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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) .
| 51. |
Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools? |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | doubt |
| D. | representation |
| Answer» A. perception | |
| 52. |
Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge? |
| A. | doubt |
| B. | testimony |
| C. | inference |
| D. | tarka |
| Answer» A. doubt | |
| 53. |
The earliest available Indian literature on record are the |
| A. | puranas |
| B. | sasthras |
| C. | vedas |
| D. | itihasas |
| Answer» C. vedas | |
| 54. |
_____was the period of the early settlement of the Aryans in the Indus Valley. |
| A. | epic period |
| B. | sutra period |
| C. | vedic period |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. vedic period | |
| 55. |
Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through |
| A. | jainism |
| B. | gita |
| C. | carvaka school |
| D. | nyaya |
| Answer» B. gita | |
| 56. |
Which school accepts only perception as a pramana? |
| A. | carvaka |
| B. | yoga |
| C. | mimamsa |
| D. | vaiseshika |
| Answer» A. carvaka | |
| 57. |
Commentaries on sutras are called |
| A. | kavya |
| B. | sabda |
| C. | bhashya |
| D. | mantra |
| Answer» C. bhashya | |
| 58. |
Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element |
| A. | air |
| B. | space |
| C. | water |
| D. | earth |
| Answer» B. space | |
| 59. |
The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths |
| A. | four |
| B. | six |
| C. | eight |
| D. | nine |
| Answer» A. four | |
| 60. |
According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called |
| A. | prakriti |
| B. | guna |
| C. | dravya |
| D. | purusha |
| Answer» D. purusha | |
| 61. |
The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called……. |
| A. | parole |
| B. | langue |
| C. | signs |
| D. | pidgin |
| Answer» B. langue | |
| 62. |
______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication and production of meaning. |
| A. | langue |
| B. | parole |
| C. | signification |
| D. | sound |
| Answer» B. parole | |
| 63. |
Language is a system of ______ |
| A. | langue |
| B. | parole |
| C. | signs |
| D. | symbols |
| Answer» C. signs | |
| 64. |
The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified. |
| A. | affiliatory |
| B. | arbitrary |
| C. | affective |
| D. | attractive |
| Answer» B. arbitrary | |
| 65. |
Language acquires meaning through ______ |
| A. | difference |
| B. | destruction |
| C. | arbitrariness |
| D. | change |
| Answer» A. difference | |
| 66. |
To which game does Saussure compare language? |
| A. | monopoly |
| B. | chess |
| C. | cards |
| D. | carems |
| Answer» B. chess | |
| 67. |
The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is termed______ |
| A. | identity |
| B. | ethnicity |
| C. | sexuality |
| D. | essentiality |
| Answer» A. identity | |
| 68. |
Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____ |
| A. | nature |
| B. | identity |
| C. | culture |
| D. | individual |
| Answer» C. culture | |
| 69. |
In every discourse _______ is inscribed in the way the values of the dominant party controls representation and communication. |
| A. | culture |
| B. | power |
| C. | reality |
| D. | politics |
| Answer» B. power | |
| 70. |
Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are called _____ |
| A. | discourses |
| B. | culture |
| C. | ideologies |
| D. | reality |
| Answer» A. discourses | |
| 71. |
The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices is referred to as ______ |
| A. | ability |
| B. | competence |
| C. | agency |
| D. | acceptance |
| Answer» C. agency | |
| 72. |
The authors of the work Social Construction of Reality. |
| A. | sapir and whorf |
| B. | berger and luckman |
| C. | halliday and bloomfield |
| D. | marx and engel |
| Answer» B. berger and luckman | |
| 73. |
The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called ……. |
| A. | habitualisation |
| B. | institutionalization |
| C. | reification |
| D. | personalization |
| Answer» A. habitualisation | |
| 74. |
A set of beliefs “every body knows” that aim at making the institutionalized structure believable for the individual is called ______. |
| A. | ideology |
| B. | customs |
| C. | symbolic universes |
| D. | beliefs |
| Answer» C. symbolic universes | |
| 75. |
The most widespread group of languages today is ______ |
| A. | afro-asiatic |
| B. | dravidian |
| C. | indo-european |
| D. | balto salvonic |
| Answer» C. indo-european | |
| 76. |
Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure. |
| A. | james mill |
| B. | max muller |
| C. | william jones |
| D. | shelly |
| Answer» C. william jones | |
| 77. |
“Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in _____. |
| A. | 1857 |
| B. | 1845 |
| C. | 1835 |
| D. | 1850 |
| Answer» C. 1835 | |
| 78. |
The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it indigenous. |
| A. | falsification |
| B. | chutnification |
| C. | nativism |
| D. | heteroglossia |
| Answer» B. chutnification | |
| 79. |
The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native culture including language. |
| A. | nativism |
| B. | orientalism |
| C. | ethnicity |
| D. | integration |
| Answer» A. nativism | |
| 80. |
The Algerian freedom fighter who demanded the end to the violence on the native languages. |
| A. | albert camus |
| B. | frantz fanon |
| C. | jean amrouche |
| D. | richard mimouni |
| Answer» B. frantz fanon | |
| 81. |
In which poem does Derek Walcott subscribe to the idea of bilingualism? |
| A. | “castaway” |
| B. | “names” |
| C. | “a far cry from africa” |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. “a far cry from africa” | |
| 82. |
Scientific method involves generating testable |
| A. | hypothesis |
| B. | facts |
| C. | arguments |
| D. | principles |
| Answer» A. hypothesis | |
| 83. |
Humanities often employs ______ as an important tool in the production and reproduction of meanings of culture, literature and history. |
| A. | narrative imagination |
| B. | reference |
| C. | comparison |
| D. | imagination |
| Answer» A. narrative imagination | |
| 84. |
Philosophy relies on |
| A. | reasoning |
| B. | reasoned arguments |
| C. | experiences |
| D. | argumentation |
| Answer» B. reasoned arguments | |
| 85. |
‘What is history’ is written by |
| A. | i.a. richard |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | e.h. carr |
| D. | engel |
| Answer» C. e.h. carr | |
| 86. |
Art of constructing history is called |
| A. | sociography |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | histriology |
| D. | historiography |
| Answer» D. historiography | |
| 87. |
History is a continuous dialogue between the ______ and the ______ |
| A. | past and future |
| B. | present and past |
| C. | present and future |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» B. present and past | |
| 88. |
_______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation |
| A. | astrology |
| B. | humanities |
| C. | mathematics |
| D. | ontology |
| Answer» B. humanities | |
| 89. |
Persons who tried to enrich the methods of humanities were _____ and ____ |
| A. | e.h. carr & maxweber |
| B. | h.g. gadmer & wilhem dilthey |
| C. | emile durkhiem & athuser |
| D. | jerome bruner of b.f. skinner |
| Answer» B. h.g. gadmer & wilhem dilthey | |
| 90. |
If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself. |
| A. | values |
| B. | expression |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | criticism |
| Answer» A. values | |
| 91. |
______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of things. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» A. plato | |
| 92. |
______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics. |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» B. aristotle | |
| 93. |
Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts |
| A. | moral |
| B. | educational |
| C. | aesthetic |
| D. | religious |
| Answer» C. aesthetic | |
| 94. |
______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description. |
| A. | david hume |
| B. | bertrand russel |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | chomsky |
| Answer» A. david hume | |
| 95. |
Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are |
| A. | rules |
| B. | norms |
| C. | habits |
| D. | standard |
| Answer» B. norms | |
| 96. |
According to whom ideology plays an active role in social formation. |
| A. | terry eagleton |
| B. | testutt de tracy |
| C. | f. engel |
| D. | louis althusser |
| Answer» D. louis althusser | |
| 97. |
‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by |
| A. | vladimir propp |
| B. | wayne c. booth |
| C. | italo calvino |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» B. wayne c. booth | |
| 98. |
A narrator who is outside the story is |
| A. | homodiegetic |
| B. | author |
| C. | autodigetic |
| D. | hetrodiegetic |
| Answer» D. hetrodiegetic | |
| 99. |
A heterodiegetic narrator narrating the story of other character from the inside of the story is called |
| A. | homodiegetic |
| B. | heterodiegetic – intradiegetic |
| C. | heterodiegetic |
| D. | autodiegetic |
| Answer» B. heterodiegetic – intradiegetic | |
| 100. |
______ is an example of multiple narrative |
| A. | sherlock holmes |
| B. | as i lay dying |
| C. | lucky jim |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. as i lay dying | |
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