Question

We are citizens of a great country, on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy

And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service. Jai Hind [Victory to India].

–“A Tryst with Destiny,”
Jawaharlal Nehru

What makes this an effective conclusion?

It synthesizes ideas and has a clear call to action to live up to the standards of a great country.
It does not synthesize ideas, but instead introduces new appeals to the audience’s logic and emotion.
It restates the claim in a clear way, and it also makes no mention of future action on the part of the audience.
It has a clear call to action for the audience to practice communalism and to continue focusing on differences.

Answer 1

The first option is correct.

Explanation: The passage brings together the speech’s main ideas (unity, equality, rejection of communalism, international cooperation, devotion to the nation) and ends with explicit calls for action—“we have to live up to that high standard,” “we bind ourselves afresh to her service”—making it an effective concluding paragraph.