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Brilliant Academy Of Learning GENERAL ENGLISH PRACTICE SET Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it in the context of the passage. Certain words and phrases in the passage are underlined to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions. In the Kannada novel, Samskara, by Jnanpith awardee U.R Ananthmurthy , the upper caste Brahmins in a village deep in rural north Karnataka, who are caught in the grip of an epidemic face existential dilemma. Their deeply held religious beliefs and rituals are on test. The chief priest of the village, Praneshacharya, a devout, austere Brahmin, has to provide the answers. His neighbor, Naranappa, an irreverent, rebellious Brahmin, who has a hedonistic lifestyle, and who mocks the Brahmins and their rituals and their ,superstitions, suddenly takes ill and dies. There is no one to bury him even as the body begins to decompose inside his house in the ‘Agrahara’, the Brahmins quart