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CAT 2021 Slot 1 RC passage: Maya concept of personhood
This is passage 2 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2021 Slot 1. It comes with 4 questions in the real exam. Below are the question stems; sign in to read the full passage and practise it with all options, the answer key and explanations.
Passage facts
- Exam
- CAT 2021
- Slot
- 1 of 3
- Position
- Passage 2 of 4
- Questions
- 4
- Passage length
- about 510 words
- Topic
- Maya concept of personhood
Source of the passage: adapted by CAT from Sarah Jackson, “A rock, a human, a tree: all were persons to the Classic Maya”, Aeon. Read the original.
Questions in this set
- Which one of the following, if true about the Classic Maya, would invalidate the purpose of the iPhone example in the passage?
- Which one of the following, if true, would not undermine the democratising potential of the Classic Maya worldview?
- On the basis of the passage, which one of the following worldviews can be inferred to be closest to that of the Classic Maya?
- Which one of the following best explains the "additional complexity" that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood for the Classic Maya?
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