Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 15
Desperate Remedies, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Under the Green Wood Trees and Far From the Madding Crowd are the famous novels of a Victorian novelist. Identify him.
Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the question (33-38) or complete the statements that follow with the help of given options: Fortunately we do not have to rely on such peek a book evidence to know more of chimpanzee nature. Theyhave been studied intensively in captivity, in a great variety of ways, because their close relationship to ourselves makes them so exceptionally important; the only drawback is that captive apes, are, after all, not leading natural lives. They are, as everybody has noted, highly emotional and sensitive animals, and one needs very little experience of chimpanzees to realize the force of their interest in, and reliance on, other chimpanzees of such near-chimps as human beings. It is hard to convey the meaning of this briefly. You might almost say that chimpanzees are like us, but more so, in the degree to which their behaviour relates to that of other, Dominance is present, with the larger male tending to dominate a female. This is not invariable, however, and a female can use the advantages of her sex to dominate a usually dominant male. Furthermore, dominance is less obvious than in the temporarily 105monkeys one gets the impression that the more forceful and positive individuals are not simply the most blatantly aggressive, and that the interplay of personalities has a complexity that suggests the human. A chimpanzee group, in other words, has, like other primate groups, a definite arrangement of its individuals which rules activity, but which depends on other considerations besides brutishness. It is unsafe to humanize such traits, but they give the appearance of amiability, general vigour, self- confidence and so on. Special friendships and enmities are plain. I might say that Professor Robert M. Yerkes, the great authority on chimps, never hesitated to emphasize the humanness of chimpanzee personality and responsiveness. ........Question: 33: What is common between chimpanzees and humans?
