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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.
| 101. |
Art of constructing history is called |
| A. | sociography |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | histriology |
| D. | historiography |
| Answer» E. | |
| 102. |
‘What is history’ is written by |
| A. | i.a. richard |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | e.h. carr |
| D. | engel |
| Answer» D. engel | |
| 103. |
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» B. reference | |
| 104. |
Philosophy relies on |
| A. | reasoning |
| B. | reasoned arguments |
| C. | experiences |
| D. | argumentation |
| Answer» C. experiences | |
| 105. |
Scientific method involves generating testable |
| A. | hypothesis |
| B. | facts |
| C. | arguments |
| D. | principles |
| Answer» B. facts | |
| 106. |
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» D. none of these | |
| 107. |
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» C. jean amrouche | |
| 108. |
The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native culture including language. |
| A. | nativism |
| B. | orientalism |
| C. | ethnicity |
| D. | integration |
| Answer» B. orientalism | |
| 109. |
The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it indigenous. |
| A. | falsification |
| B. | chutnification |
| C. | nativism |
| D. | heteroglossia |
| Answer» C. nativism | |
| 110. |
“Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in _____. |
| A. | 1857 |
| B. | 1845 |
| C. | 1835 |
| D. | 1850 |
| Answer» D. 1850 | |
| 111. |
Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure. |
| A. | james mill |
| B. | max muller |
| C. | william jones |
| D. | shelly |
| Answer» D. shelly | |
| 112. |
The most widespread group of languages today is ______ |
| A. | afro-asiatic |
| B. | dravidian |
| C. | indo-european |
| D. | balto salvonic |
| Answer» D. balto salvonic | |
| 113. |
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» D. beliefs | |
| 114. |
The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called ……. |
| A. | habitualisation |
| B. | institutionalization |
| C. | reification |
| D. | personalization |
| Answer» B. institutionalization | |
| 115. |
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» C. halliday and bloomfield | |
| 116. |
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» D. acceptance | |
| 117. |
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» C. reality | |
| 118. |
Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are called _____ |
| A. | discourses |
| B. | culture |
| C. | ideologies |
| D. | reality |
| Answer» B. culture | |
| 119. |
Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____ |
| A. | nature |
| B. | identity |
| C. | culture |
| D. | individual |
| Answer» D. individual | |
| 120. |
The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is termed______ |
| A. | identity |
| B. | ethnicity |
| C. | sexuality |
| D. | essentiality |
| Answer» B. ethnicity | |
| 121. |
To which game does Saussure compare language? |
| A. | monopoly |
| B. | chess |
| C. | cards |
| D. | carems |
| Answer» C. cards | |
| 122. |
Language acquires meaning through ______ |
| A. | difference |
| B. | destruction |
| C. | arbitrariness |
| D. | change |
| Answer» B. destruction | |
| 123. |
The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified. |
| A. | affiliatory |
| B. | arbitrary |
| C. | affective |
| D. | attractive |
| Answer» C. affective | |
| 124. |
Language is a system of ______ |
| A. | langue |
| B. | parole |
| C. | signs |
| D. | symbols |
| Answer» D. symbols | |
| 125. |
______ 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» C. signification | |
| 126. |
The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called……. |
| A. | parole |
| B. | langue |
| C. | signs |
| D. | pidgin |
| Answer» C. signs | |
| 127. |
According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called |
| A. | prakriti |
| B. | guna |
| C. | dravya |
| D. | purusha |
| Answer» E. | |
| 128. |
The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths |
| A. | four |
| B. | six |
| C. | eight |
| D. | nine |
| Answer» B. six | |
| 129. |
Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element |
| A. | air |
| B. | space |
| C. | water |
| D. | earth |
| Answer» C. water | |
| 130. |
Commentaries on sutras are called |
| A. | kavya |
| B. | sabda |
| C. | bhashya |
| D. | mantra |
| Answer» D. mantra | |
| 131. |
Which school accepts only perception as a pramana? |
| A. | carvaka |
| B. | yoga |
| C. | mimamsa |
| D. | vaiseshika |
| Answer» B. yoga | |
| 132. |
Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through |
| A. | jainism |
| B. | gita |
| C. | carvaka school |
| D. | nyaya |
| Answer» C. carvaka school | |
| 133. |
_____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» D. none of these | |
| 134. |
The earliest available Indian literature on record are the |
| A. | puranas |
| B. | sasthras |
| C. | vedas |
| D. | itihasas |
| Answer» D. itihasas | |
| 135. |
Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools? |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | doubt |
| D. | representation |
| Answer» B. inference | |
| 136. |
Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge? |
| A. | doubt |
| B. | testimony |
| C. | inference |
| D. | tarka |
| Answer» B. testimony | |
| 137. |
The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is |
| A. | perception |
| B. | inference |
| C. | comparison |
| D. | testimony |
| Answer» D. testimony | |
| 138. |
Another name for illusion in |
| A. | smrit |
| B. | khyati |
| C. | anumana |
| D. | samvada |
| Answer» C. anumana | |
| 139. |
Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge? |
| A. | tarka |
| B. | anumana |
| C. | smriti |
| D. | pramana |
| Answer» C. smriti | |
| 140. |
Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada? |
| A. | jainsim |
| B. | sankhya |
| C. | vedanta |
| D. | yoga |
| Answer» B. sankhya | |
| 141. |
The concept of implied author was first formulated by |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | immanuel kant |
| C. | vladimir propp |
| D. | wayne c booth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 142. |
Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy? |
| A. | nyaya |
| B. | budhism |
| C. | vaisesika |
| D. | yoga |
| Answer» C. vaisesika | |
| 143. |
Narrative theory focuses on author, text and |
| A. | reader |
| B. | critic |
| C. | narrator |
| D. | critic |
| Answer» B. critic | |
| 144. |
Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s |
| A. | mother |
| B. | sister |
| C. | wife |
| D. | daughter |
| Answer» C. wife | |
| 145. |
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 |
| Answer» B. one hundred years of solitude | |
| 146. |
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 |
| Answer» B. roland barthes | |
| 147. |
If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by |
| A. | salman rushdie |
| B. | italo calvino |
| C. | daniel defoe |
| D. | shakespeare |
| Answer» C. daniel defoe | |
| 148. |
Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as |
| A. | mimesis |
| B. | narration |
| C. | diegesis |
| D. | description |
| Answer» D. description | |
| 149. |
_____ is the direct representation of reality |
| A. | mimesis |
| B. | diegesis |
| C. | reality |
| D. | logos |
| Answer» B. diegesis | |
| 150. |
The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____ |
| A. | plato and aristotle |
| B. | plato and longinus |
| C. | dryden and longinus |
| D. | socrates of descartes |
| Answer» B. plato and longinus | |