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761English LiteratureMedium

According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true?

“The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”

B“All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”

C“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

DBoth A and B

Correct answer

D. Both A and B

Explanation

The correct answer is Both A and B.

762English LiteratureMedium

In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written?

A18th century; Enlightenment

B17th century; Enlightenment

C18th century; Romanticism

D19th century; Romanticism

Correct answer

A. 18th century; Enlightenment

Explanation

The correct answer is 18th century; Enlightenment.

763English LiteratureMedium

The quote “abandon all hope ye who enter here” is from which text?

ADe Monarchia

BThe Divine Comedy

CDe Vulgari Eloquentia

DVita Nuova

Correct answer

B. The Divine Comedy

Explanation

The correct answer is The Divine Comedy.

764English LiteratureMedium

As per Constitution of 1962 age limit for Judge of Supreme Court was________?

ASixty years

BSixty two years

CNone of these

DSixty five years

Correct answer

D. Sixty five years

Explanation

The correct answer is Sixty five years.

765English LiteratureMedium

Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?

Aparanoid introspection and cryptic dissent

Bsincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

Cstudied melancholy and aestheticism

Draucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication

Correct answer

C. studied melancholy and aestheticism

Explanation

The correct answer is studied melancholy and aestheticism.

766English LiteratureMedium

Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?

AGeorge II

BElizabeth I

CWilliam and Mary

DJames II

Correct answer

D. James II

Explanation

The correct answer is James II.

767English LiteratureMedium

The lines “The loveliest and the last\The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew\Died on the promise of the fruit” are from a poem honoring________?

APercy Shelley

BLord Byron

CSamuel Taylor Coleridge

DJohn Keats

Correct answer

D. John Keats

Explanation

The correct answer is John Keats.

768English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following statements concerning “Vorticism” is false?

APractitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.

BThe periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism’s principal tenets.

CThe term “Vorticism” was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.

DThe practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.

Correct answer

D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.

Explanation

The correct answer is The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I..

769English LiteratureMedium

What is limbo?

AAll of the above

BFor Dante, the home of major figures from the Hebrew Bible

CThe place for virtuous non-Christian adults

DIn The Inferno, the place for many ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian thinkers

Correct answer

A. All of the above

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above.

770English LiteratureMedium

Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is________?

ANelson Mandela

BAmartya Sen

CAnthony Mascarenhas

DKuldip Nayer

Correct answer

D. Kuldip Nayer

Explanation

The correct answer is Kuldip Nayer.

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