CONGENITALLY
(I.E.S. 1993)
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Until very recently, it was universally believed that men are congenitally more intelligent than women; even so enlightened a man as Spinoza decided against votes for women on this ground. Among white men, it is held that white men are by nature superior to men of other colours, and especially to black men; in Japan, on the contrary, it is thought that yellow is the best colour. In Haiti, when they make statues of Christ and Satan, they make Christ black and Satan white. Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery was justified so long as the master was Greek and the slave barbarian.
1. ‘Congenitally’ means
(a) falsely
(b) fantastically
(c) innately
(d) certainly
2. Spinoza decided against votes for women because according to him
(a) they did not deserve to have voted.
(b) they were less educated than men.
(c) they were generally unintelligent.
(d) they were naturally less gifted with intelligence.
3. In Haiti, Christ’s statue is black and Satan’s white because the people there believe that
(a) black was good
(b) all white men are evil
(c) Christ was evil
(d) Satan was good
4. Aristotle and Plato supported slavery because they thought
(a) slaves to be inferior
(b) that the barbarians belonged to Greece
(c) the Greeks to be superior to barbarians
(d) the barbarians to be superior to Greeks
5. The author believes that
(a) colours vary from country to country.
(b) some colours are superior to other colours.
(c) some colours are inferior to other colours
(d) colours have no relevance to superiority
ANSWERS
1.(c)
2.(d)
3.(b)
4.(c)
5.(d)
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