Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

For thousands of Delhites who have gone through the pain of Partition in 1947. It will be a walk down the memory lane when they visit the world's second museum of partition of India at Delhi's Dara Shikoh Library building. for their descendants, it will be an opportunity to see what their parents and grandparents had suffered and a lesson in history about the world's largest migration.

The purpose of the museum is to connect people with their past. It will also give visitors a sense of heritage. "History is important and the young generation should learn from the past and should not repeat the mistakes "said the chairperson of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, Kishwar Desai, Lakhs of people were killed and displaced during Partition and people need to remember that such violence should never happen, she added."  A wooden sculpture of a horse loaded with skeleton and bones made in paper mache style by Kashmir artist Veer Munshi canveys the pain of people during the migration in a few audio-visual clips. Delhi residents who decided to stay back narrated their experience what they saw, what happened to them, the day of Independence.

Rehabilitation was also not easy and this struggle has been depicted through a wooden "fallen house" made by Munshi. Even when a person tries to resettle, his/her house has actually fallen apart, Dasai pointed out.


(1) The museum on Partition of India at Delhi's  Dara Shikoh library building is  

(a) The one and only Partition Museum in the  world  

(b) The first Partition Museum in the world  

(c) The second Partition Museum in the world  

(d) One of the many Partition Museum in the  world


(2) Given below are two statements:  

Statement I: The museum at Dara Shikoh  library tires to capture the pain of partition.  

Statement II: Rehabilitation was not a struggle  for the displaced migrants.  

In light of the above statement choose the most  appropriate answer from the options given  below:  

(a) Both statement I and statement II are correct  

(b) Both statement I are statement II are incorrect  

(c) Statement I is correct but statement II is  incorrect  

(d) Statement I is incorrect but statement II is  correct


(3) Which of the following statements about the  sculpture of the wooden horse are correct?  

(A) The horse is loaded with goods of people  

(B) It has been made in paper mache style  

(C) It has been made by a Kashmiri artist  

(D) It shows a fallen horse  

(E) It depicts the pain experienced by the people  during the partition migration

Choose the correct answer from the  options given below:  

(a) (A), (B) and (D) only  

(b) (B), (C) and (E) only  

(c) (B) and (C) only  

(d) (C), (D) and (E) only


(4) Why is history important for the young  generation?  

(A) To connect people to the past  

(B) Not to repeat mistakes made in the past  

(C) To learn from the past  

(D) To remember to past and to take revenge  against those who caused the pain  

(E) To remember that violence that occurred in  the past should never happen again  

Choose the correct answer from the options  given below:  

(a) (B), (C) and (D) only  

(b) (C), (D) and (E) only  

(c) (A), (B), (C) and (E) only  

(d) (A) and (E) only


(5) The Partition Museum is of value of the  following:  

(a) Visitors  

(b) Youngsters  

(c) Mathematicians  

(d) Progeny of people who have gone through the  pain of partition  

(e) People who have experienced the partition  

Choose the correct answer from the  options given below:  

(a) only (A), (B), (D) and (E)  

(b) only (B), (C) and (E)  

(c) only (A), (D) and (E)  

(d) only (B), (C), (D) and (E)


ANSWERS

 1 - c

 2 - c

 3 - b

 4 - c

 5 - a