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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.
| 51. |
God or Brahman cannot be the cause of world is suggested by |
| A. | naiyayikas |
| B. | yoga school |
| C. | sankhya school |
| D. | sankara |
| Answer» D. sankara | |
| 52. |
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» E. | |
| 53. |
_____ revolutionized historiography in the 19th century |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | leopold von ranke |
| C. | hegd and marx |
| D. | michel foucault |
| Answer» C. hegd and marx | |
| 54. |
The Gate keeper was book written by |
| A. | terry eagleton |
| B. | e.h. carr |
| C. | peter widdowson |
| D. | raymon williams |
| Answer» B. e.h. carr | |
| 55. |
Lack of mutual intelligibility between two language is known as |
| A. | mutual intelligibility |
| B. | language barrier |
| C. | language boundary |
| D. | language island |
| Answer» D. language island | |
| 56. |
Thomas Luckmann is a follower of _____ school of sociology. |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | pragmatist |
| C. | phenomenological |
| D. | existentialist |
| Answer» D. existentialist | |
| 57. |
The dialectic method propounded by Nagarjuna is known as the |
| A. | direct method |
| B. | prasanga method |
| C. | tharka method |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. tharka method | |
| 58. |
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» C. yoga sutras | |
| 59. |
_____ is an essential characteristic of valid knowledge |
| A. | truth |
| B. | avadhi |
| C. | apprehension |
| D. | smriti |
| Answer» B. avadhi | |
| 60. |
The Indian word for philosophy is |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | darsana |
| C. | sastra |
| D. | mokshamarga |
| Answer» C. sastra | |
| 61. |
Name of Adi Sankara’s guru |
| A. | yogananda |
| B. | gaudapada |
| C. | namdev |
| D. | ramanuja |
| Answer» C. namdev | |
| 62. |
Yoga school of philosophy was found by |
| A. | yogananda |
| B. | nagarjuna |
| C. | patanjali |
| D. | nimbaraka |
| Answer» D. nimbaraka | |
| 63. |
Astika Schools accepted the authority of |
| A. | upanishads |
| B. | epics |
| C. | vedas |
| D. | vedantas |
| Answer» D. vedantas | |
| 64. |
Which school of philosophy was founded by Gotama? |
| A. | budhism |
| B. | nyaya |
| C. | vaisesika |
| D. | jainism |
| Answer» C. vaisesika | |
| 65. |
Through which pramana do we get the knowledge of non-existence |
| A. | anitya |
| B. | anupalabdhi |
| C. | abhini bodha |
| D. | bhavana |
| Answer» C. abhini bodha | |
| 66. |
Which school of philosophy deals with the ritualistic aspects of Vedas |
| A. | vedanta |
| B. | mimamsa |
| C. | sankhya |
| D. | charvaka |
| Answer» C. sankhya | |
| 67. |
Vaisesika School of Philosophy was founded by |
| A. | mahavira |
| B. | kanada |
| C. | dharmakriti |
| D. | yaska |
| Answer» C. dharmakriti | |
| 68. |
Who among the following outlined the four periods of the development of IndianPhilosophy. |
| A. | aurabindo |
| B. | dr. s. radhakrishnan |
| C. | j. krishnamurthy |
| D. | swami vivekananda |
| Answer» C. j. krishnamurthy | |
| 69. |
W.H. Auden has an architextual connection with satires of |
| A. | sheridan |
| B. | alexander pope |
| C. | jonathan swift |
| D. | ben johnson. |
| Answer» C. jonathan swift | |
| 70. |
______ is a best example for intertextuality |
| A. | wide sargarso sea |
| B. | waste land |
| C. | new atlantis |
| D. | foe |
| Answer» C. new atlantis | |
| 71. |
Text on computer screen which can alter their appearance is called |
| A. | solid text |
| B. | liquid text |
| C. | fluid text |
| D. | screen play |
| Answer» D. screen play | |
| 72. |
Foe is a novel by |
| A. | ben okri |
| B. | ama ata aidoo |
| C. | j.m. coetzee |
| D. | jean rhys |
| Answer» D. jean rhys | |
| 73. |
_____ is a construction and it is implied is the work known as implied reader. |
| A. | author |
| B. | characters |
| C. | narrator |
| D. | reader |
| Answer» E. | |
| 74. |
Epigraphs, prefaces, forwards, etc. that have some connection to the main narrativeis known as |
| A. | hypertextuality |
| B. | para text |
| C. | architextuality |
| D. | metatextuality |
| Answer» C. architextuality | |
| 75. |
_____ is the relationship of one text to others |
| A. | textuality |
| B. | inner text |
| C. | fluid text |
| D. | comparative literature |
| Answer» B. inner text | |
| 76. |
_____ is the relationship of a text to other text in the genre/type |
| A. | intertextuality |
| B. | architextuality |
| C. | metatextuality |
| D. | hypertextuality |
| Answer» C. metatextuality | |
| 77. |
A work in the physical, printed book the narrative inside it is known as |
| A. | text |
| B. | sign |
| C. | narration |
| D. | story |
| Answer» B. sign | |
| 78. |
Who is the founder of deconstruction? |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | jacques derrida |
| C. | kent |
| D. | saussure |
| Answer» C. kent | |
| 79. |
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» D. michael ignatieff | |
| 80. |
The image of new country dreamt by Francis Bacon |
| A. | utopia |
| B. | new atlantic |
| C. | brave new world |
| D. | caligula |
| Answer» C. brave new world | |
| 81. |
According to Gerard Genette narration in all literary narrative include |
| A. | historic |
| B. | recit |
| C. | narrating |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 82. |
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» C. ben okri | |
| 83. |
Who studied and analysed the plot structures of folktales? |
| A. | victor shaklovsky |
| B. | vladimir propp |
| C. | frantz fanen |
| D. | frantz kafka |
| Answer» C. frantz fanen | |
| 84. |
Fabula and Sjuzet are introduced in literary narratives by |
| A. | structuralist |
| B. | formalist |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | russian formalist |
| Answer» E. | |
| 85. |
When narrator is a character in the story he/she is known as |
| A. | protagonist |
| B. | antagonist |
| C. | view point character |
| D. | chorus |
| Answer» D. chorus | |
| 86. |
Autodiegetic narrator is |
| A. | homodiegetic |
| B. | heterodiegetic |
| C. | author |
| D. | reader |
| Answer» B. heterodiegetic | |
| 87. |
______ is an example of multiple narrative |
| A. | sherlock holmes |
| B. | as i lay dying |
| C. | lucky jim |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. lucky jim | |
| 88. |
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» C. heterodiegetic | |
| 89. |
A narrator who is outside the story is |
| A. | homodiegetic |
| B. | author |
| C. | autodigetic |
| D. | hetrodiegetic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 90. |
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» E. | |
| 91. |
‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by |
| A. | vladimir propp |
| B. | wayne c. booth |
| C. | italo calvino |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» C. italo calvino | |
| 92. |
Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are |
| A. | rules |
| B. | norms |
| C. | habits |
| D. | standard |
| Answer» C. habits | |
| 93. |
______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description. |
| A. | david hume |
| B. | bertrand russel |
| C. | saussure |
| D. | chomsky |
| Answer» B. bertrand russel | |
| 94. |
Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts |
| A. | moral |
| B. | educational |
| C. | aesthetic |
| D. | religious |
| Answer» D. religious | |
| 95. |
______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics. |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. plato | |
| 96. |
______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of things. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» B. aristotle | |
| 97. |
If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself. |
| A. | values |
| B. | expression |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | criticism |
| Answer» B. expression | |
| 98. |
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» C. emile durkhiem & athuser | |
| 99. |
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» C. present and future | |
| 100. |
_______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation |
| A. | astrology |
| B. | humanities |
| C. | mathematics |
| D. | ontology |
| Answer» C. mathematics | |