1. Passage Reading
2. Verbal Logic
3. Non Verbal Logic
4. Numerical Logic
5. Data Interpretation
6. Reasoning
7. Analytical Ability
8. Quantitative Aptitude
Passage Reading and English Comprehension
(a) equally conductive to treatment in a poetry or fiction
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(b) important primarily as aspects of the novelist’s style
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(c) ambiguous and therefore stumbling blocks to informed critical judgment
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(d) most easily analyzed when embodied in a symbol
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1780. The author alludes to D.H.Lawrence in order to give an example of a novelist who
(a) sacrificed literary techniques to ideology
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(b) wrote both novels and long poems
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(c) subscribed to principles of New Criticism
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(d) was reassessed because of New Critical principles
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1781. It can be inferred from the passage that the New Critics disliked isolated symbol-hunting because it tended to
(a) encourage simplistic critical platitudes
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(b) reduce the role of the critic to that of a literary detective
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(c) enforce an unnecessary distinction between criticism and symbolism
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(d) oversimplify the meaning of a symbol
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1782. The passage implies that the New Critics would be most likely to agree with which of the following
(a) Critical speculation on the connection between a novelist’s childhood and his or her writing is irrelevant
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(b) The most scrupulously complete criticism is that which emphasizes connection between a novelist’s life and his or her writing
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(c) A novelist’s life experiences can contribute to an understanding of his or her novels, but treatment of these experiences must be preceded by textual analysis
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(d) Information about a novelist’s life can provide important critical insight into his or her novels, but such information should be subordinated to ideological investigation
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