CONSCIOUSNESS OF MEN
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The greatest thing this age can be proud of is the birth of Man in the consciousness of men. In his drunken orgies of power and national pride, a man may float and jeer at it. When organized national selfishness, racial antipathy and commercial self-seeking begin to display their ugly deformities in all their nakedness, then comes the time for man to know that his salvation is not in political organizations and extended trade relations, not in any mechanical re-arrangement of social system but in a deeper transformation of life, in the liberation of consciousness in love, in the realization of God in man.
1. In the phrase ‘the birth of Man in the consciousness of men’, Man stands for
(a) noble human qualities
(b) power and arrogance
(c) an idealistic notion of the human self
(d) egocentricity
2. People jeer at the ‘birth of Man’ in human consciousness when they
(a) restructure the social system
(b) become power hungry
(c) begin to think of themselves as God
(d) become mentally deranged
3. In this passage, the phrase ‘God in man’ implies
(a) God having assumed the shape of a man
(b) neither fully godly nor fully human
(c) man being transformed into God
(d) the divine qualities in a man
4. According to the author, ‘salvation’ of human beings lies in the
(a) orgy of national pride
(b) extended trade relations
(c) spiritual transformation of life
(d) whole-hearted participation in political organizations
5. The author uses the expression ‘ugly deformities’ to show his indignation at
(a) the liberation of human consciousness
(b) selfishness and materialism of the people
(c) the drunken orgies of power
(d) political organizations
ANSWERS:-
1. (c)
2. (b)
3. (d)
4. (c)
5. (b)
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