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The following questions are based on the following passage. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option.

The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native town is a crouching village, town on its knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The look that the native turns on the settler is a look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is an envious man. And this the settler knows very well… It is true, for there is no native who does not dream atleast once a day of setting himself up in the settler's place.

(From Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth)

81.

Why is the 'native town' a hungry town ?

1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

Statements 3 and 4 explain why the native town is hungry: the blacks are steeped in poverty and are denied their fundamental rights by the whites, so they are 'starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light'.

The passage does not say that the town has no farms or markets (1 and 2), so those explanations are not supported by the text.

The hunger of the native town is thus the hunger of poverty and of exclusion from rights, and not that of a place without markets or farms, which is why the key chooses the two statements about poverty and denial of rights.

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82.

What does the term 'crouching village' indicate ?

1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: C

The phrase 'crouching village' indicates the latent aggressiveness of the blacks, as in the key, because a crouching figure is one poised to spring, and the town on its knees is waiting.

The defenselessness of the people, the hopelessness and despair, and the overflowing filth might be read into 'wallowing in the mire' or 'on its knees', but the key accepts only the first reading for 'crouching'.

The key counts only the first statement as correct: the town is poised to rise in anger against the settler, which is what 'crouching' conveys in the passage.

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83.

Why does the native look at the settler's town with envy ?

1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

Statements 3 and 4 are correct. The native looks with envy because he wants to occupy a position of power and, as the passage says, there is no native who does not dream of setting himself up in the settler's place, that is, becoming the colonizer in place of the colonized.

Desperation and having no other option are circumstances of his life, not the reason the passage gives for the look of 'lust, of envy'.

The two statements together show the settler's town as the object of the native's desire for power, as 'the colonized man is an envious man'.

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84.

What is the settler's attitude towards the blacks ?

1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he knows that his position is never safe.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: C

Only statement 4 is correct: the settler feels resentment because he knows that his position is never safe, as the passage says 'this the settler knows very well'.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 say the settler is not afraid, thinks the blacks harmless or is contemptuous of them. The passage shows that he knows he is envied and is aware of the threat, which contradicts those statements.

The settler's fear shows in the way he guards his position, and the passage describes him as knowing very well what the native feels.

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