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Correct answer: (A) महाराज जयसिंह
Bihari Lal served at the court of Maharaja Jai Singh of Amer; the ‘Bihari Satsai’ was composed under his patronage.
Correct answer: (D) उपर्युक्त में से एक से अधिक
A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a conjunction. Both the ‘फिर भी’ sentence and the ‘नहीं तो’ sentence are of that kind, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (A) बड़े आदमी पर कौन दोष लगाए
‘समरथ को नहीं दोष गोसाईं’ means that nobody lays blame on the powerful.
Correct answer: (B) साहित्य लहरी
‘साहित्य लहरी’ is Surdas's work. ‘कृष्ण गीतावली’ and ‘दोहावली’ are Tulsidas's.
Correct answer: (A) To get into trouble
‘पेट काटना’ means to save by cutting one's own expenses—to stint.
Correct answer: (B) नामांकन संख्या
The Hindi for ‘enrolment number’ is ‘नामांकन संख्या’.
Correct answer: (D) उपर्युक्त में से एक से अधिक
Surdas, Mirabai and Raskhan are all Krishna-devotee poets, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) अती + व
‘चयन’ is ‘चे’ + ‘अन’. When a different vowel follows ‘ए’, the ‘ए’ becomes ‘अय्’—that is अयादि संधि.
Correct answer: (C) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
‘Kankal’ is Jaishankar Prasad's, ‘Nirmala’ Premchand's, ‘Pariksha Guru’ Srinivas Das's and ‘Jhootha-Sach’ Yashpal's—that is a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1.
Correct answer: (A) जिसने दुःख नहीं देखा, उसने दुनिया में कुछ नहीं देखा
In ‘जिसने… उसने…’ one clause is principal and the other depends on it, so it is a complex sentence.
Correct answer: (A) माधुर्य
The repetition of ‘मंद-मंद’ and the soft, nasal sounds make the lines sweet and flowing—that is the quality of माधुर्य. ओज uses harsh letters and प्रसाद opens its sense at once.
Correct answer: (A) तितली
‘तितली’ is Jaishankar Prasad's novel, not Premchand's. ‘सेवासदन’ and ‘रंगभूमि’ are Premchand's.
Correct answer: (B) रूपक
When one thing is imposed on another—the difference erased and the one called the other—the figure is metaphor (रूपक).
Correct answer: (C) स्वर संधि
In ‘परि’ + ‘छेद’ a ‘च्’ is inserted before the ‘छ’, giving ‘परिच्छेद’—a consonant sandhi.
Correct answer: (A) उत्प्रेक्षा
‘जनु’, that is ‘as if’, supposes that the blossoming kans grass looks as though the old age of the rainy season had appeared—that is utpreksha.
Correct answer: (E) उपर्युक्त में से कोई नहीं
All three sentences pass muster in construction, so none of them is incorrect and the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
‘Prithviraj Raso’ belongs to the Adikal, ‘Padmavat’ to the Bhaktikal, ‘Bihari Satsai’ to the Ritikal and ‘Bharat-Bharati’ to the modern period—that is a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1.
Correct answer: (C) व्यंजना
When neither the literal nor the indicated sense settles the matter and the meaning comes out hidden, that power is called व्यंजना, suggestion.
Correct answer: (C) Bahuvrihi
‘चौराहा’ is ‘the meeting of four roads’. The first member is a numeral and the compound denotes a group, so it is a dvigu compound.
Correct answer: (B) समास
The joining of two whole words is a compound; in sandhi it is sounds that meet.
Correct answer: (A) अवधी
The language of the ‘Ramcharitmanas’ is Awadhi.
Correct answer: (B) To find peace
‘चूना लगाना’ means to cheat someone or make a fool of them.
Correct answer: (A) उपमा
The word ‘सम’ makes a direct comparison here—your words are like a crore of thunderbolts. Such a comparison is the figure of simile.
Correct answer: (B) यति
The pause that comes at the end of a line while reading a metre is called यति. ‘गति’ is its rhythm and ‘गण’ a group of syllabic instants.
Correct answer: (B) उससे बैठा नहीं जाता
In ‘उससे बैठा नहीं जाता’ neither the subject nor the object is prominent—only the action itself—so it is the impersonal voice.
Correct answer: (B) पुस्तकें
The passage says books are what help build a person's high character.
Correct answer: (C) पुस्तकालय
The passage calls the library the place of learning's imperishable treasures.
Correct answer: (C) पुस्तकालय
The passage says the library helps with self-study, because that is where the books are gathered together.
Correct answer: (B) पुस्तकों के अध्ययन से
The passage says it is through the study of books that our heart becomes expansive and elevated.
Correct answer: (A) To boast
In ‘ज्ञान-सिंधु’ the ‘सिंधु’ means ocean, so the whole means ‘the ocean of knowledge’.
Correct answer: (C) अम्लीय और क्षारीयकरण के कारण
The passage says the land loses its productive capacity when the soil turns acidic or alkaline.
Correct answer: (C) औद्योगीकरण के कारण
The passage gives industrialisation as the reason cultivable land has shrunk—factories and settlements have spread over the fields.
Correct answer: (C) शहर
The passage says that industrialisation has made the population of the cities grow rapidly.
Correct answer: (A) वनों के विनाश के कारण
The passage says the greenery has been destroyed by the felling of forests.
Correct answer: (B) रोजगार के लिए
The passage says people leave their villages and settle in cities in search of work.
Correct answer: (C) शरीर
The passage says physical labour calls on the body itself—that is what marks it out.
Correct answer: (D) उपर्युक्त में से एक से अधिक
‘Arogya’ means both being free of disease and being healthy, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (C) बीमारी एवं कष्ट होना
The passage says the punishment for laziness comes in the form of illness and suffering.
Correct answer: (B) श्रम
The passage says illness tells upon one's labour—a sick person cannot work.
Correct answer: (B) शारीरिक श्रम करना
The passage says the way to overcome laziness is to do physical work.
Correct answer: (C) आदित्य
‘चंद्रिका’ means the rays of the moon, that is, moonlight.
Correct answer: (A) पुण्य कृतियों से
The passage says a person's fame spreads through his meritorious deeds.
Correct answer: (A) मनुष्य के उज्ज्वल कार्य से
The passage says readers and listeners learn a new lesson from a person's shining deeds.
Correct answer: (B) स्वावलंबी मनुष्य का
The passage says the bards sing the praises of the self-reliant person.
Correct answer: (C) To brag
‘धवल’ means white or bright; ‘श्याम’ is its opposite.
Correct answer: (C) आपसी लड़ाई और द्वेष से
The passage says the dignity of the nation declines through quarrelling and ill-will among its own people.
Correct answer: (C) व्यक्ति
The passage says the country's progress is bound to the individual's—if the person rises, the country rises.
Correct answer: (C) देश की शक्ति और व्यवस्था को बनाए रखने से
The passage says the nation can advance only by keeping up the country's strength and order.
Correct answer: (D) उपर्युक्त में से एक से अधिक
The passage names several things that hold the country back—divisions of religion and caste, quarrelling over trifles, and looking only to one's own advancement—so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (A) मतभेदों को भुलाना
The passage says that forgetting differences is what fraternity requires.