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It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s

place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a
[meat] chop in front of her. What is she to do? Probably her initial feelings will
be of disgust and repulsion. Vegetarians often develop these sorts of attitudes
towards meat-based food, making it easier for them to be absolutists about
shunning meat.
Suppose, though, that the vegetarian overcomes her feelings of distaste, and
decides to eat the chop, perhaps out of politeness to her host. Has she done
something morally reprehensible? Because eating meat typically supports the
practice of raising animals in factory farms where they are inhumanely treated
and killed, eating meat is likely to contribute to animal suffering (or to the other
bad consequences of factory farming)....
However, by not eating meat, and especially by not eating meat wrhen they are
offered it in front of non-vegetarians, vegetarians send out a message to other
people. By sticking to their ethical commitment, vegetarians signal that there is
something wrong with being a carnivore, thus prompting other people to
consider the morality of their habit of eating meat and perhaps even persuading
them that consuming meat is wrong. In other w ords, the positive impact of
being a vegetarian, in terms of reduction of animal suffering, might be amplified
when vegetarianism is publicly defended and demonstrated in social contexts.
And. conversely, making exceptions to vegetarianism might convey the
message that eating meat is not so bad after all. If even vegetarians sometimes
eat meat, then eating meat can’t be so reprehensible from a moral perspective,
can it? So perhaps the guest wTho ate the [meat] chop was morally wrong for
this reason: she sent out the wrong message to the people who were having
dinner with her.
But it isn’t as simple as that. Avoiding meat in all circumstances, including in
the circumstances in which the vegetarian guest found herself, is a strategy that
can backfire. Plausibly, the ‘right’ message to be sent to non-vegetarians is one
that increases the chances that as many of them as possible will give up meat or
at least reduce their meat consumption. If people perceive vegetarianism as a
position that allows for no exception,, they are probably less likely to become
vegetarian. A flexible moral position is more appealing than a rigid one that
allows for no exceptions. It is more likely that people would be convinced to
become flexible vegetarians - that is. that they abstain from eating meat with
some exceptions — than to become rigid vegetarians, and being a flexible
vegetarian is preferable, from a moral perspective, to being a carnivore.
So the vegetarian guest’s eating meat when offered has probably shown the host
that it is possible to be a (flexible) vegetarian and, at the same time, occasionally
enjoy some meat without feeling guilty. This has certainly made (flexible)
vegetarianism look more accessible and more appealing than it would have been
if the guest had refused to eat meat.
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The passage can be best described as
Options :
Expository a Fictional
Argumeh^tive
Comparative
At the beginning of paragraph 4. why does the author say that for a vegetarian to avpid meat
consumption in all circumstances is a strategy that can backfire?
Options :
Because non-vegetarians are more likely to be convinced to become flexible vegetarians than z
become absolute vegetarians.
Because non-vegetarians are more likely to be convinced to become absolute vegetarians than
become flexible vegetarians.
Because people’s notion of morality is relative and unpredictable.
Because the positive impact of being a vegetarian, in terms of reduction of animal suffering,
might be amplified when vegetarianism is publicly defended x and demonstrated in social contexts.
Which of the following can be interred from the passage?
Options :
The author of the passage is vegetarian.
M The author of the passage is non-vegetarian.
The author of the passage occasionally consumes sc meat.
The author of Hie passage believes that flexible vegetarianism is more appealing to
non*vegetarians z than absolute vegetarianism*
At the end of paragraph 3. why does the author say that ‘The guest who ate the [meat] chop was
morally wrong'’?
Options :
Because the vegetarian guest violated her morality M and ethics by consuming meat.
Because the message that it sends out to nonvegetarians is that eating meat is not that morally
reprehensible if vegetarians also consume it
y occasionally.
Because the message that it sends out to vegetarians is that eating meat is not that morally
reprehensible if vegetarians also consume it occasionally.
Because the message that it sends out is that a flexible moral position is more appealing than a
It rigid one.
In paragraph 2. the author says, ‘'Because eating meat typically supports the practice of raising
animals in factory farms where they are inhumanely treated and killed, eating meat is likely to
contribute to animal suffering (or to the other bad consequences of factory farming).” Which of the
following words can replace the word ‘inhumanely’ in the sentence without altering the sentence's
meaning?
Options :
humanely
z mercilessly
compassionately
considerately
In paragraph 1. the author says, ‘'Vegetarians often develop these sorts of attitudes towards meat-
based food, makins it easier for them to be absolutists about shunning meat.” Upon replacing the
word ‘ absolutists: with which of the following words would the meaning of the sentence alter?
Options : tt inexorable
M inflexible
/ pliable
intransigent
In paragraph 2. Hie author says. “Has she done

something morally reprehensible?'7 Which of the
following words can replace the word
‘reprehensible7 in the sentence without altering the sentence's meaning?
Options :
x sterling
x creditable
x complacent
deplorable
Which of the following, if true. will make die
author's main argument redundant?
Options :
All animals in all meat factory farms are treated x humanely.
Non-vegetarians ’will not reduce their meat

consumption even if they witness vegetarians
consume meat occasionally.
If vegetarians who occasionally consume meat did

x so tn private, instead of in front of non-vegetarians.
If all religions of the world start advocating non

x vegetarianism.
In the situation delineated in the passage, the
vegetarian guest would have showcased the
author's argument if she would have:
Options :
y eaten the meat chop.
x not eaten the meat chop.
explained to the host how consuming meat suppons the cruel practice of raising animals in
factory farms, and then eaten the meat chop.
explained to the host how consuming meat suppons the cruel practice of raising animals in
factory
w farms, and then refused to eat the meat chop.
The author of the passage is likely to agree with all of the following EXCEPT:
Options :
A large number of non-vegetarian people reducing their meat consumption considerably is
better than a few non-vegetarians absolutely giving up meat
x consumption.
The positive impact of absolute vegetarianism.

under all circumstances, is less powerful than the impact of vegetarianism that occasionally
gives in
x to non-vegetarianism.
Non-vegetai’ianism is morally deplorable because most of the meat that is consumed come
from animal farms where animals are kept under harsh and cruel condition.
The positive impact of flexible vegetarianism is very little since making exceptions to
vegetarianism might convey the message that eating meat is not so bad after all.
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions: .. .The kind of stewardship championed by David Brower. Paul Ehrlich. E.O.
Wilson. Morris and Stewart Udall. Edmund Muskie and Richard Nixon reflected their awe at the grandeur, interconnectedness and
unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes. That perspective was transformative. It ushered in the Clean Air Act, the Clean
Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, to name just a few successes.
This suite of laws produced real results and is still working, still protecting natural systems and the people who rely on them. After all, we
have the hopeful and heroic thinkers who gave us the Clean Air Act to thank for the 2015 Clean Pow'er Plan, the only tool the United
States has to enforce national climate change action.
But from climate change denial to corporate malfeasance, resistance to enforceable environmental protection is rampant. Seeking any
conceivable path forward, many young leaders are exchanging their sympathy for the victims of environmental damage for the concerns of
the regulated community. They turn awray from enforceability-based approaches and promote more conservative techniques that they hope
will impress and persuade reticent and cynical policymakers and powder brokers.
If this is environmentalism at all, it is "desperate environmentalism," characterised not by aw’e, enthusiasm and enjoyment of nature but
by appeasement. It relies on utilitarian efficiencies, cost-benefit analyses, private sector indulgences and anthropocentric divvying of
natural resources. It champions voluntary commitments, tweaks to corporate supply chains, protection not of the last great places on Earth
but of those places that yield profit or services. From market-friendly cap- and-trade to profit-driven corporate social responsibility,
desperate environmentalists angle for the least-bad of the w’orst options rather than the robust and enforceable safeguards that once
defined the movement.
At best, the desperate form of environmentalism is a greyhound chasing a rabbit lure futilely around the track. At worst it is the ratcheting
of individually good policies into a sw eeping, embedded ideology from which the movement cannot return.
The environmentalists of old insisted on transformation not marginal gains. The Clean Water Act aimed to restore the integrity of all the
nation's wraters by eliminating w'ater pollution. Nowr we quantify whether such improvement is economically efficient, and we politely
ask whether an industrial facility might consider reducing its discharge. Perhaps, desperate environmentalists suggest, such a reduction
w'ould improve the bottom line by reducing some costs. Suddenly, economic efficiency moves from being one in a collection of cultural
values that drive decisions to the only relevant value.
And the ratchet turns in only one direction. Having conceded so much to conservative approaches, desperate environmentalists cannot
advocate what is nowr a radical idea of the past: Government should force polluters to reduce pollution for the sake of healthy natural
systems and human enjoyment.
The problem is, desperate environmentalists strive for a mythical conservative embrace but cooperation from the right is unrealistic. As
they move right in an attempt to meet their opponents, the opponents will not, at some undefined threshold of compromise, consent to newr
policies of protection. Rather, desperate environmentalists could continue to erode their position until environmentalism grows
unrecognizable....
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In paragraph 3. the author says., ‘'But from climate change denial to corp orate malfeasance,
resistance to enforceable environmental protection is rampant/’ Which of the following words can
replace the word ‘malfeasance' in the sentence without altering the sentence's meaning?
Options :
/ malefaction
36 benevolence
philanthropy
st altruism
In paragraph 3. the author says., ‘'They turn away from enforceability-based approaches and
promote more conservative techniques that they hope will impress and persuade reticent and
cynical policy makers and power brokers.' 7 Upon replacing the word 'reticent 7 with which of the
following words would the meaning of the sentence alter?
Options : 36 taciturn y loquacious
36 uncommunicative
3t reserved
In the second last paragraph, the author says.

“Having conceded so much to conservative approaches, desperate environmentalists cannot
advocate what is now a radical idea of the past..
Which of the following words can replace the word
‘conceded' in the sentence without altering the sentence's meaning?
Options :
x rebutted
x disavowed
* repudiated
✓ agreed
Which of the following best sums up the authors position on environmentalism?
Options :
Tlie author critiques contemporary7 desperate environmentalists and their conservative
approaches ✓ to environmentalism.
Tlie author is supportive of contemporary desperate environmentalists and their consei’vative

approaches x to environmentalism.
Hie author supports old environmentalists but critiques their radical ideas of environmentalism.
Tlie author critiques old environmentalists like

David Brower. Paul Ehrlich. E.O. Wilson. Morris and Stewart Udall. Edmund Muskie and
Richard x Nixon.
According to the author, the 2015 Clean Power Plan
became possible because of:
Options :
x the Endangered Species Act
x the Clean Water Act
x desperate environmentalism
✓ the Clean Air Act
According to the passage, which of the following is
NOT a feature of desperate environmentalism?
Options :
x A mythical conservative embrace
x Cost-benefit analyses
Belief in the interconnectedness and unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes
Economic efficiency as the sole factor to be considered in decision-making
NOT true about 'bmany young leaders7'?
Options :
Tliey are concerned less about the Victims of environmental damage and more about the
* regulated community.
If they are made aware of the seriousness of environmental issues, they may come up with
radical and trans formative policies like those of the old environmentalists.
Tliey are concerned less about environment and x more about pleasing policy makers.
They are inclined more towards conservative x techniques.
Why does the author say thatdesperate environmentalists could continue to erode their position
until environmentalism grows unrecognizable”?
Options :
Because environmentalism divorced from economic considerations and profit-driven corporate
social responsibilities is not true environmentalism but is a greyhound chasing a rabbit lure futilely
around the ft track.
Because as desperate environmentalists give in

increasingly to conservative approaches to accommodate economic efficiency and marginal
gains, they are increasingly moving towards a position that might make environmentalism
impossible.
Because radical and trans formative positions of old environmentalists have become redundant
and
x obsolete in the present scenario.
Because economic efficiency has transformed from being one in a collection of various cultural
values that drove decision-making to being the only ft relevant value.
Why does the author compare desperate environmentalism to “a greyhound chasing a rabbit lure
futilely around the track”?
Options :
Because the environment is ratcheting into a sweeping, embedded ideology from which the ft
movement cannot return.
Because the Government should force polluters to reduce pollution for the sake of healthy
natural systems and human enjoyment.
Because the economic considerations that desperate environmentalism continues to give in is

gradually reducing the efficacy of old and radical environmental policies. and taking them to a
point ✓ of no return.
Because both greyhounds and rabbits have become endangered species owing to environmental
x degradation.
What is the primary purpose of the evidence—’‘Tlie Clean Water Act aimed to restore the
integrity of all the nation's waters by eliminating water pollution.
Now we quantify whether such improvement is economically efficient, and we politely ask
whether an industrial facility might consider reducing its discharge? 7—in the passage?
Options :
To showcase how desperate environmentalism entails ratcheting of old and good policies into a
sweeping, embedded ideology which would eventually consume it.
To showcase the importance of improving the bottom line by reducing some costs, as desperate
x environmentalists have been doing.
To showcase tlie increasingly altruistic nature of ae industrial facilities.
To showcase that no matter what, environmentalists will always force the Government to reduce
pollution for the sake of healthy natural systems x and human enjoyment.
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions: .. .Upon more closely examining the
place. I surmised that for an indefinite period Bartleby must have ate, dressed, and slept in my
office, and that too without plate, mirror, or bed. The cushioned seat of a rickety old sofa in one
comer bore the faint impress of a lean, reclining form. Rolled away under his desk, I found a
blanket; under the empty grate, a blacking box and brush: on a chair , a tin basin, with soap and a
ragged towel; in a newspaper a few crumbs of ginger-nuts and a morsel of cheese. Yes. thought I,
it is evident enough that Bartleby has been making his home here, keeping bachelor’s hall all by
himself. Immediately then the thought came sweeping across me. what miserable fid endlessness
and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible!...
For the first time in my life, a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I
had never experienced aught but a not-unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now
drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of
Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swan-
like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway: and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and
thought to myself. Ah, happiness courts the light, so wre deem the wTorld is gay; but misery hides
aloof, so we deem that misery there is none. These sad fancyings—chimeras, doubtless, of a sick
and silly brain—led on to other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of
Bartleby....
Revolving all these things, and coupling them with the recently discovered fact that he made my
office his constant abiding place and home, and not forgetful of his morbid moodiness: revolving
all these things, a prudential feeling began to steal over me. My first emotions had been those of
pure melancholy and sincerest pity: but just in proportion as the forlomness of Bartleby grew and
grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion. So
true it is. and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our
best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. They err who would
assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather
proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive
being, pity is not seldom pain. And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to
effectual succor, common sense bids the soul rid of it. What I saw that morning persuaded me
that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might give alms to hrs body:
but his body did not pain him: it wras his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach. ...
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Which of the following best represents the narrator of the passage?
Options :
Unnamed first person narrator
Omniscient narrator
Bartleby
M Second person narrator
In paragraph one. the phrase “the faint impress of a lean, reclining form'’ serves as an evidence for
which of the following?
Options :
Bartleby’s meagre salary.
M Bartleby's bad health and extreme poverty.
The sofa in the office was old and needed to be M replaced urgently.
Bartleby has been sleeping on the sofa in the ✓ narrator’s office.
Which of the following aspects of Bartleby most upsets the narrator?
Options :
His poverty'
/ His fodomness
« His bad health

His gregariousness
In paragraph 2. the narrator says, “Before, I had never experienced aught but a not-unpleasing
sadness.” Which of the following best explains the meaning of this sentence in the context?
Options :
Before meeting Bartleby. the narrator had only z experienced sadness that was pleasing.
Before meeting Bartley, the narrator had only $ experienced sadness that wras unpleasing.
Before meeting Bartleby. the narrator was $ indifferent to pleasure and sadness.
Before meeting Bartleby, the narrator had never * experienced any emotion.
Choose the phrase that is dissimilar in meaning to the other three.
Options :
M Bond of a common humanity
A fraternal melancholy
st Sons of Adam
Swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of

Broadway
and were the emotions experienced

initially by the narrator because of his encounters with Bartleby.
Options :
x helplessness, misery
x fear’, repulsion
compassion. melancholy
x kindness. charity
Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the passage?
Options :
Suffering is more visible in the world than
. happiness.
When pity proves ineffective, it metamorphoses x into repulsion.
Pity often becomes the source of pain tor sensitive x individuals.
There are certain organic illnesses of the soul that x compassion cannot heal.
■Which of the following does NOT describe the
illness of Bartlebv?
■>
Options :
st Innate and incurable disorder
st Illness of the soul
x Excess and organic illness

✓ Inherent selfishness of the human heart
Which of the following best explains the reason for the transformation of the narrator's pity into
repulsion and melancholy into fear?
Options :
Most human beings are inherently selfish by nature.
The narrator was helpless because Bartleby’s illness z was beyond his ability and power to alter.
Ah. happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem
it that misery there is none.
jt Bartleby’s body was in as much pain as his soul.
Identity the figure of speech used in the phrase
"Mississippi of Broadway”.
Options :
Personification
it Simile
y Metaphor
Euphemism
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After the cruel est of winters, the house still stood. It was pale, washed clean by elements gone
wild, and here and there a shutter dangled from a broken hinge. But the structure was sound, tlie
comers had held. I walked around it slowly, studying every detail: the fine edge where window
frame met clapboard, the slice of shadow across the roofline, the old wooden railing around the
porch. When I climbed the stairs toward the door, I heard the floorboards groan beneath my weight
as tliey had always done. Hello yourself, old friend, I said.
Inside. I made those wounds my own again, drew the curtains back, threw open the window, pulled
the covers from the furniture, slapped at the upholstery with my hands. ... I made myself at home,
kicked off my shoes so I could feel the floor beneath my feet again. I tilted my head, read the titles
on the spines of all my books. I played old songs I hadn't heard in months, felt the summer music
move through me as if my muscles were the strings. It carried me from room to room while I swept
away the mustiness of winter, shook the rugs, cleaned cobwebs out of comers, hung laundered
linens on the blind to whip dry in the outdoor air. I pulled closed boxes out of closets and
unwrapped all my tilings, slowly, one by one. I held and turned them in my hands before I put
them out again on shelves in cupboards and drawers. And when I had each room all frill of me
again. I show ered and w ashed aw ay the last of winter’s claims in hot lather and steam. ...
For me. the end of grief was a homecoming like this one, a returning to myself made sweeter by
the long separation. I remember well the months that had followed that most unexpected death,
when I felt cut loose, caught in my own cold storm far away from all that made me feel at home. I
wondered if I would ever again belong to any time or place. People spoke to me of sadness and
loss, as if they were burdens to carry in my hands. I nodded in agreement, afraid to tell them that I
felt no burdens, only weightlessness. I thought the world had pulled itself away from me, that I w
ould drift, beyond reach, forever.
But w inter ends and grief does pass as I had reclaimed my house and made it my own again, so I
slowly reclaimed my life. I resumed my small daily rituals: a cup of coffee with a friend, long
walks at sunset. I felt like myself again, and w hen I laughed it was my own laugh I heard, rich and
full. I had feared that, in my absence, the space that I had left behind w ould close over from
disuse, but I returned to find that my house still stood even after the crudest of w inters.
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The narrative style of the passage is:
, first person narrative
second person narrative
M third person narrative
x an omniscient narrator
Options
:
Which of the folloving best describes the primary7
purpose of the passage?
Options :
x To describe the narrator's old house.
To describe the return of the narrator to her old

x house.
To showcase the narrator overcome her grief

, through homecoming.
To showcase the inevitability of homecoming in

everyone's life.
To whom does the phrase :old friend" in the
sentence. “Hello yourself, old friend. I said."
(Paragraph 1) refers to?
Options :
x Tlie narrator
./ Tlie narrator’s house
Tlie old friend of the narrator whose death she is

* mourning
Life and its ups and downs

Which of the foil owing best sums up the condition of the narrator's house?
Options :
The house was old and dilapidated, and was in an imminent danger of falling apart.
Even though the house was old and worn out in places, its structures and foundations wer$
strong.
The cruelest of winters was responsible for the

M groaning floorboards.
Since "that most unexpected death7', the narrator

& hated the house.
Upon replacing the word 'mustmess7 with which of the following words in the phrase "while I
swept away the mustiness of winter77 (paragraph 2) would the meanins remain unaltered?
Options : invigorating
It mushiness
x manliness
✓ moldiness
The pronoun ‘It’ in the sentence—“It carried me fi’om room to room while I swept away the
mustiness of winter, shook the rugs, cleaned cobwebs out of comers, hung laundered linens on the
blind to whip dry hi the outdoor air.77 (paragraph 2)
—refers to which of the folio whig?
Options :
Hie narrator's grief
& The nai’rator's feet
./ Summer music
The nai’rator's memories of the house

Which of the following options best describes the
meaning of *‘And when I had each room all foil of
me again... ■’ (Paragraph 2) within the context of the passage?
Options :
Tlie narrator cleaned all the rooms in the house by x herself.
The narrator claims life by returning to the house $ and cleaning it thoroughly.
Tlie narrator re-inhabits the house by unpacking all . her belongings, and reconnects with life.
Tlie narrator is extremely possessive about the

$ rooms in the house and her belongings.
Wliich of the following options best sums up the difference between the narrator's perception of
her grief and that of the people around her?
Options :
While tlie people around the narrator saw her loss as a burden to be endured, the narrator
experienced z it as a lightness of being without any anchors.
While Hie people around the narrator saw her loss as a kind of weightlessness, the narrator
experienced it as a burden to be carried in her
* hands.
While the people around the narrator saw her grief as a burden, the narrator experienced it as
fear of the people around her.
While most people around the narrator were indifferent to her grief, the narrator saw it as a
permanent loss that she would never be able to x overcome.
Which of the following best describes the tone of
the passage?
Options :
z Introspective
x Romantic
Dogmatic
x Vitriolic
Which figure of speech is used in the sentence:
“People spoke to me of sadness and loss, as if they
were burdens to carry in my hands.'’ (Paragraph 3)?
Options :
w Metaphor
✓ Simile
x Personification
Exaggeration
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In many countries, television is limited in its spread and its creative abilities, either by tlie lack of
resources or by the constrictions of governmental ownership or both. The cinema, on the other
hand, reflects a more vital and spontaneous expression of the secret hopes and fears, ideals and
enthusiasms, of a country’s people. A small, serious-creative cinema grows alongside the larger,
more conventional product and begins to engage the attention of a select national and international
audience. ... Both wings of Indian cinema—the popular, commercial blockbuster (song-dance-
fight-nightclub formula) and the serious-creative minority product (Satyajit Ray. Mrinal Sen, Shy
am Senegal et al)—are full of restless vitality.
On the whole, today’s big popular cinema is conservative. It reflects, even tlirough its song-dance-
fight-chase formula, the fears of a traditional society, a honeycomb of regional-linguistic-religious
identities, of being swept away by the winds of change, by scientific progress and large-scale
homogenization, shattering the values that have held its complex structure together for many
centuries. The modern elements in tliis cinema ate the superficial; they consist of no more than the
surface manifestations of industrialization and urbanization. One sees them in the proliferation of
mass-produced products and sendees of recent introduction [in these films]. ...
The sharp division between the popular and the serious-creative “New Cinema” came about
gradually after the independence of the country in 1947. .. The “New Cinema” [is] a wave rising
along a wide front all over India, no longer confined to industrially advanced states. It represents a
substantial body of new' talent devoted to the exploration of the values of a traditional society in
the grip of rapid change. From Satyajit Ray to Nir ad Mahapatra. it is a highly bi-culturai product,
its makers as sensitive to tremors in world cinema as to its own country’s agonies. The language of
cinema it speaks is familiar to informed film audiences of the West: yet its voice is new and fresh
and commands attention. The new cinema is thus the voice of modem India, western in its
inflections like the vast wealth of fiction in Indian languages created in the aftermath of British
conquest, but deeply concerned with the development of Indian tradition towards viability and
relevance in the modem world. Tliis bi-cultural synthesis has assured its acceptance in industrially
advance countries. It is authentic and accessible to audiences in Europe and America, in Australia
and Japan. Some of the film-makers are trying to break out of the middle class film buff
environment and seeking a middle ground where they can claim a share of the vast audience of the
commercial cinema even if this somewhat dilutes their purity. Some, like Benegal and Govind
Nihalani (Aakrosh and Ardhsatyd), have achieved notable success in creating what some critics
have described as “Middle Cinema”—another aspect of the cinema’s effort, at all levels, from tlie
most commercial to the most purist, to come to terms with the problems, of tradition and change in
contemporary' India.
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The tone of the passage can be best describes as
Options :
Nostalgic y Analytical
& Emotional
& Bellicose
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a reason for the conservative nature of
popular cinema?
Options :
Fear of dissipation of traditional forces and structures of society at the hands of forces of x
modernisation and urbanisation.
Fear of the loss of traditional regional-linguistic- religious identities at the hands of

homogenising if forces of modernisation.
Striking absence of commodities and services . produced by modernisation in popular cinema.
Superficial engagement with forces and elements of sc modernisation.
Which of the following is NOT a feature of New
Cinema?
Options :
It's marked by syiitliesis of elements of popular and ✓ serious-creative cinema
It captures the conflict between forces of tradition and modernity.
Despite the influence of Western cinema, it is also distinctly Indian.
Its reach and expanse transcends the industrially x advanced states.
WTiy does the author compare New Cinema with the vast wealth of fiction in Indian languages
created in the aftermath of British conquest?
Options :
Because both of them are sensitive to world cinema
$ and world literature respectively.
Because both of them are accessible to Western

M audiences and have found acceptance among them.
Because both of them are concerned with the

question of relevance of Indian traditions in the face of forces of modernisation, despite their
own
✓ western inflections.
M To trace their common hybrid origins.
Aakrash and Ardhsatya are examples of:
Options :
✓ Middle Cinema
x New Cinema
« World Cinema
Tlie author calls New Cinema “a highly bi-cultural product" for all of the
following reasons, EXCEPT:
Options :
New Cinema is the voice of modem India despite being influenced by
the western world.
New Cinema explores the woes of modernising Indian society but its
form is aware of world
K cinema.
It resonates with audiences in India as well as x abroad.
It successfully combines the song-dance-fight- nightclub formula of

popular’ cinema with the z serious-creative element of parallel cinema.
Question Number : 277 Question Id : 1679438123 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes
Upon replacing the word ‘inflections’ in the sentence. “The new cinema is Display Question Number : Yes
thus the voice of modem India, western in its inflections...’7 (Paragraph 3)
with which of the following words would the meaning of the sentence remain unaltered?
Options :
* cornucopia ✓ influences
& monotone
x echo chamber
./ New Cinema
Upon replacing the word ‘viability7 with which of the following words in the sentence . .but deeply
concerned with die development of Indian tradition towards viability and relevance in the modern
world'1 would the meaning of the sentence remain unaltered?
Options :
apathy
inactivity
inanimacy
sustainability
NOT a feature of popular cinema?
Options :
A profound engagement with modernity and its
forces
Fight and nightclub sequences
S Song and dance sequences

3
Restless vitality
Towards the end of paragraph 3, the author writes: “Some of the film-makers are trying to break
out of the middle class film buff Environment and seeking a middle ground where they can claim a
share of the vast audience of the commercial cinema even if this somewhat dilutes their purity. 11
The word ‘purity7 in the sentence refers to the purity of:
Options :
u Middle Cinema
$ Popular Cinema
& World Cinema
Subject Related
Group Number : 15
Group Id : 1679431
Group Maximum Duration : 91
0
Group Minimum Duration : 180
Revisit allowed for view? : No
Revisit allowed for edit? : No
Break time: 0
Group Marks: 20
Subject Related
Section Marks: 20
From the following options identify the philosophy to which the play-way approach belongs:
Options :
x Idealism
x Realism
Pragmatism
./ New Cinema

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It captures the conflict between forces of tradition and modernity.

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