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:
The central idea of the passage is that:

Option 1: scientific theories can be formulated only in quarantine

Option 2: some great works have come out of quarantine

Option 3: quarantine makes one ill and inactive

Option 4: quarantine is monotonous and stifling

Question : Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Many students do not _____________ attention in botany class.

Option 1: exhibit

Option 2: drive

Option 3: pay

Option 4: trace

Question : Directions: A paper is folded and cut as shown below. How will it appear when unfolded?

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Question : The Supreme Court ordered its registry to work out a mechanism to remove the personal details of persons entangled in matrimonial litigation. This decision was taken to recognise which right is part of the ‘right to privacy’.

Option 1: Right to practice religion

Option 2: Right to be forgotten

Option 3: Right to division of power

Option 4: Right to live

Question : The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is

Option 1: zinc

Option 2: copper

Option 3: Aluminium

Option 4: Iron

Question : Directions: A series is given with one term missing. Select the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
ABCD, CUKA, ENSX, GGAU, ?

Option 1: IQRT

Option 2: MNOQ

Option 3: IRQT

Option 4: IZIR

Question : A cuboid of sides 12 cm, 18 cm, and 27 cm is melted to form a cube. What is the ratio of the total surface area of the cuboid to that of the cube?

Option 1: $18 : 17$

Option 2: $17 : 19$

Option 3: $19 : 18$

Option 4: $17 : 23$

Question : Ravi has a roadmap with a scale of 1.5 cm for 18 km. He drives on that road for 72 kilometres. What would be the distance covered on that map?

Option 1: 4 cm

Option 2: 6 cm

Option 3: 8 cm

Option 4: 7 cm

Question : Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Huge fire for celebration.

Option 1: Firepower

Option 2: Festivity

Option 3: Firefight

Option 4: Bonfire

Question : Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

His father prevented him to go abroad for higher studies.

Option 1: for higher studies

Option 2: His father

Option 3: to go abroad

Option 4: prevented him