CMAT Exam 2023 Shift 1 Solved Paper

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"Gandhi's greatest challenge was post-truth. The Indian social universe was overflowing with ways of living established by the powerful that inevitably oppressed the powerless. In order to tackle this inequality, Gandhi changed the understanding of truth that the powerful had inherited and internalized. He dislodged truth from its long-held. theological location of an ultimate divine compassion. Only goodness mattered. If that quality could be inculcated, truth would take care of itself."

Question : 50 of 100

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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Assertion A: Gandhi, in his experiment with truth, dislodged truth as all ultimate divine revelation. Reason R: He holds that truth can be substituted with goodness, and people can manage. without truth. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
Both A and R are, correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
A is correct but R is not correct.
A is not correct but R is correct

Validate

Solution:

"Gandhi changed the understanding of truth that the powerful had inherited and internalized. He dislodged truth from its long-held. theological location of an ultimate divine compassion"
From the above excerpt, it can be understood that Gandhi dislodged truth as all ultimate divine revelation. Thus, assertion

{\A}

is correct.
"Only goodness mattered. If that quality could be inculcated, truth would take care of itself."
In the above excerpt, although it is mentioned that the quality that Gandhi considered superior is goodness, it is nowhere mentioned that truth can be replaced by goodness, and people can manage without truth. Gandhi considered truth as a byproduct of goodness, rather than a substitute.
The correct option is C.

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