NTSE Sample Questions : 2016 Kerala State (LCT)
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NTSE Sample Questions : 2016 Kerala State (LCT)
Questions (51 – 55): Read the following passage and choose the correct option from those given below to answer the questions. Detective stories tend to glorify crime murders, gangsters and crooks of all kinds who are described as tough, cunning and courageous individuals who know how the take care of themselves and how to get what they want. In James Mc Cain’s the postman Always Rings Twice, for instance, the villain is much more impressive than his victim. He is casual, brave, smart and successful with women. It is true that he finally gets caught. But he is punished for a crime that h did not commit, so that his conviction is hardly a triumph of justice. Besides, looking back over the exciting life of the criminal, the reader might conclude that it was worth the risk
51. The passage mentions James McCain as
(1) An author of detective stories
(2) Brave, smart and successful with women
(3) Tough, cunning and courageous
(4) Being more impressive then others
52. Murderers, gangsters and crooks __________
(1) Always do not manage to get away
(2) Are often glorified in detective stories
(3) Are wise then their victims
(4) Know how to escape from law always
53. A criminal in a detective story generally gets caught ______
(1) For the crimes he committed
(2) Because of his careless mistakes
(3) Because the police is smarter then the criminals
(4) for the crimes he did not commit
54. According to the passage, the life of a criminal is
(1) Exciting
(2) Hardly worth the risk
(3) Seldom presented in the right perspective
(4) A triumph of justice
55. The passage tells that detective stories
(1) Make interesting reading
(2) Are hardly worth reading
(3) Encourage readers to condemn crimes
(4) Tend to create wrong notion about crime and punishment
Questions 56 – 60: Read the following poem and answer the questions given after it. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands. Close to the sun in lonely lands. Ringed with the azure world he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. He watches form this mountain walls. And like a thunderbolt he falls
56. What is the eagle doing in the poem?
(1) Dying of old age
(2) Hunting the prey
(3) Learning joyfully to fly
(4) Keeping watch over the young ones
57. What does ‘azure world’ refer to?
(1) Forest
(2) The sky
(3) The cliff
(4) Nature
58. ‘The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls’. What does the poet mean by ‘crawls?
(1) The movement of the waves
(2) The roaring of the sea
(3) The clasping of the prey
(4) the fight of the bird
59. The rhyme scheme followed in the poem is ________
(1) ab ab ab
(2) ba ba ba
(3) aaa bbb
(4) bbb aaa
60. “He clasps the crag with crooked hands”. The line is an example for
(1) Rhyming words
(2) Assonance
(3) Simile
(4) Alliteration