Question : Which of the following programme was launched in 1999?

Option 1: Rural Employment Generation Programme

Option 2: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme

Option 3: Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana

Option 4: Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana

Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he died on 27 November 1953, Gladstone O'Neill was (1)______recognised as one of the major dramatists of the modern world. Four times a Pulitzer Prize-winner, he had also been (2)______the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. His plays have been translated into most major languages and read by more people than those of (3)_____other playwright except W Shakespeare and maybe G Bernard Shaw. O'Neill was a puzzle to his friends - a genuinely shy, brooding, complicated man in whom (4)_____alternated with touching kindness. He was both, naive and worldly. One biographer found him "sentimental one instant, hard as nails the next." His widow, after 26 years with O'Neill, said, "To (5)_____his work you must understand the man, for the work and the man are one."

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: failure

Option 2: success

Option 3: benefit

Option 4: cruelty

Question : Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence.

The ability to relax and rejuvenate promotes wellness.

Option 1: update

Option 2: replenish

Option 3: suppress

Option 4: revive

Question : Which of the following is the state of origin of the Sattriya dance form?

Option 1: Uttar Pradesh

Option 2: Tamil Nadu

Option 3: Assam

Option 4: Manipur

Question : In a wallet, there are coins of Re. 1, Rs. 2 and Rs. 5 in the ratio of 2 : 5 : 3 respectively. If there is Rs. 54 in all, then how many Rs. 5 coins are there?

Option 1: 20

Option 2: 10

Option 3: 4

Option 4: 6

Question : Subsidiary Alliance was a system devised by_________ in 1798.

Option 1: Lord Wellesley

Option 2: Lord Bentinck

Option 3: Lord Dalhousie

Option 4: Lord Hastings

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

One who has a long experience of any occupation

Option 1: Reverent

Option 2: Practitioner

Option 3: Staunch

Option 4: Veteran

Question : Vihaan is twice as efficient as Mayur and can finish a piece of work in 14 days less than Mayur. In how many days Mayur can finish this work?

Option 1: 14 days

Option 2: 21 days

Option 3: 28 days

Option 4: 7 days

Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Long in the tooth

Option 1: The show has come to an end

Option 2: Be optimistic, even difficult times will lead to better days

Option 3: To be old, often too old to do something

Option 4: Killing of a certain ethnic or religious group on a massive scale

Question : Select the option that rectifies the incorrectly spelt words in the given sentence.

The table was grased with a lovelly showpiece.

Option 1: The table was grased with a lovvely showpiece.

Option 2: The table was graced with a lovaly showpiece.

Option 3: The table was graced with a lovely showpiece

Option 4: The table was graced with a lovelly showpiece