Which one of the following poems was inspired by the Peterloo Massacre?
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Correct answer: (A) The Mask of Anarchy
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Question 102
Which one among the following poets had recourse to Lemprière’s Classical Dictionary?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 103
Which one of the following novels deals with the social and industrial problems of mid-Victorian England?
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Correct answer: (A) Hard Times
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Question 104
In which one of the following poems is the idea of war most expressive?
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Correct answer: (B) The Waste Land
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Question 105
In which one of the following novels has aesthetic theory been expounded?
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Correct answer: (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Question 106
Among the relics of the Indus civilisation are figures that are prototypes of Siva, suggesting that the person who explores and integrates his inward nature is ideal. This image has haunted this country’s spiritual landscape from early times to today. The Upanishads require us to acquire Brahma-Vidya or atma-Vidya. The Katha Upanishad says that man is turned outward by his senses and so loses contact with himself; his soul becomes immersed in external things, power and possessions. It must turn round, avrtta-caksuh, to find its right direction and discover the meaning of reality it has lost. The Jina conquers his self. He is Mahavira, who battles and triumphs over his inward nature. The Buddha asks us to seek enlightenment, bodhi. These Vedic ideals ask us to change our unregenerate nature, replacing avidya (ignorance) with Vidya (wisdom). Which is the most appropriate meaning of the term Siva?
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Correct answer: (A) Supreme consciousness that is integrated
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Question 107
Which one of the following is nearest in meaning to the terms brahma-vidya and atma-vidya?
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above
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Question 108
In what way, according to the passage, may one be in a position to know oneself?
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Correct answer: (A) By looking round and within
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Question 109
Which one of the following is the true meaning of reality?
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Correct answer: (B) A true integration of outward and inward selves
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Question 110
Who is the Buddha or Mahavira according to the passage?
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Correct answer: (A) One who has conquered the senses
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Question 111
The fundamental concept of Indian religious life may first be briefly indicated. The goal of life is communion with the Supreme: a life of realisation, agnosis, an inner intuitive vision of God, in which man achieves absolute freedom and escapes servitude to ordinary experience. It is subtle interwoven-ness with spiritual realities, not knowledge or recognition of universal ideas by dialectic or analysis of empirical data. It is analogous to Plato’s vision of an irresistible harmony with the deepest reality of the world, inspired and sustained by the spiritual within us. Intellectual recognition and spiritual realisation are different. We can free ourselves from the body’s shackles and, in a split second, see the truth and be overcome by it. We see God so intensely that the soul is more certain and possessed by the sight of God than the bodily eye by daylight. Which one of the following is nearest in meaning to ‘Communion’?
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Correct answer: (B) An intimate relationship
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Question 112
Which one of the following is a result of the act of Communion having been successfully established?
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Correct answer: (A) It leads to the vision of deepest reality
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Question 113
Which one of the following is the most appropriate meaning of the word ‘empirical’?
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Correct answer: (B) That which is related to experience
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Question 114
Which one of the following best explains the observation ‘Intellectual recognition’ of spiritual?
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Correct answer: (A) Something based on logic and reasoning, with the body as its basis
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Question 115
Which one of the following is nearest in meaning to the phrase ‘split second’?
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Correct answer: (A) Immediately
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Question 116
The Divine is both in us and outside us. God is neither completely transcendent nor completely immanent. To express this double aspect, contradictory accounts are given: he is divine darkness as well as ‘unencompassed light’. Philosophers with a passion for unity emphasise the immanent aspect, that no barrier divides man from the real. The unity of man and God is the fundamental thesis of the great philosophical tradition that has come down to us from the Upanishads and Plato; Aristotle, Plotinus, Samkara, Spinoza, Bradley and others bear witness to it. Which one of the following best expresses the idea of ‘transcendent’?
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Correct answer: (B) Extending beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
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Question 117
Which one of the following is nearest in meaning to the word ‘immanent’?
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Correct answer: (A) Being within the limits of possible experience and knowledge
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Question 118
What does the term ‘unity’ mean according to the passage?
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Correct answer: (A) God and man have become one and all
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Question 119
The great philosophical tradition of the world begins with which one of the following philosophical compositions?
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Correct answer: (A) Upanishads
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Question 120
Which one of the following is an explanation of the term ‘Divine’?
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Correct answer: (A) The ultimate reality that is within
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Question 121
The famous dialogue between the Indian philosopher and Socrates suggests that, for the whole Western tradition, man is essentially a rational being, able to think logically and act in a utilitarian manner. The Western mind lays great stress on science, logic and humanism. Hindu thinkers believe that we possess a power more interior than intellect by which we become aware of reality in its intimate individuality, not merely its superficial or discernible aspects. For Hindus, philosophy is insight, a darsana: a vision of truth, not logical argument and proof. They believe the mind can be freed by gradual training from speculative intellect and post-impressions, and unite with the object whose nature is then fully manifested. They contend that truth’s power can control destiny. Knowledge means power; lack of knowledge is the root of trouble. Vidya is Moksha; avidya is samsara. Which one of the following is a characteristic of Western tradition?
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Correct answer: (A) Man must analyse every experience in terms of the facts
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Question 122
Which one of the following is a characteristic of Indian tradition?
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Correct answer: (B) Ideas are contained in innate experience
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Question 123
In which one of the following ways is the ‘real’ capable of being known?
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Correct answer: (A) By utilising the power contained deeper than the mind
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Question 124
Which one of the following is the best meaning of the phrase ‘speculative intellect’?
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Correct answer: (A) Dull reflection on the basis of logic and reason
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Question 125
Which one of the following statements is true?
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Correct answer: (A) Vidya and Avidya are similar to intuition and intellect
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Question 126
Which one of the following is a correct meaning of the word ‘brethren’?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 127
The utterance ‘He became his own cook’ is an example of which one of the following grammatical categories?
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Correct answer: (C) Emphasising adjective
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Question 128
Which one of the following words stands for the evening prayers?
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Correct answer: (A) Vesper
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Question 129
‘A half holiday is better than none’ is an example of which one of the following parts of speech?
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Correct answer: (C) Quantitative adjectives
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Question 130
‘A triangle whose three sides are equal is called an equilateral triangle’ is an example of which one of the following classes?
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Correct answer: (A) Relative pronoun
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Question 131
‘He laughed a hearty laugh’ is an example of which one of the following?
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Correct answer: (C) Cognate noun
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Question 132
‘Such a thing was never thought of’ is an example of which one of the following classes?
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Correct answer: (A) Passive prepositional verb
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Question 133
‘He died poor’ is an example of which one of the following categories?
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Correct answer: (B) Indicative mood
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Question 134
‘I had rather take this than that’ is an example of which one of the following classes?
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Correct answer: (A) Infinitive
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Question 135
Which one of the following would best fill in the blanks in the observation: ‘Let _____ be _____. We cannot undo the past.’
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Correct answer: (C) bygone, bygone
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Question 136
Which one of the following would best fill in the blanks in the observation: ‘The Sun _____ _____, they set off.’
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Correct answer: (A) having, risen
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Question 137
‘I rely on the wall being built immediately.’ Which one of the following grammatical categories is at work?
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Correct answer: (B) Gerundive use of participle
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Question 138
‘He did this ______, and you have done it ______.’ Which one of the following would best fill in the blanks?
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Correct answer: (C) before, since
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Question 139
‘He came and sat _____ me.’ Which one of the following would best fill in the blank?
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Correct answer: (B) beside
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Question 140
‘She threw the letter ______ the fire.’ Which one of the following would best fill in the blank?
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Correct answer: (B) into
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Question 141
Which one of the following prepositions shall go with the observation ‘Send _____ a doctor’?
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Correct answer: (A) for
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Question 142
‘Wrestle ______ an adversary.’ Which one of the following prepositions shall go in the blank?
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Correct answer: (C) with
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Question 143
‘He started early because he might not be late.’ Which one of the following is a correct form of the above?
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Correct answer: (A) He started early in order that he might not be late
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Question 144
‘I would _____ have the picture ______ the pen.’ Which one of the following would best fill in the blanks?
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Correct answer: (B) rather, than
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Question 145
‘A person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain.’ Which one of the following would best explain the above?
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Correct answer: (A) Stoic
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Question 146
‘Incapable of being altered or recalled.’ Which one of the following would best explain the above?
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Correct answer: (C) Irrevocable
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Question 147
Which one of the following is a meaning of the phrase ‘Once for all’?
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Correct answer: (A) When a thing is done, it is done forever
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Question 148
Which one of the following would best explain the meaning of the phrase ‘Out-and-out’?
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Correct answer: (B) Thoroughly
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Question 149
Which one of the following would best explain the meaning of the word ‘Proscribe’?
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Correct answer: (A) To condemn
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Question 150
Which one of the following explains the meaning of the phrase ‘Through and through’?