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UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21A
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been
instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has
meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of
originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to
be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
[Question ID = 10819][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q01]
1. There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
[Option ID = 13274]
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
[Option ID = 13275]
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
[Option ID = 13276]
Correct Answer :-
There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?
[Question ID = 10820][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q02]
1. Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
[Option ID = 13278]
3. Promoting joyous expectations
[Option ID = 13279]
4. Promoting social honesty in life
[Option ID = 13280]
Correct Answer :-
Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
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UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21A
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been
instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has
meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of
originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to
be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
[Question ID = 10819][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q01]
1. There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
[Option ID = 13274]
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
[Option ID = 13275]
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
[Option ID = 13276]
Correct Answer :-
There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?
[Question ID = 10820][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q02]
1. Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
[Option ID = 13278]
3. Promoting joyous expectations
[Option ID = 13279]
4. Promoting social honesty in life
[Option ID = 13280]
Correct Answer :-
Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
3)  
1)  
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:
[Question ID = 10821][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q03]
1. some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
2. truth of self-recognition.
[Option ID = 13282]
3. creating ideal pleasures.
[Option ID = 13283]
4. re-living the past joys.
[Option ID = 13284]
Correct Answer :-
some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21B
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, ‘No worst, there is none.’?
 
[Question ID = 10822][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q04]
1. It is not worst because there is nothing.
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UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21A
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been
instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has
meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of
originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to
be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
[Question ID = 10819][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q01]
1. There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
[Option ID = 13274]
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
[Option ID = 13275]
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
[Option ID = 13276]
Correct Answer :-
There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?
[Question ID = 10820][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q02]
1. Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
[Option ID = 13278]
3. Promoting joyous expectations
[Option ID = 13279]
4. Promoting social honesty in life
[Option ID = 13280]
Correct Answer :-
Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
3)  
1)  
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:
[Question ID = 10821][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q03]
1. some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
2. truth of self-recognition.
[Option ID = 13282]
3. creating ideal pleasures.
[Option ID = 13283]
4. re-living the past joys.
[Option ID = 13284]
Correct Answer :-
some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21B
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, ‘No worst, there is none.’?
 
[Question ID = 10822][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q04]
1. It is not worst because there is nothing.
2)  
3)  
[Option ID = 13285]
2. Nothing can be so much bad as this.
[Option ID = 13286]
3. No it is worst as nothing is there.
[Option ID = 13287]
4. It is very bad as no one is there.
[Option ID = 13288]
Correct Answer :-
It is not worst because there is nothing.
[Option ID = 13285]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:
[Question ID = 10823][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q05]
1. no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
2. only a new pain more painful.
[Option ID = 13290]
3. only the twisted known pains.
[Option ID = 13291]
4. the griefs beyond limits of pain.
[Option ID = 13292]
Correct Answer :-
no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
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UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21A
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been
instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has
meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of
originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to
be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
[Question ID = 10819][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q01]
1. There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
[Option ID = 13274]
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
[Option ID = 13275]
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
[Option ID = 13276]
Correct Answer :-
There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?
[Question ID = 10820][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q02]
1. Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
[Option ID = 13278]
3. Promoting joyous expectations
[Option ID = 13279]
4. Promoting social honesty in life
[Option ID = 13280]
Correct Answer :-
Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
3)  
1)  
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:
[Question ID = 10821][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q03]
1. some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
2. truth of self-recognition.
[Option ID = 13282]
3. creating ideal pleasures.
[Option ID = 13283]
4. re-living the past joys.
[Option ID = 13284]
Correct Answer :-
some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21B
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, ‘No worst, there is none.’?
 
[Question ID = 10822][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q04]
1. It is not worst because there is nothing.
2)  
3)  
[Option ID = 13285]
2. Nothing can be so much bad as this.
[Option ID = 13286]
3. No it is worst as nothing is there.
[Option ID = 13287]
4. It is very bad as no one is there.
[Option ID = 13288]
Correct Answer :-
It is not worst because there is nothing.
[Option ID = 13285]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:
[Question ID = 10823][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q05]
1. no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
2. only a new pain more painful.
[Option ID = 13290]
3. only the twisted known pains.
[Option ID = 13291]
4. the griefs beyond limits of pain.
[Option ID = 13292]
Correct Answer :-
no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
1)  
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which two of the following are true?
 
A. Not all know the intensity or depth of suffering.
B. Death does not put an end to our sufferings.
C. Suffering is seen as winds that hinder comfort.
D. Suffering’s intensity or depth is in the mind.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[Question ID = 10824][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q06]
1. A and B only
[Option ID = 13293]
2. C and D only
[Option ID = 13294]
3. A and D only
[Option ID = 13295]
4. B and D only
[Option ID = 13296]
Correct Answer :-
A and B only
[Option ID = 13293]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21C
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals , in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his
sport with Tess. And the D’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained
thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they
had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
                                                                                                --Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
How did the ‘sport with Tess’ end?
[Question ID = 10825][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q07]
1. She was hanged.
[Option ID = 13297]
2. She was expelled from Wintoncester.
[Option ID = 13298]
3. The tormentor married her.
[Option ID = 13299]
4. She died an untimely death.
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UGC NET 2021 English Shift 1
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21A
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been
instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has
meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of
originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to
be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
In the context of the above which is closest to being true?
[Question ID = 10819][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q01]
1. There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
2. Poetry can have no true subject.
[Option ID = 13274]
3. Man may be the true subject of poetry.
[Option ID = 13275]
4. The poet himself may be the subject.
[Option ID = 13276]
Correct Answer :-
There can be no use of poetry.
[Option ID = 13273]
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
What is meant by ‘traditional use of poetry’?
[Question ID = 10820][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q02]
1. Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
2. Promoting doubtful pleasure
[Option ID = 13278]
3. Promoting joyous expectations
[Option ID = 13279]
4. Promoting social honesty in life
[Option ID = 13280]
Correct Answer :-
Promoting serious ideas
[Option ID = 13277]
3)  
1)  
 
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
 
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in
the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common
deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past
joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition,
which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the
achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly.
                                                                 - Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
If ‘selfhood’ of a poet is the subject of poetry, then ‘originality’ shall spring from:
[Question ID = 10821][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q03]
1. some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
2. truth of self-recognition.
[Option ID = 13282]
3. creating ideal pleasures.
[Option ID = 13283]
4. re-living the past joys.
[Option ID = 13284]
Correct Answer :-
some truth of untruths.
[Option ID = 13281]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21B
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, ‘No worst, there is none.’?
 
[Question ID = 10822][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q04]
1. It is not worst because there is nothing.
2)  
3)  
[Option ID = 13285]
2. Nothing can be so much bad as this.
[Option ID = 13286]
3. No it is worst as nothing is there.
[Option ID = 13287]
4. It is very bad as no one is there.
[Option ID = 13288]
Correct Answer :-
It is not worst because there is nothing.
[Option ID = 13285]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:
[Question ID = 10823][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q05]
1. no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
2. only a new pain more painful.
[Option ID = 13290]
3. only the twisted known pains.
[Option ID = 13291]
4. the griefs beyond limits of pain.
[Option ID = 13292]
Correct Answer :-
no grief than being experienced.
[Option ID = 13289]
 
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
 
No worst, there is none.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
1)  
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing—
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
                                                                        - Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Which two of the following are true?
 
A. Not all know the intensity or depth of suffering.
B. Death does not put an end to our sufferings.
C. Suffering is seen as winds that hinder comfort.
D. Suffering’s intensity or depth is in the mind.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[Question ID = 10824][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q06]
1. A and B only
[Option ID = 13293]
2. C and D only
[Option ID = 13294]
3. A and D only
[Option ID = 13295]
4. B and D only
[Option ID = 13296]
Correct Answer :-
A and B only
[Option ID = 13293]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21C
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals , in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his
sport with Tess. And the D’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained
thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they
had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
                                                                                                --Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
How did the ‘sport with Tess’ end?
[Question ID = 10825][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q07]
1. She was hanged.
[Option ID = 13297]
2. She was expelled from Wintoncester.
[Option ID = 13298]
3. The tormentor married her.
[Option ID = 13299]
4. She died an untimely death.
2)  
1)  
[Option ID = 13300]
Correct Answer :-
She was hanged.
[Option ID = 13297]
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals , in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his
sport with Tess. And the D’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained
thus a long time, absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they
had enough strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
                                                                                                --Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Who are the ‘two speechless gazers’?
[Question ID = 10826][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q08]
1. Reverend James Clare and Mrs. Brooks
[Option ID = 13301]
2. ‘Liza-Lu and Angel Clare
[Option ID = 13302]
3. Tess’s two parents
[Option ID = 13303]
4. Parson Tringham and Mrs. d’Urberville
[Option ID = 13304]
Correct Answer :-
Reverend James Clare and Mrs. Brooks
[Option ID = 13301]
Topic:- English_SH1_SHAAN_NOV21D
 
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
                                                                 --  Shakespeare, The Tempest
‘[T]his insubstantial pageant’ refers to:
[Question ID = 10827][Question Description = S3_qSNz_PG_ENG_Q09]
1. the shutdown of Globe theatre.
[Option ID = 13305]
2. a non-real performance.
[Option ID = 13306]
3. the destroyed mother earth.
[Option ID = 13307]
4. enactment with support structure.
[Option ID = 13308]
Correct Answer :-
the shutdown of Globe theatre.
[Option ID = 13305]
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