2nd story

In the first paragraph, the author describes a photograph in order to

A introduce ideas about time, place, and memory

As used in the second paragraph, "romantic" most nearly means

A fanciful and melodramatic

In the first paragraph, the author cites Hartley primarily to

C introduce an established concept that he seeks to challenge

In the second paragraph, terms such as "amazingly", "eerie", and "illusions" emphasize which of the following?

D The strangeness of the author's experience in Bombay

In the third paragraph, "the title" to which the author refers is

E a foreigner in India

Taken as a whole, the passage is best described as

E an analysis of the circumstances and emotions that inspired the author's work

In the second paragraph ("It is . . . born") register the author's anticipation that his audience is likely to be

E familiar with the author's work

The author indicates that he coped with "the distortions of memory" in the fifth paragraph by

E making memory one of the topics of his novel

Which of the following is emphasized in the fourth paragraph?

B The challenges of an author's desire for accurate representation

In the second paragraph ("The photograph . . . glorious Technicolor"), the author uses color imagery primarily to

B contrast the vibrancy of his recent experience with the drabness of the past as he had remembered it

In the sentence beginning "It may be" in the fourth paragraph, the author shifts from

B reflecting on personal experience to hypothesizing about other authors

Words such as "fallible" and "fragmentary" in the final paragraph imply which of the following about the author?

D He cannot represent the past with complete accuracy.

The author's tone in the second paragraph may best be described as

D introspective and confessional

The phrase "The colours of my history had seeped out of my mind's eye" in the second paragraph is best interpreted as meaning

C the author's memory could no longer recall the vivid details of the past