MODEL QUESTIONS ON COMPREHENSION FOR NET/SET ASPIRANTS
Read the
following passage carefully and answer the questions:
Art deals with the
basic structures of being, nature, and spirit. In the Republic Plato disparages
the artist as an imitator twice removed from reality. According to Plato, the
poet imitates not the original form or idea but its real manifestation in the world.
Although some poets can be characterized in this way, the essence of great
poetry is not the imitation of an imitation. Already Plotinus suggests, in
contrast to Plato, that the object of imitation is not nature but the ideal.
The artist does not simply reproduce what is but goes back to “the
Reason-Principles from which Nature itself derives”. Schelling and Hegel argue
more fully that art does not merely imitate what is, it reflects
on a reality that is higher than so-called reality itself; in Schelling’s
words, “the ideal is the real and is much more real than the so-called real
itself”. Art can be viewed as higher than everyday reality insofar as it is
closer to expressing truth. What we call everyday reality may have more aspects
of deception, insofar as it shields us—by way of the capriciousness of
situations and events, the clutter of external and superficial
objects, and the immediacy of sensuous impressions—from a more essential
meaning, a more genuine reality. Everyday reality is not free of this higher
spirit and essence, but art, unlike everyday reality, with its multiple
contingencies, emphasizes and reveals this higher reality. In this sense art
has a profound metaphysical dimension; it does not imitate the external world,
it makes visible for us the absolute. In one sense, to be elaborated more fully
below, art is higher than the original of which it is a copy, for it brings
that original to semblance. Poetry, then, is a semblance of the ideal or an
“idealization” of reality that conveys truths that are timeless and
transferable to other cultures and ages and truths that address and derive from
the particular and often unique challenges of a given age. Even when art fails
to give us satisfactory answers to complex questions, it still takes our gaze
from the inessential to the essential.
71. The writer
1.
Agrees with the idea of imitation of
Plato
2.
Disagrees with the idea of imitation of
Plato
3.
Instructs to develop the idea of
imitation
4.
Challenges the idea of imitations
72. Art is higher than reality because
1.
It imitates the reality properly
2.
It idealizes human life
3.
It is away from deception in reality
4.
It expresses unbelievable truth
73. Here, the phrase ‘metaphysical dimension’ means
1.
Imitation of external world
2.
Timeless and transferable cultural ideas
3.
Sensuous impressions of work of
literature
4.
Higher and absolute reality
74. Which is not function of art?
1.
To present idealization of reality
2.
To convey timeless and transferable
truth
3.
To answer the complex questions about
truth
4.
To get crucial meaning out of unnecessary
things
75. The major concern of the passage is:
1.
To discuss the idea of imitation
2.
To idealize the ideas
3.
To tell
reality about art
4.
To reveal the absoluteness of art
By –
Anil S Awad
Englsih NET/SET Consultant
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