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| Exam | UGC NET June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Papers | Paper 1 (General Aptitude) and Paper 2 (English Literature) |
| Exam date(s) | June 18, 2024 |
| Shift(s) | Shift 2 |
| Paper 1 questions | 50 questions · 60 minutes · 100 marks |
| Paper 2 questions | 100 questions · 120 minutes · 200 marks |
| Total | 150 questions |
| Marking scheme | +2 per correct answer · No negative marking |
UGC NET June 2024 · English Literature sitting
50 questions with the answer key and explanations.
If the number of patients increases by 10% every year in Europe, what is the difference between the number of patients in Europe after two years and the number of kidney patients in South America in 2023?
The following Table-I shows the percentage (%) distribution of patients of various diseases in the world and Table-II shows the percentage (%) distribution of all patients and kidney patients in various continents, namely Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, North America and Asia in the year 2023. Total population of the world in the year 2023 is 800 crore and 10% of them are patients. Based on the data in the tables, answer the questions that follow.
Table - I: Disease-wise Percentage of Patients in the world.
| Heart Disease | AIDS | TB | Hepatitis | Kidney Disease | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 30% | 24% |
Table - II: Continent-wise Details of all Patients and Kidney patients.
| Continent | All Patients | Kidney Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 10% | 10% |
| Australia | 6% | 5% |
| South America | 15% | 40% |
| Africa | 25% | 10% |
| North America | 12% | 15% |
| Asia | 32% | 20% |
Disease-wise and continent-wise distribution of patients in 2023
Answer: (A) 8 lakh
Explanation
If the number of hepatitis patients in the world increases by 6% and that of heart disease increases by 22%, what will be the new ratio of hepatitis patients to heart disease patients?
The following Table-I shows the percentage (%) distribution of patients of various diseases in the world and Table-II shows the percentage (%) distribution of all patients and kidney patients in various continents, namely Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, North America and Asia in the year 2023. Total population of the world in the year 2023 is 800 crore and 10% of them are patients. Based on the data in the tables, answer the questions that follow.
Table - I: Disease-wise Percentage of Patients in the world.
| Heart Disease | AIDS | TB | Hepatitis | Kidney Disease | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 30% | 24% |
Table - II: Continent-wise Details of all Patients and Kidney patients.
| Continent | All Patients | Kidney Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 10% | 10% |
| Australia | 6% | 5% |
| South America | 15% | 40% |
| Africa | 25% | 10% |
| North America | 12% | 15% |
| Asia | 32% | 20% |
Disease-wise and continent-wise distribution of patients in 2023
Answer: (C) 159:671
Explanation
If the number of kidney patients in South America decreases by 25%, what is the percentage decrease in the number of kidney patients in the world?
The following Table-I shows the percentage (%) distribution of patients of various diseases in the world and Table-II shows the percentage (%) distribution of all patients and kidney patients in various continents, namely Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, North America and Asia in the year 2023. Total population of the world in the year 2023 is 800 crore and 10% of them are patients. Based on the data in the tables, answer the questions that follow.
Table - I: Disease-wise Percentage of Patients in the world.
| Heart Disease | AIDS | TB | Hepatitis | Kidney Disease | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 30% | 24% |
Table - II: Continent-wise Details of all Patients and Kidney patients.
| Continent | All Patients | Kidney Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 10% | 10% |
| Australia | 6% | 5% |
| South America | 15% | 40% |
| Africa | 25% | 10% |
| North America | 12% | 15% |
| Asia | 32% | 20% |
Disease-wise and continent-wise distribution of patients in 2023
Answer: (C) 10%
Explanation
What is the ratio of the number of patients in Africa to the total number of kidney patients in Asia and North America together?
The following Table-I shows the percentage (%) distribution of patients of various diseases in the world and Table-II shows the percentage (%) distribution of all patients and kidney patients in various continents, namely Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, North America and Asia in the year 2023. Total population of the world in the year 2023 is 800 crore and 10% of them are patients. Based on the data in the tables, answer the questions that follow.
Table - I: Disease-wise Percentage of Patients in the world.
| Heart Disease | AIDS | TB | Hepatitis | Kidney Disease | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 30% | 24% |
Table - II: Continent-wise Details of all Patients and Kidney patients.
| Continent | All Patients | Kidney Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 10% | 10% |
| Australia | 6% | 5% |
| South America | 15% | 40% |
| Africa | 25% | 10% |
| North America | 12% | 15% |
| Asia | 32% | 20% |
Disease-wise and continent-wise distribution of patients in 2023
Answer: (D) 50:21
Explanation
The number of kidney patients in Australia is approximately what percent of the number of patients of heart disease in the world?
The following Table-I shows the percentage (%) distribution of patients of various diseases in the world and Table-II shows the percentage (%) distribution of all patients and kidney patients in various continents, namely Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, North America and Asia in the year 2023. Total population of the world in the year 2023 is 800 crore and 10% of them are patients. Based on the data in the tables, answer the questions that follow.
Table - I: Disease-wise Percentage of Patients in the world.
| Heart Disease | AIDS | TB | Hepatitis | Kidney Disease | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22% | 10% | 8% | 6% | 30% | 24% |
Table - II: Continent-wise Details of all Patients and Kidney patients.
| Continent | All Patients | Kidney Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 10% | 10% |
| Australia | 6% | 5% |
| South America | 15% | 40% |
| Africa | 25% | 10% |
| North America | 12% | 15% |
| Asia | 32% | 20% |
Disease-wise and continent-wise distribution of patients in 2023
Answer: (B) 6.82%
Explanation
Arrange the following fractions in increasing order.
A. 14/17
B. 11/13
C. 7/9
D. 16/19
Answer: (B) C, A, D, B
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct as per the Classical Indian School of logic, Nyaya?
A. Nyaya syllogism has three propositions.
B. Nyaya syllogism has five propositions.
C. Nyaya syllogism has three terms.
D. Nyaya syllogism has five terms.
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
If (L)_M represents a number L in base-M number system, identify the correct ascending order of the following numbers when converted to base-10.
A. (8B)_16
B. (212)_8
C. (260)_7
D. (10001101)_2
Answer: (A) B, A, C, D
Explanation
Which of the following statements are true?
A. Truth and falsehood are attributes of individual propositions.
B. Validity can never apply to any single proposition by itself.
C. In a valid argument all of its premises have to be true.
D. A valid deductive argument cannot have all true premises and a false conclusion.
Answer: (A) A, B and D only
Explanation
A 500 m long train running at a speed of 100 m/s crosses a tunnel in 10 seconds. What is the length of the tunnel?
Answer: (C) 500 m
Explanation
Which of the following is an ancient Indian treatise on problems related to Mathematics?
Answer: (B) Lilavati
Explanation
A culture which is not touched by communication of alphabetic writing is known as a culture of:
Answer: (D) Primary Orality
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table above.
| List I - College | List II - Founder |
|---|---|
| A. Poona College for Hindu Learning | I. Alexander Duff |
| B. Hindu College, Kolkata (Presidency College) | II. M. Elphinstone |
| C. Bishop College, Sibpur | III. Rajaram Mohan Roy |
| D. Scottish Missionary College, Kolkata | IV. Church of England |
Colleges and founders
Answer: (B) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
What is the correct sequence, from lower number to higher, of the following related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
A. Number of Publications
B. Number of Targets
C. Number of Goals
D. Number of Indicators
Answer: (D) C, B, D, A
Explanation
Which of the following are National Coordinators appointed for SWAYAM courses?
A. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)
B. National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
C. National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
D. Block Institute of Teacher Education (BITE)
E. Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
Answer: (D) A, B, C and E only
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table above.
| List I - Internet Protocol | List II - Internet Activity |
|---|---|
| A. HTTP | I. Sends email through the Internet |
| B. SSL | II. Encrypts data for online transmission |
| C. SMTP | III. Sends TCP/IP packets to web server |
| D. FTP | IV. Transfers files over the Internet |
Internet protocols and activities
Answer: (D) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Explanation
Which of the following statements is logically equivalent to the statement: "No cats are non-feline"?
Answer: (C) All cats are feline.
Explanation
The systematic elimination of extraneous variables other than those you are interested in can be achieved in:
Answer: (C) experimental research
Explanation
Identify the correct sequence of the cycle of self-regulated learning.
A. Enacting tactics and strategies
B. Devising plans
C. Setting goals
D. Regulating learning
E. Analyzing the task
Answer: (C) E, C, B, A, D
Explanation
Around 1945, who developed the idea of a stored program computer that would hold programs and data in memory and move data between memory and processor?
Answer: (D) John Von Neumann
Explanation
Which of the following statements about computer memories is correct?
Answer: (A) HDDs may experience a "head crash".
Explanation
Which digital platform of the Ministry of Education was formed by merging UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium?
Answer: (B) e-Shodh Sindhu
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table above.
| List I - Communication form | List II - Description |
|---|---|
| A. Personal address | I. Sequential accounts told and retold from a particular viewpoint |
| B. Social drama | II. Subject to a community's rules for appropriate conduct |
| C. Narratives | III. Points to self and others in interaction |
| D. Silence | IV. Invokes local socio-cultural rules for behaviour |
Communication forms and descriptions
Answer: (C) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Which of the following computer devices are output devices only?
A. Number pad
B. Track ball
C. CRT monitor
D. Plotter
Answer: (A) C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following are true about Solar Thermal Energy Collectors (STEC)?
A. Basic unit of STEC is a solar cell.
B. STECs may be flat plate or concentrating type.
C. Temperature in STECs may rise over thousand degree centigrades.
D. STECs can produce electricity.
E. Paraboloid dish collector is an example of STEC where temperature can go up to 2000°C.
Answer: (B) B, C, D and E only
Explanation
Arrange the following sections of a research dissertation in correct sequence.
A. Acknowledgement
B. Research Methods
C. Discussion
D. Literature review
Answer: (D) A, D, B, C
Explanation
"I believe I will do well in this class," Ram declared to his brother. "I received a perfect score on the verbal part of the SAT, and I have always excelled in my literature classes." Ram is demonstrating which of the following?
Answer: (C) High self-efficacy in literature
Explanation
A sum of Rs. 50 is divided among A, B and C in such a way that A gets Rs. 5 less than B, and B gets Rs. 10 less than C. What is the ratio of their money share?
Answer: (D) 2:3:5
Explanation
Identify the correct sequence, from earliest to latest, of the universities established in early twentieth-century India.
A. Osmania University
B. Aligarh Muslim University
C. SNDT Women's University
D. Nagpur University
E. Patna University
Answer: (B) C, E, A, B, D
Explanation
Identify the list of four quadrants of the courses hosted on SWAYAM.
A. Self-assessment tests
B. Video lecture
C. Online discussion forum for clearing doubts
D. Specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed
E. Face-to-face interaction among learners
Answer: (B) A, B, C and D only
Explanation
Arrange the following in order of increasing connotation.
A. Domestic animal
B. Animal
C. Horse
D. Beast of burden
Answer: (B) B, A, C, D
Explanation
In Buddhist thought, self-reflexivity is built into the process of:
Answer: (C) Verbal communication
Explanation
Which of the following statements are true regarding Macaulay?
A. He succeeded in replacing Persian with English as the administrative language.
B. He promoted training of English-speaking Indians as teachers.
C. He was inspired by Utilitarian ideas.
D. He promoted "useful learning".
Answer: (D) A, B, C and D
Explanation
The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) measures the number of students enrolled in higher education as a percentage of the eligible population aged between:
Answer: (C) 18 to 23 years
Explanation
Which one of the following is an extremely short-lived and unstable air/water pollutant?
Answer: (C) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table .
| List I - Threat to internal validity | List II - Description |
|---|---|
| A. Maturation threat | I. Participants' behaviour changes as a function of having been tested previously |
| B. Attrition threat | II. Some event outside the research project affects participants systematically |
| C. History threat | III. Short- or long-term changes in participants, such as boredom or fatigue |
| D. Testing threat | IV. Participants drop out, changing the nature of the sample |
Threats to internal validity and descriptions
Answer: (B) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table .
| List I - Word | List II - Code |
|---|---|
| A. BOLT | I. 52 |
| B. RING | II. 50 |
| C. SOLD | III. 49 |
| D. FROM | IV. 48 |
Words and numeric codes
Answer: (D) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
International Solar Alliance (ISA) is the alliance of countries most of which lie partially or completely:
Answer: (C) Between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Explanation
Identify the scale/scales of measurement which would allow ranking of observations.
A. Ordinal scale
B. Nominal scale
C. Interval scale
D. Ratio scale
Answer: (D) A, C and D only
Explanation
Match List I with List II using the table.
| List I - Water-specific disease category | List II - Example |
|---|---|
| A. Water-borne diseases | I. Malaria |
| B. Water-washed diseases | II. Schistosomiasis |
| C. Water-based diseases | III. Typhoid |
| D. Water-related diseases | IV. Trachoma |
Water-specific disease categories and examples
Answer: (B) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Explanation
Which of the following refers to a sampling approach in structured observation whereby sampled individuals are observed for a set period of time?
Answer: (A) Focal sampling
Explanation
Employment of classroom technology needs clarity with regard to:
A. Instructional messages
B. Course objectives
C. Technological competencies
D. Experience of failures
E. Institutional indolence
Answer: (A) A, B and C only
Explanation
Which of the following are characteristics of mass communication?
A. Homogeneous audience
B. Professional communication as source
C. Immediate feedback
D. Use of a medium
E. Rapid transmission of messages
Answer: (D) B, D and E only
Explanation
Which fallacy is committed in the following statement?
"Tarun cannot be guilty of murder since there is no way Tarun could kill someone."
Answer: (C) Begging the Question
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct?
A. A man purchased an item at 4/5 of its selling price X, and sold it at 5% more than X. His gain is 25%.
B. A dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 900 g for a kg weight. His gain is 11 1/9%.
C. If loss is one third of the selling price, the loss percentage is 25%.
D. By selling 100 pens, a vendor gains the selling price of 20 pens. His gain is 20%.
Answer: (B) B and C only
Explanation
As a result of the chip boom, the requirement of workforce in the electronics manufacturing sector will:
Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant followed by recent approval to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and Assembly, Testing and Packaging (ATP) plants with an investment of Rs. 1,30,000 crore (and more in the pipeline) are the beginning of a transformational global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India. This will create a multiplier effect on talented and skilled workforce inside India.
It is a matter of pride that almost one-third of the global semiconductor talent pool is Indian. However, the need for domestic semiconductor workforce is estimated to be around 3,00,000 by 2026. In addition, there is also a huge manpower requirement of almost six million in the electronics manufacturing sector which will be the largest beneficiary of this chip boom.
The current combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate output from India's higher education institutions is inadequate.
The growth is certainly going to come from the non-IITian orbit and the policy pathways of the Ministries of Electronics and IT and Education converge to present bountiful opportunities for industry and academia to work together.
This industry-academia synergy was key to India's software success story. Now a similar trifecta of government-industry-academia is needed to make this a winning semicon trio.
Answer: (C) increase
Explanation
The new talented skilled workforce in India will come mainly from:
Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant followed by recent approval to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and Assembly, Testing and Packaging (ATP) plants with an investment of Rs. 1,30,000 crore (and more in the pipeline) are the beginning of a transformational global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India. This will create a multiplier effect on talented and skilled workforce inside India.
It is a matter of pride that almost one-third of the global semiconductor talent pool is Indian. However, the need for domestic semiconductor workforce is estimated to be around 3,00,000 by 2026. In addition, there is also a huge manpower requirement of almost six million in the electronics manufacturing sector which will be the largest beneficiary of this chip boom.
The current combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate output from India's higher education institutions is inadequate.
The growth is certainly going to come from the non-IITian orbit and the policy pathways of the Ministries of Electronics and IT and Education converge to present bountiful opportunities for industry and academia to work together.
This industry-academia synergy was key to India's software success story. Now a similar trifecta of government-industry-academia is needed to make this a winning semicon trio.
Answer: (B) The non-IITian orbit
Explanation
India's share in the semiconductor global talent pool is:
Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant followed by recent approval to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and Assembly, Testing and Packaging (ATP) plants with an investment of Rs. 1,30,000 crore (and more in the pipeline) are the beginning of a transformational global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India. This will create a multiplier effect on talented and skilled workforce inside India.
It is a matter of pride that almost one-third of the global semiconductor talent pool is Indian. However, the need for domestic semiconductor workforce is estimated to be around 3,00,000 by 2026. In addition, there is also a huge manpower requirement of almost six million in the electronics manufacturing sector which will be the largest beneficiary of this chip boom.
The current combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate output from India's higher education institutions is inadequate.
The growth is certainly going to come from the non-IITian orbit and the policy pathways of the Ministries of Electronics and IT and Education converge to present bountiful opportunities for industry and academia to work together.
This industry-academia synergy was key to India's software success story. Now a similar trifecta of government-industry-academia is needed to make this a winning semicon trio.
Answer: (B) One-third
Explanation
Micron set up a:
Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant followed by recent approval to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and Assembly, Testing and Packaging (ATP) plants with an investment of Rs. 1,30,000 crore (and more in the pipeline) are the beginning of a transformational global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India. This will create a multiplier effect on talented and skilled workforce inside India.
It is a matter of pride that almost one-third of the global semiconductor talent pool is Indian. However, the need for domestic semiconductor workforce is estimated to be around 3,00,000 by 2026. In addition, there is also a huge manpower requirement of almost six million in the electronics manufacturing sector which will be the largest beneficiary of this chip boom.
The current combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate output from India's higher education institutions is inadequate.
The growth is certainly going to come from the non-IITian orbit and the policy pathways of the Ministries of Electronics and IT and Education converge to present bountiful opportunities for industry and academia to work together.
This industry-academia synergy was key to India's software success story. Now a similar trifecta of government-industry-academia is needed to make this a winning semicon trio.
Answer: (C) A semiconductor plant
Explanation
The need for additional talented and skilled workforce in the domestic semiconductor sector has been created by:
A. The approval given to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and ATP plants
B. Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant
C. Setting up of new universities
D. The global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India
Micron's $800 million semiconductor plant followed by recent approval to Tata Group and CG Power for fabrication and Assembly, Testing and Packaging (ATP) plants with an investment of Rs. 1,30,000 crore (and more in the pipeline) are the beginning of a transformational global supply chain shift centered around chip manufacturing in India. This will create a multiplier effect on talented and skilled workforce inside India.
It is a matter of pride that almost one-third of the global semiconductor talent pool is Indian. However, the need for domestic semiconductor workforce is estimated to be around 3,00,000 by 2026. In addition, there is also a huge manpower requirement of almost six million in the electronics manufacturing sector which will be the largest beneficiary of this chip boom.
The current combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate output from India's higher education institutions is inadequate.
The growth is certainly going to come from the non-IITian orbit and the policy pathways of the Ministries of Electronics and IT and Education converge to present bountiful opportunities for industry and academia to work together.
This industry-academia synergy was key to India's software success story. Now a similar trifecta of government-industry-academia is needed to make this a winning semicon trio.
Answer: (D) A, B and D only
Explanation
100 questions with the answer key and explanations.
Which among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as defined by I.A. Richards in Practical Criticism?
Answer: (B) Form
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of various periods of English Literature?
A. Caroline Age
B. Jacobean Age
C. Restoration Age
D. Commonwealth Period
E. Augustan Age
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B, A, D, C, E
Explanation
Which of the following works is not written by Chinua Achebe?
Answer: (D) Weep Not, Child
Explanation
Name the British poet who wrote Sohrab and Rustum:
Answer: (C) Matthew Arnold
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of famous dramatists in order of their birth?
A. William Congreve
B. John Dryden
C. William Wycherley
D. George Bernard Shaw
E. John Millington Synge
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) B, C, A, D, E
Explanation
From the following writers, who are known for Magic Realism?
A. R.K. Narayan
B. Salman Rushdie
C. V.S. Naipaul
D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
E. Mulk Raj Anand
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B and D only
Explanation
Who among the following African writers observed that "O my body, make of me always a man who questions"?
Answer: (B) Frantz Fanon
Explanation
Which among the following writers once remarked that "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"?
Answer: (C) Lord Byron
Explanation
What is the correct chronological order of the works of John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Lycidas
D. Comus
E. L'Allegro
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) E, D, C, A, B
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the poems and poets.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. To His Coy Mistress | I. Rudyard Kipling |
| B. The Scholar Gypsy | II. Andrew Marvell |
| C. Still I Rise | III. Matthew Arnold |
| D. If | IV. Maya Angelou |
List I and List II for poem-poet matching
Answer: (A) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Which of the following texts deals with the theme of creolisation?
Answer: (D) Wide Sargasso Sea
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the linguistic terms and definitions.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Anaphoric word | I. A unit of language that cannot be analysed into smaller meaningful units |
| B. Morpheme | II. Refers back to a word or phrase previously used in a text or conversation |
| C. Antecedent | III. Use of two or more words to express a meaning that could otherwise be expressed in a single word |
| D. Periphrasis | IV. A word or phrase that is referred back to by a pronoun or other proform |
List I and List II for term-definition matching
Answer: (C) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
The poetic line "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" appears in:
Answer: (B) Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.
Explanation
In the 1985 essay Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism, Gayatri Spivak discusses which texts?
A. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
B. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
C. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
D. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
E. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A, B and C only
Explanation
Barbara Smith, in her essay Toward a Black Feminist Criticism, raises concerns for:
A. Only Black women
B. Black lesbian women
C. Black women in the White world only
D. Black lesbian women amongst Black women vis-a-vis White women
E. Black and White women together, as they have universal concerns
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) B and D only
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with the Cambridge School of Critics?
Answer: (D) Kenneth Burke
Explanation
Arrange the following literary movements in chronological order of their emergence.
A. Imagism
B. Impressionism
C. Absurdism
D. Futurism
E. Pre-Raphaelitism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) E, B, D, A, C
Explanation
Who among the following was not a proponent of the Oxford Movement?
Answer: (D) Charles Kingsley
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the works and authors.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Language as Paradox | I. Raymond Williams |
| B. Against Interpretation | II. Cleanth Brooks |
| C. Realism and the Contemporary Novel | III. George Orwell |
| D. Politics and the English Language | IV. Susan Sontag |
List I and List II for work-author matching
Answer: (C) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of the following books of D.H. Lawrence?
A. Lady Chatterley's Lover
B. Sons and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. The White Peacock
E. The Plumed Serpent
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) D, B, C, E, A
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with the Yale School?
Answer: (B) Terry Eagleton
Explanation
Which is the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style?
Answer: (C) 17th edition
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the dramatists and theatrical forms or techniques.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Martin Esslin | I. Theatre of Cruelty |
| B. Bertolt Brecht | II. Dream Play |
| C. Antonin Artaud | III. Estrangement effect |
| D. August Strindberg | IV. Theatre of the Absurd |
List I and List II for dramatist-technique matching
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with the Cockney School of Poetry?
Answer: (D) William Blake
Explanation
Patrick White, the Australian novelist, was a recipient of which of the following prizes?
A. Australian of the Year (1973)
B. Pulitzer Prize (1965)
C. Booker Prize (1955)
D. Nobel Prize in Literature (1973)
E. Perkins Prize in Narrative (1992)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A and D only
Explanation
Which of the following popular Indian words have been incorporated in the Oxford Dictionary in the recent past?
A. Chai
B. Bhaijaan
C. Jugaad
D. Kamaal
E. Namaste
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, C, E only
Explanation
Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following works were published.
A. The Vicar of Wakefield
B. Life of Johnson
C. Johnson's Dictionary
D. Lives of the Poets
E. The Life of Nelson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) C, A, D, B, E
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of the following novels of Amitav Ghosh in order of their year of publication?
A. The Hungry Tide
B. The Shadow Lines
C. The Sea of Poppies
D. The Calcutta Chromosome
E. The Circle of Reason
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) E, B, D, A, C
Explanation
Choose the correct statements with regard to the binary pair langue and parole introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure.
A. Langue is translated as speech and parole as language.
B. Langue is the internal structure of a language, not language use itself.
C. Parole is the event of language.
D. Parole and language are a set of vocabulary only.
E. There is no distinction between parole and langue.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C and B only
Explanation
Which of the following writers remarked that "You are your best thing"?
Answer: (A) Toni Morrison in Beloved
Explanation
Arrange the following works in order of their year of publication.
A. Edward Said's Orientalism
B. Bhabha's Nation and Narration
C. Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
D. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind
E. Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) C, A, D, B, E
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of the following works in order of their publication?
A. Arun Joshi's The Foreigner
B. Ved Mehta's Face to Face
C. Khushwant Singh's I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
D. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's Inqilab
E. G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) E, D, B, C, A
Explanation
Under whose presidency was PEN, an ( international association of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists, and novelists) , founded by Mrs. Dawson-Scott in 1921?
Answer: (A) John Galsworthy
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Dalit women writers in order of their birth?
A. Urmila Pawar
B. Bama
C. Meena Kandasamy
D. Gogu Shyamala
E. Kumud Pawde
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) E, A, B, D, C
Explanation
Chronologically arrange the following texts in order of publication.
A. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
B. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
C. Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
D. Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch
E. Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) C, B, A, D, E
Explanation
Which work of John Keats is dedicated to Thomas Chatterton?
Answer: (B) Endymion
Explanation
Who among the following was not associated with the Movement Poetry?
Answer: (A) Charles Kingsley
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the theoretical terms and definitions.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Aporia | I. Technical term in structuralist theory that implies "utterance" |
| B. Enonce | II. Formal eulogy in prose or verse to glorify people, objects, or ideas |
| C. Encomium | III. The writing or study of the lives of saints |
| D. Hagiography | IV. A deconstructive term indicating conflict between rhetoric and thought |
List I and List II for theory-term matching
Answer: (C) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya in order of their publication?
A. A Goddess Named Gold
B. Music for Mohini
C. Shadow from Ladakh
D. So Many Hungers!
E. He Who Rides a Tiger
Answer: (A) D, B, E, A, C
Explanation
What is the full form of APA?
Answer: (B) American Psychological Association
Explanation
Identify the author of the following lines:
"There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail."
Answer: (B) Thomas De Quincey
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the concepts and the thinkers who coined or developed them.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Objectivism | I. John Ruskin |
| B. Pathetic Fallacy | II. G.M. Hopkins |
| C. Sprung Rhythm | III. William Carlos Williams |
| D. Structures of Feeling | IV. Raymond Williams |
List I and List II for concept-thinker matching
Answer: (D) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Explanation
Which articles of the Indian Constitution pertain to the provisions relating to the Official Language of the Union?
A. 342
B. 343
C. 344
D. 345
E. 346
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B and C only
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between original names and pen names or pseudonyms.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | I. George Eliot |
| B. Mary Ann Evans | II. Mark Twain |
| C. Eric Arthur Blair | III. George Orwell |
| D. Samuel Langhorne Clemens | IV. Lewis Carroll |
List I and List II for original name-pseudonym matching
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Explanation
The poem O Captain! My Captain! is a tribute to:
Answer: (A) Abraham Lincoln
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Indian writers in order of their birth?
A. Manohar Malgonkar
B. Mulk Raj Anand
C. Toru Dutt
D. Khushwant Singh
E. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) E, C, B, A, D
Explanation
Which among the following does not fall in the category of Morality Plays?
Answer: (D) The City Heiress
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the terms and the thinkers who coined or developed them.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Third Space | I. Jean Baudrillard |
| B. Weltliteratur | II. Goethe |
| C. Post-Impressionism | III. Homi Bhabha |
| D. Simulacra | IV. Roger Fry |
List I and List II for term-thinker matching
Answer: (A) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Who among the following observed that "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature"?
Answer: (B) Samuel Johnson
Explanation
Which of the following definitions of linguistic terms are correct?
A. Orthoepy is the study of correct grammar in conformity with established regional patterns.
B. Philology is the study of phonemes and other characteristics of the systems of speech sounds in individual languages.
C. Synchronic study pertains to the study of language at a specific historical point.
D. Diachronic study pertains to the historical dimensions of language, that is, linguistic change over time.
E. Phonology is the study of language in its cultural and social contexts.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) C and D only
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the translated texts and translators.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Kena, Isa, Katha and Mundaka Upanishads (1830s) | I. Ralph T.H. Griffith |
| B. Ramayana (1870-75) | II. Manmatha Nath Dutt |
| C. Mahabharata (7 vols., 1895) | III. Charles Wilkins |
| D. The Bhagvat Geeta (1785) | IV. Ram Mohan Ray |
List I and List II for text-translator matching
Answer: (B) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
Explanation
Which among the following is not a work of Samuel Johnson?
Answer: (C) The Journal of Stella
Explanation
Who among the following used the idea of "untranslatableness" in his famous work?
Answer: (D) Matthew Arnold in The Study of Poetry
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of five stages of action in order of occurrence as described by Dhananjaya in Dasarupa?
A. Praaptyaashaa (Prospect of success)
B. Aarambh (Beginning)
C. Niyataapti (Certainty of success)
D. Yatna (Effort)
E. Phalaagama (Attainment of the result)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) B, D, A, C, E
Explanation
Who among the following was not a leading figure of New Criticism?
Answer: (C) I.A. Richards
Explanation
Literature review provides:
Answer: (B) Discussion of works already researched in a relevant subject area
Explanation
Which day is celebrated as International Mother Language Day?
Answer: (A) February 21
Explanation
Which among the following chapters is a distinct feature of the latest edition of the MLA Handbook?
Answer: (B) Principles of Inclusive Language
Explanation
Using the table above, choose the correct mapping between the books and authors.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. The Complete Adventures of Feluda | I. Vikram Chandra |
| B. The Perfect Murder | II. Ruskin Bond |
| C. Sacred Games | III. Deepa Anappara |
| D. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | IV. Satyajit Ray |
List I and List II for book-author matching
Answer: (A) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Explanation
Who among the following referred to Byron's works as "monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety"?
Answer: (B) Robert Southey
Explanation
Which of the following works were edited by gay activists, writers, or artists?
A. Are We Not Men? by Philip Brian Harper
B. Charisma by Erica Edwards
C. Extravagant Abjection by Darieck Scott
D. The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
E. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) A, B, C only
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of British poets in order of their birth?
A. Andrew Marvell
B. John Milton
C. John Donne
D. Richard Lovelace
E. Thomas Carew
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) C, E, B, D, A
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the grammatical terms and definitions.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Apodosis | I. Clause expressing the condition |
| B. Protasis | II. Clause expressing the consequence |
| C. Collocation | III. Links the subject of a sentence with a complement |
| D. Copular verb | IV. Pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed |
List I and List II for grammar-term matching
Answer: (D) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the authors and texts.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Richard Hoggart | I. The Secret Politics of Our Desires |
| B. Ashis Nandy | II. The Making of the English Working Class |
| C. Raymond Williams | III. The Uses of Literacy |
| D. E.P. Thompson | IV. The Long Revolution |
List I and List II for author-text matching
Answer: (A) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
The term negritude, coined by Aime Cesaire, was both appreciated and criticised. Select the correct responses it received.
A. Senghor considered the term derogatory.
B. Leon Damas did not participate in the Negritude movement.
C. Creole writers attacked the term for its monolithic view.
D. Wole Soyinka considered negritude an unhealthy fetishism of the native state.
E. Frantz Fanon was extremely critical of the term and never used it.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) C and D only
Explanation
Which of the following books was edited by gay activists and artists Joseph Beam and Essex Hemphill?
Answer: (A) Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991)
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste and the concerns dealt with in it?
A. It is an undelivered speech written in 1936.
B. It focuses on the need to create a society where individuals are treated with dignity and respect regardless of caste.
C. There will be outcastes even if the caste system is completely destroyed.
D. An ideal society will always have a strong caste system even if it is based on liberty, equality, and fraternity.
E. It is a fictitious novel.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A and B only
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the texts and characters.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Coolie | I. Satyajit |
| B. The Serpent and the Rope | II. Munoo |
| C. Waiting for the Mahatma | III. Ramaswamy |
| D. Shadow from Ladakh | IV. Sriram |
List I and List II for text-character matching
Answer: (D) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Dalit Panthers Movement?
A. It was influenced by the Black Panthers Movement.
B. It was founded by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
C. It was led by Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J.V. Pawar.
D. Jyotiba Phule participated actively in it.
E. It was rooted in the Little Magazine Movement.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) A, C, E only
Explanation
What is the correct sequence of the following plays of Girish Karnad in order of their year of publication?
A. Hayavadana
B. Nagamandala
C. Tughlaq
D. Yayati
E. Bali: The Sacrifice
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) D, C, A, B, E
Explanation
Which of the following statements is not true about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea?
Answer: (C) The action of the novel takes place in South Africa.
Explanation
Which out of the following will help you avoid plagiarism?
Answer: (C) Giving credit to the original author in an in-text citation and in the list of works cited
Explanation
Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth.
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Walt Whitman
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) B, D, E, A, C
Explanation
The Two Nations is the subtitle of:
Answer: (B) Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil
Explanation
Which of the following writers pioneered the Australian Aboriginal Movement?
A. David Malouf
B. Kevin Gilbert
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Jack Davis
E. Judith Wright
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, C, D only
Explanation
Out of the following, which bibliographical entry follows the style prescribed in the MLA Handbook (9th edition)?
Answer: (A) Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Explanation
P.B. Shelley's Adonais laments the death of:
Answer: (A) John Keats
Explanation
Identify the text from which the following lines have been taken:
"Therefore compare we the poet with the historian and with the moral philosopher; and if he go beyond them both, no other human skill can match him."
Answer: (D) Defense of Poesie
Explanation
Arrange the following literary theories or movements in chronological order of their emergence.
A. Cultural Studies
B. Postmodernism
C. Feminism
D. Surrealism
E. Reception Theory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (D) D, A, C, E, B
Explanation
Who coined the term "phallogocentrism"?
Answer: (B) Jacques Derrida
Explanation
Annotated bibliography provides:
Answer: (C) A brief summary stating the importance of the works cited or referred to in the research
Explanation
Using the table , choose the correct mapping between the Sanskrit texts and authors.
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| A. Dhvanyaloka | I. Dandin |
| B. Kavyadarsa | II. Dhananjaya |
| C. Vakyapadiya | III. Anandvardhan |
| D. Dasarupa | IV. Bhartrhari |
List I and List II for Sanskrit text-author matching
Answer: (C) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Explanation
The line "He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail" occurs in:
Answer: (C) Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Explanation
Who among the following were associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Answer: (A) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais
Explanation
Arrange the following films on disability concerns in the order of their year of release.
A. Paa
B. Khamoshi
C. Iqbal
D. Margarita with a Straw
E. Fanaa
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (C) B, C, E, A, D
Explanation
Which of the following statements are correct about prosody?
A. In the study of the novel, it concerns narrative technique.
B. In the study of poetry, it concerns meter and other techniques of versification.
C. In the study of drama, it concerns theatrical devices.
D. In the study of spoken sounds, it concerns intonation, pitch, stress, rhythm, etc.
E. In the study of discourse, it concerns content and delivery.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B and D only
Explanation
What is the correct chronological sequence of periods of American Literature?
A. Early National Period
B. Revolutionary Age
C. Naturalistic Period
D. Romantic Period in America / Age of Transcendentalism
E. Realistic Period
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (B) B, A, D, E, C
Explanation
Which of the following magazines aimed at depicting concerns of girls who embraced teen-girl culture or "girlhood"?
A. Sassy
B. Bust
C. Bitch
D. Ophelia Speaks
E. Colonize This!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: (A) A, B and D only
Explanation
A brief reference in the text that indicates the source of an idea or quotation consulted from another source is:
Answer: (A) In-text citation
Explanation
Based on the poem , What advice does the speaker give to his/ her son ?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now -
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't no crystal stair.
Answer: (A) Stay strong and never give up in life
Explanation
Based on the poem , what kind of life does the line
"life for me .....no crystal stair" signify?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now -
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't no crystal stair.
Answer: (B) A life full of hardships and struggles
Explanation
Based on the poem , which rhetorical device has been used by repeating "And" at the beginning of lines?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now -
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't no crystal stair.
Answer: (C) Anaphora
Explanation
Based on the poem
which one of the following is the extended metaphor in the poem?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now -
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't no crystal stair.
Answer: (C) Staircase
Explanation
Based on the poem
which colloquial form of English is used in the poem?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor -
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now -
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't no crystal stair.
Answer: (D) African-American English
Explanation
Based on the passage below,
what does the author mean by "Man also must know because he must live"?
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very much bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shopkeeper, it has no large profit from the trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life's commerce, is a big merchant, for he earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess wealth in man's life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of life. But there they stop. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is free. Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
Answer: (B) Knowledge is necessary for practical living
Explanation
Based on the passage , at what stage does knowledge become freedom for man?
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very much bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shopkeeper, it has no large profit from the trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life's commerce, is a big merchant, for he earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess wealth in man's life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of life. But there they stop. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is free. Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
Answer: (D) When man acquires a surplus of knowledge beyond primary necessities of life
Explanation
Based on the passage , what does the metaphor "a big merchant" stand for?
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very much bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shopkeeper, it has no large profit from the trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life's commerce, is a big merchant, for he earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess wealth in man's life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of life. But there they stop. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is free. Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
Answer: (C) A person with abundant surplus resources for knowledge and freedom
Explanation
Based on the passage , what gives man the freedom to be useless and irresponsible?
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very much bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shopkeeper, it has no large profit from the trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life's commerce, is a big merchant, for he earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess wealth in man's life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of life. But there they stop. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is free. Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
Answer: (C) Abundance of wealth in life
Explanation
Based on the passage, what according to the writer, is the basic difference between animal and man?
The most important distinction between the animal and man is this, that the animal is very much bound within the limits of its necessities, the greater part of its activities being necessary for self-preservation and the preservation of race. Like a retail shopkeeper, it has no large profit from the trade of life, the bulk of its earnings must be spent in paying back the interest to its bank. Most resources are employed in mere endeavour to live. But man, in life's commerce, is a big merchant, for he earns a great deal more than he is absolutely compelled to spend. Therefore there is a vast excess wealth in man's life, which gives him the freedom to be useless and irresponsible to a great measure. There are large outlying tracts, surrounding his necessities, where he has objects that are ends in themselves. The animals must have knowledge, so that their knowledge can be employed for useful purposes of life. But there they stop. Man also must know because he must live. But man has a surplus where he can proudly assert that knowledge is for the sake of knowledge. There he has the pure enjoyment of his knowledge because there knowledge is free. Upon this fund of surplus his science and philosophy thrive.
Answer: (A) Animals are preoccupied with self-sustenance while man aspires for freedom through knowledge.
Explanation
Match List - I (Concept / Term) with List - II (Developed / Coined by) using the table below.
| List I (Concept / Term) | List II (Developed / Coined by) |
|---|---|
| A. Chora | I. Hélène Cixous |
| B. Carnivalization | II. Julia Kristeva |
| C. Contrapuntal Reading | III. Mikhail Bakhtin |
| D. Écriture Féminine | IV. Edward W. Said |
Match concepts with theorists who developed or coined them
Answer: (B) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Explanation
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