Fourth Sem - Methodology Of Humanities OMR

      METHODOLOGY OF HUMANITIES 
                    QUESTION BANK
 
1) Modern science depends on 
 a) Opinions b) Beliefs c) Facts d) Intuitions 
2) Methods that are create and speculative are employed by 
 a) Social Science b) Humanities 
 c) Physical Science d) Natural Science 
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 
4) The source of all the sciences and social sciences is 
 a) Philosophy b) History 
 c) Psychology d) Astrology 
 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 
6) Literature is primarily a subject of 
 a) Natural Sciences b) Social Sciences 
 c) Humanities d) Psychology
7) History deals with 
 a) Fancies b) Facts 
 c) Hypotheses of past d) Beliefs 
8) Founding father of sociology 
 a) Augustie Comte b) Emile Durkheim 
 c) Max Weber d) Karl Marx 
 9) Term ideology was coined by 
 a) Louis Althusser b) Terry Eagleton 
 c) Destutt de Tracy d) Frantz Fanan 
 10) David Hume was a 
 a) German Scientists b) British Philosopher 
 c) French Sociologist d) American Educationist 
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 
 12) Positivism laid stress on use of 
 a) Social science method b) Cultural studies 
 c) Natural sciences d) Spiritual metaphysics 
13) Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of 
 a) Natural Sciences b) Social Sciences 
 c) Literature d) Philosophy 
14) There is relative freedom from subjective biases in study of 
 a) Philosophy b) Literature 
 c) Natural sciences d) Social Sciences 
15) What is prominent factor in structuring taste? 
 a) Education b) Family status 
 c) Social class d) Personality 
16) ______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging 
 identity 
 a) Idealism b) Essentialism 
 c) Constructivism d) Naturalism 
17) Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language 
 are called _____ theories. 
 a) Constructivist b) Essentialist 
 c) Idealist d) Pragmatist
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 
19) _____ is the verbal expression of culture 
 a) Signs b) Language 
 c) Signals d) Symbols 
 20) Capacity that separates humans from other primates 
 a) Emotions b) Mobility 
 c) Communication 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 
22) The study of the cultural system of signs is called 
 a) Linguistics b) Pragmatics 
 c) Symbolism d) Semiotics 
23) Hignlish is an example of 
 a) Dialect b) Idiolect 
 c) Ethnolect d) Genderlect 
24) Father of modern linguistics 
 a) Saussure b) Bloomfield 
 c) Halliday d) Chomsky 
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 
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 
27) Narrative is an act of 
 a) Imitation b) Communication 
 c) Imagination d) Expression
28) Wimsatt and Robert Pen Warren belong to a group called 
 a) New Critics b) Structuralist 
 c) Post modernist d) Formalist 
29) ‘Death of the Author’ is written by 
 a) Dryden b) Roland Barthes 
 c) Mathew Arnold d) Frantz fanon 
30) Who wrote Shamela 
 a) Henry Fielding b) Shakespeare 
 c) Samuel Richardson d) Daniel Defoe 
 31) J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a retelling of 
 a) Jane Eyre b) Wide Sargasso Sea 
 c) Robinson Crusoe d) Joseph Andrews 
32) Mary Shelly’s Fankenstein is about the quest of a 
 a) Explorer b) Poet 
 c) Scientist d) Doctor 
33) Who wrote wide Sargasso sea 
 a) Jean Rhys b) Charlette Bronte 
 c) Daniel Defoe d) Emile Bronte 
34) The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion? 
 a) Hinduism b) Judaism 
 c) Jainism d) Islam 
35) Study of narrative is known as 
 a) Sociology b) Grammatology 
 c) Lexicology d) Narratology 
36) The essay ‘Narrative Construction of Reality’ was written by 
 a) Walter Scott b) Jerome Bruner 
 c) Roland Barthes d) Derek Walcott 
37) The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____ 
 a) Plato and Aristotle b) Plato and Longinus 
 c) Dryden and Longinus d) Socrates of Descartes 
38) According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis 
 a) Monologue b) Catharsis 
 c) Confession d) Confusion
39) _____ is the direct representation of reality 
 a) Mimesis b) Diegesis 
 c) Reality d) Logos 
 40) Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as 
 a) Mimesis b) Narration 
 c) Diegesis d) Description 
 41) If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by 
 a) Salman Rushdie b) Italo Calvino 
 c) Daniel Defoe d) Shakespeare 
42) 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 
43) 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 
44) Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s 
 a) Mother b) Sister 
 c) Wife d) Daughter 
45) Narrative theory focuses on author, text and 
 a) Reader b) Critic 
 c) Narrator d) Critic 
46) The concept of implied author was first formulated by 
 a) Roland Barthes b) Immanuel Kant 
 c) Vladimir Propp d) Wayne C Booth 
47) Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy? 
 a) Nyaya b) Budhism 
 c) Vaisesika d) Yoga 
48) Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada? 
 a) Jainsim b) Sankhya 
 c) Vedanta d) Yoga 
49) Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge? 
 a) Tarka b) Anumana 
 c) Smriti d) Pramana 
50) Another name for illusion in 
 a) Smrit b) Khyati 
 c) Anumana d) Samvada
51) The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is 
 a) Perception b) Inference 
 c) Comparison d) Testimony 
52) Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools? 
 a) Perception b) Inference 
 c) Doubt d) Representation 
53) Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge? 
 a) Doubt b) Testimony 
 c) Inference d) Tarka 
54) The earliest available Indian literature on record are the 
 a) Puranas b) Sasthras 
 c) Vedas d) Itihasas 
55) _____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 
56) Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through 
 a) Jainism b) Gita 
 c) Carvaka School d) Nyaya 
57) Which school accepts only perception as a pramana? 
 a) Carvaka b) Yoga 
 c) Mimamsa d) Vaiseshika 
58) Commentaries on sutras are called 
 a) Kavya b) Sabda 
 c) Bhashya d) Mantra 
59) Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element 
 a) Air b) Space c) Water d) Earth 
60) The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths 
 a) Four b) Six c) Eight d) Nine 
61) According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called 
 a) Prakriti b) Guna 
 c) Dravya d) Purusha 
62) The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called……. 
 a) Parole b) Langue 
 c) Signs d) Pidgin 
63) ______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication 
 and production of meaning. 
 a) Langue b) Parole 
 c) Signification d) Sound
64) Language is a system of ______ 
 a) Langue b) Parole 
 c) Signs d) Symbols 
65) The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified. 
 a) Affiliatory b) Arbitrary 
 c) Affective d) Attractive 
66) Language acquires meaning through ______ 
 a) Difference b) Destruction 
 c) Arbitrariness d) Change 
67) To which game does Saussure compare language? 
 a) Monopoly b) Chess 
 c) Cards d) Carems 
68) The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is 
 termed______ 
 a) Identity b) Ethnicity 
 c) Sexuality d) Essentiality 
69) Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____ 
 a) Nature b) Identity 
 c) Culture d) Individual 
70) 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 
71) Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are 
 called _____ 
 a) Discourses b) Culture 
 c) Ideologies d) Reality 
72) 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 
73) 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 
74) The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called ……. 
 a) Habitualisation b) Institutionalization 
 c) Reification d) Personalization
75) 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 
76) The most widespread group of languages today is ______ 
 a) Afro-asiatic b) Dravidian 
 c) Indo-European d) Balto Salvonic 
77) Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure. 
 a) James Mill b) Max Muller 
 c) William Jones d) Shelly 
78) “Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in 
 _____. 
 a) 1857 b) 1845 
 c) 1835 d) 1850 
79) The Kenyan novelist who advised a complete break with the coloniser’s language 
 and the abolition of all English Departments. 
 a) Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O b) Meja Mwangi 
 c) Margaret Ogola d) Ama Ata Aidoo 
80) The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it 
 indigenous. 
 a) Falsification b) Chutnification 
 c) Nativism d) Heteroglossia 
81) The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native 
 culture including language. 
 a) Nativism b) Orientalism 
 c) Ethnicity d) Integration 
82) 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 
83) 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 
 84) Scientific method involves generating testable 
 a) Hypothesis b) Facts 
 c) Arguments d) Principles 
85) 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
86) Philosophy relies on 
 a) Reasoning b) Reasoned arguments 
 c) Experiences d) Argumentation 
87) ‘What is history’ is written by 
 a) I.A. Richard b) Roland Barthes 
 c) E.H. Carr d) Engel 
88) Art of constructing history is called 
 a) Sociography b) Hermeneutics 
 c) Histriology d) Historiography 
 89) 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 
90) _______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation 
 a) Astrology b) Humanities 
 c) Mathematics d) Ontology 
91) 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 
92) If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself. 
 a) Values b) Expression 
 c) Imagination d) Criticism 
93) ______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of 
 things. 
 a) Plato b) Aristotle 
 c) Descartes d) Socrates 
94) ______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics. 
 a) Descartes b) Aristotle 
 c) Plato d) Kant 
95) Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts 
 a) Moral b) Educational 
 c) Aesthetic d) Religious 
 96) ______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description. 
 a) David Hume b) Bertrand Russel 
 c) Saussure d) Chomsky 
97) Who used the term ideology to imply something that mystifies and hider reality? 
 a) Lenin & Stalin b) Walford & Walsby
98) Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are 
 a) Rules b) Norms 
 c) Habits d) Standard 
99) According to whom ideology plays an active role in social formation. 
 a) Terry Eagleton b) Testutt De Tracy 
 c) F. Engel d) Louis Althusser 
100) ‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by 
 a) Vladimir Propp b) Wayne C. Booth 
 c) Italo Calvino d) Plato 
101) A narrator who is outside the story is 
 a) Homodiegetic b) Author 
 c) Autodigetic d) Hetrodiegetic 
102) 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 
103) ______ is an example of multiple narrative 
 a) Sherlock Holmes b) As I lay dying 
 c) Lucky Jim d) None of these 
104) Autodiegetic narrator is 
 a) Homodiegetic b) Heterodiegetic 
 c) Author d) Reader 
 105) When narrator is a character in the story he/she is known as 
 a) Protagonist b) Antagonist 
 c) View point Character d) Chorus 
106) Fabula and Sjuzet are introduced in literary narratives by 
 a) Structuralist b) Formalist 
 c) New criticism d) Russian formalist 
107) Who studied and analysed the plot structures of folktales? 
 a) Victor Shaklovsky b) Vladimir Propp 
 c) Frantz Fanen d) Frantz Kafka 
108) 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
109) According to Gerard Genette narration in all literary narrative include 
 a) Historic b) Recit 
 c) Narrating d) All the above 
110) The image of new country dreamt by Francis Bacon 
 a) Utopia b) New Atlantic 
 c) Brave New World d) Caligula 
 111) 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 
112) Who is the founder of deconstruction? 
 a) Roland Barthes b) Jacques Derrida 
 c) Kent d) Saussure 
 113) A work in the physical, printed book the narrative inside it is known as 
 a) Text b) Sign 
 c) Narration d) Story 
114) _____ is the relationship of one text to others 
 a) Textuality b) Inner text 
 c) Fluid text d) Comparative literature 
115) _____ is the relationship of a text to other text in the genre/type 
 a) Intertextuality b) Architextuality 
 c) Metatextuality d) Hypertextuality 
116) Epigraphs, prefaces, forwards, etc. that have some connection to the main narrative 
is known as 
 a) Hypertextuality b) Para text 
 c) Architextuality d) Metatextuality 
 117) _____ is a construction and it is implied is the work known as implied reader. 
 a) Author b) Characters 
 c) Narrator d) Reader 
118) Text on computer screen which can alter their appearance is called 
 a) Solid Text b) Liquid Text 
 c) Fluid text d) Screen play 
119) ______ is a form of digital literature
a) Facebook b) Orkoot 
 c) Blog d) Webpage 
120) Foe is a novel by 
 a) Ben Okri b) Ama Ata Aidoo 
 c) J.M. Coetzee d) Jean Rhys 
121) ______ is a best example for intertextuality 
 a) Wide Sargarso Sea b) Waste land 
 c) New Atlantis d) Foe 
122) W.H. Auden has an architextual connection with satires of 
 a) Sheridan b) Alexander Pope 
 c) Jonathan Swift d) Ben Johnson. 
 123) 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 
124) Vaisesika School of Philosophy was founded by 
 a) Mahavira b) Kanada 
 c) Dharmakriti d) Yaska 
125) Through which pramana do we get the knowledge of non-existence 
 a) Anitya b) Anupalabdhi 
 c) Abhini bodha d) Bhavana 
126) Which school of philosophy deals with the ritualistic aspects of Vedas 
 a) Vedanta b) Mimamsa 
 c) Sankhya d) Charvaka 
127) Which school of philosophy was founded by Gotama? 
 a) Budhism b) Nyaya 
 c) Vaisesika d) Jainism 
128) Astika Schools accepted the authority of 
 a) Upanishads b) Epics 
 c) Vedas d) Vedantas 
129) Yoga school of philosophy was found by 
 a) Yogananda b) Nagarjuna 
 c) Patanjali d) Nimbaraka
130) Name of Adi Sankara’s guru 
 a) Yogananda b) Gaudapada 
 c) Namdev d) Ramanuja 
131) The Indian word for philosophy is 
 a) Vedanta b) Darsana 
 c) Sastra d) Mokshamarga 
132) _____ is an essential characteristic of valid knowledge 
 a) Truth b) Avadhi 
 c) Apprehension d) Smriti 
133) Nyaya school with its science of reasoning is also known as 
 a) Dharma Sastra b) Tarkasastra 
 c) Yoga Sutras d) All of the above 
134) The dialectic method propounded by Nagarjuna is known as the 
 a) Direct method b) Prasanga method 
 c) Tharka Method d) None of these 
135) Thomas Luckmann is a follower of _____ school of sociology. 
 a) Naturalistic b) Pragmatist 
 c) Phenomenological d) Existentialist 
136) God or Brahman cannot be the cause of world is suggested by 
 a) Naiyayikas b) Yoga school 
 c) Sankhya School d) Sankara 
137) Lack of mutual intelligibility between two language is known as 
 a) Mutual intelligibility b) Language barrier 
 c) Language boundary d) Language Island 
138) The Gate keeper was book written by 
 a) Terry Eagleton b) E.H. Carr 
 c) Peter Widdowson d) Raymon Williams 
139) _____ revolutionized historiography in the 19th century 
 a) Voltaire b) Leopold Von Ranke 
 c) Hegd and Marx d) Michel Foucault 
140) 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 
141) _____ is relatively new field of history 
 a) Cultural history b) Economic History 
 c) Environmental History d) Ethnohistory 
142) _____ in the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
a) Paleography b) Genealogy 
 c) Numismatics d) Family history 
143) _____ is a school of Budhism which accepted plurality of realities. 
 a) Mahayana b) Hinayana 
 c) Sautranikas d) Vaibhasikas 
144) _____ is a quantitative philosophy 
 a) Nyaya b) Vaisesika 
 c) Vedanta d) Sankhya 
145) ______ composed Sankhya Aphorisms 
 a) Gotama b) Kapila 
 c) Patanjali d) Sankara 
146) ______ philosophy says that control over Citta gives the power of control over 
 everything. 
 a) Nyaya b) Sankya 
 c) Yoga d) Vedanta 
147) 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 
148) Linguistics competence is a notion proposed by 
 a) Bloom field b) Chomsky 
 c) Saussure d) Derrida 
149) According to J. Derrida 
 a) Test in an Entity b) Text is a gas 
 c) Test is a non existing d) Text is discourse 
150) Who proposed seven standards of Textuality 
 a) de Beangrande and Dressler b) Chomsky and Bloom field 
 c) Derrida and Saussure d) None of these 
151) Language of literature is 
 a) Cryptic b) Delphic 
 c) Accurate d) Ornamental  
152) 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 
153) Course in General Linguistics was written by 
 a) Sapir b) Chomsky 
 c) Saussure d) Bloomfield 
154) 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 
155) Exponent of reader response theory 
 a) Derrida b) Lacan 
 c) Stanley Fish d) R.P. Warren 
 156) Of ‘Grammatology’ is written by 
 a) Harold Bloom b) Derrida 
 c) Paul de Man d) Roland Barthes 
157) _____ proposed the name narratology to the study of narratives. 
 a) Derrida b) Roland Barthes 
 c) Todorov d) Tracy 
158) Which among the following is heterodox school of philosophy 
 a) Mimamsa b) Lokayata 
 c) Sankhya d) Vaisesika 
159) Five old system of discipline or five rows are the teachings of ____ philosophy 
 a) Budhism b) Mimamsa 
 c) Jainism d) Carvaka 
160) 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 
161) Which of the pramanas is not accepted by Sankhyas? 
 a) Perception b) Inference 
 c) Testimony d) Comparison 
162) Citta-vriti-nirodha can be attained through 
 a) Pranayama b) Niyama 
 c) Pratyahara d) All the above 
163) Our understanding of reality is based on 
 a) Conception b) Codes of perception 
 c) Interpretation d) Description 
164) Who analyzed a set of six actants in narrative 
 a) Athuses b) Vladimir Propp 
 c) A.J. Greimas d) Wayne C. Booth 
165) ______ codes informs our interpretation of narrative 
 a) Proairetic code b) Hermaneutic code 
 c) Cultural code d) Semic code 
166) Who proposed the three levels of narrative Historic, Recit and narrating? 
 a) Vladimir prop b) Gerard Genette
c) Antoni Gramci d) Roland Barthes 
167) New critics argued that 
 a) Meaning is inside the text 
 b) Meaning lies outside the text 
 c) Meaning in created 
 d) None of these 
168) Among the given critics who is not in new criticism 
 a) Wimsatt b) Beardsley 
 c) Robert Penn Warren d) Northrop Frye 
169) Among the given critics who is not exponent of deconstruction 
 a) F.R. Levis b) Derrida 
 c) Harold Bloom d) Paul de Man 
 170) A text that can be read in form of several different texts is called 
 a) Interactive b) Multimodal 
 c) Intertextual d) Fluid text 
171) _____ is a collection of shared expectations about such long public habits. 
 a) Universe b) Institution 
 c) Community d) Legitimization 
 172) _____ is the process by which subjective everyday reality becomes objective reality. 
 a) Universalization b) Naturalization 
 c) Reification d) Legitimatization 
173) The word difference was coined by 
 a) J.M. Coetze b) Derrida 
 c) Saussure d) Chomsky 
174) Who is the first western philosopher who attempted a systematic study of society? 
 a) Aristotle b) Ibn Khaldun 
 c) Plato d) Longinus 
175) In which year the term sociology was coined? 
 a) 1798 b) 1839 
 c) 1846 d) 1739 
176) 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 
177) The book sociology is written by 
 a) M. Ginsberg b) J.S. Mill 
 c) Davis and Moore d) Rosenberg 
178) According to Aristotle 
 a) Art counteracts nature
b) Art finishes the job that nature leaves underdone 
 c) Art initiate the crude aspects of nature 
 d) None of the above 
179) Criticism which seeks a synthesis between the psychological criticism and 
 sociological criticism 
 a) Psycholinguistics b) Ontological criticism 
 c) New criticism d) Eco criticism 
 180) The Golden Bough was written by 
 a) W.H.R. Rivers b) Morgan 
 c) James Frazer d) Evans. 
181) There are two type of causal explanation namely 
 a) Scientific and Historical b) Positive and Negative 
 c) Positivist and Phenomenologist d) Scientific and sociological 
 182) In social sciences empiricism sometimes goes by the name 
 a) Negativism b) Naturalism 
 c) Positivism d) Phenomenology 
183) 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 
184) Louis Althusser is a 
     a) German Philosopher     b) American Philosopher 
     c) French Philosopher       d) Greek Philosopher 
185) Post modern art and thought favours 
     a) Reflexivity and self consciousness            b) Fragmentation 
      c) Discontinuity        d) All of the above 
186) ____ involves demystifying a text to reveal internal arbitrary hierarchies and 
 presupposition. 
       a) Post modernism     b) Anti colonialism 
       c) Deconstruction       d) Positivism 
187) The Vaisesika’s atomism agrees with the ____ atomism 
        a) Vedanta          b) Greek 
        c) Nyaya              d) Jaina 
188) The theory of no soul is attributed to 
        a) Budhism          b) Hinduism 
        c) Jainism           d) None of the above 
189) According to Patanjali God is never 
       a) Free                         b) In bondage 
       c) Without purpose    d) Cruel 
190) According to Berger and Luckman all knowledge is derived from and maintained by
    a) Search for truth     b) Social interaction 
    c) Education               d) Philosophy 
191) The word which means ‘to insult’ evolved from the perception of the values a  ‘nigger’ stands for 
       a) Integrate           b) Aggravate 
       c) Denigrate          d) Exaggerate


                       ANSWER KEY
1. (c) Facts 
2. (b) Humanities 
3. (d) All of these 
4. (a) Philosophy 
5. (b) To educate its citizens
6. (c) Humanities 
7. (b) Facts 
8. (a) Augustie Comte 
9. (c) Destutt de Tracy 
10. (a) German Scientists 
11. (a) Discuss on value 
12. (c) Natural sciences 
13. (b) Social Sciences 
14. (d) Social Sciences 
15. (c) Social class 
16. (b) Essentialism 
17. (a) Constructivist 
18. (a) Culture 
19. (b) Language 
20. (d) Language 
21. (a) Sapir and Whorf 
22. (d) Semiotics 
23. (c) Ethnolect 
24. (a) Saussure 
25. (d) Discourse 
26. (a) Ambedkar 
27. (b) Communication 
28. (a) New Critics 
29 (b) Roland Barthes 
30. (a) Henry Fielding 
31. (c) Robinson Crusoe 
32. (c) Scientist 
33. (a) Jean Rhys 
34. (d) Islam 
35. (d) Narratology 
36. (b) Jerome Bruner 
37. (a) Plato and Aristotle 
38. (b) Catharsis 
39. (a) Mimesis 
40. (c) Diegesis 
41. (b) Italo Calvino 
42. (a) Midnight’s Children 
43. (a) Jerome Bruner 
44. (b) Sister 
45. (a) Reader 
46. (d) Wayne C Booth 
47. (b) Budhism 
48. (a) Jainsim 
49. (b) Anumana 
50. (b) Khyati 
51. (c) Comparison 
52. (a) Perception 
53. (a) Doubt 
54. (c) Vedas 
55. (c) Vedic Period 
56. (b) Gita 
57. (a) Carvaka 
58. (c) Bhashya 
59. (b) Space 
60. (a) Four 
61. (d) Purusha 
62. (b) Langue 
63. (b) Parole 
64. (c) Signs
65. (b) Arbitrary 
66. (a) Difference 
67. (b) Chess 
68. (a) Identity 
69. (c) Culture 
70. (b) Power 
71. (a) Discourses 
72. (c) Agency 
73. (b) Berger and Luckman 
74. (a) Habitualisation 
75. (c) Symbolic Universes 
76. (c) Indo-European 
77. (c) William Jones 
78. (c) 1835 
79. (a) Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O 
80. (b) Chutnification 
81. (a) Nativism 
82. (b) Frantz Fanon 
83. (c) “A Far Cry from Africa” 
84. (a) Hypothesis 
85. (a) Narrative imagination 
86. (b) Reasoned arguments 
87. (c) E.H. Carr 
88. (d) Historiography 
89. (b) Present and past 
90. (b) Humanities 
91. (b) H.G. Gadmer & Wilhem Dilthey 
92. (a) Values 
93. (a) Plato 
94. (b) Aristotle 
95. (c) Aesthetic 
96. (a) David Hume 
97. (d) Karl Marx & Engel 
98. (b) Norms 
99. (d) Louis Althusser 
100. (b) Wagne C. Booth 
101. (d) Hetrodiegetic 
102. (b) Heterodiegetic–intradiegetic 
103. (b) As I lay dying. 
104. (a) Homodiegetic 
105. (c) View point Character 
106. (d) Russian formalist 
107. (b) Vladimir Propp 
108. (b) Roland Barthes 
109. (d) All the above 
110. (b) New Atlantic 
111. (c) Julia Kristeva 
112. (b) Jacques Derrida 
113. (a) Text 114. (a) Textuality 
115. (b) Architextuality 
116. (b) Para text 
117. (d) Reader 
118. (c) Fluid text 
119. (c) Blog 
120. (c) J.M. Coetzee 
121. (b) Waste land 
122. (b) Alexander Pope 
123. (b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 
124. (b) Kanada 
125. (b) Anupalabdhi 
126. (b) Mimamsa 
127. (b) Nyaya 
128. (c) Vedas 
129. (c) Patanjali 
130. (b) Gaudapada 
131. (b) Darsana 
132. (a) Truth
133. (b) Tarkasastra 
134. (b) Prasanga method 
135. (c) Phenomenological 
136. (c) Sankhya School 
137. (c) Language boundary 
138. (a) Terry Eagleton 
139. (b) Leopold Von Ranke 
140. (d) Subaltern 
141. (c) Environmental History 
142. (b) Genealogy 
143. (b) Hinayana 
144. (d) Sankhya 
145. (b) Kapila 
146. (c) Yoga 
147. (a) Study of language in relation to society 
148. (b) Chomsky 
149. (b) Text is a gas 
150. (a) de Beangrande and Dressler 
151. (b) Delphic 
152. (c) Theory of functional style 
153. (c) Saussure 
154. (b) Sound image 
155. (c) Stanley Fish 
156. (b) Derrida 
157. (c) Todorov 
158. (b) Lokayata 
159. (c) Jainism 
160. ( b) Sutras 
161. (d) Comparison 
162. (d) All the above 
163. (b) Codes of perception 
164. (c) A.J. Greimas 
165. (b) Hermeneutic code 
166. (b) Gerard Genette 
167. (a) Meaning is inside the text 
168. (d) Northrop Frye 
169. (a) F.R. Levis 
170. (b) Multimodal 
171. (b) Institution 
172. (c) Reification 
173. (b) Derrida 
174. (c) Plato 
175. (b) 1839 
176. (c) Socious and logus 
177. (a) M. Ginsberg 
178. (b) Art finishes the job that 
 nature leaves underdone 
179. (b) Ontological criticism 
180. (c) James Frazer 
181. (a) Scientific and Historical 
182. (c) Positivism 
183. (a) Colonialism 
184. (c) French Philosopher 
185. (d) All of the above 
186. (c) Deconstruction 
187. (b) Greek 
188. (a) Budhism 
189. (b) In bondage 
190. (b) Social interaction
191. (c) Denigrate



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