Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

In ancient and in modern times, seeds of great truth and power have been cast abroad by the advancing tides of national life; but it has always been with the blast of war trumpets, and with the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea has to be soaked in a deluge of blood. This is what, in the main, other nations have taught; but India has, for thousands of years, peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist, and Rome was not thought of…. Even earlier, when tradition dare not peer into the gloom of that intense past, ideas have marched out from her womb.

What is the essence of the passage?

  1. That major parts of the world have spilled blood to have their say

  2. That the ideas have to be soaked in a deluge of blood

  3. That India has not learnt the art of disseminating ideas

  4. That it is possible to exist peacefully and transmit ideas without shedding blood
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Herein lies the essence of the passage. While major nations of the world have resorted to violence to have their say, India has disseminated them without shedding blood.

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