Explore topic-wise MCQs in General Studies.

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1.

What helped dalits to remove the colour from the hands?

A. water
B. oil on the head
C. paper
D. cloth
Answer» C. paper
2.

Who is the founder of ‘Dalit Panther’?

A. limbale
B. b r ambedkar
C. namdeodhasal
D. c k janu
Answer» D. c k janu
3.

What was the marking made to prevent the dalits from having a second meal?

A. oil
B. colour
C. paint
D. none
Answer» C. paint
4.

What was the profession of Adavichonchas, Lollyars and Kunchikoravas?

A. burying corpses
B. cleaning the dirt
C. begging
D. working in the fields
Answer» D. working in the fields
5.

The stich that was used to control the dalits were also used to control …….

A. pigs and dogs
B. other human beings
C. cattle
D. none of these
Answer» B. other human beings
6.

What made the dominant people of the village to compete each other in ‘Coins on theCorpse and the Wedding Feast’?

A. donation
B. alms
C. constructing houses
D. all of them
Answer» E.
7.

Which activity will provide redemption from the sins?

A. attending the funeral
B. throwing coins on the corpse
C. touching the feet of the dead
D. mourning in the procession
Answer» C. touching the feet of the dead
8.

Where do the younger members hide the collected coins from the corpse?

A. in the pocket
B. in the bag
C. in the hole of the tree
D. in the secret pocket
Answer» E.
9.

When do the people of Veerashaiva family throw coins?

A. in the wedding feast
B. in the feast of the temple
C. in the funeral procession
Answer» D.
10.

What did history hide?

A. buddha’s family
B. yasodhara’s sacrifice
C. buddha’s son
D. buddha’s country
Answer» C. buddha’s son
11.

Sidhartha was moving towards……

A. glory
B. knowledge
C. great splendor
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
12.

What shakes the earth?

A. yasodhara’s sigh
B. yasodhara’s life
C. yasodhara’s tears
D. none of these
Answer» C. yasodhara’s tears
13.

What was the name of Buddha at his Grihastashrama?

A. rama
B. sidhartha
C. badrayana
D. kapila
Answer» C. badrayana
14.

Where does Yasodara carry the raging storm in?

A. heart
B. mind
C. small hands
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
15.

Yasodara is getting dimmed like ……

A. sun
B. moon
C. twilight
D. stars
Answer» D. stars
16.

‘Matchless beauty’ means?

A. beauty that cannot be compared
B. beautiful without a companion
C. most beautiful
D. none of these
Answer» C. most beautiful
17.

Yasodhara’s life is described as …..?

A. fruitless
B. noteworthy
C. empty
D. fruitful
Answer» B. noteworthy
18.

Who was thrown to darkness by Buddha?

A. badrayana
B. sangamitra
C. yasodhara
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
19.

Who is ready to provide refuge to Yasodhara?

A. sea
B. sky
C. earth
D. wind
Answer» C. earth
20.

Yasodhara had a …… life.

A. fragmented
B. lovely
C. beautiful
D. brocken
Answer» B. lovely
21.

Which colour is used to show the emptiness of Yasodhara’s life?

A. white
B. yellow
C. black
D. blue
Answer» E.
22.

Who gave the light to the entire people?

A. gotama
B. goutama buddha
C. patanjali
D. kanada
Answer» C. patanjali
23.

In the beginning of the poem, who is compared to the dream of sharp pain?

A. yasodhara
B. sangamitra
C. kourvaki
D. none of these
Answer» B. sangamitra
24.

Who is Yasodhara?

A. mother of buddha
B. wife of buddha
C. daughter of buddha
D. a poetess
Answer» C. daughter of buddha
25.

Where do the problems take place over the dalits?

A. over their body
B. in the street
C. in the fields
D. none of these
Answer» B. in the street
26.

Who provided the current position to the Dalits?

A. writers
B. dominant society
C. cultural issues
D. brahmins
Answer» C. cultural issues
27.

According to Raj Gowthaman, any one who is ……….. dalit can produce dalit literature.

A. inborn as
B. brought up as
C. ideologically
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
28.

What does the mother want?

A. rice
B. water
C. coins
D. a piece of land
Answer» E.
29.

What was the reason behind the battle?

A. water
B. rice
C. food
D. garments
Answer» B. rice
30.

What was crushed by the rushing feet?

A. child
B. handful of rice
C. tear drops
D. none of these
Answer» C. tear drops
31.

To which thing, life of the out caste is compared with?

A. coconut tree
B. coconut shell
C. coconut husk
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
32.

What/who nursed the child?

A. mother
B. nature
C. tears
D. whole community
Answer» D. whole community
33.

Kandathi had shrunken in to an old …….

A. sickle
B. crone
C. metal
D. none of these
Answer» C. metal
34.

Which word shows the poverty of the working class people in Kandathi?

A. empty hovels
B. groaned
C. treacherous
D. full barns
Answer» B. groaned
35.

What was vanished in the wild?

A. team
B. sons
C. carts
D. clans
Answer» E.
36.

How do the people water the seeds in the fields?

A. from the river
B. with tears
C. from the ponds
D. using machines
Answer» B. with tears
37.

What was broken by the hands of Kandathi?

A. the caste system
B. hypocrisy
C. stones
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
38.

Where does Kandathi live?

A. in the street
B. at the river bank
C. in the pitch black hut
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
39.

What is guarded by Kandathi?

A. a fresh meal
B. a cold meal
C. money
D. gold
Answer» C. money
40.

How is the face of the parting day?

A. beautiful
B. tired
C. hungry
D. swollen
Answer» E.
41.

Where does the hungry woman wait?

A. at home
B. before the garbage
C. in the road
D. at the beach
Answer» C. in the road
42.

To which community Limbale belonged?

A. mahar
B. chuhra
C. pulaya
D. none of these
Answer» B. chuhra
43.

Who is the author of ‘Kandathi’?

A. hirabansode
B. k k s das
C. raghavanatholi
D. c. ayyappan
Answer» D. c. ayyappan
44.

Which character is considered as the forefather of dalits?

A. rama
B. ekalavya
C. sita
D. brahma
Answer» C. sita
45.

What is the aim of Dalit literature?

A. submission
B. agreement
C. observation
D. protest
Answer» E.
46.

Which of the following features forms a reason for the suppression of Dalit?

A. caste
B. class
C. occupation
D. all of them
Answer» E.
47.

What makes Dalit Literature different from the mainstream literature?

A. style
B. vibrant expression
C. content
D. all of them
Answer» E.
48.

Which is the autobiographical novel of Sarankumar Limbale?

A. akkarmashi
B. jootan
C. aamen
D. none of these
Answer» B. jootan
49.

Which work made SarankumarLimbale famous in literature?

A. akkarmashi
B. towards an aesthetics of dalit literature
C. black dance
D. none of these
Answer» C. black dance
50.

What is the meaning of ‘Akkarmashi ‘?

A. dalit
B. hungry
C. out caste
D. upper caste
Answer» D. upper caste