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Mega English Weekly Revision Quiz || MH-CET 2021 II 11 July

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Question 1

Direction: Two sentences with two blanks in each, followed by five alternatives with two words in each, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences.
i. To go for a world tour was a _________ that many saw, but the daily humdrum of life made it __________ as the bank savings weren't enough to put that youthful plan to action.
ii. As the kid warned the villagers of the strange man he had seen, they accused him of having a day  _________ while claiming that the existence of such a man was ___________.

Question 2

Direction: Two sentences with two blanks in each, followed by five alternatives with two words in each, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences.
I. The Postal Service's biggest money problem is that it has billions ____ retirement obligations to its workers that _____ can't afford.
II. Both countries still have ambassadors ___ place, so high-level contact on potentially calamitous matters should continue, as ___ did at the height of the Cuban missile crisis.

Question 3

Direction: Two sentences with two blanks in each, followed by five alternatives with two words in each, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences.
(A) Besides, the long day had blurred both their minds to the point of uselessness and Fred punctuated every ______ with a yawn.
(B) Finally, in the trial of the king, he demanded, with the Girondist, that the ______ should be pronounced by a vote of the whole people, and not simply by the Convention.

Question 4

Direction: Two statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by five alternatives. Choose the one which fits into the set of statements.
(a) Dreaming of what can be, allows us to tap into our_____ again, reminding us what it feels like to be passionate about something.
(b) Sociological______ is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another.

Question 5

Direction: Two statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by five alternatives. Choose the one which fits into the set of statements.
(a) While stock prices may be the ultimate barometer of the success or failure of a given_____ choice, Buffett does not focus on this metric.
(b) "And the insane cost of keeping so many nonviolent people locked up is an _____ in failure".

Question 6

Direction:  The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.
1. This research looks at the work of Margaret C. Anderson, the editor of the Little Review.
A) This research draws upon mostly primary sources including memoirs, published letters, and a complete collection of the Little Review.
B) The Little Review published first works by Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound.
C) This focus undermines her role as the dominant creative force behind one of the most influential little magazines published in the 20th Century.
D) Most prior research on Anderson focuses on her connection to the famous writers and personalities that she published and associated with.

Question 7

Direction:  The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.
1. This project involves discovering how the American Revolution was remembered during the nineteenth century.
A) The goal is to show that the American Revolution was memorialized by the actions of the United States government during the 1800s.
B) Through showing that the American Revolution lives on in memory, this research highlights the importance of the revolution in shaping the actions of the United States government.
C) This has been done by examining events such as the Supreme Court cases of John Marshall and the Nullification Crisis.
D) Upon examination of these events, it becomes clear that John Marshall and John Calhoun (creator of the Doctrine of Nullification) attempted to use the American Revolution to bolster their claims by citing speeches from Founding Fathers.

Question 8

Direction:  The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.
1. The Latitudinal Defence Hypothesis predicts that levels of defence are highest near the equator and decrease toward the poles.
A. Mammalian herbivory in the winter is a more likely driver of plant defence levels in northern latitudes.
B. This hypothesis is based mainly on insect herbivory that occurs during the summer.
C. Early successional trees such as birches are favoured by fire and provide an important food source for mammals like snowshoe hares.
D. In order to test the Latitudinal Defence Hypothesis, we collected birch seeds from eight locations in north western Canada and grew seedlings in a common garden.

Question 9

Direction:  The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.
1. A woman finds a pot of treasure on the road.
A) This happened while she is returning from work.
B) Delighted with her luck, she decides to keep it.
C) However, her enthusiasm refuses to fade away.
D) As she is taking it home, it keeps changing.

Question 10

Direction: The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.
1. By the time the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, fighting skills and military prowess had superseded education as more critical.
A) During this time, women’s education was not a priority, as women were believed to be intellectually inferior.
B) It gradually filled the void by developing an education system for religious purposes.
C) While the institution of education was abandoned for a time, the Church began increasing in power.
D) Soon, monasteries and convents became centers for learning, and it was mostly the privileged that were able to receive a thorough education.

Question 11

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

Question 12

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word Cohort as used in the passage.

Question 13

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
If Hillary Clinton is to ultimately become “Madam President”, then what will she have to face through troubling questions?

Question 14

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word disenchanted as used in the passage.

Question 15

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?

Question 16

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word credentials as used in the passage.

Question 17

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
According to the author, who have been viciously verbally attacked by Mr.Trump?

Question 18

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word persuade as used in the passage.

Question 19

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word as quagmire used in the passage.

Question 20

Direction: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Even before Americans went to the polling booths on Tuesday for a blitzkrieg of primaries across six States, history was in the making. According to a survey by a news agency, Hillary Clinton had already secured more than the minimum of 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination at the Democratic Party’s convention in Philadelphia. This would make her the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party in the U.S., an achievement that comes 96 years after women in the world’s oldest democracy won the right to vote. If the superdelegates backing her stay true to their promise to support her at the convention, then Ms. Clinton will have finally won the bid to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate, eight years after she first gave it a shot. Of course, to occupy the White House, she will first have to ward off a stiff attack from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the fire-breathing property billionaire. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival — the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders. Yet regardless of what Mr. Sanders does going forward, he will be recognised for consistently tilting the hateful discourse of this election year towards a more humane, less bigoted idiom and fighting unapologetically against economic inequality and the influence of special interests.
Among the challenges Ms. Clinton faces is the need to win, before November, the hearts and minds of Mr. Sanders’ supporters, who are disenchanted with a policy that is seen as favouring the super-rich. Her credentials as former Secretary of State, First Lady and a well-connected Washington insider place her in stark contrast to Mr. Sanders. She will have to travel many miles to persuade the young, liberal millennial cohort that supports him, convincing them she has the quintessentially Democratic value of batting for the middle class through publicly provided safety nets. Then there is the other persona that she has to contend with: Mr. Trump. Despite vicious verbal attacks on minorities, including Muslims, Mexicans and the differently abled, women and the media, he has soared from strength to strength on the back of astonishingsupport from a socially insecure Middle America. Ms. Clinton’s much stronger lead in nationwide opinion polls in previous months has shrunk to a mere two-point average across seven major polls. If she is to ultimately become “Madam President”, she will have to step deftly through a quagmire of troubling questions surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary, and her ties to Wall Street finance.
Which of the following would be a suitable title of the passage?
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