- Question
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put
together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out:
a)Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader
b)More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric, and that this has a profoundly damaging effect on women readers
c)For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read.
d)The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics
e)Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work.
Explanation
SOLUTON –[a] Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader
Question-2
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out:
a)Freedom of speech and the power to silence may have been preeminent markers of white liberty in Colonies, but at the same time, slavery depended on dialogue: slaves could never be completely muted
b)Slave-owners obsessed over slave talk, though they could never control it, yet feared its power to bind and inspire-for, as everyone knew, oaths, whispers, and secret conversations bred conspiracy and revolt
c)Talk was the most common way for enslaved men and women to subvert the rules of their bondage, to gain more agency than they were supposed to have.
d)Even in conditions of extreme violence and unfreedom, their words remained ubiquitous, ephemeral, irrepressible, and potentially
transgressive.
e)Slaves came from societies in which oaths, orations, and invocations carried great potency, both between people and as a connection to the all-powerful spirit world.
Explanation
SOLUTION[E]-Slaves came from societies in which oaths, orations, and invocations carried great potency, both between people and as a connection to the all-powerful spirit world.
