SNAP 2015 Preparation series. It is a known fact that although there is no specific syllabus for aptitude tests, the concepts and in some cases, even the questions get repeated a lot. Also, the previous year papers are a fair indication of what level of difficulty should one expect and so, avoid over-preparing. To make sure that you know exactly what to expect in SNAP 2015, we will be running a series under SNAP 2015 preparation. In this, we will be featuring actual SNAP questions segregated section wise for your benefit. There will be 400+ actual questions covered in the SNAP 2015 preparation series. You can browse through the posts here.
Directions for Question 1 and 2: Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences:
1. As proud as a peacock.
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Apostrophe
d. Epigram
2. Death lays his icy hand on kings.
a. Personification
b. Exclamation
c. Simile
d. Anticlimax
Directions for Questions 3 to 5: Read the passage carefully and answer within the context.
“A way to deal with frozen feelings”
Every child experiences all that happens around him with total awareness. In the first seven years the child’s brain is like a sponge, taking in all sensory inputs and building his idea of his surroundings. As long as the environment is safe, the child learns with incredible speed. However, when the environment is scary or stressful, the child unlearns past learning just as rapidly.
In the early years of every child’s life, whenever there is shock, violence, fear or pain, these intense emotions are imprinted deeply into memory. Whenever the same activity or situation is repeated, the nervous system and body subconsciously re-experience the memory of that trauma.
Any emotional situation that takes us out of the present and into the past means that whenever the same kind of emotion crops up later in our life we return to the past for our reference point. If that point was at age three, we find ourselves behaving like a three-year-old. We feel childish and we behave childishly. Our feelings are the cause of this ‘glitch’ in our learning process. We know we should be able to make a positive change, but that doesn’t change anything.
The process of change need not be traumatic. We couldn’t have done any better because we didn’t know how to. But we should realise that was then and this is now! We can choose to choose again. It’s up to us. It’s our movie!
3. The “frozen feelings” being talked about are about
a. negative childhood experiences.
b. childhood learning patterns.
c. inability to learn as an adult.
d. none of the above.
4. A ‘glitch’ is
a. a ditch
b. uneasy emotions
c. sudden malfunction or breakdown
d. learning patterns
5. Identify the correct sentence, based on the paragraph
a. The process of change needs to be traumatic.
b. We feel childish and we behave childishly.
c. Both sentences are incorrect.
d. Both the sentences are correct.
Directions for questions 6 to 9: Read the passage and then determine the best answers for the questions given below. Base your choice on what this passage states directly or implies, not on any information you may have got from elsewhere.
“The emancipation of women”, James Joyce told one of his friends, “has caused the greatest revolution in our time.”
Other modernists agree: Virginia Woolf, claiming that in about 1910 “human character changed” and illustrating the new balance between the sexes, urged, “Read the ‘Agamemon’ and see whether your sympathies are not almost entirely with Clytemnestra”. D.H. Lawrence wrote “perhaps the deepest fight for 200 years and more has been the fight for women’s independence”.
But if modernist writers considered women’s revolt against men’s domination as one of their “greatest” and “deepest” themes, only recently, perhaps in the past 15 years has literary criticism begun to catch up with it. Not that the images of sexual antagonism that abound in modern literature have gone unremarked – far from it. We are able to see in literary works the perspective we bring to them and now that women are enough to make a difference in reforming canons and interpreting literature, the landscapes of literary history and the features of individual books have begun to change.
6. According to the passage, modernists are changing literary criticism by:
a. noting instances of hostility between men and women.
b. seeing literature from fresh points of view.
c. studying the works of early twentieth-century writers.
d. reviewing books written by feminists.
7. The author quotes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence primarily in order to show that:
a. these were feminist writers.
b. although well-meaning, they were ineffectual.
c. before the twentieth century, there was little interest in women’s literature.
d. None of the above
8. The author’s attitude towards women’s reformation of literary canons can best be described as one of:
a. Ambivalence
b. Antagonism
c. Indifference
d. Endorsement
9. Which of the following titles best describes the contents of the passage?
a. Modernist Writers and the Search for Equality
b. The meaning of Literature, from 1910 onwards
c. Transforming Literature
d. None of the options
10. Choose the correct sentence
a. A anthropologist by profession, he is also a trained classical singer.
b. The anthropologist by profession, he is also a trained classical singer.
c. As anthropologist by profession, he is also a trained classical singer.
d. An anthropologist by profession, he is also a trained classical singer.
Answer Key
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. b
7. d
8. d
9. d
10. d
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