

The first sentence of Passage II reads 'Children should be educated without pressure.' Fear and damaging effects of tradition are things they should be kept free from, but the sentence itself names pressure. Money and books are not mentioned.

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46.

If you _____ something, you never get tired of it.

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Answer: A

The blank is filled by love.

Krishnamurthy says 'if you love something, you never get tired of it.' Hate and enjoy do not appear in that sentence, and express is not what he is speaking of.

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47.

What type of expression should be given to children ?

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Answer: C

The expression given to children should be free.

The passage says 'Free expression of thought should be given to the children.' Complex, busy and damaging are not applied to expression; 'damaging' appears only in 'damaging effects of tradition and fear'.

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48.

Which quality of Krishnamurthy excited the child ?

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Answer: D

The quality that excited the child was talking.

The child asked 'Is it your hobby to give lecture? Don't you get tired of talking?' The child was struck by Krishnamurthy's talking, a lecturing that never seemed to tire him. Enjoying, listening and eating are not mentioned as his qualities.

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49.

Desire of something leads to

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Answer: C

Desire of something leads to weariness.

The passage says that if someone thinks of 'getting something out of it - money, reward, importance, etc. - then there is only weariness.' Reward is the thing desired rather than the result, and pleasure and fear are not mentioned.

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Direction for [ Question No: 50 To 50 ] :

Passage I

There is a story of a man who thought he had a right to do what he liked. One day, this gentleman was walking along a busy road, spinning his walking-stick round and round in his hand, and was trying to look important. A man walking behind him objected.

"You ought not to spin your walking-stick round and round like that !" he said.

" I am free to do what I like with my walking-stick" argued the gentleman.

"Of course you are", said the other man, "but you ought to know that your freedom ends where my nose begins." The story tells us that we can enjoy our rights and our freedom only if they do not interfere with other people's rights and freedom.

50.

The gentleman was walking along a

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Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

The gentleman was walking along a busy road.

The passage's second sentence says he was 'walking along a busy road, spinning his walking-stick'. The other roads named in the options (lonely, narrow, hilly) are never mentioned.

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