Directions(1-10): Read the given passages and answer the following questions:

Five prominent Indian feminists including Urvashi Batalia wrote a letter to NDTV explaining
why they objected to the BBC documentary India‘s Daughter, and explaining why they believed
it should not be shown.

On the one hand, this could be an attempt by these women to reassert control over the Indian
conversation about rape and women‘s rights, feeling that British filmmaker Leslee Udwin has
taken it away from them with this film. That‘s understandable, from an intersectional viewpoint,
and also an anti-imperialist one. I can see the argument that a white woman has swooped in and
made statements about India “a sick culture”—that Indian feminists would find insulting.

Yet it‘s not hard to see that the sick culture Udwin refers to is the rape culture that is actually
sick and diseased. Should an Indian woman have made this documentary? Perhaps. Was it wrong
for a British woman to do so? I don‘t think so. I see the documentary not as a white woman
making statements about India but chronicling a painful moment in Indian history that concerned
the entire world, because rape culture is universal. (And it hasn‘t just been Indian women who
have been raped in India -a Japanese tourist was gang-raped for days last month, for example.)

On the other hand, the attempt to control the narrative still has strongly nationalistic tones. I find
it hard to agree that this documentary sets back the advances Indian women have made against
rape and sexualised violence; in fact it exposes the mindset they are fighting against. Underneath
all the talk about India‘s penal codes and laws, the feeling that India should not be shamed in the
eyes of the world emerges quite clearly. Was Udwin really “reinforcing stereotypes” and going
against India‘s laws and constitution? Or was she exposing a mindset that still persists no matter
how much Indian women fight against it? Would these feminists have objected had the movie
been about Pakistan‘s Mukhtaran Mai, who suffered a hideous gang-rape on this side of the
border?

By showing the slum the rapists came from, it‘s hard to gather that Udwin was making the
assertion that all rapists are poor. Rather, she was trying to illustrate the extreme poverty and
deprivation that fuelled these rapists. That is vital information to understanding the assertion that
the attack on Jyoti Singh (or Nirbhaya, her pseudonym) was seen as an attack on the new breed
of Indian women who have aspirations and want to exercise their agency in a country that still
thinks their place is in the home, locked up after dark.

I cannot buy the idea that this documentary would incite hate speech and violence against
women. It portrays hate speech and violence against women, but nowhere does it make that hate
speech or violence exemplary. Everyone‘s reactions in India and abroad to the rapist and his
lawyer‘s statements about women have shown us already that these are abhorrent and ugly
views. Yet we can‘t deny that there are people who still harbour them, both in India and abroad.

Perhaps I would be offended if Udwin had come to Pakistan and made a documentary about
Mukhtaran Mai and said that Pakistan has a “sick culture”. But I would be offended as a
Pakistani. As a woman, I know better. Rape culture is sick. And in the end, I‘m a strong believer
in the phrase “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. Anyone who shines a light on illness in my
society is doing me a favour, our history with colonialism be damned. I don‘t care who starts that
conversation as long as I add my voice to it. And I‘m not so insecure about the white woman to
believe that her voice outweighs mine. I‘ll shout her down if I have to.

As a writer, I also know that if you restrict yourself to creating art that concerns itself only with
your corner of the world, you fail as an artist. Imagine if Nabokov had not written Lolita, set in
America, or if Isak Dinsen had not written about Africa. What if Gauguin had gone to Tahiti but
not painted there because he was culturally appropriating the Tahitian women? (Yes a
documentary is art as much as a novel or a painting.) These days we‘re extremely aware of
cultural sensitivity and we know that the people from a certain culture are the ones best placed to
talk about their experiences. But the role of the artist as outsider is, to me, sacrosanct, and
sometimes outsiders can say things that insiders cannot, or won‘t.

And what if E. M. Foster had been told he couldn‘t write A Passage To India because Adela
Quested was a white woman?

In the end, I want more conversation about sexual violence against women, not less. I want more
voices, more perspectives, from all countries, from women of all backgrounds, and men, too, and
trans men and trans women who suffer some of the worst sexual violence in silence. How will
we learn anything if we restrict ourselves to the “appropriate” voices, the “appropriate”
nationalities? The best conversations start with listening. And I‘m willing to listen to anyone
who cares enough to speak.

1. Which of the following has been used in the 2nd Paragraph of the passage?
A. Irony B. Criticism C. Sarcasm D. Mockery

2. Which of the following has been taken away by Leslee Udwin?

A. Women rights B. Control of conversation
C. Information related to sexual offences D. Both A and B

3. What according to the author is the real reason behind the criticism of the film?
A. The international attention
B. India being dishonoured at an international platform
C. The making of the film by a foreigner
D. All of the above

4. What is the view of the author about the whole issue?

A. He is against the film and wants it not to be shown
B. He is sympathetic towards the filmmakers
C. He is in support of the film as it helps a social cause
D. He strongly criticizes the people against it

5. How has the documentary helped or harmed India?

A. It has exposed India‘s poverty B. It has exposed the corrupt mentality
C. It has helped in justifying such incidences D. It has helped to showcase the background of the
offenders
6. What is the meaning of the phrase “sunlight is the best disinfectant‘?
A. Light cleanses everything
B. The importance of purity in society is of paramount importance
C. Awareness brings improvement
D. Truth always prevails

7. What does the author wants from the society?

A. Prohibition on Free speech B. Prohibition on Hate speech
C. More conversation on such incidences D. Introspection by the people

8. What is the source of the passage?

A. An article B. A blog C. An interview D. A research work

9. What is the central idea of the passage?

A. Creating awareness supersedes image of the society B. Supporting a social cause
C. Preventing hate speech D. Creating awareness on international issues

10. Give a suitable title to the above passage?

A. Free speech: The need of the hour
B. Should white women make documentaries about rape in India?
C. The art of film making
D. Awareness v. Image

Directions(11-14): Identify the correct analogy:

11. Galaxy: Stars:: Herd:

A. Asses B. Cattle C. Herons D. All of the above

12. Creation: Destruction:: Pandemonium

A. Bedlam B. Mayhem C. Peace D. Love

13. Nadir: Depth:: Vociferous:

A. Strident B. Calm C. Voluminous D. All of the above

14. Dog: Kennel :: Hen:

A. Pen B. Cote C. Shed D. Cell

Directions(15-19):Identify the word that can be used to replace the following phrases:

15. harmful with evil intentions

A.florid B.baleful C. gibe D. enemy

16. a small group within an organization or a meeting of such a group

A. gang B. nexus C. marauder D.caucus

17. family name or nickname

A. cognomen B. consanguine C. progeny D.friend

18. seduce from virtue or duty

A. errant B.libertine C.debauch D.miscreant

19. senility or mental decline

A.execrable B. gauche C. gerontology D.dotage

Directions(20-25): A statement is divided into 4 parts and those parts are jumbled. Arrange
these jumbles parts to form a coherent statement.

20. a. one of the most remarkable studies of the social and psychological condition
b. and its influence is sure to be lasting and far reaching.
c. the book I have had the privilege of translating is, undoubtedly,
d. of the modern world which has appeared in Europe for many years,
A.cbda B.cadb C.cdab D.abdc

21. a. and only as a result of that love to love

b. the Christian doctrine to love God and serve him,
c. and serve one's neighbor, seems to scientific men
d. obscure, mystic, and arbitrary.
A.bdca B.adcb C.abcd D.bacd

22. a. the weakening of sentiment in proportion to the extension of its object,

b. draw further deductions in theory in the same direction.
c. on scientific principles, without taking into consideration
d. the Positivists, however, and all the apostles of fraternity
A. abdc B. dabc C.dcab D.acbd

23. a. these figures represent only a small part of the real cost,
b. because besides the recognized expenditure of the war budget of the various nations,
c. who are taken from industrial pursuits and every kind of labor,
d. we ought also to take into account the enormous loss to society involved in withdrawing from
it such an immense number of its most vigorous men,
e. as well as the enormous interest on the sums expended on military preparations without any
return.
A.eabcd B.caebd C.cedba D.abdce

24. a. the military authorities decide to get rid of the troublesome young man,
b. under escort to the committee of the secret police.
c. after deliberation among themselves,
d. to consider him as a revolutionist, and they dispatch him
A.cadb B.dacb C.abcd D. bcad

25. a. a series of essays with a great deal of information on the subject,

b. but partly owing to my literary reputation, partly because the book had excited people's
curiosity,
c. and it evolved, on one side, from those who shared my convictions,
d. it circulated in manuscript and in lithographed copies in Russia and through translations
abroad,
e. my book was, as I had anticipated, suppressed by the Russian censorship;
f. on the other side a series of criticisms on the principles laid down in my book.
A.cadbef B.bedcfa C.ebdcaf D.abcdfe

Directions(26-30):Fill in the blanks with the best choice:

26. More than a generation earlier, in 1976, I was in Massachusetts to see and hear another
American ________ make some of the same promises to a fiery, almost all-white crowd.

A.matador B. orator C.speaker D. demagogue

27. Despite being wounded in an assassination attempt and confined to a wheelchair, Wallace
still ________ behind a three-sided barrier of bulletproof glass.

A. whispered B. thundered C. razzed D. miscegenated

28. After President Nixon became _______ in Watergate, “Don‘t blame me, I‘m from
Massachusetts,” became a famous bumper sticker

A. embroiled B. seasoned C.superficial D. lost

29. None of the others had the advantage of reality television celebrity or buildings ________
their names.

A. losing B.discarding C. brandishing D. bidding for

30. His ______ to lost American greatness and promises to restore it meet just about every
criterion for demagoguery.
A.eulogy B. elegies C. poem D. devotedness

Directions(31-35):Write the meanings of the given foreign words:

31. Verboten: this is the official ideology in many a workplace where sex between senior and
junior staff is verboten.

A. forbidden B. seller beware

C. traveler beware D. scintillating

32. Billet Doux: The bouquet struck her full in the chest, and a little billet-doux fell out of it
intoher lap.

A. a love letter B. Mysterious

C. Audacious D. near to the point
33. Non Sequitur: You have no way to connect the second sentence to what you've read so far.
That's what makes it a non sequitur.

A. bitter truth B. strict

C. god‘s intervention D. irrelevant

34.Victor Ludorum: I returned to the athletics track and, despite not making the provincial team,
won the Victor Ludorum, the school‘s highest athletic award.

A. overall champion in a sport tournament B.pen name

C. care free D.at first sight

35.Brasserie:That's what law professor Paul Campos told me, sitting at a table inbrasserie Beck
after a C ato panel on law schools.

A. Mysterious person B. an incorrigible child

C.tavern D. an infamous person

Directions(36-40):Find the incorrect part and mark that as your answer. If there is no
error, then mark D as your answer.

36. Transfixed by Bajirao‘s Hindu masculinity, (A)/ there is no time for Bangash to even scowl
again (B)/ before the warrior slits his throat.(C)

37. Let‘s do our best to challenge the rampant misogyny, (A)/ that has gone on worldwide for far
too long, (B)/ and reject whatever lessons of sexist repression we may have been taught. (C)

38. In fact things are rather chequered in more ways than one for our hero (A)/ as the deliciously
evil King John (Michael Bertenshaw) imprisons his own brother in the castle dungeons, seize the
throne, (B)/ and looks ready to marry his own niece and squash all dissent with his famed public
squashings. (C)

39. A Chinese company have claimed a world first (A)/ on Wednesday by unveiling (B)/ a drone
capable of carrying a human passenger. (C)

40. Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, (A)/ finally completing the table‘s
seventh row (B)/ and rendering science textbooks around the world instantly out of date. (C)