Instructions

Read the passage and then determine the best choice for an answer from the questions given below. Base your choice on what this passage states directly or implies, not on any information you may have got from else where.

"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 a 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.

Question 111

According to the passage, modernists are changing literary criticism by :

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Solution

From the last paragraph, we can observe that literary criticism is changing as women are taking part in it and bringing their perspectives to it.

Thus, the answer is option B.

Question 112

The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that:

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Solution

The author does not talk about the interest in women's literature. The author explains how literary criticism has changed with time and mentions these authors' views on that.

Thus, options A, B and C can be rejected.

The answer is option D.

Question 113

The author's attitude towards women's reformation of literary canons can best be described as one of:

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Solution

The author is not speaking against the women's reformation of literary canons. In fact, in the last line of the passage, the author uses the pronoun "we" while talking about the reformation, thus including themselves.

Thus, the author is in favour of the reformation and supports it.

Hence, the answer is option D.

Question 114

Which of the following titles best describes the contents of the passage?

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Solution

The author talks about how literary writings and criticism have changed after the emancipation of women.

Thus, among the options, C [Transforming Literature] is the best choice for the title of the passage.

Instructions

For the following questions answer them individually

Question 115

Choose the correct sentence

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Solution

Options A and B are rejected as they use the wrong article.

Option C makes the first part a reason which does not fit the sentence.

Option D is the correct answer.

Question 116

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
______ is used to indicate possession.

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Solution

Possession is indicated by an apostrophe.

The answer is option B.

Question 117

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
______ is used to mark the end of declarative and imperative sentences.

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Solution

A declarative or imperative sentence is always ended with a "full stop" aka "period".

The answer is option D.

Question 118

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
When a subordinate clause is followed by the main clause, ______ is required.

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Solution

When a sub-ordinate clause comes before the main clause, they are both separated by a "comma".

Hence, the answer is option C.

Question 119

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
When no connecting word is used to connect two independent clauses, one should use ________.

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Solution

Two independent clauses are connected using conjunction [and, but, etc] or a semicolon.

Hence, the answer is option B.

Question 120

Which is the correct proverb?

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Solution

The correct prover is "Let the sleeping dogs lie" which means "to ignore a problem because trying to deal with it could cause an even more difficult situation"

The answer is option D.

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SNAP 2010 Question Paper

According to the passage, modernists are changing literary criticism by :

The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that:

The author's attitude towards women's reformation of literary canons can best be described as one of:

Which of the following titles best describes the contents of the passage?

Choose the correct sentence

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
______ is used to indicate possession.

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
______ is used to mark the end of declarative and imperative sentences.

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
When a subordinate clause is followed by the main clause, ______ is required.

Fill in the blanks and choose the correct definition for the punctuation.
When no connecting word is used to connect two independent clauses, one should use ________.

Which is the correct proverb?

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