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| 101. |
Autodiegetic narrator is |
| A. | homodiegetic |
| B. | heterodiegetic |
| C. | author |
| D. | reader |
| Answer» A. homodiegetic | |
| 102. |
When narrator is a character in the story he/she is known as |
| A. | protagonist |
| B. | antagonist |
| C. | view point character |
| D. | chorus |
| Answer» C. view point character | |
| 103. |
Fabula and Sjuzet are introduced in literary narratives by |
| A. | structuralist |
| B. | formalist |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | russian formalist |
| Answer» D. russian formalist | |
| 104. |
Who studied and analysed the plot structures of folktales? |
| A. | victor shaklovsky |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | frantz fanen |
| D. | frantz kafka |
| Answer» B. vladimir propp | |
| 105. |
Who is the French critic who argued that literary narratives consist of signs? |
| A. | homi k. baba |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | ben okri |
| D. | gerard genette |
| Answer» B. roland barthes | |
| 106. |
According to Gerard Genette narration in all literary narrative include |
| A. | historic |
| B. | recit |
| C. | narrating |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» D. all the above | |
| 107. |
The image of new country dreamt by Francis Bacon |
| A. | utopia |
| B. | new atlantic |
| C. | brave new world |
| D. | caligula |
| Answer» B. new atlantic | |
| 108. |
The human rights philosopher who argued that the victims of atrocity and opposition tell their stories in the form of testimonies and autobiographies. |
| A. | michad ontage |
| B. | saul bellow |
| C. | julia kristeva |
| D. | michael ignatieff |
| Answer» C. julia kristeva | |
| 109. |
Who is the founder of deconstruction? |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | jacques derrida |
| C. | kent |
| D. | saussure |
| Answer» B. jacques derrida | |
| 110. |
A work in the physical, printed book the narrative inside it is known as |
| A. | text |
| B. | sign |
| C. | narration |
| D. | story |
| Answer» A. text | |
| 111. |
_____ is the relationship of one text to others |
| A. | textuality |
| B. | inner text |
| C. | fluid text |
| D. | comparative literature |
| Answer» A. textuality | |
| 112. |
_____ is the relationship of a text to other text in the genre/type |
| A. | intertextuality |
| B. | architextuality |
| C. | metatextuality |
| D. | hypertextuality |
| Answer» B. architextuality | |
| 113. |
Epigraphs, prefaces, forwards, etc. that have some connection to the main narrative is known as |
| A. | hypertextuality |
| B. | para text |
| C. | architextuality |
| D. | metatextuality |
| Answer» B. para text | |
| 114. |
_____ is a construction and it is implied is the work known as implied reader. |
| A. | author |
| B. | characters |
| C. | narrator |
| D. | reader |
| Answer» D. reader | |
| 115. |
Text on computer screen which can alter their appearance is called |
| A. | solid text |
| B. | liquid text |
| C. | fluid text |
| D. | screen play |
| Answer» C. fluid text | |
| 116. |
Foe is a novel by |
| A. | ben okri |
| B. | ama ata aidoo |
| C. | j.m. coetzee |
| D. | jean rhys |
| Answer» C. j.m. coetzee | |
| 117. |
______ is a best example for intertextuality |
| A. | wide sargarso sea |
| B. | waste land |
| C. | new atlantis |
| D. | foe |
| Answer» B. waste land | |
| 118. |
W.H. Auden has an architextual connection with satires of |
| A. | sheridan |
| B. | alexander pope |
| C. | jonathan swift |
| D. | ben johnson. |
| Answer» B. alexander pope | |
| 119. |
Who among the following outlined the four periods of the development of Indian Philosophy. |
| A. | aurabindo |
| B. | dr. s. radhakrishnan |
| C. | j. krishnamurthy |
| D. | swami vivekananda |
| Answer» B. dr. s. radhakrishnan | |
| 120. |
Vaisesika School of Philosophy was founded by |
| A. | mahavira |
| B. | kanada |
| C. | dharmakriti |
| D. | yaska |
| Answer» B. kanada | |
| 121. |
Through which pramana do we get the knowledge of non-existence |
| A. | anitya |
| B. | anupalabdhi |
| C. | abhini bodha |
| D. | bhavana |
| Answer» B. anupalabdhi | |
| 122. |
Which school of philosophy deals with the ritualistic aspects of Vedas |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | mimamsa |
| C. | sankhya |
| D. | charvaka |
| Answer» B. mimamsa | |
| 123. |
Which school of philosophy was founded by Gotama? |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | nyaya |
| C. | vaisesika |
| D. | jainism |
| Answer» B. nyaya | |
| 124. |
Astika Schools accepted the authority of |
| A. | upanishads |
| B. | epics |
| C. | vedas |
| D. | vedantas |
| Answer» C. vedas | |
| 125. |
Yoga school of philosophy was found by |
| A. | yogananda |
| B. | nagarjuna |
| C. | patanjali |
| D. | nimbaraka |
| Answer» C. patanjali | |
| 126. |
Name of Adi Sankara’s guru |
| A. | yogananda |
| B. | gaudapada |
| C. | namdev |
| D. | ramanuja |
| Answer» B. gaudapada | |
| 127. |
The Indian word for philosophy is |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | darsana |
| C. | sastra |
| D. | mokshamarga |
| Answer» B. darsana | |
| 128. |
_____ is an essential characteristic of valid knowledge |
| A. | truth |
| B. | avadhi |
| C. | apprehension |
| D. | smriti |
| Answer» A. truth | |
| 129. |
Nyaya school with its science of reasoning is also known as |
| A. | dharma sastra |
| B. | tarkasastra |
| C. | yoga sutras |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. tarkasastra | |
| 130. |
The dialectic method propounded by Nagarjuna is known as the |
| A. | direct method |
| B. | prasanga method |
| C. | tharka method |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. prasanga method | |
| 131. |
Thomas Luckmann is a follower of _____ school of sociology. |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | pragmatist |
| C. | phenomenological |
| D. | existentialist |
| Answer» C. phenomenological | |
| 132. |
God or Brahman cannot be the cause of world is suggested by |
| A. | naiyayikas |
| B. | yoga school |
| C. | sankhya school |
| D. | sankara |
| Answer» C. sankhya school | |
| 133. |
Lack of mutual intelligibility between two language is known as |
| A. | mutual intelligibility |
| B. | language barrier |
| C. | language boundary |
| D. | language island |
| Answer» C. language boundary | |
| 134. |
The Gate keeper was book written by |
| A. | terry eagleton |
| B. | e.h. carr |
| C. | peter widdowson |
| D. | raymon williams |
| Answer» A. terry eagleton | |
| 135. |
_____ revolutionized historiography in the 19th century |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | leopold von ranke |
| C. | hegd and marx |
| D. | michel foucault |
| Answer» B. leopold von ranke | |
| 136. |
Group of South Asian scholars interested in the post-colonial and post-imperial societies of South Asia in particular and the developing world in general. |
| A. | common wealth |
| B. | post colonial |
| C. | post modern |
| D. | subaltern |
| Answer» D. subaltern | |
| 137. |
_____ is relatively new field of history |
| A. | cultural history |
| B. | economic history |
| C. | environmental history |
| D. | ethnohistory |
| Answer» C. environmental history | |
| 138. |
_____ in the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. |
| A. | paleography |
| B. | genealogy |
| C. | numismatics |
| D. | family history |
| Answer» B. genealogy | |
| 139. |
_____ is a school of Budhism which accepted plurality of realities. |
| A. | mahayana |
| B. | hinayana |
| C. | sautranikas |
| D. | vaibhasikas |
| Answer» B. hinayana | |
| 140. |
_____ is a quantitative philosophy |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | vaisesika |
| C. | vedanta |
| D. | sankhya |
| Answer» D. sankhya | |
| 141. |
______ composed Sankhya Aphorisms |
| A. | gotama |
| B. | kapila |
| C. | patanjali |
| D. | sankara |
| Answer» B. kapila | |
| 142. |
______ philosophy says that control over Citta gives the power of control over everything. |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | sankya |
| C. | yoga |
| D. | vedanta |
| Answer» C. yoga | |
| 143. |
Sociolinguistics can be defined as |
| A. | study of language in relation to society |
| B. | study of society in relation to language |
| C. | interaction of society and linguistics |
| D. | study of language and literature |
| Answer» A. study of language in relation to society | |
| 144. |
Linguistics competence is a notion proposed by |
| A. | bloom field |
| B. | chomsky |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | derrida |
| Answer» B. chomsky | |
| 145. |
According to J. Derrida |
| A. | test in an entity |
| B. | text is a gas |
| C. | test is a non existing |
| D. | text is discourse |
| Answer» B. text is a gas | |
| 146. |
Who proposed seven standards of Textuality |
| A. | de beangrande and dressler |
| B. | chomsky and bloom field |
| C. | derrida and saussure |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. de beangrande and dressler | |
| 147. |
Language of literature is |
| A. | cryptic |
| B. | delphic |
| C. | accurate |
| D. | ornamental |
| Answer» B. delphic | |
| 148. |
Theory of ______ is perhaps one of the greatest contribution of prague school. |
| A. | theory of criticism |
| B. | theory of signs |
| C. | theory of functional style |
| D. | theory of grammar |
| Answer» C. theory of functional style | |
| 149. |
Course in General Linguistics was written by |
| A. | sapir |
| B. | chomsky |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | bloomfield |
| Answer» C. saussure | |
| 150. |
When sign designate the whole word concept is signified and _____ is signifies |
| A. | the object |
| B. | sound image |
| C. | verbal symbol |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. sound image | |
| 151. |
Exponent of reader response theory |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | lacan |
| C. | stanley fish |
| D. | r.p. warren |
| Answer» C. stanley fish | |
| 152. |
Of ‘Grammatology’ is written by |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | paul de man |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» B. derrida | |
| 153. |
_____ proposed the name narratology to the study of narratives. |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | todorov |
| D. | tracy |
| Answer» C. todorov | |
| 154. |
Which among the following is heterodox school of philosophy |
| A. | mimamsa |
| B. | lokayata |
| C. | sankhya |
| D. | vaisesika |
| Answer» B. lokayata | |
| 155. |
Five old system of discipline or five rows are the teachings of ____ philosophy |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | mimamsa |
| C. | jainism |
| D. | carvaka |
| Answer» C. jainism | |
| 156. |
The exponent of each school wrote his own understanding of Vedas and Upanishads in the form of |
| A. | mantras |
| B. | sutras |
| C. | khyati |
| D. | bhasyas |
| Answer» B. sutras | |
| 157. |
Which of the pramanas is not accepted by Sankhyas? |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | testimony |
| D. | comparison |
| Answer» D. comparison | |
| 158. |
Citta-vriti-nirodha can be attained through |
| A. | pranayama |
| B. | niyama |
| C. | pratyahara |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» D. all the above | |
| 159. |
Our understanding of reality is based on |
| A. | conception |
| B. | codes of perception |
| C. | interpretation |
| D. | description |
| Answer» B. codes of perception | |
| 160. |
Who analyzed a set of six actants in narrative |
| A. | athuses |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | a.j. greimas |
| D. | wayne c. booth |
| Answer» C. a.j. greimas | |
| 161. |
______ codes informs our interpretation of narrative |
| A. | proairetic code |
| B. | hermaneutic code |
| C. | cultural code |
| D. | semic code |
| Answer» B. hermaneutic code | |
| 162. |
Who proposed the three levels of narrative Historic, Recit and narrating? |
| A. | vladimir prop |
| B. | gerard genette |
| C. | antoni gramci |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» B. gerard genette | |
| 163. |
New critics argued that |
| A. | meaning is inside the text |
| B. | meaning lies outside the text |
| C. | meaning in created |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. meaning is inside the text | |
| 164. |
Among the given critics who is not in new criticism |
| A. | wimsatt |
| B. | beardsley |
| C. | robert penn warren |
| D. | northrop frye |
| Answer» D. northrop frye | |
| 165. |
Among the given critics who is not exponent of deconstruction |
| A. | f.r. levis |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | harold bloom |
| D. | paul de man |
| Answer» A. f.r. levis | |
| 166. |
A text that can be read in form of several different texts is called |
| A. | interactive |
| B. | multimodal |
| C. | intertextual |
| D. | fluid text |
| Answer» B. multimodal | |
| 167. |
_____ is a collection of shared expectations about such long public habits. |
| A. | universe |
| B. | institution |
| C. | community |
| D. | legitimization |
| Answer» B. institution | |
| 168. |
_____ is the process by which subjective everyday reality becomes objective reality. |
| A. | universalization |
| B. | naturalization |
| C. | reification |
| D. | legitimatization |
| Answer» C. reification | |
| 169. |
The word difference was coined by |
| A. | j.m. coetze |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | chomsky |
| Answer» B. derrida | |
| 170. |
Who is the first western philosopher who attempted a systematic study of society? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | ibn khaldun |
| C. | plato |
| D. | longinus |
| Answer» C. plato | |
| 171. |
In which year the term sociology was coined? |
| A. | 1798 |
| B. | 1839 |
| C. | 1846 |
| D. | 1739 |
| Answer» B. 1839 | |
| 172. |
The word sociology is made up of two words. These are |
| A. | societies and logy |
| B. | societies and logista |
| C. | socious and logus |
| D. | socia and logos |
| Answer» C. socious and logus | |
| 173. |
The book sociology is written by |
| A. | m. ginsberg |
| B. | j.s. mill |
| C. | davis and moore |
| D. | rosenberg |
| Answer» A. m. ginsberg | |
| 174. |
Criticism which seeks a synthesis between the psychological criticism and sociological criticism |
| A. | psycholinguistics |
| B. | ontological criticism |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | eco criticism |
| Answer» B. ontological criticism | |
| 175. |
The Golden Bough was written by |
| A. | w.h.r. rivers |
| B. | morgan |
| C. | james frazer |
| D. | evans. |
| Answer» C. james frazer | |
| 176. |
There are two type of causal explanation namely |
| A. | scientific and historical |
| B. | positive and negative |
| C. | positivist and phenomenologist |
| D. | scientific and sociological |
| Answer» A. scientific and historical | |
| 177. |
In social sciences empiricism sometimes goes by the name |
| A. | negativism |
| B. | naturalism |
| C. | positivism |
| D. | phenomenology |
| Answer» C. positivism | |
| 178. |
The process whereby western nations establish their rule in parts of the world away from their home territories |
| A. | colonialism |
| B. | empiricism |
| C. | anti colonialism |
| D. | cohabitation |
| Answer» A. colonialism | |
| 179. |
Louis Althusser is a |
| A. | german philosopher |
| B. | american philosopher |
| C. | french philosopher |
| D. | greek philosopher |
| Answer» C. french philosopher | |
| 180. |
Post modern art and thought favours |
| A. | reflexivity and self consciousness |
| B. | fragmentation |
| C. | discontinuity |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 181. |
____ involves demystifying a text to reveal internal arbitrary hierarchies and presupposition. |
| A. | post modernism |
| B. | anti colonialism |
| C. | deconstruction |
| D. | positivism |
| Answer» C. deconstruction | |
| 182. |
The Vaisesika’s atomism agrees with the ____ atomism |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | greek |
| C. | nyaya |
| D. | jaina |
| Answer» B. greek | |
| 183. |
The theory of no soul is attributed to |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | hinduism |
| C. | jainism |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» A. budhism | |
| 184. |
According to Patanjali God is never |
| A. | free |
| B. | in bondage |
| C. | without purpose |
| D. | cruel |
| Answer» B. in bondage | |
| 185. |
According to Berger and Luckman all knowledge is derived from and maintained by |
| A. | search for truth |
| B. | social interaction |
| C. | education |
| D. | philosophy |
| Answer» B. social interaction | |
| 186. |
The word which means ‘to insult’ evolved from the perception of the values a ‘n*gger’ stands for |
| A. | integrate |
| B. | aggravate |
| C. | denigrate |
| D. | exaggerate |
| Answer» C. denigrate | |
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