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Q.41
Match the words in Column ‘A’ with their antonyms in Column ‘B’ and then choose the correct code -
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
|---|---|
| (A) Frugal | (i) Perpetual |
| (B) Ephemeral | (ii) Non-hazardous |
| (C) Revere | (iii) Extravagant |
| (D) Perilous | (iv) Disrespect |
Code -
(A)-(iv), (B)-(iii), (C)-(ii), (D)-(i)
(A)-(iii), (B)-(i), (C)-(iv), (D)-(ii)
(A)-(i), (B)-(ii), (C)-(iii), (D)-(iv)
(A)-(iii), (B)-(ii), (C)-(iv), (D)-(i)
Q.42
Identify the pattern of the given sentence and choose the correct option -
She’s made the job a success.
S V C O
S V A C
S V C A
S V O C
Q.43
Identify the sentence pattern of the given sentence -
I shaved myself with my own razor.
S V A A
S V O A
S V C A
S V A
Q.44
The bank won’t accept the guarantee of a <u>man of straw</u>.
Choose the nearest meaning of the underlined idiom -
Farmer involved in straw making
As thin as a straw
Constantly insulting the bank employees
A man of no substance
Q.45
Transform into indirect speech -
He said, “Be quiet and listen to my words.”
He urged them to be quiet and listen to his words.
He shouted at them angrily to listen to his words.
He asked them to listen to his words.
He exclaimed to them to listen and not shout.
Q.46
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow - (46-50)
IT IS ALMOST a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature: like an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides both means of rest and animal heat without them. The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast; - all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment, his great concern being to make every one at their ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evils which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. He has too much good sense to be affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember injuries, and too indolent to bear malice. He is patient, forbearing, and resigned, on philosophical principles; he submits to pain, because it is inevitable, to bereavement, because it is irreparable, and to death, because it is his destiny. If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed to be unjust; he is as simple as he is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive. Nowhere shall we find greater candour, consideration, indulgence; he throws himself into the minds of his opponents, he accounts for their mistakes.
Find the word from the passage which means ‘the quality of being open and honest’ -
Unseasonable
Prudence
Forbearing
Candour
Q.47
Find antonym of the word from the passage which means - ‘Goodwill’
Patient
Sage
Malice
Indulgence
Q.48
Which one of the following statements is <u>not</u> correct about the description of a gentleman as given in the passage?
He does not take the initiative himself.
He disagrees with the movements of those around him.
He never afflicts pain.
He removes the obstacles which hinder the free action of those about him.
Q.49
Name two objects of comforts or conveniences with which a gentleman is compared to -
an easy chair or a good fire
slander and gossip
cold and fatigue
jar or a jolt
Q.50
Find the word from the passage which means -
‘An expression of a general truth’
Opinion
Assumption
Maxim
Motive
Q.51
In the novel That Long Silence Vanitamami’s comment, “a husband is like a sheltering tree” expresses her -
love for her husband
logical mindset
stereotypical mindset
respect for her husband
Q.52
Which figure of speech has been employed in the quote given below from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice?
‘Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match,
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawn’d with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.’
Alliteration
Allegory
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Q.53
Which among the following statement(s) is/are true regarding William Shakespeare’s As you Like It?
(i) It is a quintessential Elizabethan pastoral comedy.
(ii) It’s subtitle is ‘What You Will’.
(iii) It explores the themes of love, disguise and gender roles.
(iv) It is influenced by Thomas Lodge’s Romance ‘Rosalynde’.
(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
(i) and (ii) are correct
(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
(iii) and (iv) are correct
Q.54
Which one of the following is not primarily associated with existentialism?
Søren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Immanuel Kant
Q.55
Identify the literary term in the following lines -
“The wolf with its belly, stitched full of big pebbles ;
Nibelung wolves barbed like black pine forest.
Against a red sky, over blue snow…”
Personification
Simile
Ode
Metaphor
Q.56
Fill in the blank in the following extract from Gandhi’s “What is Swaraj” chapter 4 from Hind Swaraj.
When a ………… changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
crocodile
tiger
chameleon
lion
Q.57
Which one of the following concepts of Eliot about ‘tradition’ and ‘poetry’ is not correct?
He asserts that the past should not be altered by the present.
He asserts that historical sense implies not only the ‘pastness of past’ but the ‘presence’ of past as well.
True art comes from the artist’s ability to synthesize.
His ‘impersonal poet’ has links with Keat’s figure of ‘the chameleon poet’.
Q.58
The novelists Richardson, Trollope, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster are primarily identified with which literary tradition?
Romanticism
Symbolism
Gothic
Realism
Q.59
Stevenson wrote his essay “Walking Tours” in response to -
William Hazlitt’s “On Going a Journey”
Thomas De Quincey’s “Lake Reminiscences”
Robert Southey’s “Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819”
S.T. Coleridge’s “Fears in Solitude”
Q.60
In the third stanza of the poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, the carriage passes ‘the School where Children strove / At Recess - in the Ring’. What does the specific image of the ‘Ring’ symbolize in the context of the life cycle?
It symbolises the cyclical nature of life and eternity, contrasting the beginning of life (childhood) with the speaker’s end.
It represents the trapped nature of humanity within the cycle of sin.
It represents vulnerability to enemy attacks.
It suggests that life is a competitive wrestling match that one must ‘strive’ to win.