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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 61

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · Global Perspectives on Literary Studies: Anglophone literatures (British, American, Canadian and other postcolonial literatures) · 2 marks · Multiple select

“Nothing feels normal to Ashima, it’s not so much the pain which she will survive. Its consequence: motherhood in a foreign land … unmonitored by those she loves … she is terrified to raise a child in a country where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare.”
In the above passage of The Namesake, the writer tries to say that Ashima ________.

  1. feels isolated in the new world
  2. should have been surrounded by her own people
  3. is facing a cultural shock
  4. is able to adapt herself to an alien culture

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Correct answer: (A) feels isolated in the new world; (B) should have been surrounded by her own people; (C) is facing a cultural shock

Explanation

Ashima is alone, far from those she loves, and frightened by an unfamiliar country, so A, B and C are all suggested. D is the opposite of what the passage says.