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VA : XAT 2009 : Q8 to Q10

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Analyse the following passage and provide and appropriate answer of the questions 8
through 10 that follow.
The greens success has clear policy implications, especially on issues of nuclear power,
ecological tax reform, and citizenship rights. But success also has implications for parties
themselves. Greens have always faced a unique „strategic conundrum arising from their unique
beliefs and movement roots. Put simply, how can they reconcile their radical alternative politics
with participation in mainstream or „grey parliamentary and government structures? Throughout
the 1990s most parties shed their radical cloth in an attempt to capture votes, even at the expense
of party unity and purity. Most were rewarded with electoral success well beyond what had been
imaginable in the 1980s. The price to pay has been tortured internal debates about strategy, and
new questions about green party identity and purpose. Today the key questions facing green
parties revolve around not whether to embrace power, but what to do with it. More specifically,
green parties face three new challenges in the new millennium: first, how to carve out a policy
niche as established parties and governments become wiser to green demands, and as green
concerns themselves appear more mainstream. Second, how to make green ideas beyond the
confines of rich industrialised states into Eastern Europe and the developing world where green
parties remain marginal and environmental problems acute. Third, how to ensure that the broader
role of green parties- as consciousness raisers, agitators, conscience of parliament and politics- is
not sacrificed on the altar of electoral success. Green parties have come a long way since their
emergence and development in the 1970s and 1980s. They have become established players able
to shape party competition, government formation, and government policy. But this very
„establishment carries risk for a party whose core values and identities depend mightily on their
ability to challenge the conventional order, to agitate and to annoy. For most green parties, the
greatest fear is not electoral decline so much as the prospect of becoming a party with
parliamentary platform, ministerial voice, but nothing to say.

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8. Which out of the following is closest in meaning to the first three challenges mentioned in the
paragraph?
A. Niche of green parties is being eroded by mainstream parties.
B. Green parties are finding it difficult to find new strategy.
C. Green parties have become stronger over a period of time.
D. Some green parties are becoming grey.
E. Non green parties are becoming less relevant than green parties.

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9. Which of the following is the most important point that author highlights?
A. Challenges before green parties to change their strategy from green activism to green
governance.
B. How should green parties win confidence and support of governments?
C. Transformation of green parties in recent decades.
D. Green movement is not strong in developing countries.
E. Non green parties are becoming less relevant than green parties.

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10. How best can mainstream political parties, in India, keep green parties at bay?
A. By imposing a green tax.
B. By allowing carbon trading.
C. By including green agenda in their governance.
D. By hiring Al Gore, the Nobel prize winner, as an ambassador.
E. By not letting green parties fight elections.

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