Textual Questions (Brotherhood by Octavio Paz)

Textual Questions (Brotherhood by Octavio Paz)

1. Brotherhood comes to be established in the poem through
 (a) The smallness of man.
 (b) The vastness of the universe.
(c) The indifference of the universe
(d) The significance of man
Answer: (d) The significance of man

2. The title includes Ptolemy to bring in connotations of
 (a) Astronomy
 (b) The night sky
(c) Contrast between Rome and Mexico
(d) Man and the universe
Answer: (d) Man and the universe

3. What do the stars write?
 (a) The magnitude of the galaxy.
 (b)every human being’s place in the world.
(c) The insignificance of the human being.
(d) The immorality of the gods.
Answer: (c) The insignificance of the human being.

4. He understands when he reads the sky
 (a) That life is over with that moment.
 (b) That his life is also being written in that very moment.
(c) That life is to be lived that very moment.
(d) That life is more precious than anybody else’s.
Answer: (b) That his life is also being written in that very moment.

5. “Unknowing I understand” implies
 (a)   one cannot understand the unknowing.
 (b)  one can understand the without knowledge.
(c) one can understand intuitively.
(d) one can understand the unknowing.
Answer: (c) one can understand intuitively.

Exercise B

1. Choose the option that best answers the given question.

1. What is the opposition that the poet offers?
 (a) the opposition that the poet offers is between man and woman.
 (b) the opposition that the poet offers is between man and the universe.
(c) the opposition that the poet offers is between the night sky and the morning sky.
(d) the opposition that the poet offers is between Ptolemy and the astronomers.
Answer: (b) the opposition that the poet offers is between man and the universe.

2. What is written in the sky?
 (a) Man’s place in the universe is written in the sky.
 (b) The smallness of man is written in the sky.
(c) Destiny is written in the sky.
(d) Nothingness is written in the sky.
Answer: (c) Destiny is written in the sky.

3. How does knowledge come to ‘I’?
 (a) Knowledge comes to one through the voice of God.
 (b) Knowledge comes to one through the voice of man.
(c) Knowledge comes to one through intuition.
(d) Knowledge comes to one through unconscious understanding
Answer: (a) Knowledge comes to one through the voice of God.

4. Does the poet reconcile the largeness of the universe and the smallness of man?
 (a) Yes, the poet does reconcile of the largeness of the universe and the smallness of man.
 (b) No, the poet does not reconcile the largeness of the universe and the smallness of man.
(c) It is not the intent of the poet to reconcile the largeness of the universe and the smallness of man.
(d) The poem has no place for any reconciliation.
Answer: (a) Yes, the poet does reconcile of the largeness of the universe and the smallness of man.