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Paper – II

Note : This paper contains hundred (100) objective type questions. Each question carries
two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.

1. One of the consequences of the Great 3. Match the following :
Vowel shift on the English language a. Transfer of i. Direct method
was knowledge
b. Exclusive use ii. Communicative
i. The increase in the number of the
of written form method
long vowels
of language
ii. The shortening of the vowels c. Total immersion iii. Grammar-
iii. The increase in the ‘feminine’ in target language translation
endings of words method

iv. Changes in pronunciation d. Real life iv. Lecture
situations method
(A) i and ii are correct a b c d
(B) ii and iv are correct (A) iv iii i ii
(C) i and iv are correct (B) iii i ii iv
(D) only iv is correct (C) i ii iv iii
(D) ii iv iii i
2. A code mixed text
4. Match the following :
(A) Uses both the first and second
a. Phonetics i. Meanings
languages
b. Semantics ii. Words
(B) Uses standard and non-standard c. Syntax iii. Sounds
forms of the second language d. Lexis iv. Structures
(C) Uses translations of the first a b c d
language (A) ii iii iv i
(D) Uses spoken and written forms of (B) iii iv ii i
language (C) iii i iv ii
(D) i ii iv iii

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5. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that the 10. ‘And yonder all before us lie
units in langue are Deserts of vast eternity.’
These lines occur in
(A) Contrastive and relational
(A) “The Canonization”
(B) Relational and homologous (B) “Go Lovely Rose”
(C) Unique and self-contained (C) “To His Coy Mistress”
(D) Contrastive and independent (D) “The Collar”

6. Parole is 11. Match the following :
a. Comus i. Pastoral Elegy
(A) Abstract system of a language
b. Paradise Lost ii. Masque
(B) The diachronic aspect of language c. Lycidas iii. Tragedy
(C) Actual speech d. Samson iv. Epic
(D) Standard educated speech Agonistes
a b c d
(A) iii iv i ii
7. The terms deep structure and surface
(B) iii i ii iv
structure are associated with (C) ii iv i iii
(A) B. F. Skinner (D) i iv iii ii
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Benjamin Whorf 12. ‘Mac Flecknoe’ satirizes
(D) Claude Levi Strauss (A) The Roman Church
(B) The Protestants
(C) Thomas Shadwell
8. What do the words on the golden brooch (D) Earl of Shaftesbury
worn by the prioress mean in Chaucer’s
‘Prologue’ ? 13. ‘Weave a circle round him thrice and
(A) God is love close your eyes with holy dread’.
In ‘Kubla Khan’ these lines are about
(B) I serve God
(A) Kubla Khan
(C) Love conquers all (B) The Poet
(D) Love is God (C) The Abyssinian Youth
(D) The Spirit of the Romantic Chasm
9. ‘That I may rise and stand, o’ erthrow me’
This line is from a poem by 14. Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’
describes the west wind as
(A) Robert Herrick
(A) A force of nature
(B) John Donne (B) The driving force of history
(C) Abraham Cowley (C) Only a destructive force
(D) Andrew Marvell (D) As symbolic of war

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15. Who were the prominent members of 19. ‘One would think the man had been hired
Imagist school ? to spy upon me’. Who stated this with
(A) Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, respect to his biographer ?
E. A. Robinson, Spender (A) Alexander Pope
(B) Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, (B) Bertrand Russell
E. E. Cummings, Amy Lowell (C) Oliver Cromwell
(C) Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, H. D., (D) Dr. Johnson
Amy Lowell
(D) Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, Robert 20. Match the following :
Graves, Amy Lowell a. Imaginary i. Matthew
Conversations Arnold
16. ‘Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts b. The Stones of ii. William
are earned Venice Cobbett
by those that are not entirely beautiful’ c. Literature and iii. John Ruskin
These lines are from Dogma
(A) “For Lady Gregory” d. Rural Rides iv. Walter Savage
(B) “Nineteen Hundred Nineteen” Landor
(C) “A Prayer for My Daughter” a b c d
(D) “No Second Troy” (A) iv iii i ii
(B) iii ii i iv
17. The author of ‘Sir, No man’s Enemy’ is (C) iv ii i iii
(A) G. M. Hopkins (D) i iv ii iii
(B) Edward Lear
21. ‘Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton,
(C) E. E. Cummings
Mary Carmichael or by any name you
(D) W. H. Auden
please....’ Who introduces herself in
this way ?
18. The title of Hemingway’s Novel,
(A) Mary Barton, in the novel by
For Whom the Bell Tolls is taken from
Elizabeth Gaskell
a sermon by
(B) Mary Shelley in an Autobiographical
(A) John Donne Essay
(B) Bishop Andrewes (C) The imaginary narrator in A Room
(C) John Newman of One’s Own
(D) G. M. Hopkins (D) A character in Vanity Fair

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22. Goodbye to All That is the autobiography of 26. Playing in the Dark Toni Morrison
argues that
(A) George Orwell
i. Silence and evasion rule the discourse
(B) Ernest Hemingway on race
ii. One should contemplate the black
(C) Robert Graves
presence in American literature
(D) Christopher Isherwood iii. Whiteness and blackness are
constructs
iv. With the abolition of slavery
23. Who wrote the provocative book, American literature has became
Mother India ? homogeneous
(A) only i and ii are correct
(A) Madelaine Slade (B) i, ii and iii are correct
(B) Katherine Mayo (C) i, ii and iv are correct
(D) ii and iv are correct
(C) Harry H. Field
(D) Annie Besant 27. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is
about
(A) The struggle of feminism against
24. ‘The Remembered Village’ is a path religions
breaking work by (B) Evils of modern medicine
(C) Neo-liberalism
(A) Verrier Elwyn
(D) Attacks on African American
(B) P. Sainath women
(C) Arundhati Roy
28. Critics argue that Doctor Faustus is
(D) M. N. Srinivas a great but flawed play. What are the
weaknesses of the play ?
i. The insipid comic/farcical scenes
25. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first ii. The lack of development in the
of the multi-volume autobiography of middle section
iii. The immaturity of the language
(A) Toni Morrison iv. The weak ending
(B) Nadine Gordimer (A) only i and ii are correct
(B) i, ii and iv are correct
(C) Alice Walker
(C) only iii is correct
(D) Maya Angelou (D) only ii is correct

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29. F. R. Leavis dismisses Bradley’s 31. Match the following :
interpretation of Othello by arguing a. ‘The rest is silence’ i. King Lear
that b. ‘These violent ii. Twelfth Night
i. Othello should not be sentimentalized delights have
as a noble savage violent ends’

ii. Othello is not the centre of the play c. ‘If music be the iii. Romeo and
food of love, Juliet
iii. Othello is faulty in his understanding
play on’
iv. Desdemona is responsible for
d. ‘Ripeness is all’ iv. Hamlet
Othello’s tragedy
a b c d
(A) i and ii are correct
(A) iv ii iii i
(B) i, ii and iii are correct (B) iv i iii ii
(C) iii and iv are correct (C) iv iii ii i
(D) ii and iv are correct (D) iii ii i iv

30. Match the following : 32. In The School for Scandal Sir Oliver
Surface resolves all problems when he
a. Ralph Roister i. Christopher
returns from
Doister Marlowe
(A) America
b. The Spanish ii. George
(B) The West Indies
Tragedy Peele
(C) Spain
c. The Old Wives’ iii. Nicholas
(D) India
Tale Udall
d. Edward II iv. Thomas Kyd 33. Which play by Ben Jonson begins with the
a b c d prologue admonishing the audience ?
(A) iii iv ii i (A) Everyman in his Humour
(B) ii iii i iv (B) Everyman out of his Humour

(C) iii i ii iv (C) Bartholomew Fair
(D) Volpone
(D) iv iii ii i

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34. The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka 38. Who among the following was a
is about supporter of the vernacular languages
as medium of instruction ?
i. Tradition and modernity in Africa
(A) Lord Curzon
ii. Changing role of women in African
(B) William Bentinck
society
(C) James Mill
iii. Interracial wars
(D) Metcalfe
iv. Exile
(A) i and iv are correct
39. Identify the theorist who described the
(B) i and ii are correct so-called ‘third world’ literature(s) as
(C) ii and iii are correct ‘national allegories’.
(D) i and iii are correct (A) Homi Bhabha
(B) Aime Cesaire
35. The famous Irish play Juno and the (C) Leopold Senghor
Paycock deals with (D) Fredric Jameson
(A) Celtic myths
(B) Slum life in Dublin 40. In the context of postcolonial studies,
(C) The poor peasants in Ireland the concepts, ‘filiation’ and ‘affiliation’
(D) Irish history found theoretical articulation in
(A) Arjun Appadurai
36. Who were some of the leading ‘Angry (B) Frantz Fanon
Young Men’ ? (C) Edward Said
(A) John Osborne; Philip Larkin; Harold (D) Benita Parry
Pinter; Kingsley Amis
(B) John Osborne; Philip Larkin; Samuel 41. Match the following :
Beckett i. Negritude a. Ngugi wa
(C) Philip Larkin; John Osborne; John Thiong’o
Wain; W. H. Auden ii. Neo-colonialism b. Immanuel
(D) John Osborne; Alan Sillitoe; Ezra Wallerstein
Pound; Philip Larkin iii. Globalectics c. Birago Diop
iv. World systems d. Kwame
37. Which of the following books is not theory Nkrumah
about English studies in India ? i ii iii iv
(A) Masks of Conquest (A) c d a b
(B) This Gift of English (B) d c b a
(C) The Lie of the Land (C) b a c d
(D) In Theory (D) a d b c

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42. Which is the correct chronological 45. Identify the theoretical formulation that
sequence of Frantz Fanon’s critical works does not belong to the group.
in the order of their publication ? (A) Carnivalesque
(A) Toward the African Revolution, (B) Polyphony
A Dying Colonialism, The Wretched of (C) Panopticon
the Earth, Black Skin White Masks (D) Heteroglossia
(B) Black Skin White Masks, A Dying
46. In the context of eco-criticism, the three
Colonialism, The Wretched of
phases identified by Cheryl Glotfelty
the Earth, Toward the African
are
Revolution
I. The representation of nature in
(C) The Wretched of the Earth, Toward literature
the African Revolution, Black Skin
II. Identifying the representation of
White Masks, A Dying Colonialism apocalypse as an outcome of man-
(D) A Dying Colonialism, The Wretched nature relationship
of the Earth, Black Skin White Masks, III. Recovery of nature writing text
Toward the African Revolution IV. Analyzing the symbolic construction
of species and developing theoretical
43. Edward Said’s reading of Jane Austen’s frame for reading texts on nature
Mansfield Park that demonstrates (A) I, III and IV are correct
deep implications of imperialism is an (B) I, II and III are correct
example for
(C) I, II and IV are correct
(A) Decolonial reading (D) II, III and IV are correct
(B) Allegorical reading
(C) Nativistic reading 47. “It isn’t language which has a hole in
(D) Contrapuntal reading its ozone layer.” Identify the author and
book in which this famous statement
44. “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech. appears.
And it’s a Good Thing Too” is an essay (A) Karl Kroober in Ecological Literary
written by Criticism
(A) Norman Holland (B) Jonathan Bate in Romantic Ecology
(B) Stanley Fish (C) Robert Harrison in Forests : The
Shadow of Civilization
(C) Wolfgang Iser
(D) Kate Soper in What is Nature ?
(D) Roland Barthes

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48. Eve Ksofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology 52. Sidney’s Apology for Poetry is among
of the Closet is a seminal work on other things a reaction to
i. Plato’s critique of poetry
(A) Gynocriticism
ii. Stephen Gasson’s comments on
(B) Womanism drama and poetry
(C) Gay and Lesbian Criticism iii. Contemporary disparagement of
poetry
(D) Black Feminism
iv. Debates in Germany
(A) iii and iv are correct
49. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar
(B) i, ii and iii are correct
inaugurated a new wave of cultural studies (C) ii and iv are correct
of science with the publication of (D) i and iv are correct
(A) Laboratory Life
53. Dryden comments that ‘affecting the
(B) Social Construction of Scientific
metaphysics’ in love poems by the
Facts metaphysical poets is
(C) Against Method (A) Not natural
(D) Higher Superstition (B) Not poetic
(C) Not acceptable
(D) Witty but strange
50. The essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”, written
by Donna Haraway was published in 54. What does Matthew Arnold mean by the
1985 in the term ‘disinterestedness’ ?
(A) Camera Obscura (A) Intellectual analysis
(B) Differences (B) The critic’s ability to look at the text
objectively
(C) Socialist Review (C) Marginalizing the affective elements
(D) Continuum of literature
(D) Ignoring the spirit of the times
51. Rebecca Walker’s “Before Hip-Hop was
55. Which play by Shakespeare has
Hip-Hop” is a
contributed an important analytical term
(A) Satirical essay in postcolonial theory ?
(B) Paradoxical essay (A) Measure for Measure
(B) Hamlet
(C) Reflective essay
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Conversational essay (D) The Tempest
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56. Which of the following is the accepted 59. Which work deals elaborately with
tenet of New Criticism ? ‘telling’ and ‘showing’ in fiction ?
(A) The literary text has a distinctive (A) Why the Novel Matters
ontological status (B) Aspects of the Novel
(C) The Rhetoric of Fiction
(B) The intention of the author is relevant
(D) The Historical Novel
to the analysis of the text
(C) The context of the text is important
60. “Art then is the becoming and happening
(D) The response of the reader is part of of truth”. Name the philosopher who
the text interpretation gave this definition.
(A) Henri Bergson
57. Match the following : (B) Martin Heidegger
a. Science and i. Leslie Fiedler (C) Edmund Husserl
Poetry (D) Immanuel Kant
b. The Heresy of ii. F.R. Leavis
61. Which critic is known for his work on
Paraphrase
the western canon ?
c. What was iii. Cleanth
(A) Catherine Belsey
Literature ? Brooks
(B) Harold Bloom
d. Anna Karenina iv. I. A. Richards (C) Frank Kermode
and Other (D) Edward Said
Essays
a b c d 62. “In serious critical intellectual work,
(A) iii ii iv i there are no ‘absolute beginnings’ and
few unbroken continuities”. Who made
(B) iv i ii iii
this statement ?
(C) iv iii i ii (A) Antonio Gramsci
(D) iii i ii iv (B) Stuart Hall
(C) Raymond Williams
58. In which work does Immanuel Kant (D) Michel Foucault
defend the autonomy of literature ?
(A) Critique of Judgement 63. Who distinguishes between ‘theory as
(B) Critique of Pure Reason a body of knowledge’ and ‘theory as a
practice’ ?
(C) Critique of Practical Reason
(A) Giroux (B) Terry Eagleton
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64. Name the critic who explains ‘Social’ 67. How do Ashis Nandy and Vinay Lal
definition of culture as description of interpret the film Lagaan ?
particular way of life. i. As catering to two Indian
madnesses
(A) Louis Althusser
ii. The cricket team is symbolic of the
(B) Raymond Williams nation
(C) Clifford Geertz iii. Colonialism gets mixed up with
emotional nationalism
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
iv. It is historically authentic

65. Name the philosopher who attempted to (A) i, ii and iii are correct
(B) iii and iv are correct
fuse structuralism with Marxism.
(C) ii and iv are correct
(A) Roland Barthes
(D) i and iv are correct
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Louis Althusser 68. According to Pierre Bourdieu, cultural
capital is
(D) Terry Eagleton
(A) Cultural knowledge and competence
which empowers an individual
66. The cultural studies perspective on
(B) The great artifacts of a particular
culture differs from the Arnoldian- culture
Leavisite perspective on the following (C) Cultural traditions of a society
grounds (D) The economy of a culture
i. It does not hierarchize popular and
serious culture 69. Who is the author of After Amnesia ?
(A) Aijaz Ahmed
ii. It is not elitist
(B) Meenakshi Mukherjee
iii. Visualizes culture as part of the (C) Harish Trivedi
power structure (D) G. N. Devy
iv. Considers culture merely as an
intellectual pursuit 70. Which Indian critic has made a cultural
analysis of the film ‘Roja’ ?
(A) ii, iii and iv are correct
(A) Vandana Shiva
(B) i, iii and iv are correct (B) Susie Tharu
(C) iv is correct (C) Tejaswini Niranjana
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71. The linguistic turn or the semiotic turn 75. Which postmodernist novel has two
refers to endings ?
(A) The advent of modern linguistics (A) Shame
(B) Emphasis on representation of (B) White Noise
reality rather than reality
(C) American Pastoral
(C) Study of language use in a society
(D) Etymological study of each word in (D) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
a text
76. Father Time is a character in the novel
72. Match the following : (A) The Return of the Native
a. Hercule Poirot i. P. D. James (B) Under the Greenwood Tree
b. Sherlock Holmes ii. Raymond (C) Jude, the Obscure
Chandler (D) Mayor of Casterbridge
c. Adam Dalgilesh iii. Arthur Conon
Doyle 77. Muriel Sparks’ novel Memento Mori is
d. Philip Marlowe iv. Agatha Christie about
a b c d
(A) Survivors of a disaster
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) Old people
(B) iv iii i ii
(C) ii iii iv i (C) Orphaned children
(D) ii iii i iv (D) The working class women

73. Which novel by Dickens begins with 78. Doris Lessings’ The Grass is Singing is
these lines “Whether I shall turn out to about
be the hero of my own life, or whether (A) The nationalist struggle in South
that station will be held by anybody Africa
else, . . . . ” ?
(B) Political exile
(A) Oliver Twist
(B) David Copperfield (C) A pastoral Africa
(C) Great Expectations (D) A racist society
(D) A Christmas Carol
79. In which novel by Virginia Woolf does
74. Who is generally described as the most the protagonist’s gender change midway
malevolent character in The Scarlet through the narrative ?
Letter ? (A) Waves
(A) Roger Chillingworth (B) To the Light House
(B) Arthur Dimmesdale (C) Orlando
(C) Governor Bellingham
(D) Jacob’s Room
(D) Mistress Hibbins
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80. The method of research that begins with 84. Which is not an appropriate way to relate
a hypothesis or theory and then searches oneself with research ?
for evidence either to support or refute
(A) Research as a means of knowledge
that hypothesis or theory is termed as
(A) Deconstructive Research production
(B) Deductive Research (B) Research as a means of problem
(C) Inductive Research solving
(D) Inclusive Research (C) Research as only a means of getting
Ph.D. degree
81. Which of the following statements is/are (D) Research as forwarding a
incorrect with regard to ‘Literature hypothesis
Review’ ?
I. To collect relevant quotations on the
problem at hand. 85. The skills that can be developed through
II. To identify what the previous audio-lingual methods include
research has said on the research I. Mastering sound system and
question. grammatical patterns
III. To identify the problems and potential II. Adhering to the natural order of
pitfalls in the chosen area. LSRW skills
IV. To reject substandard literature as
irrelevant to the task at hand. III. Teaching pronunciation from the
(A) Only II is incorrect beginning
(B) I and III are incorrect IV. Allowing students’ native language
(C) I, III and IV are incorrect skills to interfere with the target
(D) I and IV are incorrect language learning skills
(A) Only IV is correct
82. Which of the following is an example of (B) Only I is correct
academic research in humanities ? (C) Only II is correct
(A) Wings of Fire
(B) My Experiments with Truth (D) I, II and III are correct
(C) Orientalism
(D) Passage to England 86. According to Noam Chomsky one of
the following is not a factor leading to
83. A comparative research on two literary language acquisition
traditions aims at (A) Rule formation
(A) Only search for influences (B) Habit formation
(B) Evaluation to prove that one tradition (C) Individuals’ cognitive effort to
is better
discover the rules of language
(C) Demonstrating the researcher’s wide
reading (D) Individuals’ effort to create and
(D) Drawing new insights on the two understand utterances which they
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87. “Only the learners can do the learning.” 91. Who is the author of Spectre of Marx ?
This observation mostly aptly reflects (A) Jacques Derrida
one of the following methods of language (B) Louis Althusser
teaching
(C) Michel Foucault
(A) Direct Method
(D) Raymond Williams
(B) Grammar Translation Method
(C) Silent Method
92. “The medium is the message” is a phrase
(D) Audio-lingual Method coined by
(A) Raymond Williams
88. In Silent Method the teacher does not
(B) Marshall McLuhan
facilitate one of the following
(A) Expression of students’ perceptions (C) Stanley Kubrick
(B) Forcing their awareness (D) Stuart Hall
(C) Providing exercises to ensure their
felicity 93. Which of the following statements is/are
(D) Total dependence on the teacher correct with regard to ‘Popular Culture’ ?
i. Popular culture refers to a set of
89. One of the following is not the goal of the practices, beliefs and objects that
teachers who use ‘Desuggestopedia’. prevalent in a society.
I. Emphasizing vocabulary ii. Popular culture influences an
II. Emphasizing speaking and individual’s attitude towards certain
communication topics.
III. Emphasizing grammar iii. Popular culture upholds the noble
IV. Emphasizing para-conscious mind and dignified values of a given
society.
(A) Only I is correct
(B) I, II and III are correct iv. Popular culture distinguishes between
high culture and low culture.
(C) Only III is correct
(A) i and ii are correct
(D) Only IV is correct
(B) i and iv are correct
90. Which Indian play provided a powerful (C) iii and iv are correct
expression of disillusionment with (D) i and iii are correct
post-Nehruvian era ?
(A) Tughlaq 94. In Film Studies Christian Metz is
(B) Dance like a Man associated with
(C) One Day in the Season of Rain (A) Auteur Theory (B) Screen Theory
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95. ‘Riddles of the Sphinx’ refers to 98. What does ‘early leaf’ mean ?
(A) A seminal work on Film Studies (A) In evolution the leaf was a flower
written by Jim Kitses
(B) The title of a film written and (B) In the spring season the early leaf is
directed by Laura Mulvey and Peter a flower
Wollen
(C) A travelogue on Egyptian pyramid (C) In the early stage the leaf looks like
written M.A.R. Habib a flower
(D) The biography of Alfred Hitchcock (D) In some trees the earliest grown is a
flower
96. A cultural group which in the larger
culture, often having beliefs or interests
at variance with those of the larger 99. What was gold about Eden before it sank
culture is termed as to grief ?
(A) Subculture (B) Metaculture
(C) Low culture (D) Popular culture i. The innocence of the human couple.
ii. The perfection of Eden before God
Read the following poem and answer the four created Man.
questions which are given below (97 – 100).
Nothing gold can stay iii. The unblemished happiness of Adam
Nature’s first green is gold and Eve.
Her hardest hue to hold iv. There was no hard labour.
Her early leaf’s a flower; (A) Only iv is correct
But only so an hour.
(B) ii and iv are correct
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief (C) i, ii and iii are correct
So dawn goes down to day (D) i and iii are correct
Nothing gold can stay.
100. In the poem ‘day’ is
97. ‘Nature’s first green is gold’ means that
(A) Every green thing in nature is (A) The perfect form of dawn
precious (B) The dawn which has lost is beauty
(B) All things are beautiful in their early (C) Reality
stage
(C) What nature created first is precious (D) Wrongly described as after the dawn
(D) Gold is described as the first green goes down
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