Direction (Qs.1 to 5): Each question below contains a statement with three blanks followed by four options. Choose the option that can fill the three blanks and mark it as your answer.
Question No : 1
The latest attempt to _____ the iconic villain of the Batman Universe, ‘The Joker’, has once again _____ the character with _____ realism, mirroring the horror and liberation of our own personal demons on the movie screen.
(1) backlash, succour, persecution
(2) backlash, endowed, gritty
(3) understand, endowed, gritty
(4) understand, succour, persecution
(5) None of these
Question No : 2
Peattie’s biography starts with an _____ about Byron’s teenage years that _____ his slippery psychological complexity. On an evening of amateur theatricals, he performed first in a sulphurous melodrama, then in a comedy of manners. In one play, he was a misanthrope branded with the mark of Cain, in the other a _____ dandy.
(1) stipulate, deem, frivolous
(2) anecdote, encapsulates, reckon
(3) stipulate, deem, reckon
(4) anecdote, encapsulates, frivolous
(5) None of these
Question No : 3
In Vietnamese, we say, “Your words smell bad!” to mean “Your words are not kind or _____, but rather they are sharp, slanderous and misleading.” Our speech can build a world of peace and joy in which _____ and love can flourish, or it can create _____ and hatred. ‘Right speech’ means that our words are both truthful and beautiful.
(1) constructive, mist, discord
(2) conjectural, putative, discord
(3) constructive, mist, appositeness
(4) conjectural, putative, appositeness
(5) None of these
Question No : 4
When in deference to _____ of the gods, she is required to kill the _____ demons, Shumbha and Nishumbha. She transforms herself into a ferocious goddess with her eight lotus-like hands holding bells, trident, plough, conch, mace, discus, bow and arrow. In the MarkandeyaPurana, she appears in the final phase of the _____ of demons who troubled the gods.
(1) sentinel, formidable, vanquishing
(2) sentinel, decoit, abrogate
(3) entreaties, decoit, abrogate
(4) entreaties, formidable, vanquishing
(5) None of these
Question No : 5
As his last alter ego, he _____ the mythic figure of the libertine Don Juan, yet the _____, immature character in his comic epic hardly measures up to the defiantly irreligious seducer in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. As Peattie puts it, Byron’s Juan is as unlike the _____ as a stupid Faust or a stay-at-home Ulysses would be.
(1) blatant, subtly, archetype
(2) adopted, fumbling, archetype
(3) blatant, subtly, defile
(4) adopted, fumbling, defile
(5) None of these
