CDS ENGLISH QUIZ -1

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Question 1:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: China’s government has accused Joe Biden of a mistake in inviting Taiwan.

S6: Neither of them is included in the virtual summit, scheduled for December.

P: To challenge authoritarian forces led by China and Russia.

Q: To participate in a democracy summit alongside 109 other democratic governments.

R: The inaugural gathering is considered a test of Biden’s pledge.

S: That he would return the US to a position asserting global leadership.

Question 2:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, and socialist revolutionary.

S6: With German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room.

P: Where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration.

Q: Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin.

R: Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless.

S: And lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades.

Question 3:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Revolutionary socialism is a political philosophy, doctrine and tradition within socialism.

S6: Revolution is not necessarily defined as a violent insurrection; it is defined as seizure of political power by mass movements of the working class.

P: From the capitalist mode of production to the socialist mode of production.

Q: More specifically, it is the view that revolution is a necessary precondition for a transition.

R: In order to bring about structural changes to society.

S: Which stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary.

Question 4:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government.

S6: Such as identity, culture, sexuality, race, wealth, human-nonhuman relations, ecology, religion, and more.

P: Tackling the political nature of phenomena and categories.

Q: Political theory also engages questions of a broader scope.

R: Addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agent.

S: And institutions and the relationships between them.

Question 5:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy.

S6: And from below or from above approaches, with some socialists favouring a party, state, or technocratic-driven approach.

P: Encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production.

Q: It also includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems.

R: On the structure of management in organizations.

S: It varies based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation.

Question 6:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement.

S6: And has a strong historical association with anti-capitalism and socialism.

P: As a historically left-wing movement, placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum.

Q: Anarchism calls for the abolition of the state, which it holds to be unnecessary, undesirable, and harmful.

R: That is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy.

S: It is usually described alongside libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement.

Question 7:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: Skepticism is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more putative instances of knowledge.

S6: It is often applied within restricted domains, such as morality, theism, or the supernatural.

P: Such as politics, religion, or pseudoscience.

Q: More informally, skepticism as an expression of questioning or doubt can be applied to any topic.

R: Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly epistemology.

S: Which are asserted to be mere belief or dogma.

Question 8:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: The Paris Commune was a revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.

S6: Feminist, socialist, communist and anarchist currents played important roles in the Commune.

P: The Commune governed Paris for two months.

Q: Establishing policies that tended toward a progressive, anti-religious system of social democracy.

R: Including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the remission of rent during the siege, the abolition of child labor.

S: And the right of employees to take over an enterprise deserted by its owner.

Question 9:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.

S1: The National Guard is a French military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form.

S6: It experienced a period of official dissolution from 1827 to 1830, but was reestablished

P: For most of its history the National Guard, particularly its officers, has been widely viewed as loyal to middle-class interests.

Q: Since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution.

R: And existed both for policing and as a military reserve.

S: It was founded as separate from the French Army.

Question 10:

There are six sentences given of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given here in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbles up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your answer accordingly.


S1: French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France.

S6: Its values and the institutions it created dominate French politics to this day.

P: Such as the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Q: While phrases like Liberté, égalité, fraternité reappeared in other revolts.

R: Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy.

S: Which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.