List of practice Questions

A two dimensional flow has velocities in \( x \) and \( y \) directions given by \( u = 2xyt \) and \( v = -y^2 t \), where \( t \) denotes time. The equation for the streamline passing through \( x = 1, y = 1 \) is

For a two-dimensional, incompressible flow having velocity components \(u\) and \(v\) in the x and y directions, respectively, the expression \[ \frac{\partial(u^2)}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial(uv)}{\partial y} \] can be simplified to:

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. (Adapted from Politics and the English Language by George Orwell.) The illustration of the man who takes to drink is used to underscore which of the following ideas in the passage above?

The size distribution of the powder particles used in Powder Metallurgy process can be determined by

The Cast Iron which possesses all the carbon in the combined form as cementite is known as

The mean and variance, respectively, of a binomial distribution for \( n \) independent trials with the probability of success as \( p \), are

The world is going through the worst pandemic in the past hundred years. The air travel industry is facing a crisis, as the resulting quarantine requirement for travelers led to weak demand. In relation to the first sentence above, what does the second sentence do?

“The feminist insistence that ‘the personal is political’ has had profound effects on other genres. Feminist academics in several disciplines now insist that the subjective element must not be left out of the practice of research methods, such as the interview, or of theories of knowledge production (Skeggs 1995; Maynard and Purvis 1994; Reinhartz 1992).”
From the passage above, which of the following can be correctly concluded?

“ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.
“You mean—like plain or milk chocolate?”
Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light
Impersonality. Rapidly, wave-length adjusted,
I chose. “West African sepia”—and as afterthought,
“Down in my passport.” Silence for spectroscopic
Flight of fancy, till truthfulness clanged her accent
Hard on the mouthpiece. “WHAT’S THAT?” conceding
“DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.” “Like brunette.”
“THAT’S DARK, ISN’T IT?” “Not altogether.
Facially, I am brunette, but, madam, you should see
The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet
Are a peroxide blond. Friction, caused—
Foolishly, madam—by sitting down, has turned
My bottom raven black—One moment, madam!”—sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
About my ears—“Madam,” I pleaded, “wouldn’t you rather
See for yourself?”
In Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation”, the man seeking to rent a room responds to the white landlady’s racism by _________ .

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings featuring Sherlock Holmes, as is the case with much of 19th century British fiction, colonialism appears as objects, events, animals, places, fears and desires. Which of the following support/s this claim?

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
Which of the following can be observed about this poem?

Which of the following is/are true about Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s conception of `minor literature’?

Quote P:
“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed”
Quote Q:
“O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Siren! Queen of far away!”
Which of the following is/are correct?

Prolepsis is the representation or assumption in the present, of a future act or development.
Which of the following is/are instance/s of prolepsis?

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” proposes which of the following?

Which of the following is/are example/s of `metafiction`?

Choose one or more options from below.
In contrast to traditional Historicism, New Historicism ________

An “implied reader” is a ________

Read the following:
“[…] a text is made of multiple writings, drawn from many cultures and entering into mutual relations of dialogue, parody, contestation, but there is one place where this multiplicity is focused and that place is the reader, not, as was hitherto said, the author. […] the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”
Which theoretical school does the excerpt best represent?