Question

Chances of domestic violence are higher in case of wives and husbands.

• A. unemployed, poor
• B. employed, poor
• C. unemployed, employed
• D. employed, unemployed
• A. a difficulty in accepting the wife in a non traditional role
• B. outward manifestation of poverty-induced frustrations
• C. greed and dowry
• D. seeking an outlet for the natural animalistic instinct for violence
• A. masculine
• B. societal greed
• C. lower status of women in marriage
• D. lack of social change in India
• A. gap in earning will still be a factor.
• B. Masculine need to subjugate working women will still remain.
• C. Drinking and dowry problems won't yet be solved.
• D. All the above
• A. I only
• B. II only
• C. I and II
• D. Neither I nor II
• A. symbol of independence
• B. subject for violence
• C. tool for dowry
• D. means for acquisition
• A. Economic security emboldens women.
• B. Desperation leads women to turn to counseling.
• C. Women won't tolerate violence beyond a point.
• D. Drinking is abhorred by women in general.
• A. a female chauvinistic view
• B. ultra-feminism
• C. proposing no concrete solutions
• D. stereotying the male species
• A. is probably true
• B. is definitely true
• C. Can be neither established nor rejected
• D. is definitely false
• A. is predominant in lower classes
• B. is predominant in kerala and tehri - Garhwal
• C. cuts across class barriers
• D. and is a fall out of development

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question asks us to fill in two blanks describing which combination of a wife's and a husband's employment status goes with a higher chance of domestic violence, based only on what the passage states.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Go back to the specific statistic the passage gives about Nagpur and read it carefully, since RC fill in the blank questions like this test whether you can locate and match one exact detail rather than reason in the abstract.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage states that in Nagpur, over 90 percent of the women who reported violence were working women. It then adds that abuse was greater still when their husbands were unemployed. Put together, this gives us one clear pairing: the wife holds a job, the husband does not.
The passage even names the mechanism: a "gender gap in employment" that acts as a further trigger for domestic violence, because it flips the usual roles of who earns money in the household.
Checking the four options against this pairing: "unemployed, poor" and "employed, poor" bring in "poor," a word the passage never uses for the husband; "unemployed, employed" simply flips the roles the passage describes. Only "employed, unemployed" keeps the wife working and the husband jobless, exactly as stated.

Step 4: Final Answer:
The blanks are filled by "employed" and "unemployed," which is option (4).

Answer 2

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We need the psychological reason, per the passage, that explains why men resort to domestic violence.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Locate the sentence in the passage that names the actual mechanism behind the violence, rather than guessing from outside knowledge.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage says plainly that violence is "frequently used as a mechanism to deal with any attempt at reversal in gender role," describing this as a clash between "man the bread earner" and "woman the home market." In other words, when a wife takes up paid work and steps outside the role she was expected to play, some husbands cannot accept this shift, and violence becomes their way of pushing back against it. The passage even warns us not to reduce this to poverty, since giving unemployed men jobs would not on its own fix the problem; the real driver is this resistance to a changed role. Dowry and "instinct" are not given anywhere as psychological explanations; they belong to different parts of the passage.

Step 4: Final Answer:
The male psychology described is a difficulty in accepting the wife in a non traditional role, option (1).

Answer 3

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question wants the specific claim the author makes about what dowry proves regarding women's position in marriage.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Find the line where the author directly states what dowry, and a related practice, reveals about women's standing.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
Near the start of the passage, the author writes that certain practices, dowry among them, reflect "women's subordination within marriage, a strongly endorsed gender role in society." Subordination in marriage is another way of saying a lower or weaker status for the wife within the household. This is different from calling dowry simply an act of greed. Greed comes up later as one of the economic forces that spreads dowry into new areas, but that is about the cause of dowry's growth, not about what dowry itself proves regarding a woman's standing. "Lack of social change" also does not fit, since the passage actually shows dowry changing and spreading into places like Kerala and Tehri Garhwal, which is itself a form of change.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Dowry is proof of the lower status of women in marriage, option (3).

Answer 4

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We must find the passage's own explanation for why fixing male unemployment would not, by itself, end domestic violence.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Look at the sentence right after the Nagpur data, where the author directly cautions against a simple reading of the numbers.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage says this finding "should not be interpreted to mean that providing employment opportunities to unemployed men would automatically ensure reduction in violence." It explains that violence is "frequently used as a mechanism to deal with any attempt at reversal in gender role," pitting the traditional idea of the man as breadwinner against a wife who now earns and holds ground in the home. That underlying resistance to a working wife's changed position stays in place even after a husband gets a job, since the trigger is the role reversal itself, not simply his lack of income. Earning gaps would in fact shrink if men found jobs, and drinking and dowry are separate issues raised elsewhere in the discussion, so neither of those two, nor "all the above," matches the author's actual reasoning.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Because the masculine need to subjugate a working wife persists regardless of his job status, the answer is option (2).

Answer 5

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We are asked whether the author's explanation of dowry rests on tradition, on economic greed, on both, or on neither.

Step 2: Key Approach:
List the separate reasons the passage gives for dowry and see whether they cover one idea or two different ones.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
Early on, the author ties dowry to a "strongly endorsed gender role," which is a tradition-based explanation; wives are expected to bring dowry because that is the inherited social norm. Later, the passage shifts to a different force: a consumerist lifestyle that positions women as instruments of acquisition, with dowry becoming a way to bring wealth into the marital home. This is greed working through modern economics, spreading dowry even into regions like Kerala and Tehri Garhwal where it was once unheard of. Since the author names both a traditional root and a newer economic driver, neither "I only" nor "II only" covers the full explanation, and "neither" is directly contradicted by the text.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Both tradition and economics of greed drive dowry according to the author, so the answer is option (3), I and II.

Answer 6

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We need the image the passage says consumerism creates around women, in the author's own words.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Match the option wording against the specific phrase the passage uses for this image.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage explains that middle class women are targeted as consumers, with the message being to aspire to "a lifestyle of acquisition," and that women are "positioned as instruments through which such acquisition [is] possible." It then gives two versions of this image: the "savvy working wife" and the wife who brings wealth into the marital home through dowry. Both versions come back to the same underlying idea, women being used as a channel through which goods and wealth are acquired. Independence and being a subject of violence are themes discussed elsewhere in the passage, and dowry is only one specific form of this acquisition, not the general term the question is looking for.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Consumerism projects women as a means for acquisition, option (4).

Answer 7

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
This is an assumption question: we must find the unstated belief the author needs for the counseling conclusion to make sense, not simply repeat the conclusion.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Work backward from the author's stated conclusion to the belief that must be true for that conclusion to follow logically.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage reports that employed women increasingly turn up for counseling, and reads this as showing they are "less willing to tolerate domestic violence." For this reading to hold, the author must be assuming that being economically secure through paid work gives women the confidence, or the "wider network of support," to act on that unwillingness rather than stay silent. That is exactly what "economic security emboldens women" states. If instead desperation were the driver, the rising numbers would suggest women had run out of options, not that they were emboldened, which is the opposite of what the author implies. The statement about women not tolerating violence beyond a point is simply the author's conclusion restated, so picking it would confuse the conclusion with the assumption behind it. Drinking does not feature in this part of the argument at all.

Step 4: Final Answer:
The needed assumption is that economic security emboldens women, option (1).

Answer 8

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We need the strongest fair criticism that fits everything the passage actually does, from start to finish.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Check what the author spends the passage doing, describing data and causes, against what the author never does, recommend action, and compare that gap with each option.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
Throughout the passage, the author cites the Nagpur study, the National Family Health data, and the Tata Institute research to build a picture of how gender roles, employment, and dowry connect to domestic violence. This is a careful, evidence-based discussion, which rules out "female chauvinistic" or "ultra-feminism," since neither label fits an argument built on cited studies rather than one-sided opinion. The author also explains male behaviour through a specific cause, resistance to a reversed gender role, rather than painting all men with one broad stereotype, so "stereotyping the male species" does not fit either. What the passage never does is tell us what should change: it ends by simply noting that policymakers treat these patterns as inevitable, with no concrete step, policy, or remedy proposed anywhere in the piece.

Step 4: Final Answer:
The fairest criticism is that the author proposes no concrete solutions, option (3).

Answer 9

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We must judge, using only the passage, how certain the link is between advertisements and consumerist messaging on one side and dowry on the other.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Find the exact sentence connecting consumerism's message to dowry, and check whether the wording is definite or merely a possibility.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage states that middle-class women are "increasingly targeted as the ultimate consumers," with the message pushing them toward "a lifestyle of acquisition," and that women are shown either as a "savvy working wife" or as a wife who brings this acquisition into the matrimonial home "through dowry." This is a direct, stated link between the consumerist message aimed at women, of the kind carried by advertising, and the practice of dowry, not a vague hint that leaves room for doubt. Because the passage states this outright rather than hedging, "probably true" undersells the strength of the text, while "neither established nor rejected" and "definitely false" both go against what is written.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Since the passage directly draws this link, the statement is definitely true, option (2).

Answer 10

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We need the passage's own view on how broadly domestic violence spreads through society, in terms of class.

Step 2: Key Approach:
Trace the different settings and examples the author uses through the passage and see whether they point to one class or many.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The passage moves between several different settings: the Nagpur study of paid women workers, a rural Lucknow woman's account of marital abuse, and a middle-class consumerist culture that drives dowry demands into places like Kerala and Tehri Garhwal. None of these examples is treated as the single home of the problem; instead they are laid side by side to show the same pattern, violence tied to gender roles and economic pressure, recurring across different economic backgrounds. This directly argues against "predominant in lower classes" and against tying it mainly to two specific states, since those are used only as examples of dowry's spread, not as the limit of where violence occurs. The opening of the passage also firmly rejects treating violence as an automatic side effect of development, which rules out the fourth option.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Domestic violence, per the author, cuts across class barriers, option (3).