SECTION C LITERATURE
This section has sub-sections- V, VI, VII, VIII & IX. There are a total of 25
questions in this section. Attempt any 20 questions from the sub-sections V to
IX
V. Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow:
Some twenty- thirty- years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly," she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach." The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
Q. 27 What does the photograph show?
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4
(a)Option 1 (b) Option 2 (c) Option 3 (d) Option 4
Q. 28 What does the poet mean by the word ‘Both’ in the poem?
(a) poet’s mother remembering her childhood
(b) poet remembering her mother’s laughter
(c) poet’s mother’s fondness on looking the photograph
(d) both (a) and (b)
Q. 29 What would the Mother show to her daughter while showing her the
photograph?
(a) How their parents dressed them for the beach
(b) How they enjoyed at the beach
(c)Her cousins
(d) Both (a) and (c)
Q. 30 Which phrase from the extract is an example of the same poetic device as
‘ Old News’?
(a) Dressed us (b) twenty- thirty (c) laboured ease (d) Both wry
, VI Very hopefully ,he asked, "She isn't married, then?" His voice did not betray
his excitement but I knew it was there. "She was married a year ago." His face
shrivelled like a roasted brinjal .After a while, Ranga left, saying ,"I must go, I
have work at home."
Q. 31 What emotion is displayed by Ranga when he says ,”I must go, I have
work at home.’
(a) worry (b) excitement (c) betray (d) distress
Q. 32 Which literary device has been used in “His face shrivelled like a roasted
brinjal.”?
(a) Epithet (b) metaphor (c) simile (d) alliteration
Q. 33 What does the word’ betray ‘ mean?
(a) cheat (b) joy (c) love (d) excited
Q. 34 Why did Ranga leave the place immediately?
For he was -------------------
(a) overjoyed (b) not interested in Ratna (c) hurt (d) excited
VII Around the time Dubuffet was propounding his concept , in India "an
untutored genius was creating paradise." Years ago the little patch of jungle that
he began clearing to make himself a garden sculpted with stone and recycled
material is known to the world today as the Rock Garden ,at Chandigarh.
Q. 35 Which phrase gives a clearer meaning of ‘untutored genius’?
(a) have been formally trained to do something
(b)learnt the prescribed form
(c)have inadequate degree
(d) have accurate knowledge
Q. 36 Who was creating paradise ?
(a) Wu Daozi (b) Quinten Metsys
(c) Nek Chand (d) Tang Xuanzong
Q. 37 Which depicts the correct picture of ‘outsiders art’?
This section has sub-sections- V, VI, VII, VIII & IX. There are a total of 25
questions in this section. Attempt any 20 questions from the sub-sections V to
IX
V. Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow:
Some twenty- thirty- years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly," she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach." The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
Q. 27 What does the photograph show?
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4
(a)Option 1 (b) Option 2 (c) Option 3 (d) Option 4
Q. 28 What does the poet mean by the word ‘Both’ in the poem?
(a) poet’s mother remembering her childhood
(b) poet remembering her mother’s laughter
(c) poet’s mother’s fondness on looking the photograph
(d) both (a) and (b)
Q. 29 What would the Mother show to her daughter while showing her the
photograph?
(a) How their parents dressed them for the beach
(b) How they enjoyed at the beach
(c)Her cousins
(d) Both (a) and (c)
Q. 30 Which phrase from the extract is an example of the same poetic device as
‘ Old News’?
(a) Dressed us (b) twenty- thirty (c) laboured ease (d) Both wry
, VI Very hopefully ,he asked, "She isn't married, then?" His voice did not betray
his excitement but I knew it was there. "She was married a year ago." His face
shrivelled like a roasted brinjal .After a while, Ranga left, saying ,"I must go, I
have work at home."
Q. 31 What emotion is displayed by Ranga when he says ,”I must go, I have
work at home.’
(a) worry (b) excitement (c) betray (d) distress
Q. 32 Which literary device has been used in “His face shrivelled like a roasted
brinjal.”?
(a) Epithet (b) metaphor (c) simile (d) alliteration
Q. 33 What does the word’ betray ‘ mean?
(a) cheat (b) joy (c) love (d) excited
Q. 34 Why did Ranga leave the place immediately?
For he was -------------------
(a) overjoyed (b) not interested in Ratna (c) hurt (d) excited
VII Around the time Dubuffet was propounding his concept , in India "an
untutored genius was creating paradise." Years ago the little patch of jungle that
he began clearing to make himself a garden sculpted with stone and recycled
material is known to the world today as the Rock Garden ,at Chandigarh.
Q. 35 Which phrase gives a clearer meaning of ‘untutored genius’?
(a) have been formally trained to do something
(b)learnt the prescribed form
(c)have inadequate degree
(d) have accurate knowledge
Q. 36 Who was creating paradise ?
(a) Wu Daozi (b) Quinten Metsys
(c) Nek Chand (d) Tang Xuanzong
Q. 37 Which depicts the correct picture of ‘outsiders art’?
