Literary Passages CUET English

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Had Dr Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.
Wherever narrative is necessary to explain, connect, and supply, I furnish it to the best of my abilities; but in the chronological series of Johnson’s life, which I trace as distinctly as I can, year by year, I produce, wherever it is in my power, his own minutes, letters, or conversation, being convinced that this mode is more lively, and will make my readers better acquainted with him, than even most of those were who actually knew him, but could know him only partially; whereas there is here an accumulation of intelligence from various points, by which his character is more fully understood and illustrated.
Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man’s life, than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought. Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. And he will be seen as he really was, for I profess to write, not his panegyric, which must be all praise, but his life; which, great and good as he was, must not be supposed to be entirely perfect. To be as he was, is indeed subject of panegyric enough to any man in this state of being; but in every picture there should be shade as well as light, and when I delineate him without reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example, as quoted below.
‘‘If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent.’’

Question: It can be inferred from the passage that Dr Johnson ......... .
a) wrote many biographies
b) wrote his own autobiography
c) was against writing his autobiography
d) did not want the author to write about him

Answer: a

Question: Dr Johnson would probably have agreed that ....... .
a) a biography tends to over-praise
b) an autobiography is always misleading
c) an autobiographer is the greatest authority on his own life
d) All of the above

Answer: c

Question: According to the passage, the author goes through the various letters, conversations and minutes to ……
a) give a correct chronology of Johnson
b) to illustrate Johnson’s characteristics with utmost precision
c) to write a perfect biography
d) to present his thought in his works

Answer: b

Question: Based on your understanding of the passage, choose the option that lists the correct sequence of the data in the passage.
1. The author does not want to flatter Dr. Johnson.
2. Dr. Johnson was an expert biographer.
3. The author desires to interweave the personal life of Johnson with his works.
4. The author follows the recommendations of Dr. Johnson.
a) 1,3,2,4
b) 2,3,1,4
c) 4,3,2,1
d) 1,2,3,4

Answer: b

Question: Whom does the author blame for his inability to preserve Dr. Johnson?
a) Dr. Johnson’s friends
b) Dr. Johnson’s family
c) Dr. Johnson himself
d) Cannot say

Answer: a

Question: The author does not want to write a panegyric because
a) he feels that it would not be a perfect biography
b) he feels that it would harm dr. johnson’s reputation
c) he believes that dr. johnson was not perfect
d) he believes that only dr. johnson’s friends would do so

Answer: c

Question: How can a person know more about Dr. Johnson?
a) By talking to his friends
b) By reading his letters and conversation
c) By reading about his lectures
d) By reading the biographies written by him

Answer: b

Question: The word ............ is a synonym of ‘panegyric’ used in paragraph 4.
a) eulogy
b) myth
c) portrait
d) fame

Answer: a

Question: When the author of the passage states that “in every picture there should be shade as well as light,” he means to highlight
a) Praise as well as criticism
b) Flattery and flaws
c) Good as well as bad qualities
d) Highs and lows of life

Answer: c

Question: In paragraph 1, the word ............ means ‘preserved someone or something in an unalterable state’.
a) perfect
b) preservation
c) frozen
d) embalmed

Answer: d

Question: In paragraph 4, the word ............ means ‘describe or portray precisely’.
a) perfectly
b) tilted
c) delineate
d) precept

Answer: c

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Travel is a bug that was in me when I was born, probably inherited from my father. In 24 years of travelling widely through India, I have been most fascinated by those little islands that dot the Bay of Bengal off the East Coast of India. Yes, I am talking about the Andaman Islands. Andamans somehow seemed almost sinister, with images of being haunted, bleak and scary, until my parents actually returned from a trip to Port Blair and told us about these serene islands.
We immediately awaited the first opportunity to take a break and check them out. Finally, the D-Day came and we were all ready. We boarded the aircraft and, to our surprise, found that there were several empty seats. On enquiry, we learnt that all supplies to the Andamans including newspapers and meat go from the mainland, and so there is always more cargo and less people.
Port Blair airport is a small, old airport that was constructed in 1947. On my way to the hotel, I noticed that there are none of the usual auto-rickshaws that noisily wend their way through most Indian towns. There was only one traffic signal in the entire town and the roads were more up and down than level. This was all surprising for a person like me who has lived in the coastal towns of Chennai and Mumbai.
The colour of the sea was an unpolluted blue, a colour that I had not seen in any of the beaches in India. It was calm and beautiful. I was thrilled with the fact that we were going to spend 10 entire days there. All we had to do was sit in the open restaurant, look at the sea, enjoy the cool breeze and feel good.
The Andaman Islands are a group of several islands, so most of our sightseeing was by boats. There are a total of more than 356 islands there. Even the oldest boatman, Rathnam, had seen only 200 of them. I figured that 10 days was surely not enough to get a full picture of this place, so I started to store every sight, every sound and every smell. The sound and light show at the jail sent a shiver down my spine. (This trip was before the movie ‘Kalapani’ was released). The realisation that those who fought for our independence had lived, struggled, suffered and even died here, left an impact.

Question: One thing that left a major impact on the author was ………… .
a) the serenity of the place
b) the wholesome experience
c) vastness of the islands
d) the realisation that freedom fighters had lived, struggled and died there.

Answer: d

Question: Pick the option that is NOT TRUE as per the passage.
1. The narrator liked travelling.
2. There were no empty seats in the aircraft.
3. The Port Blair Airport is small.
4. The Andaman Islands are a group of Islands.
a) 1 and 2
b) Only 2
c) 3 and 4
d) Only 4

Answer: b

Question: What was the author’s initial impression about the Andaman Islands?
a) They were beautiful and serene.
b) They were uninhabitable.
c) They were sinister, haunted and scary.
d) They were difficult to explore.

Answer: c

Question: The airport at Port Blair was built in ………… .
a) 1947
b) 1847
c) 1948
d) 1940

Answer: a

Question: Where are Andaman Islands located?
a) In the Arabian Sea
b) In the Bay of Bengal
c) In the Indian Ocean
d) In the Atlantic Ocean

Answer: b

Question: How many islands constitute Andaman Islands?
a) 200
b) More than 356
c) 350
d) Less than 356

Answer: b

Question: What is the historical significance of Andaman Islands?
1. They were centre of trade and commerce.
2. They have the maximum number of tribal population.
3. They were used as centre for scientific research.
4. They had the infamous Kalapani jail where freedomfighters were imprisoned by the British.
a) Only 1
b) 1 and 2
c) 3 and 4
d) Only 4

Answer: d

Question: Pick the option showing the CORRECT use of the word ‘boarded’ as used in the passage.
a) I was the last to board the tourist bus.
b) I felt board when I went to Denmark.
c) Einstein was boared in his school classes.
d) Did you took my board today?

Answer: a

Question: Which of the following words in the passage is the antonym of ‘contaminated’?
a) Unpolluted
b) Adulterated
c) Cleaned
d) Unspoiled

Answer: a

Question: What is the meaning of the phrase ‘sent a shiver down my spine’?
a) Feel very frightened
b) Feel very excited
c) Feel very relaxed
d) None of these

Answer: a

Question: The synonym of ‘sinister’ in the first paragraph is ………… .
a) threatening
b) left side
c) benign
d) good

Answer: a

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A poor farmer lived with his wife and son in a small village. One day, exhausted by the heat, he lay down under the shadow of a tree to take a nap. All of a sudden he saw a giant cobra crawling out of an ant hill. The farmer thought to himself, “Surely this snake must be a deity guarding my field. So far I have not noticed it and that is why all my farming is in vain. Let me pay my respects to it now and worship it thereafter.”
He then made up his mind, brought some milk in a bowl and placed it before the ant hill. He said aloud, “O lord guardian of my field! I did not know you dwell here. Please forgive me for not paying respects to you.” He left the milk bowl there and went back to his house. The next morning, he was surprised to see a gold coin in the bowl. Since then the farmer placed a bowl of milk every day and got back a gold coin the next morning. Soon the farmer became rich and happy.
One day the farmer had to go to a nearby city for a few days and so he directed his son to place the milk bowl near the ant hill every day. The son kept the milk bowl and left, only to find a gold coin the next day. He then thought to himself, “This ant hill must be full of gold coins: I‘ll kill the serpent and take all of them.”
The next day, while placing the bowl of milk, the farmer’s son struck the snake with a club. But the serpent escaped and bit him with its sharp fangs instead. He was dead at once. When the farmer returned, he learnt about his son’s fate and grieved. The next morning, he took the bowl of milk and went to the ant hill.
The snake came out and said, “Your greed made you overlook even the loss of your son. Your son struck me in ignorance and I had bitten him to death. I cannot forget the blow on my head and you cannot forget the loss of your son. Hereafter, the friendship between us is not possible.” The snake gave a costly coin and disappeared. The farmer returned home cursing the foolishness of his son.

Question: Based on your understanding of the passage, choose the option that list the CORRECT sequence
of the occurrence of incedents in the passage.
1. The farmer brought some milk in a bowl.
2. A giant cobra was seen by the farmer.
3. The farmer’s son placed a bowl of milk near the ant hill.
4. The snake was struck with a club.
a) 2, 4, 1, 3
b) 2, 1, 3, 4
c) 1, 2, 3, 4
d) 4, 3, 2, 1

Answer: b

Question: Pick the option showing the CORRECT use of the word ‘directed’ as used in the passage.
a) The administrator has direct access to all the files on every computer.
b) One’s educational level has a direct effect on one’s income.
c) Which is the most direct route to Chandni Chowk?
d) The Principal directed the teachers to make online videos for their students.

Answer: d

Question: What did the farmer do to worship the cobra?
a) Built a temple
b) Performed a puja
c) Put a bowl of milk
d) Erected an idol of the cobra

Answer: c

Question: What did the cobra give in return of the milk?
a) A gold coin
b) A gold chain
c) A gold ring
d) A gold axe

Answer: a

Question: What did the farmer’s son thought on seeing the gold coin?
a) Someone else must be keeping the coin.
b) The ant hill must be full of gold.
c) The cobra is not friendly.
d) None of the above

Answer: b

Question: What did he do to get all the gold?
a) He requested the cobra to give him all the gold.
b) He stole all the gold from the ant hill.
c) He tried to kill the cobra.
d) None of the above

Answer: c

Question:  What message does this passage convey?
1. Greed never pays.
2. You should never befriend a cobra.
3. Humans and animals cannot be friends.
4. We should worship cobras.
a) Only 1
b) Both 1 and 2
c) Only 3
d) Only 4

Answer: a

Question: The word ‘deity’ in para 1 means ………… .
a) guard
b) sentry
c) divine being
d) idol

Answer: c

Question: The word ‘exhausted’ in para 1 is an antonym of……… .
a) started
b) finished
c) fresh
d) invigorated

Answer: d

Question: The word ………… in para 4 means the same as ‘instructed’.
a) ordered
b) directed
c) commanded
d) kept

Answer: b

Question: Pick the option that CORRECTLY lists the final feelings of the farmer.
1. Annoyance
2. Contentment
3. Repentance
4. Joy
5. Empathy
a) 2 and 4
b) 1 and 4
c) 1 and 5
d) 1 and 3

Answer: d

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

“Did you see that?” Joe said to his friend Bill.
“You’re a great shooter!”
Bill caught the basketball and bounced it before throwing it again. The ball flew into the net.
“Bill, you never miss!” Joe said admiringly.
“Unless I’m in a real game,” Bill complained. “Then I miss all the time.”
Joe knew that Bill was right. Bill performed much better when he was having fun with Joe in the school yard than he did when he was playing for the school team in front of a large crowd.
“Maybe you just need to practice more,” Joe suggested. “But I practice all the time with you!” Bill objected. He shook his head. “I just can’t play well when people are watching me.” “You play well when I’m watching,” Joe pointed out. “That’s because I’ve known you since we were five years old,” Bill said with a smile.
Joe nodded and understood, but he also had an idea. The next day Joe and Bill met in the school yard again to practice. After a few minutes, Joe excused himself. “Practice without me,” Joe said to his friend. “I’ll be back in a minute.”
Joe hastened through the school building, gathering together whomever he could find—two students, a math teacher, two secretaries, and a janitor. When Joe explained why he needed them, everyone was happy to help. Joe reminded the group to stay quiet as they all went toward the school’s basketball court. As Joe had hoped, Bill was still practicing basketball. He made five baskets in a row without noticing the people standing behind him.
“Hey, Bill!” Joe called out finally. Bill turned. A look of surprise came over his face.
“I just wanted to show you that you could play well with people watching you,” Joe said. “Now you’ll have nothing to worry about for the next game!”

Question: What would be the best title for the literary passage?
a) Bill Joins the Team
b) Practice Makes Perfect
c) Bill Wins the Big Game
d) Bill’s Basketball Problem

Answer: d

Question:  What problem does Bill highlight about his basketball skills?
a) He plays better in practice than he does during games.
b) The school yard is not a good place to practice.
c) Joe watches him too closely when he plays.
d) His team loses too many games because of him.

Answer: d

Question: Which of the following characteristics can you associate with Joe?
1. Kind
2. Confused
3. Encouraging
4. Friendly
5. Intelligent 6. Knowledgeable
a) 1 and 3
b) 2 and 6
c) 4 and 5
d) Both (a) and (c)

Answer: d

Question: Why does Bill play well when Joe is watching him?
a) He is comfortable with Joe.
b) Joe tells him how to play better.
c) He does not know that Joe is there.
d) He wants to prove to Joe that he is a good player.

Answer: a

Question: Why does Joe decide to gather a group of people?
a) Because he wants more players for his team.
b) Because he wants to help Bill feel less nervous.
c) Because he wants to show them his talent.
d) Because he wantsmore people to see the next game.

Answer: b

Question: At the end of the story, all of the following people watch Bill practice EXCEPT
a) Administrative staff
b) a janitor
c) a math teacher
d) the basketball coach

Answer: d

Question: Why does the group have to be quiet when they go to the basketball court?
a) Because Joe is telling Bill what to do.
b) Because they do not want Bill to know they were there.
c) Because Bill likes to practice alone.
d) Because the group needs to listen to Joe’s instructions.

Answer: b

Question: Which of the following words can replace the word ‘complained’ as used in the passage?
a) Resented
b) Cribbed
c) Lamented
d) Protested

Answer: c

Question: Pick the option showing the CORRECT use of ‘objected’ as used in the passage.
a) He stood up and objected in strong language.
b) The director objected to the cuts ordered by the censor.
c) She objected to this invasion of her personal space.
d) All of the above

Answer: d

Question: The word ………… in the given extract can be replaced by hurried.
a) Hastened
b) Excused
c) Bounced
d) Pointed

Answer: a

Question: In what situation, bill can’t play well?
a) When its raining
b) When many people are watching him
c) When he has stomach ache.
d) When some one cheats

Answer: b

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Archimedes with his lever desired a place to stand that he might move the world of matter. [William Lloyd] Garrison with his paper, having found a place for his feet, demonstrated speedily his ability to push from its solid base the world of mind. His plan was very simple, viz., to reveal slavery as it then existed in its naked enormity, to the conscience of the North, to be “as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.” And so, week after week, he packed in the columns of the Liberator facts, the most damning facts, against slaveholders, their cruelty and tyranny. He painted the woes of the slaves as if he, too, had been a slave. For the first time the masters found a man who rebuked them as not before had they been rebuked. Others may have equivocated, but this man called things by their proper names, a spade, a spade, and sin, sin. Others may have contented themselves with denunciations of the sins and with excuses for the sinner, as a creature of circumstances, the victim of ancestral transgressions, but this man offered no excuses for the slave-holding sinner. Him and his sin he denounced in language, which the Eternal puts only into the mouths of His prophets.
It was, as he had said, “On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.” The strength and resources of his mother-tongue seemed to him wholly inadequate for his needs, to express the transcendent wickedness of slave-holding. All the harsh, the stern, the terrible and tremendous energies of the English speech he drew upon, and launched at slaveholders. Amid all of this excess of the enthusiast there was the method of a calculating mind. He aimed to kindle a conflagration because he had icebergs to melt. “The public shall not be imposed upon,” he replied to one of his critics, “and men and things shall be called by their right names. I retract nothing, I blot out nothing. My language is exactly such as suits me; it will displease many, I know; to displease them is my intention.”
He was philosopher enough to see that he could reach the national conscience only by exciting the national anger. It was not popular rage, which he feared but popular apathy. If he could goad the people to anger on the subject of slavery he would soon be rid of their apathy. And so week after week he piled every sort of combustible material, which he was able to collect on board the Liberator and lighting it all, sent the fiery messenger blazing among the icebergs of the Union.
Slaveholders were robbers, murderers, oppressors; they were guilty of all the sins. At the same moment that the reformer denied their right of property in the slave, he attacked their character also, held them up in their relation of masters to the reprobation of the nation and of mankind as monsters of injustice and inhumanity. The tone which he held toward them, steadily, without shadow of change, was the tone of a righteous man toward the workers of iniquity. The indifference, the apathy, the pro-slavery sympathy and prejudice of the free States rendered the people of the North hardly less culpable.

Question: According to the following sentence, what made William Lloyd Garrison different from other abolitionists?
a) He went onto Southern plantations and freed slaves.
b) He worked in Congress to pass abolitionist legislation.
c) He didn’t make any excuses in his writings and exposed the truth.
d) He operated an underground railroad to help slaves escape to the North.

Answer: c

Question: According to the passage, why was Garrison’s language so strong?
a) He had been a slave himself and wrote from experience.
b) He saw himself as a sort of Prophet and his language was given to him by God.
c) He feared having the people being angry with him.
d) He felt like he was the only person talking about this topic.

Answer: b

Question: All of the following statements are true about arrison’s intentions EXCEPT :
a) He hoped that people would ignore his writings and keep owning slaves
b) He wanted to provoke the national anger
c) He attacked the character of the slave-owners, showing them to be monsters
d) He wanted people to react so that they wouldn’t be apathetic any more

Answer: a

Question: Based on the context clues in the passage, what was the Liberator?
a) A novel
b) A movie
c) A train
d) A pamphlet

Answer: d

Question: Garrison said that slaveholders were all of the following EXCEPT:
a) generous
b) robbers
c) murderers
d) Oppressors

Answer: a

Question: Which of the following can be inferred from the sentence?
a) Garrison thought that only the South was responsible for slavery.
b) Garrison wanted slaves to rise up on their own and didn’t think they needed any help.
c) Garrison felt that people in the North were partially responsible because they were indifferent to the plight of the slaves.
d) Garrison hated all white people.

Answer: c

Question: What can be said about the works of Garrison?
a) He writes scathing satires insulting the slave-owners.
b) He writes as if he too had been a slave.
c) His works show deep hatred for humankind.
d) He writes for the independence of his nation.

Answer: b

Question: The word “conflagration” is closest in meaning to
a) fire
b) shipwreck
c) mess
d) waterfall

Answer: a

Question: The phrase “aimed to kindle” is most similar to:
a) did not want to
b) worked against
c) sat nearby
d) wanted to start

Answer: d

Question: Pick the option showing the CORRECT use of ‘goad’ as used in the passage.
a) “I want somebody very goad, very safe , to plant that gun, “ he told Clemenza.
b) The thought of exams next week is a great goad to the students to work hard.
c) His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.
d) All of the above

Answer: c

Question: Which word in the passage is an antonym of ‘wonderful’?
a) Stern
b) Tremendous
c) Terrible
d) None of these

Answer: c

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Among the vast number of men who have thought fit to write down the history of their own lives, three or four have achieved masterpieces which stand out preeminently: Saint Augustine in his Confessions, Samuel Pepys in his Diary, Rousseau in his Confessions. It is among these extraordinary documents, and unsurpassed by any of them, that the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini takes its place.
The life of himself which Cellini wrote was due to other motives than those which produced its chief competitors for first place in its class.
St. Augustines aim was religious and didactic, Pepys noted down in his diary the daily events of his life for his sole satisfaction and with no intention that any one should read the cipher in which they were recorded. But Cellini wrote that the world might know, after he was dead, what a fellow he had been; what great things he had attempted, and against what odds he had carried them through. All men, he held, whatever be their condition, who have done anything of merit, or which verily has a semblance of merit, if so be they are men of truth and good repute, should write the tale of their life with their own hand. That he had done many things of merit, he had no manner of doubt. His repute was great in his day, and perhaps good in the sense in which he meant goodness; as to whether he was a man of truth, there is still dispute among scholars.
Of some misrepresentations, some suppressions of damaging facts, there seems to be evidence only too good-a man with Cellini’s passion for proving himself in the right could hardly have avoided being guilty of such; but of the general trustworthiness of his record, of the kind of man he was and the kind of life he led, there is no reasonable doubt.
The period covered by the autobiography is from Cellini’s birth in 1500 to 1562; the scene is mainly in Italy and France. Of the great events of the time, the time of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, of the strife of Pope and Emperor and King, we get only glimpses. The leaders in these events appear in the foreground of the picture only when they come into personal relations with the hero; and then not mainly as statesmen or warriors, but as connoisseurs and patrons of art. Such an event as the Sack of Rome is described because Benvenuto himself fought in it.
Much more complete is the view he gives of the artistic life of the time. It was the age of Michelangelo, and in the throng of great artists which then filled the Italian cities, Cellini was no inconsiderable figure. Michelangelo himself he knew and adored. Nowhere can we gain a better idea than in this book of the passionate enthusiasm for the creation of beauty which has bestowed upon the Italy of the Renaissance its greatest glory.
Very vivid, too, is the impression we receive of the social life of the sixteenth century; of its violence, of its zeal for fine craftsmanship, of its abounding vitality, its versatility and its idealism. For Cellini himself is an epitome of that century. This man who tells here the story of his life was a murderer - insolent, sensual, inordinately proud and passionate; but he was also a worker in gold and silver, rejoicing in delicate and subtle modelling of precious surfaces; a sculptor and a musician; and, as all who read his book must testify, a great master of narrative. Keen as was Benvenutos interest in himself, and much as he loved to dwell on the splendor of his exploits and achievements, he had little idea that centuries after his death he would live again, less by his statue of Perseus and his goldsmiths work than by the book which he dictated casually to a lad of fourteen, while he went about his work.
The autobiography was composed between 1558 and 1566, but it brings the record down only to 1562. The remainder of Cellini’s life seems to have been somewhat more peaceful. He died at Florence, May 13, 1571, and was buried in The Church of the Annunziata in that city.

Question: In the given passage, the author talks about
a) Cellini’s life
b) Cellini’s competitors
c) Cellini’s autobiography
d) Cellini’s literary works

Answer: c

Question: What CANNOT be inferred from this passage?
a) Most of Cellini’s life was peaceful.
b) Cellini’s autobiography is not entirely truthful in all respects.
c) Cellini was well-known during his day.
d) Cellini’s autobiography is full of self-love.

Answer: a

Question: Which of the following lists the characteristics that can be associated with Cellini?
1. Narcissist
2. Courageous
3. Criminal
4. Artistic
5. Exploitative
a) 1 and 2
b) 3 and 4
c) 4 and 5
d) All of these

Answer: d

Question: As described by the author, what is NOT true about Cellini’s autobiography?
a) It focuses on the political events of the time.
b) It is one of the perfect example of a biography.
c) It gives the reader insight into the artistic and social life of the 16th century.
d) It tells us about Cellini’s exploits and achievements.

Answer: b

Question: Why does the authormention St. Augustine and Pepys?
a) They were Cellini’s competitors.
b) They lived at the same time as Cellini.
c) He compares their autobiographies to Cellini’s.
d) He compares their works to the works of Cellini.

Answer: c

Question:  What was Cellini’s motive in writing his autobiography?
a) to let other know what great things he had accomplished
b) to teach his sculpture techniques
c) to reach the optimum level of his own satisfaction
d) to posit himself as a good man.

Answer: a

Question: According to Cellini who should write autobiographies?
a) Great men who can act as an inspiration.
b) Great men who had accomplished great things.
c) Great men who need to be remembered by the future generations.
d) Great men who want to remind the world of their goodness.

Answer: b

Question: What do the words “these extraordinary documents” refer to?
a) Historical books
b) the autobiographies of St. Augustine, Pepys, and Rousseau
c) Cellini’s autobiographies
d) All biographies

Answer: b

Question: What is the meaning of the words “unsurpassed by” as used in the passage?
a) better than
b) cannot be compared to
c) equal to
d) unable to cross

Answer: d

Question: Pick the option showing the CORRECT use of ‘repute’ as used in the passage.
a) His Wessex - wide repute was among them alone.
b) This repute seemed to give the new managers the confidence to approach their bosses as resources.
c) A mountaineer of repute, whether local or not, is conspicuous by his or her absence.
d) Are you acquainted if only by repute with a Mr. Landor who is a poet?

Answer: c

Question: Which word in the passage is synonym of ‘slight’?
a) Inconsiderable
b) Versatility
c) Vivid
d) Suppressions

Answer: a