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Question 1

Appeared in Year: 2014

Question MCQ▾

Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by (December)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Nissim Ezekiel

b.

Saleem Peeradina

c.

A K Ramanujan

d.

Agha Shahid Ali

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Passage

Dead Fox

We pretended to know nothing about it.

I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out

of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.

This was around the time

we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,

leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap

under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.

But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse

right at the start: the fox just over the hillock

on the dune-side slope, spoiling

the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked –

it seemed best to back away.

On the dune՚s steep side

we surveyed what we՚d come for: ocean՚s

snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered

blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough

to hold ourselves to that view.

But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,

until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.

The heat compounded, and ugliness

settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech,

although by then we were not speaking. (January paper 3)

Question 2 (1 of 4 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

The “We” of the opening line indicates

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Two persons

b.

The speaker and an imaginary listener

c.

An unspecified crowd

d.

A group

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Question 3 (2 of 4 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

The dead animal was sighted

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

on the dune՚s steep side

b.

in the swampy undergrowth

c.

at the end of the trail

d.

on the dune՚s sloping side

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Question 4 (3 of 4 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as

I. Evasive

II. Angry

III. Bizarre

IV. Muted

The right combination according to the code is

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

I and IV

b.

III and IV

c.

I and II

d.

II and III

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Question 5 (4 of 4 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

At the close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders the visitors speechless?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

touch

b.

sound

c.

smell

d.

sight

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Passage

Read the following poem and answer questions:

Bored

Margaret Atwood

All those times I was bored out of my mind.

Holding the log while he sawed it.

Holding the string while he measured, boards,

distances between things, or pounded

stakes into the ground for rows and rows

of lettuces and beets, which I then (bored) weeded.

Or sat in the back of the car, or sat still in boats,

sat, sat, while at the prow, stern, wheel he drove, steered, paddled.

It wasn՚t even boredom, it was looking,

looking hard and up close at the small details Myopia.

The worn gunwales, the intricate twill of the seat cover.

The acid crumbs of loam, the granular

pink rock, its igneous veins, the sea-fans

of dry moss, the blackish and then the graying bristles on the back of his neck.

Sometimes he would whistle, sometimes

I would. The boring rhythm of doing

things over and over, carrying the wood, drying the dishes.

Such minutiae.

it՚s what the animals spend most of their time at,

ferrying the sand, grain by grain, from their tunnels,

shuffling the leaves in their burrows. He pointed

such things out, and I would look

at the whorled texture of his square finger, earth under

the nail. Why do I remember it as sunnier

all the time then, although it more often

rained, and more birdsong?

I could hardly wait to get

the hell out of there to

anywhere else. Perhaps though

boredom is happier. It is for dogs or

groundhogs. Now I wouldn՚t be bored.

Now I would know too much.

Now I would know. (November Paper 3)

Question 6 (1 of 3 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

“All those times” - the opening words of the poem locate the speaker in:

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

A highway motel

b.

A natural environment

c.

A mountain resort

d.

A city suburb

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