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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
PASSAGE : 1
“The emancipation of women’, James Joyce told one of his friends, ‘has caused the greatest revolution in our time’. Other modernists agree: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 ‘human character changed’ and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, ‘Read the “Agamemon” and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra’. D.H. Lawrence wrote ‘perhaps the deepest fight for 200 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence’. But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination as one of their ‘greatest’ and ‘deepest’ themes, only recently, perhaps in the past 15 years has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that abound in modern literature have gone unremarked – far from it. We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
According to the passage, modernists are changing literary criticism by:
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Answer : b
Read the lines, ‘We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change’.
These lines suggest that there has been an overhaul in the mindsets and new ideas are emerging which have not been seen as of now. Option (b) summarises this idea the best and hence, option (b) is the answer.
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Answer : b
Read the lines, ‘We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change’.
These lines suggest that there has been an overhaul in the mindsets and new ideas are emerging which have not been seen as of now. Option (b) summarises this idea the best and hence, option (b) is the answer.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
“The emancipation of women’, James Joyce told one of his friends, ‘has caused the greatest revolution in our time’. Other modernists agree: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 ‘human character changed’ and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, ‘Read the “Agamemon” and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra’. D.H. Lawrence wrote ‘perhaps the deepest fight for 200 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence’. But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination as one of their ‘greatest’ and ‘deepest’ themes, only recently, perhaps in the past 15 years has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that abound in modern literature have gone unremarked – far from it. We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that:
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Answer : c
The author quotes these feminine authors to suggest the idea that although these women have been writing for a long time now but there was not much of a readership for these authors and this idea has been effectively depicted in option (c) and hence, is the correct answer.
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Answer : c
The author quotes these feminine authors to suggest the idea that although these women have been writing for a long time now but there was not much of a readership for these authors and this idea has been effectively depicted in option (c) and hence, is the correct answer.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
“The emancipation of women’, James Joyce told one of his friends, ‘has caused the greatest revolution in our time’. Other modernists agree: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 ‘human character changed’ and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, ‘Read the “Agamemon” and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra’. D.H. Lawrence wrote ‘perhaps the deepest fight for 200 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence’. But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination as one of their ‘greatest’ and ‘deepest’ themes, only recently, perhaps in the past 15 years has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that abound in modern literature have gone unremarked – far from it. We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
The author’s attitude towards women’s reformation of literary canons can best be described as one
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Answer : d
The author depicts a positive outlook towards women authors and their writings and hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
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Answer : d
The author depicts a positive outlook towards women authors and their writings and hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Read the following passage and answer that follow:
D.H Lawrence – 1885-1930: The Supreme Triumph For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man as for flow and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture, that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is the part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet below know the perfectly, and my blood is the sea. My soul knows that I am a part of the human race, my soul is an inorganic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is a part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of wards. Apocalypse, 1931.
By triumph the author means:
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Answer : d
The only meaning which can be derived of the word triumph is victory and hence, option (d) is the answer.
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Answer : d
The only meaning which can be derived of the word triumph is victory and hence, option (d) is the answer.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
Read the following passage and answer that follow:
D.H Lawrence – 1885-1930: The Supreme Triumph For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man as for flow and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture, that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is the part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet below know the perfectly, and my blood is the sea. My soul knows that I am a part of the human race, my soul is an inorganic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is a part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of wards. Apocalypse, 1931.
When the dead look after the afterwards, the living should look at life:
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Answer : c
‘But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone and ours only for a time. ‘hence, living beings’ life is temporary. Therefore, option (c) is the correct answer.
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Answer : c
‘But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone and ours only for a time. ‘hence, living beings’ life is temporary. Therefore, option (c) is the correct answer.
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