CAT Question of the Day Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.
The USA is a divided country, _______________in a cultural civil war; however, unlike their Western counterparts, Americans stay together despite their _______________.
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | engrossed, sophistication | | | 2) | involved, development | | | 3) | polarised, differences | | | 4) | immersed, parochialism |
Tip of the Day Networking with your seniors who have got into good institutes is a very useful asset. Ask them about specific tips regarding the institutes that nobody else will be able to provide. Last year's Question of the day (22-Jan-12) He profited by using the labour of native slaves for agriculture and to mine gold. He attempted to sell native people as slaves in Spain, bringing five hundred people back. The Taínos began to resist the Spanish, refusing to plant and abandoning captured native villages. Over time the rebellion grew violent. In the resulting conflict, the native inhabitants used their extensive knowledge of the terrain and applied guerilla tactics such as booby traps, ambushes, attrition, and forced marches to tire the Spanish columns. Although stone arrows couldn't penetrate the best of the Spanish armor, they were somewhat effective if they were used as shrapnel, since they tended to shatter on impact; stone and copper or bronze maces were used more effectively. However, the most crucial weapon the Native Americans used was the sling, which could hurl massive stones that easily crushed even the most heavily armoured caballero.
What can we conclude from the above passage?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Native Americans had started rebelling against the Spanish through non-violent ways, but they started using weapons after a while. | | | 2) | Native Americans weren't very pliable as slaves in Spain. | | | 3) | The Tainos were a tribe of Spanish people. | | | 4) | The sling was a very powerful automated machine. | | | 5) | Shrapnel are weapons that cover long distances effectively. |
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