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READING COMPREHENSION SET I MCQs

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Question 281.


Which of the following is probably not true with respect to the passage?


  1.     Hilary Putnam supported Kelly’s thought on aesthetics.
  2.     There were some authors who were criticising Shelley’s thoughts.
  3.     The author supports Kelly’s views of aesthetics position.
  4.     None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> The author supports Kelly’s views of aesthetics position.
:
C

Option (c)


Option (a) is wrong because of this line in the passage "Kelly finds reassurance in Hilary Putnam's recent re-thinking of philosophical realism"
Option (b) is wrong because of this line in the passage "This is partly the issue that Thomas Pfau takes up polemically". This indicates that some people/authors were against Pfau's thoughts.
Option (c) does not find support in the passage. Look at the line "But still more questions arise. Does the potential solipsism necessarily inherent in any aesthetic pleasure find a rapport, or a reciprocal production of meaning, with the empirical world? If Romanticism has a grasp  upon the actual that is not merely weak, how do the actual and the pleasure of that aesthetic "grasp" signify to each other?" It looks as if the author doesn’t fully agree with Kelly's thoughts.


Question 282.


According to the author, what is the final outcome of a perpetual revolution included in civil disobedience?


  1.     Perpetual revolution led to another revolution as it suggests that revolution is not a conclusion.
  2.     The visualization and nurturing of a new political framework.
  3.     Perpetual revolution led to another revolution as it suggests that revolution can never be more than provisionally justified.
  4.     Both (a) & (c)
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> The visualization and nurturing of a new political framework.
:
B

Option(b)


Look at these lines from the last paragraph "civil disobedience is a promising variation on a theme that includes the perpetual revolutions" and "Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally, it imagines and cultivates another political context". The question is what is the final outcome of a perpetual revolution. It finally creates a new political context.


So answer (b) is correct.


All the other answer options are the intermediate conclusions and not the final outcome.


Question 283.


 Who reignited the question - "What is maturity?” ?


  1.     Kelly & Pfau in their book
  2.     Foucalt
  3.     John Clare
  4.     F.R. Leavis
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Foucalt
:
B

The question can be answered directly from the first para.
Answer is option (b).


Question 284.


Which of the following examples, if true, closely parallels one of the arguments brought about in the first paragraph of the passage?


  1.     Sachin has never got out to a short ball. So he thinks he has the right technique to handle short balls and doesn’t want to change it.
  2.     Dhoni has never missed a stumping while keeping. So he believes that his stance while keeping is correct.
  3.     Murali has never been called for illegal action by umpires. So he doesn’t want to change his legal action now.
  4.     Dickie bird has never given a wrong decision. So he sees no reason in changing his decision making process.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Murali has never been called for illegal action by umpires. So he doesn’t want to change his legal action now.
:
C

Option (c)


This question is with reference with the line "When Paine says that the long habit of not thinking a thing wrong creates the superficial impression of its being right, he brings to our attention the fact that the long habit of not thinking a thing wrong makes it unlikely that we will think to change it."


So there are 2 consequences of not thinking a thing wrong –
1) You think you are right
2) You are unlikely to change


Murali thinks his action is legal and he doesn’t want to change.
Only option c) illustrates both the consequences.


Question 285.


Which of the following is best exemplified by the character Vawdrey in the passage?


  1.     Light-minded bourgeois affability.
  2.     Vawdrey is the answer to the writers’ invisibility.
  3.     The fact that a writer is the opposite of his perceptible character.
  4.     The premise that the writer is an apparition.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> The fact that a writer is the opposite of his perceptible character.
:
C

Option (c)


The last paragraph that talks about Vawdrey emphasizes the fact that the writer’s work is steeped in greatness and people get to know of only the outer layer, the real personality of the writers comes through only in their work. This is represented only in option (c). Option (a) talks only about one side of the writer’s character and hence cannot be the answer. Option (b) also talks about only one side of the character. Option (d) does not make any sense. Option (c) is the correct answer.


Question 286.


What, according to the author, is the reason for the invisibility of the living?


  1.     It hampers literary continuity.
  2.     The living are shy of the arc lights.
  3.     Their work is not worthy of consideration.
  4.     They are victims of parochialism.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> They are victims of parochialism.
:
D

Option (d)


Refer to para 3 where the author feels that the invisibility stems from varied prejudices.


Question 287.


With which of the following argument is the author non committal in the entire passage?


  1.     Revolution and war are put forward as rhetorical strategies within an argument
  2.     Sudden change is not a law but an exemption
  3.     Perpetual revolution is not a conclusion but a step in the argument
  4.     Local wars and revolutions escalating into global conflicts
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Local wars and revolutions escalating into global conflicts
:
D

Option (d)


Look at this line in the passage "Drawing the whole world into every act of violence may partly explain why "local" wars and revolutions have escalated into global conflicts. But my point here is to focus on rhetorical strategy in the context of an argument."


The author himself doesn’t want to comment on option (D) .


Every other option is discussed in the passage by the author with examples.


Question 288.


The following statements find support from the lines in the passage except:


  1.     David Walker, a revolutionary like Jefferson agreed with the views of Jefferson.
  2.     Thoreau, the most consistent revolutionary, urged people to reserve disobedience for consistent affronts to human dignity.
  3.     Mao and Jefferson were good revolutionaries who never let the revolutionary flame die down.
  4.     Since war and revolution was deemed as a necessary conclusion to end violence and abuse disagreement with it was nonsensical.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> David Walker, a revolutionary like Jefferson agreed with the views of Jefferson.
:
A

Option (a)


The author doesn’t state anywhere that David walker is a revolutionary. The only thing the author states is "David Walker, writing with Jefferson in mind and partly in response to his Notes on the State of Virginia, followed the same pattern".


Question 289.


The significance of admiration for writers is dissimilar from that of celebrities and politicians because:


  1.     Fame is transient.
  2.     Fame offers immeasurable public approbation.
  3.     Writers look for deeper recognition.
  4.     Fame is clamorous.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Writers look for deeper recognition.
:
C

Option (c) can be easily inferred from para 1.


Question 290.


According to the passage, the two tyrannies escaped by Nabokov were:


  1.     That he was an invisible writer and suffered linguistic problems.
  2.     That he fled from the Bolshevik revolution and the Nazi turmoil.
  3.     That he was welcomed in America but also suffered a rejection.
  4.     That his invisibility extended to all and the fact that he wrote in Russian.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> That he fled from the Bolshevik revolution and the Nazi turmoil.
:
B

Option (b)


The passage mentions that Nabokov escaped the 20th century’s greatest tyrannies which were the Bolshevik upheavals and the Nazi persecution.


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