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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2021 — General Studies · Question 198 of 200

Q198
ReasoningBlood Relations
Pointing towards a girl in the picture, Meghna said, "She is mother of 'Jhuma', whose father is my son". How is 'Meghna' related to the girl in the picture?
  1. a.Mother
  2. b.Aunt
  3. c.Cousin
  4. d.Grandmother

Answer: (D) Grandmother

PSC's final key 'D' gives 'Grandmother'. This follows if 'whose father is my son' is taken to describe the girl in the picture: the girl's father is Meghna's son, so Meghna is the girl's paternal grandmother (and Jhuma is Meghna's great-granddaughter). If 'whose' is instead read as referring to Jhuma - grammatically the more natural reading - Jhuma's father is Meghna's son, the girl is Meghna's daughter-in-law, and Meghna would be her mother-in-law, which is not among the options. In the exam, choose the reading that yields one of the given options. Ambiguous wording: on the more natural reading ('whose' = Jhuma) Meghna is the girl's mother-in-law, which is not an option; PSC's final key gives (D) Grandmother, which requires 'whose' to refer to the girl. Also, the earlier version of this file had option (D) as 'None of these'; it is corrected to 'Grandmother' as printed in the official Set C booklet.