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Revision Test Paper 3 [Test Code : ENG REV 03]

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Test Code ENG REV 03
Topics covered All areas
No. of Questions 25
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Maximum Marks 25
Competitive score 18-20
Time allowed 15 minutes
Answers have been provided for self-evaluation.

Read the given passage and answer the following questions. (There are 5 questions based on
this passage)

Woman? Very simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a mere body, and nothing
more than a body; she is just a female - this word is sufficient to define her. In the mouth of a
man the epithet female has the sound of an insult. And yet he is not ashamed of his animal
nature; on the contrary, he is proud if someone says of him: "He is a male!" The term "female"
is derogatory not because it emphasizes woman's animality, but because it imprisons her in her
body. If this body seems to man to be contemptible and inimical even in harmless dumb
animals, it is evidently because of the uneasy hostility stirred up in him by woman. We can say
that sexual domination is perhaps the most dominant ideology of our culture which provides
the most fundamental concepts of power. The edifice of such power rests on the politics of
difference: man as norm, productive, progressive and woman as deviant, reproductive and
degenerate. But ironically for the man, there is a need for representing woman as predatory.
He wishes to find in biology a justification for this sentiment. The word female brings up in his
mind a saraband of imagery: the monstrous and swollen termite queen ruling over the
enslaved males; the female praying mantis and the spider crushing and devouring their
partners; the bitch running through the alleys, trailing behind her a wake of depraved odors.
Females sluggish, eager, artful, stupid, callous, lustful, ferocious, abased - man projects them
all at once upon woman. And the fact is that she is a female.

1. "Fanciers of simple formulas" refers to

a. Male chauvinists
b. Male physicians
c. Male animals
d. Husbands

2. The perceived difference about a woman springs from

a. Her animal life
b. Her inability to be a reproductive body
c. Her possession of a different body
d. Her possession of animal instincts

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3. The reference to biology in the passage suggests that

a. Women's subordination is justified
b. Man seeks to find the justification of his hostility towards woman in biology
c. Man subscribes to the theoretical foundations of biology
d. Biology makes women and animals contemptible Page | 2

4. The chain of imagery conjured up in man's mind is a projection of

a. Male fear
b. Male supremacy
c. Woman's subservience
d. Woman's vulnerability

5. The associations drawn from the animal kingdom suggest that

a. Female animals are weaker
b. Biology is a selective science
c. Man reads biology selectively
d. Man respects woman's inherent power

6. Which among the following is the antonym of CORPULENT?

a. Dainty
b. Smart
c. Lean
d. Gorgeous

7. Name the figure of speech used in the following lines.

"When the evening is spread out against the
sky Like a patient etherized upon a table."
a. Transferred epithet
b. Metonymy
c. Abstraction
d. Personification

8. "I ran into an old friend last week."

What does the phrasal verb "ran into" mean?
a. Quarreled with
b. Met by chance
c. Collided with
d. Ran together

9. Fill in the blank with the correct option.

"Thieves _________ all the jewellery in the house."
a. Made out
b. Made up
c. Made off with
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d. Put up with

10. Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

a. If I studied harder, I would have passed the test
b. Had I studied harder, I will have passed the test Page | 3
c. If I had studied harder, I would pass the test
d. If I had studied harder, I would have passed the test

11. Which of the following sentences uses the correct preposition?

a. He availed on the opportunity
b. He was availed into the opportunity
c. He availed himself at the opportunity
d. He availed himself of the opportunity

12. Which of the following sentences means "I have examined the book carefully"?
a. I have looked within the book
b. I have looked out for the book
c. I have looked through the book
d. I have looked into the book

13. Which of the following is the correct passive voice of the sentence "They say that you
did it."?
a. According to them you have done it
b. You are said to have done it
c. You must have done it
d. You are said to do it

14. A person to whom secrets can be disclosed is called

a. Confidante
b. Best man
c. Man Friday
d. Buddy

15. One who leaves one's own country to live in another is called
a. Immigrant
b. Emigrant
c. Peripatetic
d. Native

16. "All his furniture was brought under the hammer." What does the phrase "brought
under the hammer" mean?
a. Sold in the open market
b. Repaired by hammer
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c. Destroyed by hammer
d. Sold by auction

17. To "die in harness" means dying

a. While performing one's duties Page | 4
b. Homeless
c. While being in prison
d. Helplessly

18. Which of the following means "a disreputable member of a family or group"?
a. Yellow bird
b. White elephant
c. Black sheep
d. Wolf in sheep's clothing

19. "Dog in the manger" means

a. A person who is faithful like a dog
b. A person who loves to eat from a manger
c. A person who sacrifices his enjoyment for the benefit of others
d. A person who prevents others from enjoying what he/she cannot

20. Which of the following sentences is correct?

a. He spoke in a contemptuous tone
b. He spoke in a contemptible tone
c. He spoke in a contempting tone
d. He spoke in a contemporaneous tone

21. Which of the following sentences uses malapropism?

a. I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
b. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
c. She has reached the very pineapple of success.
d. Love is not Time's fool.
22. "Ye, gods! Annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy."
Identify the figure of speech in the above quote.
a. Bathos
b. Ambiguity
c. Pathos
d. Enigma

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23. The term "mimesis" refers to

a. Poetic Emotion
b. Interpretation
c. Imagination Page | 5
d. Imitation

24. The science of family descent is called

a. Historiography
b. Genetics
c. Genealogy
d. Ethnology

25. Fill in the blank in the following sentence.

"_______ it became dark, he left his hiding place."
a. While
b. Though
c. When
d. Because

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a Male chauvinist is one who is prejudiced against women and believes that men
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are superior in terms of ability, intelligence, etc. This bias is expressed in Lines
2—3, ‘.... she is nothing more than a body…’, ‘..epithet female has the sound
of an insult..’ Page | 6
c (Lines 5-7) ‘ term female is derogatory… because it imprisons her in her
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body’…’ this body seems to man to be contemptible…’
b The author describes how a range of imagery based on biology is evoked by
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the word ‘female’ as justification for the hostility.
a The examples given from biology show the female of some species dominating,
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even killing sometimes, its male partners. Hence the imagery is a projection of
fear in the human male.
c Only some convenient examples have been cited due to selective reading !
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c Corpulent means obese, fat, plump, etc. Antonym is lean.
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None of the choices given are appropriate.
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Answer is simile .
b To run into someone means to encounter or meet someone by chance, without
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prior planning or unexpectedly. Other choices are not meaningful.
c To make off with something means to take it away illicitly and C is
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correct.Others do not suit : -- Make up-to forgive and forget and be friendly
again after a quarrel or disagreement; to make out –to get along or fare
Put up with- to tolerate.
d It is clear that I have not passed and I feel that I did not study hard. Thus the
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reference is to an action that has already happened. So, here the ‘if’ is an
imaginary conditional clause and we use past perfect tense (had studied) and a
past modal (would) and present perfect tense, as found in D
d To avail of means to make use of and (D) is the answer. Other preposition
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choices are erroneous.
c Look through- to examine something, usually quickly, is the answer.
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Look out-to be careful.
Look within- to get to know oneself.
Look into--to find out more about something, to investigate.
b B is the correct passive voice format.
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a Confidante is one with whom secrets can be shared freely.
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Best man-groomsman at a wedding.
Man Friday-an efficient and devoted aide or employee.
Buddy-companion or friend..
b Immigrant - a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
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Emigrant - a person who leaves their own country in order to settle
permanently in another.
Peripatetic- travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in
various places for relatively short periods.(nomadic)
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Native-born in a particular place or country.

d Sold by auction(D) is the answer. Others are non-sensical.
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a “to die in harness” means to die while being actively engaged in work/ duty.
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Homeless, while being in prison, helplessly are nowhere near the phrase. Page | 7
c Black sheep (C) One who is considered disreputable or disgraceful by his or her
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relatives or associates.
White elephant - a possession that is very expensive to maintain or difficult to
dispose of, but useless or troublesome at the same time.
Yellow bird-It may represent a warning for what harm is to come, in the past
they were used by miners to reveal whether or not there were poisonous gases
in the area.
d a person who prevents others from having or using things even though he or
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she cannot use them or does not need them.
someone who keeps something that they do not really want in order to prevent
anyone else from having it (D the dog in the manger)
Manger means-a long trough from which horses or cattle feed, this idiomatic
expression has no relationship with dog.
a Contemptuous (A) means showing or expressing contempt; scornful. As the
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last word is tone , this is the answer.
Contemptible- means deserving of contempt or scorn
Contempting- there is no such word..
Contemporaneous-Originating, existing, or happening during the same period
of time
c Malapropism- a confused use of words in which an appropriate word is
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replaced by one with similar sound but ludicrously inappropriate meaning.
(C ) Instead of pinnacle , pineapple is used.
a Bathos (A) is a literary term-An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the
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exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
Ambiguity- the quality of being open to more than one interpretation;
inexactness.
Pathos-a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
Enigma-a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.
d Mimesis (D) is the answer-means the imitative representation of nature and
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human behavior in art and literature.
Other words are not suitable for this meaning.
c Genealogy -a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
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Genetics-the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristic
Ethnology-the study of the characteristics of different peoples and the
differences and relationships between them.
Historiography-the writing of history.
c (C) When the use of 'when' with the simple past and "while" with the
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progressive. Though and Because do not make sense.

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