The table above shows the number of people who responded to a survey about their favourite style of music. Use this information to answer the following questions to the nearest whole percentage.

Question 1

What percentage of respondents under 31 indicated that Blues is their favourite style of music?

A 7.1
B 7.6
C 8.3
D 14.1

Question 2

What percentage of respondents aged 21–30 indicated a favourite style other than Rock music?

A 64%
B 60%
C 75%
D 36%

Question 3

What percentage of the total sample indicated that Jazz is their favourite style of music?

A 6%

B 8%

C 22%

D 12%

Question 4

What percentage of respondents aged 31+ preferred Classical music?

A 18%
B 21%
C 25%
D 30%

I once made a statement in a room full of college students that the most important thing a young person could acquire in college might be a sense of her own limitations. I realised when I said it that it was not a very fashionable thing to say. Popular books on how to therapy, stress the glorious potential of every human being and urge us to accept ourselves, finally, as being only a little lower than the angels. I heartily approve of any celebration of human potential, but I believe that we must acknowledge our potential for limitless evil as well. We must understand what we can do in the way of evil before we can even pretend to be good. This is the beginning of morality, the psychological or spiritual or, in a religious tradition, the mythical basis that makes morality possible. One of the most moral book of the past century is Heart of Darkness, because Joseph Conrad faces the problem of evil in people. He tells us that we must recognize in ourselves the ability to put the head of our enemy on stick and dance around a fire with it, and only when we recognize that can we even begin to deal with any moral question at all. Students who have been nourished on pop psychology and told “I’m O.K.” have some trouble dealing with Conrad, and some of them regard him as perverse.

I am amazed at the number of educated people who believe that we are somehow better, more moral, than our ancestors were. I have seen otherwise intelligent people grow red in the face at the suggestion that human beings are not better now - less cruel, more considerate, less animalistic, more humane - than they were when Nero ruled Rome or when the Pharaohs ruled Egypt or, when the Druids at Stonehenge readied their sacrifices. In one way we are more likely to have become dull to our potential for evil (and so discover it suddenly and with disastrous consequences) today than we were a few centuries ago. This is because we actively suppress the kind of self-knowledge that makes intelligent moral decisions possible. Sin and guilt are such old-fashioned terms that most of us are embarrassed by the very words.

Question 5

The beginning of morality is based on:-

A A strong religious and ethical sense.
B A knowledge of the possibilities of evil as well as good.
C A profound sense of tradition.
D An innate sense of good and evil.

Question 6

One would assume from this passage that the author probably taught:-

A Music
B Popular culture
C French
D Philosophy

Question 7

The author’s attitude towards popular how to books could be described as:-

A Critical
B Approving
C Apathetic
D Sympathetic

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Question 8

Which one of the following is grammatically and logically correct?

A Milton is the Surdas of England.
B Surdas is Milton of India.
C The Surdas is Milton of India.
D The Surdas is the Milton of India.

Question 9

A person who is prejudiced in his views and intolerant of the opinions of others” is known as

A Orthodox
B Traditional
C Bigot
D Ideologue

Question 10

Rearrange the following components to get a meaningful sentence.

A. to discuss questions such as whether
B. you have to be clear about what a scientific theory is
C. about the nature of the universe and
D. it has a beginning or an end
E. in order to talk

A) A, B, E, C, D
B) B, C, D, E, A
C) E, B, C, D, A
D) E, C, A, D, B

Question 1

Under 31 includes ages 15–20 and 21–30.

Total respondents under 31
= 33 + 33 = 66

People who chose Blues under 31
= 2 + 3 = 5

Percentage
= (5/66)*100%

✅ Answer: B) 7.6

Question 2

Total respondents aged 21–30 = 33

Rock lovers in 21–30 = 12

People choosing other styles
= 33 − 12 = 21

Percentage
= (21/33)*100%

Rounded = 64%

✅ Answer: A) 64%

Question 3

Total Jazz respondents
= 1 + 4 + 11 = 16

Total sample
= 33 + 33 + 68 = 134

Percentage
= (16/34)/100%

Rounded = 12%

✅ Answer: D) 12%

Question 4

31+ respondents preferring Classical
= 17

Total respondents aged 31+
= 68

Percentage
= (17/68)*100%

✅ Answer: C) 25%

Question 5

The correct answer is B) A knowledge of the possibilities of evil as well as good.

The passage says:

“We must understand what we can do in the way of evil before we can even pretend to be good. This is the beginning of morality.”

So, the author believes morality begins when people recognize both their capacity for good and evil.

Question 6

The correct answer is D) Philosophy

The author discusses:

These are philosophical themes, so it is reasonable to assume the author taught philosophy.

Question 7

The correct answer is A) Critical

The author criticizes popular self-help/how-to books because they only celebrate human potential and ignore the human capacity for evil.

Evidence from passage:

“Popular books… stress the glorious potential of every human being…”

But the author argues this is incomplete and dangerous.

Hence, the tone is critical.

Question 8

The correct answer is A) Milton is the Surdas of England.

Explanation:

When we compare a famous person of one country with a similar famous person of another country, the structure used is:

“X is the Y of Z.”

Here:

So the sentence means:
Milton is to England what Surdas is to India.

Why others are incorrect:

Question 9

The correct answer is C) Bigot.

A Bigot is someone who is strongly prejudiced and intolerant toward people who hold different opinions, beliefs, or backgrounds.

So, the word that best matches the definition is Bigot.

Question 10

E starts a sentence idea: “In order to talk”

C continues the idea introduced in the opening sentence

A introduces a new discussion/question

D is a follow-up pair of A because A ends with “whether” and D follows with “it”

B is conclusive of what is needed to answer the question introduced by A

Correct Option is C