IPMAT Rohtak 2020 Verbal Ability Set 2 (2 Questions)

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems…

IPMAT Rohtak 2020 · Verbal Ability · 2 questions

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.

Question 1

The meaning of 'glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers' is

A. pursuit of a commercialised material culture
B. replacement of rural by urban interests
C. complete removal of poverty
D. absence of violence and corruption

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Question 2

The basis of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' is

A. rapid industrialisation of villages
B. self-sufficiency in food clothes and simplicity of the lifestyle
C. bringing to the villages the glittering prizes of the 20th century
D. supporting those holdings powerful political positions

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