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Preliminary exam CSAT May 07, 2024

1. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to
these items should be based on the passages only.

The miseries of the world cannot be cured by physical help only. Until man''''s nature changes, his
physical needs will always arise, and miseries will always be felt, and no amount of physical help will
remove them completely. The only solution of the problem is to make mankind pure. Ignorance is
the mother of evil and of all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually
strong and educated; then alone will misery cease in the world. We may convert every house in the
country into a charitable asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but human misery will continue
until man''''s character changes.

With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made:
1. The author gives primary importance to physical and material help in eradicating human misery.
2. Charitable homes, hospitals, etc. can remove human misery to a great extent.
Which of the assumptions is/are valid?

1 only 2 only Both 1 and 2 Neither 1 nor 2

General Studies

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Some Reference Essays

List of previous year essay topics (1997-2019)

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