Consider the following statements about Daya Pawar's poem on an imagined future discovery:
(A) Someone digs up a twentieth century city and ends on an observation.
(B) The inscription found reads that a temple is open to all castes and religions.
(C) The finder wonders whether the inscription meant that this society was divided.
(D) The poem concludes that such a city deserved to be preserved.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A and C only
(A) Someone digs up a twentieth century city and ends on an observation. — Correct. The poem opens with someone in the future digging up a twentieth century city and ending on an observation about it.
(B) The inscription found reads that a temple is open to all castes and religions. — Incorrect. The inscription found is about a water tap. It reads that the water tap is open to all castes and religions.
(C) The finder wonders whether the inscription meant that this society was divided. — Correct. The finder asks what the inscription could have meant: that this society was divided, with some high and others low.
(D) The poem concludes that such a city deserved to be preserved. — Incorrect. The poem reaches the opposite view. Its finder decides that such a city deserved burying, and that the machine age looked like the Stone Age.
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