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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow (1-4).

In 1820 in the Edinburgh Review, the Scottish critic, Sydney Smith took aim at the budding culture of the United States with these snide questions: “Who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? Or looks at an American picture or statue?” . His implication, of course, was that no one did because what passed for arts and letters in the United States was unworthy of notice. Over 300 years after the arrival of Columbus, this assertion, even if an exaggeration, only heightened the cultural inferiority complex already felt by many Americans in relation to Europe.

But the fact was that a major reason that few people read American books in 1820 was that the lack of copyright regulations allowed American booksellers to print large numbers of English books and sell them cheaply without paying royalties. There was little incentive for publishers to produce books by American writers and pay them the required royalties when pirated British books yielded high profits. When an international copyright law was passed in 1830, American writers like Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper found readerships at home and abroad. By the 1850s, many American writers were being read in Europe. (Source: A Companion to American Literature, by Paul Lauter, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

Q.1. What is the author of the passage primarily concerned with?

• Introducing the socio-cultural background of scholarship regarding American literature
• Making an argument about reading more fiction
• Begin narrating a simple story
• Describing the dreams of poets

Q.2. Why does the author talk about the Scottish critic Sydney Smith?

• To describe how culture is portrayed in American literature
• To describe the contents of a novel
• To give an example of prejudice against American culture, and literature.
• None of the above

Q.3. Which of the following words are similar in meaning to the word exaggeration in the passage?

• truth
• understatement
• compression
• hyperbole

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Q.4. State True or False: American writers like Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper found readership in home and abroad only because their writings appealed to audiences worldwide

• True
• False

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow (5-6).

But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering — curious as it may sound to you — is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity. Between myself and the memory of joy lies a gulf no less deep than that between myself and joy in its actuality. (Source: Oscar Wilde, Quotes of Oscar Wilde)

Q.5. What does the word warrant mean in the passage?

• prohibition
• repudiation
• negation
• sanction

Q.6. Which of the following human experiences does the author imply to be crucial to our steady existence?

• Remembrance of suffering
• Suffering
• The act of remembrance
• None of the above

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow (5-6).

           There are as many ways of thinking about the transcendentalists as there are literary historians to think about them. One could focus on the pedigree of the name, “transcendentalist,” and its connections to Kant and his ideas about knowledge not of objects in Locke’s empirical tradition but of our “mode of knowing objects.”
            But I want, rather, to focus on three somewhat different considerations. First, the question of reform in American society and politics and how to accomplish it. Second, how it was possible for most of the transcendentalists to sustain their optimism in the face of changing and in many respects undesirable social realities. And third, how such optimism could be translated into the practices of thinking, speaking, and writing. (Source: A Companion to American Literature, by Paul Lauter, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

Q.7. Which of the following words is nearest to the meaning of the word ‘consideration’ used in the above passage?

• deliberation
• disregarding
• discontent
• ignorance

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Q.8. Which of the following texts is being discussed in the first passage by the author?

• Walden
• Leaves of Grass
• The Lord’s Supper
• Moby Dick

Q.9. The authors mentioned in the two passages above belong to which of the following literary movements in the nineteenth century United States of America?

• Dark Romantics
• Early Modernism
• Late Modernism
• Transcendentalism

Q.10. Which of the following words is the farthest to the meaning of the word ‘desiccated’ used in the above passage?

• dry
• preserved
• arid
• moist

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