Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
The question of race has caused bloodbaths throughout history. Take the case of the Negro, a negro is someone with black skin who comes from Africa. It is an old fashioned word and is offensive. Some people used to write that way deliberately. The word “nigger” is also very offensive. The word was later replaced by “coloured” which gave way to “black”. Black is a colour with negative suggestions. So we have expressions like “black deed”, “black day” and “blackmail”. So no wonder the word “black” too assumed
unfavourable meanings. (Although in the 1960’s the famous slogan ‘Black is beautiful’ was coined, and it did not help.) The blacks of the United States therefore came to be called Afro-Americans. Now, the politically correct phrase is African American.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
(1) bloodbaths (N.) : a situation in which many people are killed violently
(2) offensive (Adj.) : rude in a way that causes you to feel upset, insulted/annoyed
(3) deliberately (Adv.) : done in a way that was planned, not by chance
(4) nigger (N.) : a very offensive word for a black person