GATE 2017 CS (CS2) – Question 6
“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.”
The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by which word?
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Correct answer: (B) seemingly
Explanation
“Seemingly” qualifies the supposed urgency of ideology, distinguishing its appearance of importance from the author’s judgment. The other words describe the setting or reported attitude without expressing that skeptical distance. Thus B is the word revealing the intended viewpoint.