Indian Institue of Management 2000 M.B.A CAT - Question Paper

(2) the neighbours and kin joining the bereaved and meeting grief together in mourning and prayer.
(3) using techniques developed systematically in formal institutions of learning, a trained counsellor helping the bereaved
cope with grief.
(4) the Sauk Indian Chief leading the community with rituals and rites to help lessen the grief of the bereaved.


27. Due to which of the subsequent reasons, according to the author, will the bereavement counsellor obtain the deserts even in herself?
(1) Over a period of time, working with Sauk Indians who have lost their kinship and relationships, she becomes 1 of them.
(2) She is working in an environment where the disappearance of community mourners makes her work place a social desert.
(3) Her efforts at grief processing with the bereaved will fail as no amount of professional service can make up for the loss due
to the disappearance of community mourners.
(4) She has been working with people who have settled for a long time in the Great Desert.


28. According to the author, the bereavement counsellor is
(1) a friend of the bereaved helping him or her handle grief.
(2) an advocate of the right to treatment for the community.
(3) a kin of the bereaved helping him/her handle grief.
(4) a formally trained person helping the bereaved handle grief.



29. The Prairie was a great puzzlement for the European pioneers because
(1) it was covered with thick, untillable layers of grass over a vast stretch.
(2) it was a large desert immediately next to lush forests.
(3) it was rich cultivable land left fallow for centuries.
(4) it could be easily tilled with iron plows.


30. Which of the subsequent does the 'desert' in the passage refer to?
(1) Prairie soil depleted by cultivation of wheat.
(2) Reservations in which native Indians were resettled.
(3) Absence of, and emptiness in, community kinship and relationships.
(4) All of the above.


31. According to the author, people will start to utilise the service of the bereavement counsellor because
(1) new County regulations will make them feel it is a right, and if they don't use it, it would be a loss.
(2) the bereaved in the community would obtain her a helpful friend.

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