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| 1. |
The fall of Constantinople is associated with |
| A. | the enlightenment |
| B. | reformation |
| C. | renaissance |
| D. | the french revolution |
| Answer» C. renaissance | |
| 2. |
Enlightenment was |
| A. | a sixteenth century movement |
| B. | seventeenth century movement |
| C. | eighteenth century movement |
| D. | nineteenth century movement |
| Answer» C. eighteenth century movement | |
| 3. |
‘Ancient Regime’ is a term connected with the government in |
| A. | britain |
| B. | france |
| C. | germany |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» B. france | |
| 4. |
Taille was |
| A. | a trade tax |
| B. | a land tax |
| C. | professional tax |
| D. | sales tax |
| Answer» B. a land tax | |
| 5. |
Tithe was the tax given to |
| A. | the king |
| B. | the church |
| C. | the noble |
| D. | property tax |
| Answer» B. the church | |
| 6. |
Who wrote the essay What is Enlightenment? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | immanuel kant |
| D. | nietzche |
| Answer» C. immanuel kant | |
| 7. |
“Enlightenment is man’s emrgence from his self imposednonage”. Who said this? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | hobbes |
| C. | hume |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» D. kant | |
| 8. |
Who was the chief editor of the Encyclopedia? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | kant |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» C. diderot | |
| 9. |
“Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” is written by |
| A. | locke |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | hobbes |
| Answer» A. locke | |
| 10. |
The man who proved that the nature obeys certain fundamental laws |
| A. | locke |
| B. | newton |
| C. | kant |
| D. | louis xiv |
| Answer» B. newton | |
| 11. |
Tabula Rasa is a term coined by |
| A. | locke |
| B. | kant |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | newton |
| Answer» A. locke | |
| 12. |
The spirit of Laws was written by |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» D. montesquieu | |
| 13. |
“Humanity had lost its title deeds and Montesquieu recovered them”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | bacon |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 14. |
Who was Diderot’s co-editor of The Encyclopaedia? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | d’ alembert |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. d’ alembert | |
| 15. |
“All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | faguet |
| D. | nietzsche |
| Answer» C. faguet | |
| 16. |
“He was scornful of revealed truth”. Who? |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» B. diderot | |
| 17. |
“Reason is the most perfect, the most noble, the most beautiful of all our faculties”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | montesquieu |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. montesquieu | |
| 18. |
Who wrote the ‘Discourse Preliminarie’ of The Encyclopedia? |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | d’alembert |
| C. | condilac |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. d’alembert | |
| 19. |
“We are tempted to regard him as the greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers”. Who is praised here? |
| A. | bacon |
| B. | locke |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» A. bacon | |
| 20. |
The author of La Religieuse? |
| A. | condillac |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | bacon |
| Answer» B. diderot | |
| 21. |
Treatise on Human Nature was written by? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. hume | |
| 22. |
“An Englishman like a free man goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses”. Who made this statement? |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | hume |
| D. | barkley |
| Answer» C. hume | |
| 23. |
The author of Candide ? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | hume |
| D. | gibbon |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 24. |
Prof.Pangloss is a character in |
| A. | history of england |
| B. | social contract |
| C. | emilie |
| D. | candide |
| Answer» D. candide | |
| 25. |
Who termed primitive man ‘noble savage’ ? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | kant |
| D. | condercet |
| Answer» B. rousseau | |
| 26. |
The author of Social Contract? |
| A. | robespirre |
| B. | napoleon |
| C. | kant |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 27. |
Who wrote Emilie |
| A. | robespirre |
| B. | napoleon |
| C. | kant |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 28. |
Who wrote the preface to Lyrical Ballads? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | keats |
| C. | johnson |
| D. | wordsworth |
| Answer» D. wordsworth | |
| 29. |
the Essay on Man is written by |
| A. | dryden |
| B. | pope |
| C. | johnson |
| D. | gray |
| Answer» B. pope | |
| 30. |
The elegy written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | burns |
| D. | gray |
| Answer» D. gray | |
| 31. |
Who coined the term ‘Esemblastic Imagination’ |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | schiller |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 32. |
Who wrote The Solitary Reaper? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | schiller |
| Answer» C. wordsworth | |
| 33. |
Kubla Khan is written by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | keats |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 34. |
BiographiaLiterariais authored by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | shelley |
| D. | blake |
| Answer» B. coleridge | |
| 35. |
The Vindication of the Rights of Women is written by |
| A. | mary shelley |
| B. | mary wollstonecraft |
| C. | george eliot |
| D. | elizabeth browning |
| Answer» B. mary wollstonecraft | |
| 36. |
Manuals of good conduct for girls like The Wives of England, Daughters of England etcwere written by |
| A. | mary wollstonecraft |
| B. | sarah stickney ellis |
| C. | emilie bronte |
| D. | beatrice webb |
| Answer» B. sarah stickney ellis | |
| 37. |
The woman who fought against oppressive marriage laws |
| A. | caroline norton |
| B. | marion reid |
| C. | harrier tayler |
| D. | florence nightingale |
| Answer» A. caroline norton | |
| 38. |
The fragmentary novel ‘Cassandra’ is written by |
| A. | mary shelley |
| B. | florence nightingale |
| C. | caroline norton |
| D. | william thomson |
| Answer» B. florence nightingale | |
| 39. |
A magazine the pleaded for the rights to women |
| A. | the tatler |
| B. | the rambler |
| C. | the english women’s journal |
| D. | the spectator |
| Answer» C. the english women’s journal | |
| 40. |
The first higher education institution for women? |
| A. | girton college |
| B. | eaton |
| C. | harward |
| D. | king’s college |
| Answer» A. girton college | |
| 41. |
The founder of the women’s anti-slavery society |
| A. | francis wright |
| B. | lucretiaott |
| C. | elizabeth cady |
| D. | miss garnett |
| Answer» B. lucretiaott | |
| 42. |
The author of Women in the Nineteenth Century? |
| A. | francis wright |
| B. | margaret fuller |
| C. | florence nightingale |
| D. | miss garnett |
| Answer» B. margaret fuller | |
| 43. |
The History of Women suffrage was written by |
| A. | elizabeth stanton |
| B. | frederick douglas |
| C. | lucretia mott |
| D. | margaret fuller |
| Answer» A. elizabeth stanton | |
| 44. |
The Seneca Falls Convention is associated with |
| A. | women’s suffrage |
| B. | liberation of negros |
| C. | civil rights movement |
| D. | anti slavery movement |
| Answer» A. women’s suffrage | |
| 45. |
Declaration of Sentiments is associated with |
| A. | the seneca falls convention |
| B. | the civil rights movement |
| C. | philadelphia convention |
| D. | anti-slavery convention |
| Answer» A. the seneca falls convention | |
| 46. |
The Revolution was a newspaper founded by |
| A. | margaret fuller |
| B. | susan antony |
| C. | frederick douglas |
| D. | elizabeth sinton |
| Answer» A. margaret fuller | |
| 47. |
Author of the Book The Feminine Mystique |
| A. | kate millet |
| B. | betty friedan |
| C. | lucy stone |
| D. | susan b antony |
| Answer» B. betty friedan | |
| 48. |
The second sex is written by |
| A. | sartre |
| B. | simon de beauvoir |
| C. | betty friedan |
| D. | kate millet |
| Answer» B. simon de beauvoir | |
| 49. |
The first serious book on feminist theory |
| A. | the mandarins |
| B. | the second sex |
| C. | the feminine mystique |
| D. | the revolution |
| Answer» B. the second sex | |
| 50. |
“One is not born, but becomes a woman” is said by |
| A. | simone de beauvoir |
| B. | kate millet |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | firestone |
| Answer» A. simone de beauvoir | |
| 51. |
The author of Dialectic of Sex? |
| A. | kate millet |
| B. | shulamith firestone |
| C. | simone de beauvoir |
| D. | betty friedan |
| Answer» B. shulamith firestone | |
| 52. |
The author of Female Eunuch is |
| A. | kate millet |
| B. | betty friedan |
| C. | germaine greer |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» C. germaine greer | |
| 53. |
The Poetical is the Political is written by |
| A. | t. v. reed |
| B. | audrelorde |
| C. | kristeva |
| D. | kate millet |
| Answer» A. t. v. reed | |
| 54. |
“No other movement has been so grounded in poetry as Feminism”. Who said this? |
| A. | kate millet |
| B. | kristeva |
| C. | t.v. reed |
| D. | audrelorde |
| Answer» C. t.v. reed | |
| 55. |
Simone de Beauvoir was influenced by |
| A. | marxism |
| B. | liberalism |
| C. | existentialism |
| D. | romanticism |
| Answer» C. existentialism | |
| 56. |
Who Said it Was Simple is a poem by |
| A. | audrelorde |
| B. | robin morgan |
| C. | kristeva |
| D. | t.v reed |
| Answer» A. audrelorde | |
| 57. |
Dalit is a term derived from |
| A. | hindi |
| B. | marathi |
| C. | tamil |
| D. | kannada |
| Answer» B. marathi | |
| 58. |
The first man who launched the anti-caste movement in Maharashtra |
| A. | ambedkar |
| B. | jyotibabhule |
| C. | limbale |
| D. | sivakami |
| Answer» B. jyotibabhule | |
| 59. |
SathyaShodhakSamaj was |
| A. | an organisation of the lower castes |
| B. | an organization of the upper castes |
| C. | an organization of the maratha people |
| D. | an organization of the tamil people |
| Answer» A. an organisation of the lower castes | |
| 60. |
Din Bandhu was a newspaper brought out by |
| A. | a group of marxist |
| B. | the followers of ambedkar |
| C. | sathyashodhaksamaj |
| D. | black panthers |
| Answer» C. sathyashodhaksamaj | |
| 61. |
The leader who converted the Dalits to Budhism |
| A. | jyotibabhule |
| B. | ambedkar |
| C. | m.n. roy |
| D. | gaikwad |
| Answer» B. ambedkar | |
| 62. |
Who collected the folk songs dealing with Ambedkar? |
| A. | jyotibabhule |
| B. | indira junghare |
| C. | gaikwad |
| D. | limbale |
| Answer» B. indira junghare | |
| 63. |
The political party representing the dalits |
| A. | black panthers |
| B. | the republican party |
| C. | the janatha party |
| D. | akali dal |
| Answer» B. the republican party | |
| 64. |
The radical writers of the Dalit Sahithya Movement is known as |
| A. | dalit writers |
| B. | black panthers |
| C. | the republicans |
| D. | liberation tigers |
| Answer» B. black panthers | |
| 65. |
Dalit sangharshSamiti was formed in |
| A. | maharashtra |
| B. | karnataka |
| C. | uttar pradesh |
| D. | tamil nadu |
| Answer» B. karnataka | |
| 66. |
White Paper is a poem by |
| A. | sankumarlimbale |
| B. | dr.ambedkar |
| C. | jagadishmahato |
| D. | sivakami |
| Answer» A. sankumarlimbale | |
| 67. |
gold from Grave is a |
| A. | short story |
| B. | poem |
| C. | novel |
| D. | drama |
| Answer» A. short story | |
| 68. |
Bali Adugal is a play by |
| A. | gunasekaran |
| B. | unjairajan |
| C. | sivakami |
| D. | bama |
| Answer» A. gunasekaran | |
| 69. |
Karakkuis the autobiography of |
| A. | sivakami |
| B. | bama |
| C. | gunasekaran |
| D. | unjairajan |
| Answer» B. bama | |
| 70. |
The wretched of the Earth is a book by |
| A. | salman rushdie |
| B. | frantz fanon |
| C. | kamala das |
| D. | arundhati roy |
| Answer» B. frantz fanon | |
| 71. |
Orientalism is a book by |
| A. | salman rushdie |
| B. | edward said |
| C. | chinua achebe |
| D. | raja rao |
| Answer» B. edward said | |
| 72. |
Garden of Forking Paths is a novel by |
| A. | asturias |
| B. | borges |
| C. | marquez |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» B. borges | |
| 73. |
Macondo is |
| A. | the name of a family |
| B. | the name of a village |
| C. | the name of a ea |
| D. | the name of a city |
| Answer» B. the name of a village | |
| 74. |
The SadhujanaParipalanaSangham was founded by |
| A. | sreenarayana guru |
| B. | ayyankali |
| C. | panditkauppan |
| D. | chattampiswamikal |
| Answer» B. ayyankali | |
| 75. |
Yuktivadiwas founded by |
| A. | k. ramakrishna pillai |
| B. | t. k. madhavan |
| C. | sahodaranayyappan |
| D. | k. kelappan |
| Answer» C. sahodaranayyappan | |
| 76. |
Who wrote the “Introduction to the Lyrical Ballads? |
| A. | keats |
| B. | shelly |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | coleridge |
| Answer» C. wordsworth | |
| 77. |
“Nothing can work without the third and everything would work infinitely better without the other.” Who said this? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hobbes |
| C. | hume |
| D. | sieyes |
| Answer» D. sieyes | |
| 78. |
The Essay entitled “What is Enlightenment” is written by…………………….. |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | locke |
| C. | kant |
| D. | voltaire |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 79. |
Who was e author of the treatise “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | montesquieu |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | locke |
| Answer» D. locke | |
| 80. |
Who was the chief editor of The Encyclopaedia? |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | kant |
| C. | locke |
| D. | voltaire |
| Answer» A. diderot | |
| 81. |
Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | newton |
| C. | danton |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» A. locke | |
| 82. |
PenseesPilosophiqus, published in 1746 was written by……………………….. |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | nietzsche |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | bacon |
| Answer» C. diderot | |
| 83. |
“The Spirit of Laws” was written by ………………………… |
| A. | bacon |
| B. | hume |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | newton |
| Answer» B. hume | |
| 84. |
“All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu” who said this? |
| A. | bacon |
| B. | hume |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | faguet |
| Answer» D. faguet | |
| 85. |
Letters Persaneswas a significant work by …………………….. |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» A. montesquieu | |
| 86. |
“I salute you, I love You, I revere you” to whom Diderot pay this compliment? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | d’ alembert |
| D. | condillac |
| Answer» A. hume | |
| 87. |
According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed “the profane trio”? |
| A. | voltaire, diderot and rousseau |
| B. | rousseau, hume and voltaire |
| C. | voltaire, gibbon and locke |
| D. | diderot, d’ alembert and boswell |
| Answer» A. voltaire, diderot and rousseau | |
| 88. |
Who wrote Emile? |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | kant |
| C. | dryden |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 89. |
The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ………………. |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | kant |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. kant | |
| 90. |
Who wrote the “Discourse Peliminarie” of the Encyclopaedia? |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | d’ alembert |
| C. | hume |
| D. | voltaire |
| Answer» B. d’ alembert | |
| 91. |
“Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requires enlightenment to preserve it from excess” Who affirms this? |
| A. | alembert |
| B. | locke |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» A. alembert | |
| 92. |
Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | condillac |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. diderot | |
| 93. |
“In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration and astonishment…”Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this? |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | hume |
| D. | locke |
| Answer» A. diderot | |
| 94. |
“We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers. Who is praised here? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | bacon |
| C. | hume |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» B. bacon | |
| 95. |
Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | darwin |
| D. | locke |
| Answer» A. hume | |
| 96. |
“His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true” Who made this prophecy? |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | hume |
| D. | gibbon |
| Answer» C. hume | |
| 97. |
“An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses “ Who made this statement? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | gibbon |
| D. | diderot |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 98. |
Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in……………….. |
| A. | voltaire’s novelette candide |
| B. | rousseau’s emile |
| C. | diderot’s la religieuse |
| D. | hume’s history of england |
| Answer» A. voltaire’s novelette candide | |
| 99. |
Who termed Primitive man as ‘noble savage’? |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | locke |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» A. rousseau | |
| 100. |
Who wrote “An Essay on Man”? |
| A. | dryden |
| B. | dr. johnson |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | pope |
| Answer» D. pope | |
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