CAT Previous Year Questions 2022: Reading Comprehension- 1 (June 14) - CAT MCQ

the transition from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment saw new theories of the Undead.

the Undead remained vague and ill-defined, even as Mankind strove to understand the horror they inspired.

the relationship between Shamans and the Undead was believed to be a strong and stable one.

the growing sophistication of Mankind meant that humans stopped believing in the Undead.

Mankind’s primal years were marked by creatures alive with eerie whispers, but seen only in the darkness.

We can understand the lives of the eerie creatures in Mankind’s early years through their whispers in the darkness.

Mankind’s early years were marked by a belief in the existence of eerie creatures that were neither quite alive nor dead.

Long ago, eerie creatures used to whisper in the primal darkness that they were not quite dead.

The passage describes the failure of human beings to fully comprehend their environment.

The writer discusses the transition from primitive thinking to the Age of Enlightenment.

The passage discusses the evolution of theories of the Undead from primitive thinking to the Age of Enlightenment.

The writer describes the ways in which the Undead come to be associated with Shamans and the practice of magic.

The Undead are deified in nature’s order by giving them divine attributes.

Human beings conceptualise the Undead as possessing abnormal features.

According the Undead an abnormal status is to reject the natural order of things.

The natural attributes of the Undead are rendered abnormal by changing their status.

A 21st century Christian scientist is likely to oppose cloning because of his philosophical orientation.

A 17th century British painter would have no problem adding personal touches when restoring an ancient Roman painting.

A 17th century French artist who adhered to a Christian worldview would need to be completely true to the original intent of a painting when restoring it.

A 20th century Japanese Buddhist monk would value a reconstructed shrine as the original.

it allows regular employment for certain craftsmen.

it discourages them from carrying out human cloning.

it discourages them from making interventions in ancient art.

it discourages them from simultaneous displays of multiple copies of a painting.

Both can be regarded as very old structures.

Both are continually undergoing restoration.

Both were built as places of worship.

Both will one day be completely rebuilt.

Pablo Picasso’s painting of Vincent van Gogh’s original painting, bearing Picasso’s signature.

Pablo Picasso’s miniaturised, but otherwise faithful and accurate painting of Vincent van Gogh’s original painting.

Pablo Picasso’s photograph of Vincent van Gogh’s original painting, printed to exactly the same scale.

Pablo Picasso’s painting of Vincent van Gogh’s original painting, identical in every respect.

The problems of command over a disempowered and deskilled labour force gave rise to similar patterns of the capitalist rationalisation of production wherever masses were organised.

Marx’s understanding of the capitalist rationalisation of production and Marcuse’s understanding of a “project” of “technological rationality” share theoretical inclinations.

Paradoxically, the capitalist rationalisation of production is a mark of so-called socialist systems as well.

Masses are organised in patterns set by Foucault’s prisons and Habermas’ public sphere.

Technologies form the environmental context and shape the contours of human society.

Nature decides the point at which society loses its capacity to control history.

The romantic conception of nature referred to by the passage is the one that requires theoretical legitimacy.

It is not human nature, but human culture that is represented by institutions such as law and custom.