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1 X Courses» English Language for Competitive Exams Announcements Course Ask a Question Progress Mentor FAQ Unit 3 - Module One - Course outline How to access the portal Pre-requisite Assignment Module One - A project of What is? Literature and Scientific Passages and Analyze a Task (Part 1) Analyze a Task (Part 2) Quiz : Week 1 - Feedback: English Language for Competitive Exams Answer Key The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on , 23:59 IST. Assignment submitted on , 18:50 IST Instructions: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer of the questions that follow, from the options given below. Perhaps the most controversial use of archeological evidence in theatre history is vase paintings, thousands of which have survived from ancient Greece. (Most of those used by theatre scholars are reproduced in Margarete Bieber s The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre.) Depicting scenes from mythology and daily life, the vases are the most graphic pictorial evidence we have. But they are also easy to misinterpret. Some scholars have considered any vase that depicts a subject treated in a surviving drama or any scene showing masks, flute players, or ceremonials to be valid evidence of theatrical practice. This is a highly questionable assumption, since the Greeks made widespread use of masks, dances, and music outside the theatre and since the myths on which dramatists drew were known to everyone, including vase painters, who might well depict the same subjects as dramatists without being indebted to them. Those vases showing scenes unquestionably theatrical are few in number. 1) In the passage, the author explains that all vases with paintings of masks or musicians may not be evidence of theatrical subjects by Arguing that the subject could have been used by artists without reference to a drama Identifying some of the vases as reproductions that were painted years after the originals Casting doubt on the qualifications of the scholars who produced the vases as evidence Pointing out that there are very few vases that have survived from the time of early dramas 2014 NPTEL - Privacy & Terms - Honor Code - FAQs - In association with Funded by 1 of 5 Thursday 08 November :06 PM

2 Module Four - Module Five - Text Completion and Module Six - Text Completion Module Seven - Module Eight - More Module Nine - (Contd.) Module Ten - Grammar Module Eleven - More Grammar Module Twelve - Revision TEXT TRANSCRIPTS Video Download Powered by Limited Debated Complicated Debated 3) Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the author s opinion about vase paintings? Evidence from written documents is older than evidence from vase paintings. The sources for vase paintings are clear because of the images on them. The details in vase paintings are not obvious because of their age. There is a disagreement among scholars regarding vase paintings. There is a disagreement among scholars regarding vase paintings. Instructions: Read the following passage and answer the following questions. Parasitism is a relationship in which one organism, known as the parasite, lives in or on another organism, known as the host, from which it derives nourishment. Generally, the parasite is much smaller than the host. Although the host is harmed by the interaction, it is generally not killed immediately by the parasite, and some host individuals may live a long time and be relatively little affected by their parasites. Some parasites are much more destructive than others, however. Newly established parasite-host relationships are likely to be more destructive than those that have a long evolutionary history. With a long-standing interaction between the parasite and the host, the two species generally evolve in such a way that they can accommodate one another. It is not in the parasite s best interest to kill its host. If it does, it must find another. Likewise, the host evolves defenses against the parasite, often reducing the harm done by the parasite to a level that the host can tolerate. 4) The word relatively in the passage is closest in meaning to Routinely Adversely Comparatively Frequently Comparatively 5) Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the underlined statement in the passage? The other choices change the meaning or leave out important information. A parasite is less likely to destroy the host when it attaches itself at first. The most destructive phase for a host is when the parasite first invades it. Parasites that have lived on a host for a long time have probably done a lot 2 of 5 Thursday 08 November :06 PM

3 of damage. The relationship between a parasite and a host will evolve over time. The most destructive phase for a host is when the parasite first invades it. 6) The word, tolerate in the passage is closest in meaning to Permit Oppose Profit Avoid Permit Instructions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Vaguely dissatisfied, I turned to the kitchen table, drank my coffee, and ate my sandwich. Until the moment the telephone rang, I had been thinking of something, but now I couldn t remember what it was. Knife in my right hand poised to cut the sandwich in half, I had definitely been thinking of something. Something important. Something I had been trying unsuccessfully to recall for the longest time. It had come to me at the very moment when I was about to cut the sandwich in two, but now it was gone. Chewing on my sandwich, I tried hard to bring it back. But it wouldn t come. It had returned to that dark region of my mind where it had been living until that moment. 7) What is the aim of this passage? To delineate the cause of the narrator s dissatisfaction To demonstrate the narrator s attempt to remember something he thought of earlier To show how the narrator eats his meal To signify the habitual forgetful nature of the narrator To demonstrate the narrator s attempt to remember something he thought of earlier 8) In the context of the passage, what does the word, poised mean? Assured Stopped Confidently positioned Peaceful Confidently positioned 9) State whether the following description about the passage is true or false. 3 of 5 Thursday 08 November :06 PM

4 The general tone of the passage is humorous. True False False 10) Arrange the following sentences in the correct sequential order to make a meaningful paragraph. I. The increasing French threat to English hegemony in the interior of North America was signalized by French-led or French-inspired attacks on the Iroquois and on outlying colonial settlements in New York and New England. II. A counter-raid by the French on the English village of Schenectady in March 1690 instilled an appropriate measure of fear among the English and their Iroquois allies. III. The stability that had marked the Iroquois Confederacy s generally pro-british position was shattered with the overthrow of James II in 1688, the colonial uprisings that followed in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, and the commencement of King William s war against Louis XIV of France. IV. The high point of the Iroquois response was the spectacular raid of August 5, 1689, in which the Iroquois virtually wiped out the French village of Lachine, just outside Montreal. II, III, IV and I IV, II, I and III III, I, II and IV III, I, IV and II III, I, IV and II Previous Page End 4 of 5 Thursday 08 November :06 PM

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Scholarship 2017 Classical Studies

93404Q 934042 S Scholarship 2017 Classical Studies 2.00 p.m. Thursday 23 November 2017 Time allowed: Three hours Total marks: 24 QUESTION BOOKLET Answer THREE questions from this booklet: TWO questions