Ordering of Sentences MCQs

2. S1: The mother tongue is the true vehicle of mother wit. P: Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. Q: It is through the vernacular (refined, though not weakened,by scholarship and taste) that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in speech. R: But the mother tongue is one with the air in which a man is born. S: This is almost universally true, except in cases so rare (like that of Joseph Conrad) as to emphasise the general rule. S6: A man’s native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRQS
B. PRSQ
C. PSQR
D. QRPS
✅ The correct answer is option A.

3. S1: When Weiner was travelling in India, he visited a factory where he saw small frail children sitting on damp ground. P: And the answer he got was that they were weaving carpets there. Q: So he asked,”What are they doing there?” R: And then he decided to study the problems of child labourers in India. S: Weiner was shocked at the plight of the child workers. S6: Recently he has published this book and it is winning him acclaim all over the world. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. QPSR
C. RPQS
D. RPSQ
✅ The correct answer is option B.

4. S1: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room. P: For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals. Q: On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee. R: While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the ‘feel’ of this committee. S: As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities. S6: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. QSRP
C. RSQP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option B.

7. S1: I never took payment for speaking. P: The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked. Q: It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten genuine fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding controversial politics and religion. R: Occasionally to avoid embarrassing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was settled by a debit and credit entry, that is, I was credited with the usual fee and expenses and gave it back as a donation to the society. S: I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very controversial politics and religion and that my fee was the price of my railway ticket third class if the place was farther off than I could afford to go at my own expense. S6: In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was warmed against the accusation of being a professional agitator. The Proper sequence should be:

A. QSPR
B. QSRP
C. SQPR
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

8. S1: The distinction between state or sovereign and government is developed by Rousseau with utmost exactness and accuracy. P: While ‘state’ denotes the community as a whole, created by social pact and manifesting itself in supreme general will, ‘government’ denotes merely the individual or groups of individuals that is designated by the community to carry into effect the sovereign will. Q: Government, to Rousseau, means executive power. R: The individuals, to whom this power is assigned are the officers or the agents of the sovereign. S: The government is created not by any contract but by a decree of the sovereign, and its function is in no sense to make but only to administer law. S6: Collectively, they may be called ‘prence’ or ‘magistracy’. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSQR
B. QSPR
C. RPQS
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

9. S1: It is true we cannot bring about social equality by law and that therefore there are still inequalities in Indian society. P: In the United States of America, for instance, Negroes have equal rights under the constitution but unfortunately these rights are not always given to them freely by the White majority. Q: It takes time for people to change their way of thinking. R: This is a problem common to many countries. S: It is only when we realise that social equality means not only that men are equal before the law, but also equal in the eyes of god that we can begin to have a completely caste less society. S6: The secular state as found in India, recognises the importance of religion to the individual by giving him freedom to practice it and tell others about it, within the limits of the constitution. The Proper sequence should be:

A. RPQS
B. RQPS
C. SPQR
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option A.

10. S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings. P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn. Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree. R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university. S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university. S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it – the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate. The Proper sequence should be:

A. QPSR
B. RQSP
C. SPRQ
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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