SBI PO : Recently Asked Error Location Questions

1. (A) The Benin bronzes have always been famous, partly because the works themselves are so exquisite and partly because their backstory is so brutal. /(B) The bronzes were not “acquired” – they were looted, taken from the royal palace of Benin during a “punitive expedition” of 1897 that also destroyed the palace and much of the ancient city. /(C) The bronzes – 4,500 plaques and statues that are in fact made from a brass alloy – /(D) were later auctioned off by the Admiralty to defray the costs of this punitive expedition.

2. (A) While many men miraculously manage not to be chauvinists all by themselves, for others a daughter could prove a wake-up call /(B) that is stronger, more visceral than any number of #MeToo campaigns. At which point, /(C) big and small inequalities that may have passed almost unnoticed regarding women they’ve known and even loved /(D) (mothers, sisters, friends) are thrown into unprecedented sharp focus. As I say, an education – that “man’s world” could start looking very differently when a father’s “mighty girl” has to navigate it.

3. (A) The Brexit fanatics will still not vote for her deal. These political arsonists would rather torch their party /(B) and their country’s economy than compromise. Mrs May remains imprisoned by the parliamentary maths, /(C) her past mistakes and her lack of dexter. After all the to and fro between Westminster and European capitals, /(D) pinging from one side of the Channel to the other like a battered shuttlecock, there is no better prospect of her deal passing the Commons than there was on Monday when she swerved the vote.

4. (A) Once coined, the catchy, portmanteau label for female insecurity rapidly became as useful as you’d expect /(B) at a time when professionally successful women were unusual, often deeply unwelcome and regarded, /(C) unless they were teachers or nurses, as freaks. Clance and Imes were operating in an academic world not much advanced /(D) from the one described in Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife, where talented female students eagerly internalising the condescension of less able male contemporaries.

5. (A) On the morning of the referendum result in June 2016, the image that came into my head was that amazing trick that some /(B) people can do of whipping a tablecloth away while leaving all of the dishes and cutlery in a place. Except the trick was being tried by a drunk. /(C) The idea was that a whole layer of politics that had been there for 45 years – the EU – could be whipped away and yet all the others – government, /(D) parliament, the law, the union itself – would not be upset. It was never going to happen.

Answers

1- E, 2- D 3- C, 4- D, 5- B,