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23. The author does not use which of the following elements in the passage ?

a. Analogy b. A Conversational tone c. Question d. None of these

24. Why do the id and the superego make life rough for the ego?

a. The ego has no sense of morality and is constrained by the superego which is the moral branch of personality.

b. The ego is caught between the demands of pleasure by the id and the moral restrictions imposed by the

superego.

c. The ego which is conscious has to distort reality to keep the unconscious id and the moralistic superego

happy.

d. The ego in order to keep the id and superego under control has to use mechanisms of repression which

create anxiety and make the life of the ego very tough.

25. Which of the following represents an incorrect match between an impulse/thought and the corresponding entity

which is the source of that impulse /thought ?

a. I want to hack into my boss's mail account to see what he thinks about me; hacking gives me unlimited thrill

- 'id'.

b. It is wrong to hack into someone's mail account— 'ego'.

c. I think that my boss does not like me since he never appreciates me verbally- 'ego'.

d. You should do your work diligently without worrying about the rewards as it is explained in the holy scriptures.-

'superego.'

29. Which of the following would be most in line with the author's views in the passage?

a. Benjamin should be regarded as an irresponsible writer since he endorsed the ethics which supports the

'revolutionary killing of the oppressor.'

b. Benjamin's writings could have influenced the course of action undertaken by the red army.

c. A writer who does not care about the effect that his writings have on the world should be regarded as

irresponsible.

d. Benjamin was fully aware of the effect that his writings would have on the populace of that time.

30. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?

a. The anarchists were unaware that their writings were igniting the fuse of a future uprising.

b. The anarchists were aware of each other.

c. The anarchists wrote things which inspired people to fight against evil rulers.

d. All of these.

31. What does the passage primarily deal with?

a. The unconscious and dormant tensions in a population which result in violent movements later on.

b. The responsibility of writers whose writings influence the repressed population to undertake violence as a

course of action.

c. The manner of representation of history justifies the populations' adoption of even violent and evil courses of

action.

d. The futility of talking about writers who fuel violent movements by supporting evil.

37. All of the following are hurdles in doing justice to the promise of justice except ?

a. The memories associated with the promise of justice are suffocating.

b. Realization of the 'promise' of justice can result in wreaking vengeance on a certain group.

c. The prefigurations of a world appearing in acts of rendition or indefinite detention revive the disastrous implications

of the promise.

d. None of the above.

38. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage ?

a. The tension which arises in interpreting justice as 'vengeance' or 'mercy' is an acceptable part of articulation

of the 'promise of justice'.

b. Analysing the concepts of justice, being and time in a historical perspective can lead to the form of the

justice realized to be different from the character of the justice promised.

c. Derida believed that the realization of justice leads to its betrayal.

d. Both (a) and (c).

39. What is the closest meaning of the term 'eschatology' as used in the passage?

a. Redefinition b. Initial conflicts c. Analysis d. None of these

42. The term 'lesional signs of disease' most probably means

a. The early symptoms of a disease.

b. The signs of damaged body parts resulting from a disease.

c. The signs of dead elements of the body resulting from a disease.

d. The advanced signs of a disease.

43. All of the following are correct descriptions of the 'medical gaze' except ?

a. The gaze reflects a complex organization which locates the invisible in the body spatially.

b. The gaze was an outcome of a new concept of pathology as well as a shift in the concept of death in the

medical field.

c. The gaze leads to a perceptual organization which literally sees, touches and hears the invisible but

diseased portions of the body.

d. Even the use of the sthethoscope has been made redundant by the medical gaze which works by projecting

an anatamo-pathological series on the body.

44. What is the author's purpose in quoting the comment by Barbara Duden 'we are overwhelmed with fetuses.' In

the overall development of the passage ?

a. The author is taunting the media that has made the images of fetuses trite and commonplace.

b. The author wants to draw attention to the implications of the creation of the images of fetuses.

c. The author wants to highlight the new stage in the medicalization of pregnancy.

d. The author wants to suggest that it is unethical to hype the ultrasound images of fetuses.