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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