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IIT Madras HSEE Exam question paper

PART -1

(Objective Type Question)

Each question carries ONE mark.

Maximum Time: 150 minutes

Section 1: English

Read the given extract and answer the following questions. (There are 5 questions based on this passage)
To recover Surrealisms potential for attending to the everyday we need to return to moments when the
Surrealist project refused either to inhabit the separate realm of art and design or to be reduced to supplying it
with innovative techniques.
I want to read Surrealism as a form of social research into everyday life, to see its products not only as works of
art but as documents of this social research. In this way, artistic techniques such as collage become
methodologies for attending to the social. Collage provides a persistent methodology for attending to everyday
life in Surrealism. In the juxtaposing of disparate elements (umbrellas, sewing machines, et.) it generates a
defamiliarizing of the everyday. If everyday life is what continually threatens to drop below a level of visibility,
collage practices allow the everyday to become vivid again by making the ordinary strange through transferring it
to surprising contexts and placing it in unusual combinations. But Surrealism is not just a technique for making
the ordinary extraordinary; the everyday in Surrealism is already strange. In Surrealism the everyday is not the
familiar and banal realm that it seems to be; only our drab habits of mind understand it that way. Instead the
everyday is where the marvelous exists. As such, collage is both a way of breaking habits of mind that would
submit the everyday to normalizing impulses and a suitable form for representing the everyday. It is in the
actuality of the everyday, when passing a second-hand shop, for instance, where umbrellas and sewing machines
find themselves collaged together on a dissecting table. Surrealism is about an effort, an energy, to find the
marvelous in the everyday, to recognize the everyday as a dynamic montage of elements, to make it strange so
that its strangeness can be recognized. The classic Surrealism can be seen as Sherlock Holmes-like: faced with the
deadly boredom of the everyday, the Surrealist takes to the street, working to find and create the marvellousness
of the everyday.
A Surrealist politics of the everyday always included a dual perspective: Transform the world, Marx
said; change life, Rimbaud said. The two watchwords are one for us. The capitalist everyday was impoverished
and alienated, and required social revolution to transform it. But rationalist consciousness was also impoverished
and this required Rimbauds long, boundless, and reasoned disordering of all the senses. Surrealisms
commitment to the Communist Party was as vociferous as it was unorthodox, and its hard not to feel that
Rimbaud figured ahead of Marx in the pantheon of Surrealist heroes. For Surrealism, contemporary social
organization hadnt eradicated the marvellous in the everyday, even if it had sidelined it to marginal pockets.
More importantly, the existence of the marvellous in the everyday was alienated from consciousness by forms of
mental organization. What was needed was a systematic attack on such mental bureaucracy

1. What does the word banal mean?
A. Poor
B. Commonplace
C. Ugly
D. Well known
2. Why does the author make the statement- Classic Surrealism can be seen as Sherlock Holmes-like?
A. Because Surrealism involves the skills of deduction and ratiocination
B. Because Surrealism involves breaking habits of the mind in order to maximize effectiveness of
practical operations
C. Because Surrealism involves skills of normalizing the impulses
D. Because Surrealism involves the creative skill of becoming re-enchanted with the quotidian
3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the given passage?
A. Surrealism is the application of Marxist ideology to arts and other cultural spaces
B. Surrealism is about surprising contexts and unusual combinations
C. Surrealism belongs to the domains of sociology and culture studies
D. Surrealisms attention to everyday life stands the everyday on its head
4. Which of the following can be considered to be a technique unique to Surrealism?
A. Symbolism
B. Classicism
C. Montage
D. Realism
5. What does the term mental bureaucracy mean in the given context?
A. Organized form of government
B. Disordered form of government
C. Prioritization of the rational consciousness
D. Prioritization of everyday life
6. Fill in the blank with the correct option.
Today computers can information from a number of sources, and then proceed to
automatically create a picture of their data manipulations.
A. Adjudicate
B. Collate
C. Execute
D. Infiltrate

7. The order of the given sentences has been jumbled. Pick the correct sequence of sentences from the
options given below:
P. The wisdom he attributes to the philosopher in the Republic is possessed by no one knows- and
arguably for good reason.
Q .Its implausibility as an actual project owes less to the unlikelihood that one can indoctrinate a class of
Auxiliaries and deny them property and family ties than to the requirement that wisdom rule.
R. Platos Socrates never claims that he is himself wise-only that he has encountered no one wiser than
himself.
S. Platos Republic is not a blueprint for utopia.
T. It exploits the political idealism of the young, represented by Platos brothers, for the sake of an
exploration of the limits of politics, the nature of the human soul, and the superiority of philosophical life.
The correct sequence of the sentences in the above passage is:
A. SQTRP
B. SPTQR
C. STQRP
D. SPRTQ
8. Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
Irony can sometimes become a mode of escape: to laugh at the terrors of life is, in a way, to them.
A. Bolster
B. Foster
C. Avail
D. Evade
9. Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
A. Has Ranchod Pitamber, as of this moment, completed his work?
B. Would have Ranchod Pitamber, as of this moment, completed his work?
C. Will have Ranchod Pitamber, as of this moment, completed his work?
D. May have Ranchod Pitamber, as of this moment, completed his work?
10. Which of the following sentences has the right punctuation?
A. The speakers included Jay Singh, vice president, Ranchod Pitamber, director of finances, Dhruv Patel,
human resources, and Divya Iyer, assistant to the president.
B. The speakers included Jay Singh; vice president, Ranchod Pitamber:director of finances,Dhruv Patel,
human resources, and Divya Iyer: assistant to the president.
C. The speakers included Jay Singh, vice president- Ranchod Pitamber,director of finances- Dhruv Patel,
human resources: Divya Iyer, assistant to the president.
D. The speakers included Jay Singh, vice president; Ranchod Pitamber, director of finances; Dhruv Patel,
human resources and Divya Iyer, assistant to the president.

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