Multiple choice

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

It is essential that school children learn improved facts about their country’s history. While teaching history, there has been a difference of opinion whether the young should be told only of the nation’s heroes. The obvious argument is that it would help them to have an appreciation of their virtues. But this ignores the fact that

  1. it requires lot of effort to rewrite the history, omitting the follies and misdeeds of the past

  2. the follies and misdeeds may be educative for after all a student is an adult in the making with a role to play in future

  3. it is a moot question as to who is to judge what are follies and misdeeds

  4. an assessment of the heroes is also a difficult one since the yardstick may not be acceptable to all
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) They may have much to learn from the follies and misdeeds of the past.

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