Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the five given alternatives.
The desire to be contemporary is, of course, new only in degree; it has existed to some extent in all previous periods that believed themselves to be progressive. The Renaissance had contempt for the Gothic centuries that had preceded it; the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries covered priceless mosaics with whitewash; the Romantic movement despised the age of the heroic couplet. Our age is the most parochial since Homer. We imagine ourselves at the apex of intelligence and cannot believe that the quaint clothes and cumbrous phrases can have invested people with thoughts that are still worthy of our attention.
The modern-minded man, although he believes profoundly in the wisdom of his period, must be presumed to be very modest about his personal powers.
Q1. The desire to be contemporary was there in the previous periods that were
(a) stagnating
(b) progressive
(c) backward
(d) conventional
Q2. The eighteenth century covered priceless mosaics with
(a) mud
(b) concrete
(c) paint
(d) whitewash
Q3. The Renaissance had contempt for
(a) the Reformation
(b) the Industrial Revolution
(c) the Gothic centuries
(d) the French Revolution
Q4. The Romantic movement despised the age of
(a) blank verse
(b) sonnet
(c) pastoral elegy
(d) heroic couplet
Q5. The modern-minded man believes profoundly in
(a) the religion of his country
(b) the wisdom of his period
(c) the religion of his sect
(d) the government of his country
SOLUTIONS
1.B
2.D
3.C
4.D
5.B
