Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

The passage puts two ideas side by side: women will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion, and a country cannot rise without the contribution of half its population. Both are about giving women the opportunity to contribute.

Education appears as Napoleon’s illustration of that opportunity, not as the conclusion, so all women should be well educated narrows the theme. Emancipation and equal rights are consequences the passage gestures at but never states.

Answer: C

Correct answer: human labour has dignity and value.

The first sentence names the theme outright - technology imparts greater dignity and value to human labour - and the rest of the passage simply explains how: in an industrial society productivity, not birth, fixes pay and therefore status.

The mention of Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu is evidence for that claim, not the claim itself, which is why the options about social status and about caste being man-made pick up a supporting detail and mistake it for the theme.

Answer: C

Correct answer: what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.

The passage traces one line: the poet imagines mastery of land, sea and air; a poet’s dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement; and flight, once imagined, was built and then surpassed by flight into space.

So imagination is presented as the first step towards achievement, not as a test of poetic skill and not as a claim that every imagining comes true - the passage speaks of what has been realised, not of everything conceivable.

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: 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: has contributed to the growth of civilisation.

The passage credits the businessman with building the great cities, providing luxuries, giving artists patronage, raising the standard of living, and seeding the Industrial Revolution around the world. That is a list of contributions to civilisation, and no other option gathers them. Note that the businessman is described as the source of these things, not their beneficiary - the option about him enjoying a luxurious life reverses the passage.

Answer: C

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

Every duty the passage lays on the press requires it to be free: upholding a just cause without fear, criticising the government, protecting the rights of workers and suppressed sections, and giving a balanced view so that healthy public opinion can form. A press that could be silenced could do none of them. The option that the press has a role in democracy is true but weaker; the passage’s point is what that role depends on.

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: 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: D

Correct answer: boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country's products with those of the developed countries.

The passage says the exhibitions enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced progress against the industrial power of the U.K., the U.S.A. and Russia. Measuring yourself against a stronger competitor is only worth doing if it leads to improvement, and the passage opens by saying such exhibitions play a major role in the economy. The options calling them useless to backward countries contradict that opening claim directly.