Previous Year Questions

Question :

In the question given below, two sentences are given with one blank each. From the given answer choices, choose the option which contains the word that fits in both sentences making them grammatically and contextually correct.

I. On the one hand, Malcolm carefully undermines the entire project of ______ biography while on the other hand, she draws all the sorts of conclusions she contends can't be made.

II. Murakami realized he was coasting on bursts of latent talent - he had caught the attention of the _____ establishment because of inventive stretches in his prose, but he worried that if he kept producing these instinctual novels, he'd reach a dead end.