CET 2025 Slot 4 · Verbal – Page 8
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What came in Lincoln's way of carrying out emancipation as a gradual process?
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Answer: D
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In the passage, what does Lincoln mean by “In giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free”?
- Freed people will necessarily become more productive workers.
- The enslaved will free themselves without any action by others.
- Only former slave-owners deserve political freedom.
- Ending slavery helps safeguard the freedom of those who are already free.
- Ending slavery has no implications for people who are already free.
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Answer: D. Ending slavery helps safeguard the freedom of those who are already free.
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The term 'colonization' as used in the passage means
- Returning enslaved people to their former owners.
- Attempts by enslaved people to free themselves without assistance.
- Creating separate residences for former slave-owners.
- Rehabilitating former slave-owners rather than freed people.
- Arranging settlement and rehabilitation for formerly enslaved Black people.
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Answer: E. Arranging settlement and rehabilitation for formerly enslaved Black people.
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Which proposal in the passage most directly illustrates Lincoln’s concern for the people affected by emancipation?
- Abandoning emancipation to preserve the existing system.
- Punishing every slave-owner without considering the wider country’s responsibility.
- Refusing to make arrangements for people after emancipation.
- Remaining indifferent to the effects of the Civil War.
- Combining gradual emancipation with compensation and arrangements for rehabilitation.
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Answer: E. Combining gradual emancipation with compensation and arrangements for rehabilitation.