Cloze Test: Practice Problems - 2

DIRECTIONS for the question 1 to 15: The passage given contains blanks, choose the best choice in each case from the words in the options and mark your answer accordingly.

Womanism is a gentler and less (1) form for feminism. It is about women (2) themselves as their own person too, who want their space and place. They want to be productive and do something worthwhile and remunerative. Most importantly, they want their (3) to count, (4) their own time, and look after their own interests. They do not see any glory in self denial. It marks a change in mindset of women rather (5) in behavior- yet another example of morphing change that is the (6) of Consumer India. It represents a change in the (7) of women towards themselves and their role in their world, and not just a change in how they dress or carry out their household chores. In fact, as one researcher put it, even for the most forward-looking Indian woman, the mental emancipation achieved in the past few years has been far greater than physical emancipation. Which is another reason why this change is not easy to see, but will (8) sustainable behavior change over the next few generations? This is the slow but (9) wave of change happening in India. Women are on the (10) inching their way away from being-doormats, away from the socially ordained straitjacket that Hindi movies of yesteryear so glorified.

All writers are narcissistic, egoistic or we can say in a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself and at the very .....11..... of their motives there lies an element of mystery. Writing a book is taxing and an exhausting struggle, like a long .....12..... of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one was not ....13..... by some demon whom one can neither .....14..... nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same.....15..... that makes a baby squall for attention.

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