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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 1. |
Modern science depends on |
| A. | opinions |
| B. | beliefs |
| C. | facts |
| D. | intuitions |
| Answer» C. facts | |
| 2. |
Methods that are create and speculative are employed by |
| A. | social science |
| B. | humanities |
| C. | physical science |
| D. | natural science |
| Answer» B. humanities | |
| 3. |
Humanities emphasis the role of |
| A. | meaning of human conditions |
| B. | purpose of human conditions |
| C. | goals of human conditions |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» D. all of these | |
| 4. |
The source of all the sciences and social sciences is |
| A. | philosophy |
| B. | history |
| C. | psychology |
| D. | astrology |
| Answer» A. philosophy | |
| 5. |
The classical Greek notion of philosophy was |
| A. | to improve our social world |
| B. | to educate its citizens |
| C. | to demarcate the national and social world |
| D. | to understand the world |
| Answer» B. to educate its citizens | |
| 6. |
Literature is primarily a subject of |
| A. | natural sciences |
| B. | social sciences |
| C. | humanities |
| D. | psychology |
| Answer» C. humanities | |
| 7. |
History deals with |
| A. | fancies |
| B. | facts |
| C. | hypotheses of past |
| D. | beliefs |
| Answer» B. facts | |
| 8. |
Founding father of sociology |
| A. | augustie comte |
| B. | emile durkheim |
| C. | max weber |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» A. augustie comte | |
| 9. |
Term ideology was coined by |
| A. | louis althusser |
| B. | terry eagleton |
| C. | destutt de tracy |
| D. | frantz fanan |
| Answer» C. destutt de tracy | |
| 10. |
David Hume was a |
| A. | german scientists |
| B. | british philosopher |
| C. | french sociologist |
| D. | american educationist |
| Answer» A. german scientists | |
| 11. |
Twentieth century literary criticism attempted to keep away from |
| A. | discuss on value |
| B. | discussion on taste |
| C. | discussion on reality |
| D. | discussion on truth |
| Answer» A. discuss on value | |
| 12. |
Positivism laid stress on use of |
| A. | social science method |
| B. | cultural studies |
| C. | natural sciences |
| D. | spiritual metaphysics |
| Answer» C. natural sciences | |
| 13. |
Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of |
| A. | natural sciences |
| B. | social sciences |
| C. | literature |
| D. | philosophy |
| Answer» B. social sciences | |
| 14. |
There is relative freedom from subjective biases in study of |
| A. | philosophy |
| B. | literature |
| C. | natural sciences |
| D. | social sciences |
| Answer» D. social sciences | |
| 15. |
What is prominent factor in structuring taste? |
| A. | education |
| B. | family status |
| C. | social class |
| D. | personality |
| Answer» C. social class | |
| 16. |
______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging identity |
| A. | idealism |
| B. | essentialism |
| C. | constructivism |
| D. | naturalism |
| Answer» B. essentialism | |
| 17. |
Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language are called _____ theories. |
| A. | constructivist |
| B. | essentialist |
| C. | idealist |
| D. | pragmatist |
| Answer» A. constructivist | |
| 18. |
The evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively is called. |
| A. | culture |
| B. | subjectivity |
| C. | identity |
| D. | language |
| Answer» A. culture | |
| 19. |
_____ is the verbal expression of culture |
| A. | signs |
| B. | language |
| C. | signals |
| D. | symbols |
| Answer» B. language | |
| 20. |
Capacity that separates humans from other primates |
| A. | emotions |
| B. | mobility |
| C. | communication |
| D. | language |
| Answer» D. language | |
| 21. |
The core idea that man’s language moulds his perception of reality belongs to |
| A. | sapir and whorf |
| B. | saussure and choamsky |
| C. | bloomfield and halliday |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» A. sapir and whorf | |
| 22. |
The study of the cultural system of signs is called |
| A. | linguistics |
| B. | pragmatics |
| C. | symbolism |
| D. | semiotics |
| Answer» D. semiotics | |
| 23. |
Hignlish is an example of |
| A. | dialect |
| B. | idiolect |
| C. | ethnolect |
| D. | genderlect |
| Answer» C. ethnolect | |
| 24. |
Father of modern linguistics |
| A. | saussure |
| B. | bloomfield |
| C. | halliday |
| D. | chomsky |
| Answer» A. saussure | |
| 25. |
The Social, economic and cultural context in which reality is represented and communicates meaning is called |
| A. | institution |
| B. | society |
| C. | dialogue |
| D. | discourse |
| Answer» D. discourse | |
| 26. |
______ Argued for English as a more neutral language where traditional caste names become irrelevant. |
| A. | ambedkar |
| B. | nehru |
| C. | gandhi |
| D. | raja ram mohan roy |
| Answer» A. ambedkar | |
| 27. |
Narrative is an act of |
| A. | imitation |
| B. | communication |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | expression |
| Answer» B. communication | |
| 28. |
Wimsatt and Robert Pen Warren belong to a group called |
| A. | new critics |
| B. | structuralist |
| C. | post modernist |
| D. | formalist |
| Answer» A. new critics | |
| 29. |
Who wrote Shamela |
| A. | henry fielding |
| B. | shakespeare |
| C. | samuel richardson |
| D. | daniel defoe |
| Answer» A. henry fielding | |
| 30. |
J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a retelling of |
| A. | jane eyre |
| B. | wide sargasso sea |
| C. | robinson crusoe |
| D. | joseph andrews |
| Answer» C. robinson crusoe | |
| 31. |
Mary Shelly’s Fankenstein is about the quest of a |
| A. | explorer |
| B. | poet |
| C. | scientist |
| D. | doctor |
| Answer» C. scientist | |
| 32. |
Who wrote wide Sargasso sea |
| A. | jean rhys |
| B. | charlette bronte |
| C. | daniel defoe |
| D. | emile bronte |
| Answer» A. jean rhys | |
| 33. |
The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion? |
| A. | hinduism |
| B. | judaism |
| C. | jainism |
| D. | islam |
| Answer» D. islam | |
| 34. |
Study of narrative is known as |
| A. | sociology |
| B. | grammatology |
| C. | lexicology |
| D. | narratology |
| Answer» D. narratology | |
| 35. |
The essay ‘Narrative Construction of Reality’ was written by |
| A. | walter scott |
| B. | jerome bruner |
| C. | roland barthes |
| D. | derek walcott |
| Answer» B. jerome bruner | |
| 36. |
The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____ |
| A. | plato and aristotle |
| B. | plato and longinus |
| C. | dryden and longinus |
| D. | socrates of descartes |
| Answer» A. plato and aristotle | |
| 37. |
According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis |
| A. | monologue |
| B. | catharsis |
| C. | confession |
| D. | confusion |
| Answer» B. catharsis | |
| 38. |
_____ is the direct representation of reality |
| A. | mimesis |
| B. | diegesis |
| C. | reality |
| D. | logos |
| Answer» A. mimesis | |
| 39. |
Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as |
| A. | mimesis |
| B. | narration |
| C. | diegesis |
| D. | description |
| Answer» C. diegesis | |
| 40. |
If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by |
| A. | salman rushdie |
| B. | italo calvino |
| C. | daniel defoe |
| D. | shakespeare |
| Answer» B. italo calvino | |
| 41. |
Saleem Sinai is a character in |
| A. | midnight’s children |
| B. | one hundred years of solitude |
| C. | if on a winter’s night traveler |
| D. | satanic verses |
| Answer» A. midnight’s children | |
| 42. |
Who prepared the two main modes of thinking Logico Scientific of the narrative |
| A. | jerome bruner |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | wayne c. booth |
| D. | italo calvino |
| Answer» A. jerome bruner | |
| 43. |
Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s |
| A. | mother |
| B. | sister |
| C. | wife |
| D. | daughter |
| Answer» B. sister | |
| 44. |
Narrative theory focuses on author, text and |
| A. | reader |
| B. | critic |
| C. | narrator |
| D. | critic |
| Answer» A. reader | |
| 45. |
The concept of implied author was first formulated by |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | immanuel kant |
| C. | vladimir propp |
| D. | wayne c booth |
| Answer» D. wayne c booth | |
| 46. |
Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy? |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | budhism |
| C. | vaisesika |
| D. | yoga |
| Answer» B. budhism | |
| 47. |
Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada? |
| A. | jainsim |
| B. | sankhya |
| C. | vedanta |
| D. | yoga |
| Answer» A. jainsim | |
| 48. |
Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge? |
| A. | tarka |
| B. | anumana |
| C. | smriti |
| D. | pramana |
| Answer» B. anumana | |
| 49. |
Another name for illusion in |
| A. | smrit |
| B. | khyati |
| C. | anumana |
| D. | samvada |
| Answer» B. khyati | |
| 50. |
The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | comparison |
| D. | testimony |
| Answer» C. comparison | |
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