CUET English 2024
Reading Comprehension
Passage
Hard
When I was in my late teens and still undecided about which language I should write in, he told me that the language one is born into, one's mother tongue, can be the only possible medium of creative expression.For most of his life, my father, Sripat Rai, had been a Hindi editor and critic. Off and on, he translated writings into English from Hindi. He was fond of saying that a failed writer becomes a critic. The weight of his literary expectation came, eventually, to rest on me. He seemed happy that I was showing an inclination for writing. "She will go far," he told my mother after reading the first story that I sent him from Melbourne.My father's pronouncement on the mother tongue stayed with me when I later started writing fiction in Hindi. Another thing that I barely acknowledged even to myself was that I felt something like shame whenever I thought of writing in English. It seemed wrong for a granddaughter of Premchand even to be thinking so. Our family had a certain linguistic pride. I knew that Premchand was famous, but I had not at that time realised the extent of his popularityThe fact that I was the granddaughter of Premchand, followed me everywhere. Everyone had a story to tell about their personal engagement with his fiction -the shopkeeper, the long time cook in my father's Delhi house, a tea vendor, etc. The list was long, for there was practically no one who had not read something by him that had moved them. However, it was this very ubiquity, the reverence and love that he inspired in people, that made of him something too large for me to comprehend in the early years of my life. It led also to the strange feeling that, without having read him and just by being related to him, I had somehow inhaled his writing. The reading happened much later.
Choose a Statement which is not true with respect to the passage.
Choose a Statement which is not true with respect to the passage.
Correct Option: 3
"She felt obligated to carry on the legacy of Premchand" -> True (mentions linguistic pride)"Her family was chauvinistic about the Hindi language" -> Partially true, ("Our family had a certain linguistic pride"), -> 'chauvinistic' is an extreme word"She was in awe of the extensive reach of her grandfather's writing" -> True (mentions everyone knew Premchand's work)"The author felt pressurized to write in Hindi under her father" -> Implied, not stated -> encouragement and pride for working in Hindi -> Could be interpreted as pressueNote: Extreme language like 'always', pressureized, etc is very dangerous. Check with the passage to make sure it is 100% agreeing with the extreme language. For 'chauvinisitic' specifically, it is about the level of 'pride'.Its the difference between being a cricket fan and being such a BIG cricket fan that you riot and start killing people when your team loses.
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