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Question 1

What best characterizes the nature of Indian society today?
 
  a. India, unlike China, has rejected its cultural traditions and adopted those of the West.
  b. The majority of India's population is part of a large and growing middle class.
  c. India's economy is a perfect model of the modern, successful socialist state.
  d. India today is a nation of contrasts, with a majority of its population living in poverty.
  e. Rural and urban poverty in India is rapidly becoming the norm for the first time in Indian history.

Question 2

In the aftermath of independence, India's greatest economic weakness was in
 
  a. consumer products.
  b. industrial production.
  c. agriculture.
  d. a declining birthrate.
  e. too much Western investment.



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