SSC Selection Post 2024 PYQ — Question 8

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully andselect the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Vijayanagara or “city of victory” was the ______1____ of both a city and an empire. The
empire was ______2_____ in the fourteenth century. In its heyday, it _____3______ from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the peninsula. In 1565 the city was sackedand ______4______ deserted. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it lived on in the memories of people living in the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab. They remembered it as Hampi, a name ________5______ from that of the local mother goddess,  Pampadevi.