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This section includes 1177 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
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» D. exaggerate | |
| 2. |
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» C. education | |
| 3. |
According to Patanjali God is never |
| A. | free |
| B. | in bondage |
| C. | without purpose |
| D. | cruel |
| Answer» C. without purpose | |
| 4. |
____ involves demystifying a text to reveal internal arbitrary hierarchies and presupposition. |
| A. | post modernism |
| B. | anti colonialism |
| C. | deconstruction |
| D. | positivism |
| Answer» D. positivism | |
| 5. |
The theory of no soul is attributed to |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | hinduism |
| C. | jainism |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. hinduism | |
| 6. |
The Vaisesika’s atomism agrees with the ____ atomism |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | greek |
| C. | nyaya |
| D. | jaina |
| Answer» C. nyaya | |
| 7. |
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» B. empiricism | |
| 8. |
Post modern art and thought favours |
| A. | reflexivity and self consciousness |
| B. | fragmentation |
| C. | discontinuity |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Louis Althusser is a |
| A. | german philosopher |
| B. | american philosopher |
| C. | french philosopher |
| D. | greek philosopher |
| Answer» D. greek philosopher | |
| 10. |
In social sciences empiricism sometimes goes by the name |
| A. | negativism |
| B. | naturalism |
| C. | positivism |
| D. | phenomenology |
| Answer» D. phenomenology | |
| 11. |
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» B. positive and negative | |
| 12. |
Criticism which seeks a synthesis between the psychological criticism and sociological criticism |
| A. | psycholinguistics |
| B. | ontological criticism |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | eco criticism |
| Answer» C. new criticism | |
| 13. |
The Golden Bough was written by |
| A. | w.h.r. rivers |
| B. | morgan |
| C. | james frazer |
| D. | evans. |
| Answer» D. evans. | |
| 14. |
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» D. socia and logos | |
| 15. |
The book sociology is written by |
| A. | m. ginsberg |
| B. | j.s. mill |
| C. | davis and moore |
| D. | rosenberg |
| Answer» B. j.s. mill | |
| 16. |
In which year the term sociology was coined? |
| A. | 1798 |
| B. | 1839 |
| C. | 1846 |
| D. | 1739 |
| Answer» C. 1846 | |
| 17. |
Who is the first western philosopher who attempted a systematic study of society? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | ibn khaldun |
| C. | plato |
| D. | longinus |
| Answer» D. longinus | |
| 18. |
_____ is the process by which subjective everyday reality becomes objective reality. |
| A. | universalization |
| B. | naturalization |
| C. | reification |
| D. | legitimatization |
| Answer» D. legitimatization | |
| 19. |
The word difference was coined by |
| A. | j.m. coetze |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | chomsky |
| Answer» C. saussure | |
| 20. |
_____ is a collection of shared expectations about such long public habits. |
| A. | universe |
| B. | institution |
| C. | community |
| D. | legitimization |
| Answer» C. community | |
| 21. |
A text that can be read in form of several different texts is called |
| A. | interactive |
| B. | multimodal |
| C. | intertextual |
| D. | fluid text |
| Answer» C. intertextual | |
| 22. |
Among the given critics who is not exponent of deconstruction |
| A. | f.r. levis |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | harold bloom |
| D. | paul de man |
| Answer» B. derrida | |
| 23. |
Among the given critics who is not in new criticism |
| A. | wimsatt |
| B. | beardsley |
| C. | robert penn warren |
| D. | northrop frye |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
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» B. meaning lies outside the text | |
| 25. |
Who proposed the three levels of narrative Historic, Recit and narrating? |
| A. | vladimir prop |
| B. | gerard genette |
| C. | antoni gramci |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» C. antoni gramci | |
| 26. |
______ codes informs our interpretation of narrative |
| A. | proairetic code |
| B. | hermaneutic code |
| C. | cultural code |
| D. | semic code |
| Answer» C. cultural code | |
| 27. |
Who analyzed a set of six actants in narrative |
| A. | athuses |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | a.j. greimas |
| D. | wayne c. booth |
| Answer» D. wayne c. booth | |
| 28. |
Citta-vriti-nirodha can be attained through |
| A. | pranayama |
| B. | niyama |
| C. | pratyahara |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Our understanding of reality is based on |
| A. | conception |
| B. | codes of perception |
| C. | interpretation |
| D. | description |
| Answer» C. interpretation | |
| 30. |
Which of the pramanas is not accepted by Sankhyas? |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | testimony |
| D. | comparison |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
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» C. khyati | |
| 32. |
Five old system of discipline or five rows are the teachings of ____ philosophy |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | mimamsa |
| C. | jainism |
| D. | carvaka |
| Answer» D. carvaka | |
| 33. |
Which among the following is heterodox school of philosophy |
| A. | mimamsa |
| B. | lokayata |
| C. | sankhya |
| D. | vaisesika |
| Answer» C. sankhya | |
| 34. |
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» C. verbal symbol | |
| 35. |
_____ proposed the name narratology to the study of narratives. |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | todorov |
| D. | tracy |
| Answer» D. tracy | |
| 36. |
Of ‘Grammatology’ is written by |
| A. | harold bloom |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | paul de man |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» C. paul de man | |
| 37. |
Language of literature is |
| A. | cryptic |
| B. | delphic |
| C. | accurate |
| D. | ornamental |
| Answer» C. accurate | |
| 38. |
Exponent of reader response theory |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | lacan |
| C. | stanley fish |
| D. | r.p. warren |
| Answer» D. r.p. warren | |
| 39. |
Course in General Linguistics was written by |
| A. | sapir |
| B. | chomsky |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | bloomfield |
| Answer» D. bloomfield | |
| 40. |
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» D. theory of grammar | |
| 41. |
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» B. chomsky and bloom field | |
| 42. |
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» C. test is a non existing | |
| 43. |
_____ is a quantitative philosophy |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | vaisesika |
| C. | vedanta |
| D. | sankhya |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
Linguistics competence is a notion proposed by |
| A. | bloom field |
| B. | chomsky |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | derrida |
| Answer» C. saussure | |
| 45. |
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» B. study of society in relation to language | |
| 46. |
______ philosophy says that control over Citta gives the power of control over everything. |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | sankya |
| C. | yoga |
| D. | vedanta |
| Answer» D. vedanta | |
| 47. |
______ composed Sankhya Aphorisms |
| A. | gotama |
| B. | kapila |
| C. | patanjali |
| D. | sankara |
| Answer» C. patanjali | |
| 48. |
_____ is a school of Budhism which accepted plurality of realities. |
| A. | mahayana |
| B. | hinayana |
| C. | sautranikas |
| D. | vaibhasikas |
| Answer» C. sautranikas | |
| 49. |
_____ in the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. |
| A. | paleography |
| B. | genealogy |
| C. | numismatics |
| D. | family history |
| Answer» C. numismatics | |
| 50. |
_____ is relatively new field of history |
| A. | cultural history |
| B. | economic history |
| C. | environmental history |
| D. | ethnohistory |
| Answer» D. ethnohistory | |