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Question : Comprehension:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

The first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approaching death was on 25 April 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house for lunch. Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: ‘Oh dear. I can’t see a thing.’ There was a brief pause and then he added: ‘I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m dying...’ I did not know how to respond: his voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: ‘No Shahid — of course not. You’ll be fine.’ He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: ‘When it happens I hope you’ll write something about me.’

I was shocked into silence and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions. ‘Shahid you’ll be fine; you have to be strong...’From the window of my study, I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away. It was just a few months since he moved there: he had been living a few miles away, in Manhattan, when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. After tests revealed that he had a malignant brain tumour, he decided to move to Brooklyn, to be close to his youngest sister, Samantha, who teaches at the Pratt Institute—a few blocks away from the street where I live. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realised that he was dead serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the written word.

He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would have told myself that I was not a poet; that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was still time. ‘You must write about me.’ Finally, I said: ‘Shahid, I will: I’ll do the best I can.’

Question:

What did Shahid request the narrator to do?

Option 1: Write about him after his death

Option 2: Take him along for lunch at their friend’s place

Option 3: Move to his house in Manhattan

Option 4: Be strong and bear the loss bravely

Question : Determine the value of $\small \left (\frac{1}{r}+\frac{1}{s} \right)$, when $r^{3}+s^{3}=0$ and $r+s=6$.

Option 1: 0

Option 2: 0.5

Option 3: 1

Option 4: 6

Question : Simplify the expression:
$\frac{a+b}{a-b} \div \frac{(a+b)^2}{\left(a^2-b^2\right)}$

Option 1: $–1$

Option 2: $(a + b)$

Option 3: $0$

Option 4: $1$

Question : Directions: Raju was to go to the planetarium. So, he walked 1.5 km towards the East from the place and then turned to the right and walked 2.5 km and then turned towards the East and walked 1 km and turned to the South and walked 4 km and reached the place by walking 2.5 km towards the West. What distance is he from the starting point?

Option 1: 6.5 km

Option 2: 9.5 km

Option 3: 10 km

Option 4: 9 km

Question : Directions: Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word.
(The words must be considered meaningful English words and must not be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word.)
Kite : Diamond :: Ball : ?

Option 1: Triangle

Option 2: Square

Option 3: Round

Option 4: Pentagon

Question : What is a Strait?

Option 1: A water body separating two land masses

Option 2: A narrow strip of land separating two water bodies

Option 3: Deep penetration of a water body in land

Option 4: None of these

Question : After 'PROM' is programmed, we can only _______ the information.

Option 1: read

Option 2: write

Option 3: read and write

Option 4: remove

Question : Heavy metals got their name because compared to other atoms they have

Option 1: Higher densities

Option 2: higher atomic masses

Option 3: Higher atomic numbers

Option 4: Higher atomic radii

Question : Directions: A # B means A is the brother of B;
A @ B means A is the daughter of B;
A & B means A is the husband of B;
A % B means A is the wife of B.
If S % D # F @ G & H @ J, then how is F related to H?

Option 1: Daughter

Option 2: Mother

Option 3: Daughter’s daughter

Option 4: Son's wife

Question : The pie chart given below shows the number of bikes sold by 8 different companies. The total number of bikes sold by all these 8 companies is 2000. The number of bikes sold by a particular company is shown as a percent of the total number of bikes sold by all these 8 companies.
 
What is the difference between the average number of bikes sold by P, Q, R, and S and the average number of bikes sold by T, U, V, and W?

Option 1: 150

Option 2: 200

Option 3: 175

Option 4: 125