SC's Question number - 901 , 902

901). Unlike the lives of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, subjects of other Troyat biographies, Chekhov belongs to the twentieth century, an age of fretfulness and melancholy skepticism.

(A) Unlike the lives of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, subjects of other Troyat biographies, Chekhov belongs

(B) Chekhov, unlike the other Troyat biographies of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belongs

(C) The life of Chekhov, unlike the lives of the subjects of other Troyat biographies, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belongs

(D) Chekhov and his life, unlike that of the other Troyat biographies—Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belong

(E) The life of Chekhov, unlike that of other Troyat biographies of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belongs

902). Unlike the Shiites, who constitute the other major branch of Islam, the Sunnites do not await the Mahdi as a messenger from God, nor do they endow him with divine qualities or immunity from failure in judgment.

(A) nor do they endow him

(B) but they do not endow him

(C) neither do they endow him

(D) and they neither endow him

(E) while endowing him neither

Answer:

901). OA - C

A - incorrect - wrong comparison - compares the lives of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, ... with Chekhov

B - incorrect - wrong comparison - compares Chekov with biographies

D - incorrect - wrong comparison - compares Chekov and life with biographies. Further it's only Chekov's life that belongs, not both of them

E - incorrect - compares the life of Chekov with the life of other Troyat biographies

902). OA - A - idiomatic - not X ...nor Y

B - incorrect - use of but wrong - no reversal or contrast shown

C, D, E - incorrect - unidiomatic