IPMAT Rohtak 2019
Easy
Harold a professional man who had worked in an office for many years had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug-like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. The people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became the nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Harold suddenly realised that he himself was covered with these things, and he woke upscreaming. In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatised for Harold what he had never been able to put in to words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired. He later threw off the "security bug" and took upfreelance work.
In his dream Harold found the loathsome creatures
- in his village - Incorrect. The dream setting is not described as Harold's village but as a different, almost fantastical land.
- in his own house - Incorrect. The dream did not take place in a setting familiar like his house, but rather a surreal and different land.
- in a different land - Correct. The dream explicitly takes place in a strange land where these bizarre circumstances occur, aligning with the narrative of the dream being out of the ordinary and symbolic.
- in his office - Incorrect. There is no mention of the office setting in the dream; the office relates to his real-life work environment prior to his freelance decision.