Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the given alternatives.

The Congress, which had killed and boycotted the first conference, was requested to come to a settlement by Sapru, M. R. Jayakar and V. S. Srinivasa Sastri. A settlement between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin was the ___(1)___ of the second session of the Round Table Conference, which opened on 7 September. Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain, he was by this time heading a coalition Government (the "National Government") with a Conservative majority, including Sir Samuel Hoare as a new Secretary of State for India. On 7 November 1931 Gandhi secretly met with Malcolm MacDonald in his rooms at Balliol College, Oxford. He took the opportunity to gain publicity from a tour of the East End and visit Lancashire cotton mills, but could not ___(2)___ the government to grant self-rule: of more urgency was the gathering Agrarian Crisis and Congress' newest campaign for a fair rent. The discussion led to the passing of the Government of India Act 1935, yet the Governor of United Provinces was happy to be rid of Gandhi's campaigns "playing ___(3)___ with six or seven million tenants in the UP." When Nehru decried that the famine relief program was pitiful, he was already asking for a Kisan rent strike, and Patel called for a satyagraha. When quizzed in London about his intentions for the conference, Gandhi ___(4)___ he could do nothing about agrarian problems from England. Little was achieved other than the Government ___(5)___ that they had to tackle absentee landlordism in India to avert disaster.