GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 6 – Free!

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Firstly, if you have not attempted the previous Unit 5 then click the link below before you get started on this unit.

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Evaluate and assess this discussion on the basic nature of knowledge.

GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 6

UNIT 6

Questions 1-2

Evaluate the political implications of the cartoon below

1. The political tone of the cartoon is expressed through:
A Burlesque
B Contempt
C Irony
D Spite

2. The quote at the top of the cartoon assumes the statement is:
A logically valid
B arguable
C inconsistent
D circular reasoning

Answers – GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 6

1 Correct Answer: C – Irony – we know that what is represented by the speaker is not really what is meant. A, B & D can be deduced to be incorrect quickly.

2 Correct Answer: A – logically valid.  While the quote is B – arguable, this is not the assumption made. C & D are distractors.

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GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 4 – Free!

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GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 4

Unit 4
Questions 1-5

Carefully read and assess Keats’ classic poem – Ode on a Grecian Urn

1                     Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,             

       Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

       A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:

What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape

       Of deities or mortals, or of both,

               In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?

       What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

10                     What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

       Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,

       Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave

       Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;

               Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;

       She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

20                          For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!     

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

         Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;

And, happy melodist, unwearied,

         For ever piping songs for ever new;

More happy love! more happy, happy love!

         For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d,

               For ever panting, and for ever young;

All breathing human passion far above,

         That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d,

      30                              A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. 

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?

         To what green altar, O mysterious priest,

Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,

         And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

What little town by river or sea shore,

         Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,

               Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

And, little town, thy streets for evermore

         Will silent be; and not a soul to tell

40                              Why thou art desolate, can e’er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede

         Of marble men and maidens overwrought,

With forest branches and the trodden weed;

         Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought

As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

         When old age shall this generation waste,

               Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,

         “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

50                      Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

1. In Keats’ poem the reader is presented images:
A. which represent the Victorian era
B. which are inconsistent and contradictory
C. frozen and outside of time
D. sculptured with dynamism

2. An oxymoron is a juxtaposition of dissimilar words, which of the following phrases from the poem BEST represents an oxymoron?
A. peaceful citadel
B. slow time
C. wild ecstasy
D. parching tongue

3. A paradox is a literal contradiction. Which of the following statements from the poem is NOT a paradox? Which is the EXCEPTION?
A. unravish’d bride
B. heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard sweeter
C. maidens overwrought
D. ditties of no tone

4. The last two lines are in quotes. We never can actually know who is speaking the quote. This represents:
A. High Satire
B. Permanent Ambiguity
C. Narrative Irony
D. Romantic Uncertainty

5. In line 41, one can infer that the term “brede” can be defined as:
A. brought up
B. tribe or breed
C. embroidery
D. ornate sculpture

Answers – GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 4

1. Correct Answer: C – the images on the urn are frozen within the sculpture and outside of time. A can be ruled out quickly. B can easily be deduced to be incorrect, and D is vague.

 2 Correct Answer: A – peaceful citadel. Citadels are created for war. B, C & D can be deduced to be incorrect rather easily.

 3 Correct Answer: C – maidens overwrought. All A, B, & C are paradoxes if read closely – literal contradictions.

 4 Correct Answer: B – Permanent Ambiguity – we will never know who is speaking. A & C can be ruled out quite quickly, while D sounds good, it does not capture the essence of B.

 5 Correct Answer: C – embroidery. A knowledge of Greek and Latin roots would help in answering this question. A, B & C are distractors. Also the passage is indicative of this embroidery:

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede

                 Of marble men and maidens overwrought

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GAMSAT Section 1 Questions Unit 2 – Free!

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This post contains gamsat section 1 questions which are similar to the questions in section 1 of the actual exam. It is recommended that students complete these questions under timed conditions. Students should allow 7 minutes to complete all questions.

GAMSAT Section 1 Questions

UNIT 2
Questions 1-5

Read and evaluate Virginia Woolf’s short story “Green and Blue.” Pay particular attention to the narrative’s imagery.

GREEN

The pointed fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries­sharp blades of palm trees green, too; green needles glittering in the sun. But the hard glass drips on to the marble; the pools hover above the desert sand; the camels lurch through them; the pools settle on the marble; rushes edge them; weeds clog them; here and there a white blossom; the frog flops over; at night the stars are set there unbroken. Evening comes, and the shadow sweeps the green over the mantelpiece; the ruffled surface of ocean. No ships come; the aimless waves sway beneath the empty sky. It’s night; the needles drip blots of blue. The green’s out.

BLUE

The snub-nosed monster rises to the surface and spouts through his blunt nostrils two columns of water, which, fiery-white in the centre, spray off into a fringe of blue beads. Strokes of blue line the black tarpaulin of his hide. Slushing the water through mouth and nostrils he sings, heavy with water, and the blue closes over him dowsing the polished pebbles of his eyes. Thrown upon the beach he lies, blunt, obtuse, shedding dry blue scales. Their metallic blue stains the rusty iron on the beach. Blue are the ribs of the wrecked rowing boat. A wave rolls beneath the blue bells. But the cathedral’s different, cold, incense laden, faint blue with the veils of madonnas.

1. The most noticeable thing absent from both narratives is paradoxically:
A. a sense of place
B. a well-defined narrator
C. a sense of theme
D. a tonal feeling

2. The main images in Green emanate from:
A. marble
B. parakeets
C. the ocean
D. a chandelier

3. The main images in Blue emanate
A. from a fish
B. from the ocean
C. the sky’s reflection
D. a boat on the beach  

4. The best way to describe both narratives is
A. image painting
B. abstract expression
C. surrealism
D. concrete poetry

5. The main theme of both narratives is:
A. transformation
B. how colour takes form
C. the metamorphosis of shape
D. contrasts of colours

Answers to GAMSAT Section 1 Questions

1. Correct answer: B. In both narratives there is certainly a sense of place and theme, as well as a feeling of tone, the images are predominant as almost being poetic. We are never really given a sense of voice or narrator (B) within the passages.

2. Correct Answer: D. One must infer from the first sentence that “the fingers” are pointing down from a chandelier. A & B are both mentioned, yet secondary. C can be ruled out very easily.

3. Correct Answer: A. While all B, C, & D are included or implied. A close reading indicates some sort of fish as the dominant origin of the images. 

4. Correct Answer: A – image painting. While there are elements of B & C these would not be the best to describe the narratives. D can be ruled out very quickly.

5. Correct Answer: B – how colour takes form. A, C, & D are all themes, but none are the main theme and inclusive under B.

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