Kerala Set 6 (2016)
June 20, 2023 2023-12-18 16:03Kerala Set 6 (2016)
Kerala Set 6 (2016)
Q.1) According to the new’ critics, any re-wording of a poem’ s language alters it’s content, this view is articulated in the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase,” which was coined by……… in his The Well-Wrought Urn published in 1947
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) A Richards
(D) William Empson
ANSWER: B
Q.2) ……… was initially titled First Impressions
(A) Northanger Abbey
(B) Pride and Prejudice
(C) Emma
(D) Mansfield Park
ANSWER: B
Q.3) Coleridge introduced the idea of……
(A) Negative Capability
(B) Willing Suspension of Disbelief
(C) Objective Correlative
(D) Egotistical Sublime
ANSWER: B
Q.4) Identify the autobiographical work of Thomas De Quincy from among the following,
(A) The True-born English Man
(B) The Life of a Poet
(C) Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(D) The English Mail Coach
ANSWER: C
Q.5) Charles Lamb wrote…… in collaboration with his sister Mary Ann Lamb in 1807
(A) Essays of Elia
(B) Tales from Shakespeare
(C) Dream Children
(D) Christ Hospital
ANSWER: B
Q.6) Who among the following literary figures does not belong to the Bloomsbury group?
(A) E M Forster
(B) Lytton Strachey
(C) George Orwell
(D) Virginia Woolf
ANSWER: C
Q.7) Such, Such Were the Joys is an autobiographical essay written by;
(A) George Orwell
(B) William Golding
(C) Aldous Huxley
(D) Lytton Strachey
ANSWER: A
Q.8) Milton’s work…… is in defence of right to freedom of speech and expression and opposing censorship
(A) Defense Secunda
(B) Areopagitica
(C) Of Education
(D) A Treatise of Civil Power
ANSWER: B
Q.9) Sauveur and Berlitz are the exponents of……… method of teaching English
(A) Grammar Translation Method
(B) Direct Method
(C) CLT
(D) Structural-Situational Method
ANSWER: B
Q.10) Who is the co-founder of The Spectator along with Richard Steele?
(A) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(B) Daniel Defoe
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) Joseph Addison
ANSWER: D
Q.11) The rising chivalry of Chaucer’ s time is portrayed in the character……
(A) Knight
(B) Yeoman
(C) Squire
(D) The Man of Law
ANSWER: C
Q.12) ……… is the first novel written by Graham Greene
(A) The Man Within
(B) Smugglers
(C) Stamboul Train
(D) Orient Express
ANSWER: A
Q.13) Who said these words: “The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it”
(A) William Golding
(B) Graham Greene
(C) E M Forster
(D) Bertrand Russell
ANSWER: A
Q.14) In the following excerpt taken from Ibsen’s Doll’s House, who does he refer to? “If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him or he wouldn’t like it He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls”
(A) Nora’s father
(B) Nora’s husband
(C) Mr Krogstad
(D) Dr Rank
ANSWER: A
Q.15) Iris Murdoch’s Booker Prize winning work…… was published in the year 1978
(A) The Message to the Planet
(B) The Green Knight
(C) Jackson’s Dilemma
(D) The Sea, the Sea
ANSWER: D
Q.16) On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is written by…
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Wilson Knight
(C) A C Bradley
(D) Dequincy
ANSWER: D
Q.17) Who said these words: “If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing”?
(A) Virginia Woolf
(B) Kingsley Amis
(C) Donald Bain
(D) John Dryden
ANSWER: B
Q.18) The famous essay The Nature of the Gothic is included in John Ruskin´s…
(A)The Stones of Venice
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Modern Painters
(D) Time and Tide
ANSWER: A
Q.19) The title of the work Arms and the Man by G B Shaw was inspired by:
(A) Virgil’s Aeneid
(B) Dante’s Divine Comedy
(C) Homer’s Iliad
(D) Homer’s Odyssey
ANSWER: A
Q.20) Who called The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue to Modern Fiction”?
(A) Pope
(B) Spencer
(C) Long
(D) Arnold
ANSWER: C
Q.21) Language is authored by:
(A) Chomsky
(B) Saussure
(C) Derrida
(D) Bloomfield
ANSWER: D
Q.22) Dr. Johnson published A Dictionary of the English Language in……
(A) 1749
(B) 1750
(C) 1755
(D) 1765
ANSWER: C
Q.23) “If this is dying then I don’t think much of it” These were the final words of:
(A) Lytton Strachey
(B) James Boswell
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) Philip Sidney
ANSWER: A
Q.24) In Spenser’ s Legend of Courtesy Sir Calidore is the prototype of………
(A) Sidney
(B) Chaucer
(C) Marlowe
(D) Stephen Philips
ANSWER: A
Q.25) Herod the first poetic play of…… that appeared in 1901 marked the beginning of the revival of verse drama in the 20″ century
(A) W B Yeats
(B) j M Synge
(C) Sean O’ Casey
(D) Stephan Philips
ANSWER: D
Q.26) Who among the following is a Lake Poet?
(A) Shelley
(B) Keats
(C) Coleridge
(D) Byron
ANSWER: C
Q.27) Which of Gower’s works is in English?
(A) Confessio Amantis
(B) Vox Calamantis
(C) Speculum Meditantis
(D) None of these
ANSWER: A
Q.28) “They know and do not know what it is to act or suffer They know and do not know that acting is suffering And suffering is action” The above lines are taken from T S, Eliot’
(A) Family Reunion
(B) Cocktail Party
(C) Murder in the Cathedral
(D) The Wasteland
ANSWER: C
Q.29) Cato is a ……… by Joseph Addison
(A) Prose comedy
(B) Mock epic
(C) Blank verse tragedy
(D) Political satire
ANSWER: C
Q.30) ………… by John Ruskin is a study of Greek myths
(A) The Crown of the Wild Olive
(B) Sesame and Lillie’s
(C) The Queen of Air
(D) Munera Pulveris
ANSWER: C
Q.31) Who wrote the biography of Dr Johnson?
(A) Lytton Strachey
(B) James Boswell
(C) Chesterfield
(D) Edward Cave
ANSWER: B
Q.32) Jane Austen’s…… originated from the story of Ellinor and Marianne which she began to rewrite in 1797
(A) Emma
(B) Sense and Sensibility
(C) Northanger Abbey
(D)Persuasion
ANSWER: B
Q.33) Who wrote The Dance of the Seven Deadly Synnis?
(A) Gawn Douglas
(B) William Dunbar
(C) Reginald Peacock
(D) John Lydgate
ANSWER: B
Q.34) Front Mutation which is of great importance to Modern English is better known as-
(A) Lil-Mutation
(B) Guttural Umlaut
(C) West Saxon Dialect
(D) Palatal Mutation
ANSWER: A
Q.35) The line “O brave new’ world” occurs in the play
(A) The Tempest
(B) Othello
(C) Macbeth
(D) Hamlet
ANSWER: A
Q.36) To whom does Eliot dedicate the poem The Wasteland!
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Joyce
(D) Wordsworth
ANSWER: A
Q.37) Which element is found in Lyly’s plays?
(A) Wit and Humour
(B) Poetic stanzas
(C) Pastoral characters
(D) None of these
ANSWER: A
Q.38) Mathew Arnold advocates……… as “the great help out of our present difficulties
(A) Literature
(B) Culture
(C) Criticism
(D) Poetry
ANSWER: B
Q.39) Toile’s Miscellany (1557) contained the songs and sonnets of
(A) Wyatt and Surrey
(B) Wyatt and Raleigh
(C) Surrey and Sidney
(D) Sidney and Spencer
ANSWER: C
Q.40) which one of his novels did Lawrence call “Thought Adventure
(A) The White Peacock
(B) Women in Love
(C) Kangaroo
(D) Rainbow
ANSWER: A
Q.41) Eliot discusses his Theory of Impersonality in his essay……
(A) Hamlet and his Problems
(B) Tradition and Individual Talent
(C) Sacred Woods
(D) Leaves and the Grass
ANSWER: B
Q.42) ……… is a pastoral poem by Matthew Arnold
(A) Dover Beach
(B) Sohrab and Rustum
(C) Merope
(D) Scholar Gipsy
ANSWER: D
Q.43) in Sons and Lovers, Mr Morel appears in black’ and “red’ colours What do these colours symbolize?
(A) His fastidious nature
(B) His sophisticated taste
(C) His sensual vitality
(D) His love of bright colours
ANSWER: C
Q.44) Structuralism is associated with:
(A) Bloomfield
(B) Chomsky
(C) Wren and Martin
(D) Hornby
ANSWER: A
Q.45) What was the title of the collection of Joyce’s short stories published in 1914?
(A) Dubliners
(B) Londoners
(C) New Yorkers
(D) Parisiennes
ANSWER: A
Q.46) In The Wasteland, the story described in “What the Thunder Said” about a scenario between the Creator and his three offspring: Gods, humans, and demons is originally taken from………
(A) Bhagavat Gita
(B) Vedas
(C) Upanishads
(D) Mahabharata
ANSWER: C
Q.47) Woolf had a close association with one of the most renowned literary and intellectual groups of her timeWhich was it?
(A) The Bloomsbury Group
(B) The Writers’ Forum
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite Group
(D) The London Literary Circle
ANSWER: A
Q.48) Thomas More’s Utopia describes a fictional island society in the……
(A) Atlantic Ocean
(B) Mediterranean Sea
(C) Pacific Ocean
(D) Indian Ocean
ANSWER: A
Q.49) The Authorized Version of The English Bible was first printed by……
(A) Bonham Norton
(B) John Bill
(C) Robert Barker
(D) William Caxton
ANSWER: C
Q.50) The Globe Theatre was constructed in the year………
(A) 1599
(B) 1550
(C) 1699
(D) 1605
ANSWER: A
Q.51) ……… is a prose tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
(A) Knight’s Tale
(B) Parson’s Tale
(C) Squire’s Tale
(D) Wife of Bath’s Tale
ANSWER: B
Q.52) A proper noun that becomes commonly used for an idea it is associated with, usually by changing its part of speech is called………
(A) Cliché
(B) Eponym
(C) Acronym
(D) Loan Word
ANSWER: B
Q.53) By 1580 Philip Sidney had completed his work…… which he described as s trifle and that triflingly handled”
(A) Astrophel and Stella
(B) The Sidney Psalms
(C) An Apology for Poetry
(D) Arcadia
ANSWER: D
Q.54) Samuel Johnson´s Lives of the Poets begins with an account of the life of:
(A) Chaucer
(B) John Dryden
(C) Cowley
(D) Shakespeare
ANSWER: C
Q.55) Scholar Gipsy derives from a legend narrated by…… in his The Vanity of Dogmatizing
(A) Richard Glover
(B) Joseph Glenville
(C) Bunyan
(D) Samuel Purchas
ANSWER: B
Q.56) …They’ re all gone now and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me … ……” The above lines are taken from
(A) The Playboy of the Western World
(B) Riders to the Sea
(C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) Old Man and the Sea
ANSWER: B
Q.57), Christabel, the poem tells the rale of how the enchantress…… deceives all but the virtuous Christabel
(A) Medusa
(B) Geraldine
(C) Seraphine
(D) Lucifer
ANSWER: B
Q.58) Which of Wool’s novels is composed of alternating interludes and episodes?
(A) Night and Day
(B) To the Lighthouse
(C) The Waves
(D) The Years
ANSWER: C
Q.59) who said the following words: “All the world’s stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed”?
(A)Sean O’ Casey
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Wesker
(D) Shaw
ANSWER: A
Q.60) What best describes the plot of Orwell’s book The Animal Farm?
(A) Revolution in England that goes sour with corruption
(B) Revolution in foreign states that goes sour with corruption
(C) An account of farming in Norfolk
(D) Revolution of animals on a farm that goes sour with corruption
ANSWER: D
Q.61) Who remarked about silence thus: “There are two silences One when no word is spoken The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed”?
(A) Wesker
(B) Beckett
(C) Pinter
(D) Bond
ANSWER: C
Q.62) ………said the aim of structuralist criticism is “to construct a poetics which stands to literature as linguistics stands to language”
(A) Jonathan Culler
(B) Roland Barthes
(C) Julia Kristeva
(D) Bloomfield
ANSWER: A
Q.63) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is better known by his pen name……
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Melville
(C) Hemingway
(D) Emerson
ANSWER: A
Q.64) which poem did Dryden write for the coronation of Charles 11?
(A) The Medal
(B) The Hind and the Panther
(C) Religio Laici
(D) To His Sacred Majesty
ANSWER: D
Q.65) Name Greene’s first novel
(A) Honorary Consul
(B) The Man Within
(C) Monsignor Quixote
(D)The Human Factor
ANSWER: B
Q.66) …………… is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan
(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(B) Profitable Meditations
(C) A Relation of my Imprisonment
(D) Grace Abounding to the Chief of the Sinners
ANSWER: D
Q.67) Shakespeare’s primary source for Romeo and Juliet was a poem by called The Tragically Historye of Romeus and Luliet written in 1562
(A) William Brooke
(B) Arthur Brooke
(C) Charles Brooke
(D) Philip Brooke
ANSWER: B
Q.68) In which book does E M Forster document his Indian experiences?
(A) India: A Wounded Civilization
(B) The Hill of Devi
(C) The Great Indian Novel
(D) Kanthapura
ANSWER: B
Q.69) Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for………
(A) Beloved
(B) The Bluest Eye
(C) Sula
(D) Song of Solomon
ANSWER: A
Q.70) The Road Not Taken is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916, as the first poem in the
Collection……………(A) Mountain Interval
(B) A Boy’s Will
(C) West-Running Brook
(D) From Snow to Snow
ANSWER: A
Q.71) ……… dealt with “The great collective myths of women in the works of many male writers”
(A) A Room of One’s Own
(B) The Second Sex
(C) Sexual Politics
(D) The Madwoman in the Attic
ANSWER: B
Q.72) Spenser’s eightyeight sonnets in his Amoretti are addressed to………
(A) Elizabeth Boyle
(B) Penelope
(C) Laura
(D) Beatrice
ANSWER: A
Q.73) ……… is a 1982 epistolary novel by the American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(A) To Hell With Dying
(B) The Temple of My Familiar
(C) Colour Purple
(D) Finding the Green Stone
ANSWER: C
Q.74) ……… is the spiritual autobiography of Thomas Carlyle
(A) Signs of Times
(B) Sartor Resartus
(C) Past and Present
(D) The Crown of the Wild Olive
ANSWER: B
Q.75) ……… became a prominent figure in the aesthetic movement with his Studies in the History of Renaissance published in 1873
(A) Walter Pater
(B) Carlyle
(C) Ruskin
(D)Matthew Arnold
ANSWER: A
Q.76) Tagore’s brief chat with……… was recorded and known as “Note on the Nature of Reality’
(A) Einstein
(B) Edison
(C) Ruskin
(D) Emerson
ANSWER: A
Q.77) Biographia Literaria published in 1817 was originally conceived in 1814 as a preface to
(A) Lvrical Ballads
(B) Table Talk
(C) Philosophical View of Reform
(D) Sibylline Leaves
ANSWER: D
Q.78) ………of the following is a fricative
(A) n
(B) k
(C) w
(D)/f/
ANSWER: D
Q.79) Who is the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugiwa Thiong’O
(D) Chinua Achebe
ANSWER: A
Q.80) -Sheets of white blossoms new-garnered to perfume the sleep of the dead” – these lines are taken from Sarojini Naidu’s………
(A) In The Bazaars of Hyderabad
(B) Palanquin Bearers
(C) The Snake-Charmer
(D) Song of a Dream
ANSWER: A
Q.81) …… is a picaresque novel written by Charles Dickens
(A) Oliver Twist
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) The Pickwick Papers
(D) David Copperfield
ANSWER: C
Q.82) ……… is praised by his contemporaries as “The Shakespeare in Prose*
(A) Walter Scott
(B) Hazlitt
(C) Bacon
(D) Lamb
ANSWER: A
Q.83) ……… made the observation that ‘Shakespeare has no heroes, but only heroines’
(A) T S Eliot
(B) A C, Bradley
(C) Ruskin
(D) Wilson Knight
ANSWER: C
Q.84) Richard Steele’s……… published in 1701 is a popular guide to conduct and announced the author’s lifelong campaign against duelling
(A) The True-born Englishman
(B) The Conduct of Allies
(C) The Christian Behaviour
(D) The Christian Hero
ANSWER: D
Q.85) Which work of Thackeray has got the subtitle A Novel without u Hero?
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Denis Duval
(C) Rebecca and Rowena
(D) Barry Lyndon
ANSWER: A
Q.86) Arnold Wesker’ s Kitchen was published in the year……
(A) 1945
(B) 1950
(C) 1955
(D) 1960
ANSWER: B
Q.87) “Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song ” From which author did Eliot borrow this line for The Wasteland?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Lord Byron
(D) Cole Porter
ANSWER: B
Q.88) Name the protagonist in Osborne’s Lank Back in Anger
(A) Mrs Constant
(B) Archie Rice
(C) Jimmy Porter
(D) Luther
ANSWER: C
Q.89) A test intended to identify a person’s strengths and weaknesses is called:
(A) Achievement test
(B) Proficiency test
(C) Diagnostic test
(D) Objective lest
ANSWER: C
Q.90) …… by R L Stevenson prefigures Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
(A) The Black Arrow
(B) The Ebb-Tide
(C) In the South Seas
(D) Inland Voyage
ANSWER: B
Q.91) In The Great Tradition (1948) F R Leavis reassessed English fiction, proclaiming Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad as the great novelists of the past and…… as their only successor
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Hardy
(C) D H Lawrence
(D) James joyce
ANSWER: C
Q.92) -Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light all influence, all fate ” these lines that appears as an epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune also appear as an epigraph to………
(A) Self-reliance
(B) Civil Disobedience
(C) Unto this Last
(D) The Divine Self
ANSWER: A
Q.93) The name Beclzebub one of the characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress, literally means………
(A) The Interpreter
(B) Prince of the Dark
(C) The vicious One
(D) The Flatterer
ANSWER: B
Q.94) Amour is a loan word from…………
(A) German
(B) Indian
(C) French
(D) Greek
ANSWER: C
Q.95) Which country is the setting for Greene’s novel The Comedians’
(A) Vietnam
(B) Cuba
(C) Turkey
(D) Haiti
ANSWER: D
Q.96) What is one common criticism that Forster received for his novel The Longest Journey?
(A) It is not autobiographical enough
(B) There is not enough realism in it
(C) It contains too many sudden deaths
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
Q.97) Who declared Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as a” flawless work of an”?
(A) Dostoyevsky
(B) Anton Chekov
(C) Viktor Shklovsky
(D) Roman Jakobson
ANSWER: A
Q.98) In the opening of To the Lighthouse who was asked to go to the lighthouse?
(A) Mrs Ramsey
(B) James Ramsey
(C) Charles Tansley
(D)Lily Briscoe
ANSWER: B
Q.99) Kamala Das” first book of poetry is titled………
(A) Summer in Calcutta
(B) The Descendants
(C) The Looking Glass
(D) Song of Love
ANSWER: D
Q.100) How many of Shakespeare´s history plays are based on Roman history?
(A) 6
(B) 10
(C) 7
(D) 4
ANSWER:
Q.101) Among these works,……… is a religious allegory
(A) A Tale of Tub
(B) The Conduct of the Allies
(C) The Examiner
(D) Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions in Athens and Rome
ANSWER:
Q.102) “Bury the hatchet’ is an example of:
(A) Idiom
(B) Synonym
(C) Phrasal verb
(D) Euphemism
ANSWER:
Q.103) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is mare or less a sequel to the novel
(A) Shirley
(B) The Professor
(C) Jane Eyre
(D) Agnes Grey
ANSWER:
Q.104) Which is the first novel written by Chinua Achebe?
(A) Things Fall Apart
(B) No Longer at Ease
(C) Arrow of God
(D) A Man of the People
ANSWER:
Q.105) IA Richards’ books especially The Meaning of Meaning Principles of Literary Criticism Practical Criticism, and the Philosophy of Rhetoric proved to be
(A) New Criticism
(B) Literary Theory
(C) Rader Response
(D)New Historicism
ANSWER:
Q.106) Wyatt’s Satire was composed in………
(A) Heroic Couplets
(B) Terza Rima
(C) Rhyme Royal
(D) Quatrains
ANSWER:
Q.107) The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence is set in the fictitious town of………
(A)Manawaka
(B) Isola
(C) Opar
(D) Mariposa
ANSWER:
Q.108) ……… adopted the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff in the year 1709
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Swift
ANSWER:
Q.109) …… is an unfinished prose work by John Milton
(A) De Doctrina Christiana
(B) Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
(C) History of Britain
(D) Colasterion
ANSWER:
Q.110) I am invisible; understand, simply because people refuse to see me”: these lines are taken
from a novel written by the American novelist……(A) Ralph Ellison
(B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(C) Richard Wright
(D) James Baldwin
ANSWER:
Q.111) Identify the Booker Prize winning novel by J M Coetzee from among the following
(A) Foe
(B) Disgrace
(C) Age of Iron
(D) The Master of Petersburg
ANSWER:
Q.112) …… method of teaching focused on memorization, reading and writing
(A) Grammar-Translation Method
(B) Direct Method
(C) Audio-lingual Method
(D) Situational language teaching
ANSWER:
Q.113) ……… is the narrator of the novel Wuthering Heights
(A) Edgar Linton
(B) Mrs Dean
(C) Mr Lockwood
(D) Heathcliff
ANSWER:
Q.114) Essay of Dramatic Poesie is a dialogue between four speakers in which Dryden is represented by…
(A) Eugenius
(B) Crites
(C) Neander
(D) Lisideius
ANSWER:
Q.115) Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books is a mock epic of the Quarrel between:
(A) Classicists and the Romantics
(B) Whigs and the Tories
(C) Ancients and the Moderns
(D) Poets and Philosophers
ANSWER:
Q.116) George Meredith’s novel Sandra Belloni / was initially tilted
(A) Farina
(B) Diana of the Crossway
(C) Rhoda Fleming
(D) Emilia in England
ANSWER:
Q.117) According to Austin’s theory of language learning…………… meaning refers to the effect of what is said
(A) Propositional
(B) illocutionary
(C) Locutionary
(D) Perlocutionary
ANSWER:
Q.118) The full form of LAD is………
(A) Language Acquisition Device
(B) Language and Development
(C) Learning Acquisition Disorder
(D) Language Articulation Disability
ANSWER:
Q.119) A finite set of determinately multiple meaning is called……… by Derrida
(A) Polysemism
(B) Dissemination
(C) Ambiguity
(D) Polymorphemic
ANSWER:
Q.120) The superimposition of imperialist importations on indigenous tradition is called…… in post colonial studies
(A) Hegemony
(B) Othering
(C) Hybridization
(D) Pluralism
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