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1-10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.
We have a broad understanding that work is valuable for men, that it feeds their sense of importance as providers and meets some existential need related to identity and sense of self. This force is potent enough to be one factor that may have swung the 2016 elections: Working-class white men, out of work and watching blue-collar jobs dry up, lost their mooring as providers, and cast their ballots for a man who promised to take them back in time. Historically, women weren’t supposed to need their individual identity to be formed through work, because women weren’t supposed to have individual identities at all: They melded into their husband’s identity when they married. Women’s identities have long been relational — daughter, wife, mother — rather than an individual.
Which is perhaps why today, women finding individual identities tied to their work makes so many people uncomfortable — why people are so quick to assert that we can’t "have it all," why the American government and workplaces are so slow to implement policies that would enable us to at least have something a little better. The defining characteristic of the 1950s was women’s turn to the domestic, the first time in recorded American history where women got married sooner and had more babies than their mothers. The prevailing sensibility was that life as a suburban housewife was supposed to bring ultimate happiness.
But the pursuit of personal fulfillment was less about what actually made women happy and more about money — and men being able to make it without competing with women. Men’s wages rose steadily through the 1950s and ’60s, while women’s stagnated. Although women had earned more than 63 percent of what men did in the early 1950s, by the mid-1960s they made less than 58 percent. In the 1970s, women across the country were surging into the workforce, and for the first time more than half of American women between the ages of 25 and 54 worked outside the home. and yet, for all the emphasis modern adults place on the dreams of the young — asking boys and girls what they want to be when they grow up — Americans remain ambivalent about whether adult women working, and especially mothers working, is actually a good thing.
The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact that staying home may not actually make mothers happy. Unfortunately, there’s no robust feminist ideal to counter it. Instead, we fall back on the language of "choice": that it’s best if women simply get to choose to work or stay home, as if these choices are inherently equal and made without carrying the cultural baggage of sacrificial motherhood. Or the fact that inhospitable workplaces and economic constraints mean many women never have a real choice in the matter at all. The feminists are so often unable or unwilling to make a vigorous moral argument in favour of women working outside the home is perhaps one reason we have not yet seen the political groundswell necessary to pass the workplace policies we so desperately need. This is especially unfortunate, given that women are better off when we work outside the home: Working correlates with better mental and physical health, and working women not only report higher levels of happiness than women who don’t work, but the more hours women work, the happier we are (with the important exception of women who have very small children and work very long hours).
Mothers who work are also good for families: Daughters of working mothers tend to be higher achieving, work themselves, make more money and spend more time with their children than do daughters of women who did not work; men who were raised by working mothers do more household work and help more with childcare than sons of stay-at-home moms. And women’s presence in the workplace is good for women in the aggregate: Men who have stay-at-home wives are more likely than men with working wives to penalize their female co-workers, denying them promotions and viewing them unfavourably.
Not working also puts women at risk. Without financial independence, we are more likely to get stuck in abusive or simply unhappy relationships. Although many women who take time off assume they can come back into the workforce easily, even a few years off can have a lifelong impact on earnings. Lawmakers know all of this. They also know that refusing to provide paid parental leave, adequate sick days and affordable childcare means women are routinely forced out of the workplace — women don’t choose to opt out, they’re pushed. Politicians make this choice and then claim its women who are free to do the choosing.
1 As per the passage what was that thing about which Americans remain ambivalent?
01. Whether socially rejected and deplorable men, is actually a good thing.
02. Whether the young female employees working more than men in 1950s is actually considered a good thing.
03. Whether adult women working, especially mothers working, is actually a good thing.
04. Whether having given a choice either working or stay at home is actually a good thing.
05. Both 2 and 3
2 What fact does the idealized vision of 1950s womanhood ignore?
01. that staying home may actually make mothers happy.
02. that being a single parent at the age of 52 or so make mothers happy.
03. that staying home may not actually make mothers happy.
04. that the tag of being "an independent, bold and smart worker" make mothers happy.
05. both 3 and 4
3 What is perhaps one reason we have not yet seen on political groundswell which is necessary to pass the workplace policies we so desperately need?
A. The male dominating society is unwilling to make a vigorous moral argument in favour of women working outside the home.
B. The feminists are so often unable or unwilling to make a vigorous moral argument in favour of women working outside the home.
C. The co-workers of the working women are unsure to make a moral argument in favour of women working outside the home.
01. Both B and C
02. Only B
03. Both A and B
04. All A, B and C
05. Only A
4 What is/are a major difference (s) of the "daughters of working mothers" than "daughters of women who did not work"?
01. They tend to be higher achieving.
02. They tend to work themselves
03. They tend to make more money
04. They tend to spend more time with their children.
05. All of the above.
5 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
Melded
01. Imploded
02. Generous
03. Doleful
04. Disconnected
05. Derelict
6 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
Pursuit
01. Interpolate
02. Bereave
03. Slime
04. Surrender
05. Shroom
7 Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.
Prevailing
01. Gullible
02. Furtive
03. Prevalent
04. Fortuitous
05. Precipitous
8 Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.
Mooring
01. Suffering
02. Compromising
03. Sullying
04. Landing
05. Befitting
9 In which terms are women routinely forced out of the workplace?
01. When women are not provided paid parental leave.
02. When women are not provided adequate sick days.
03. When women are not provided affordable child care.
04. When women are not provided enough time.
05. All Except (4)
10 What is the behaviour of men who have "stay-at-home wives" than men with "working wives"?
A. they penalize their female co-workers.
B. they deny their female co-workers promotions.
C. they view their female co-workers unfavourable.
01. Both B and C
02. Only C
03. Both A and B
04. All A, B and C
05. Only A
Answers:-
Q.1 (3)
Q.2 (3)
Q.3 (2)
Q.4 (5)
Q.5 (4)
Q.6 (4)
Q.7 (3)
Q.8 (4)
Q.9 (5)
Q.10 (4)
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