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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT 
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION 
 BA English (2011 Admission Onwards)  
  I Semester 
Core Course  

METHODOLOGY OF HUMANITIES
QUESTION BANK 

1) Modern science depends on

a) Opinions b) Beliefs c) Facts d) Intuitions

2) Methods that are create and speculative are employed by

a) Social Science b) Humanities
c) Physical Science d) Natural Science

3) Humanities emphasis the role of

a) Meaning of human conditions
b) Purpose of human conditions
c) Goals of human conditions
d) All of these

4) The source of all the sciences and social sciences is

a) Philosophy b) History
c) Psychology d) Astrology

5) The classical Greek notion of philosophy was

a) To improve our social world
b) To educate its citizens
c) To demarcate the national and social world
d) To understand the world

6) Literature is primarily a subject of

a) Natural Sciences b) Social Sciences
c) Humanities d) Psychology

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7) History deals with

a) Fancies b) Facts
c) Hypotheses of past d) Beliefs

8) Founding father of sociology

a) Augustie Comte b) Emile Durkheim
c) Max Weber d) Karl Marx

9) Term ideology was coined by

a) Louis Althusser b) Terry Eagleton
c) Destutt de Tracy d) Frantz Fanan

10) David Hume was a

a) German Scientists b) British Philosopher
c) French Sociologist d) American Educationist

11) Twentieth century literary criticism attempted to keep away from

a) Discuss on value b) Discussion on taste
c) Discussion on reality d) Discussion on truth

12) Positivism laid stress on use of

a) Social science method b) Cultural studies
c) Natural sciences d) Spiritual metaphysics

13) Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of

a) Natural Sciences b) Social Sciences
c) Literature d) Philosophy

14) There is relative freedom from subjective biases in study of

a) Philosophy b) Literature
c) Natural sciences d) Social Sciences

15) What is prominent factor in structuring taste?

a) Education b) Family status
c) Social class d) Personality
16) ______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging
identity
a) Idealism b) Essentialism
c) Constructivism d) Naturalism

17) Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language
are called _____ theories.
a) Constructivist b) Essentialist
c) Idealist d) Pragmatist

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18) The evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols,
and to act imaginatively and creatively is called.
a) Culture b) Subjectivity
c) Identity d) Language

19) _____ is the verbal expression of culture

a) Signs b) Language
c) Signals d) Symbols

20) Capacity that separates humans from other primates

a) Emotions b) Mobility
c) Communication d) Language

21) The core idea that man’s language moulds his perception of reality belongs to
a) Sapir and Whorf b) Saussure and Choamsky
c) Bloomfield and Halliday d) None of the above

22) The study of the cultural system of signs is called

a) Linguistics b) Pragmatics
c) Symbolism d) Semiotics

23) Hignlish is an example of

a) Dialect b) Idiolect
c) Ethnolect d) Genderlect

24) Father of modern linguistics

a) Saussure b) Bloomfield
c) Halliday d) Chomsky

25) The Social, economic and cultural context in which reality is represented and
communicates meaning is called
a) Institution b) Society
c) Dialogue d) Discourse

26) ______ Argued for English as a more neutral language where traditional caste names
become irrelevant.
a) Ambedkar b) Nehru
c) Gandhi d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

27) Narrative is an act of

a) Imitation b) Communication
c) Imagination d) Expression

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28) Wimsatt and Robert Pen Warren belong to a group called

a) New Critics b) Structuralist
c) Post modernist d) Formalist

29) ‘Death of the Author’ is written by

a) Dryden b) Roland Barthes
c) Mathew Arnold d) Frantz fanon

30) Who wrote Shamela

a) Henry Fielding b) Shakespeare
c) Samuel Richardson d) Daniel Defoe

31) J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a retelling of

a) Jane Eyre b) Wide Sargasso Sea
c) Robinson Crusoe d) Joseph Andrews

32) Mary Shelly’s Fankenstein is about the quest of a

a) Explorer b) Poet
c) Scientist d) Doctor

33) Who wrote wide Sargasso sea

a) Jean Rhys b) Charlette Bronte
c) Daniel Defoe d) Emile Bronte

34) The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion?
a) Hinduism b) Judaism
c) Jainism d) Islam

35) Study of narrative is known as

a) Sociology b) Grammatology
c) Lexicology d) Narratology

36) The essay ‘Narrative Construction of Reality’ was written by

a) Walter Scott b) Jerome Bruner
c) Roland Barthes d) Derek Walcott

37) The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____
a) Plato and Aristotle b) Plato and Longinus
c) Dryden and Longinus d) Socrates of Descartes

38) According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis

a) Monologue b) Catharsis
c) Confession d) Confusion

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39) _____ is the direct representation of reality

a) Mimesis b) Diegesis
c) Reality d) Logos

40) Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as

a) Mimesis b) Narration
c) Diegesis d) Description

41) If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by

a) Salman Rushdie b) Italo Calvino
c) Daniel Defoe d) Shakespeare

42) 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

43) 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

44) Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s

a) Mother b) Sister
c) Wife d) Daughter

45) Narrative theory focuses on author, text and

a) Reader b) Critic
c) Narrator d) Critic

46) The concept of implied author was first formulated by

a) Roland Barthes b) Immanuel Kant
c) Vladimir Propp d) Wayne C Booth

47) Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy?

a) Nyaya b) Budhism
c) Vaisesika d) Yoga

48) Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada?

a) Jainsim b) Sankhya
c) Vedanta d) Yoga

49) Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge?

a) Tarka b) Anumana
c) Smriti d) Pramana

50) Another name for illusion in

a) Smrit b) Khyati
c) Anumana d) Samvada

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51) The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is

a) Perception b) Inference
c) Comparison d) Testimony

52) Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools?

a) Perception b) Inference
c) Doubt d) Representation

53) Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge?

a) Doubt b) Testimony
c) Inference d) Tarka

54) The earliest available Indian literature on record are the

a) Puranas b) Sasthras
c) Vedas d) Itihasas

55) _____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

56) Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through

a) Jainism b) Gita
c) Carvaka School d) Nyaya

57) Which school accepts only perception as a pramana?

a) Carvaka b) Yoga
c) Mimamsa d) Vaiseshika

58) Commentaries on sutras are called

a) Kavya b) Sabda
c) Bhashya d) Mantra

59) Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element

a) Air b) Space c) Water d) Earth

60) The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths
a) Four b) Six c) Eight d) Nine

61) According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called

a) Prakriti b) Guna
c) Dravya d) Purusha

62) The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called…….
a) Parole b) Langue
c) Signs d) Pidgin

63) ______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication
and production of meaning.
a) Langue b) Parole
c) Signification d) Sound
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64) Language is a system of ______

a) Langue b) Parole
c) Signs d) Symbols

65) The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified.
a) Affiliatory b) Arbitrary
c) Affective d) Attractive

66) Language acquires meaning through ______

a) Difference b) Destruction
c) Arbitrariness d) Change

67) To which game does Saussure compare language?

a) Monopoly b) Chess
c) Cards d) Carems

68) The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is
termed______
a) Identity b) Ethnicity
c) Sexuality d) Essentiality

69) Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____

a) Nature b) Identity
c) Culture d) Individual

70) 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

71) Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are
called _____
a) Discourses b) Culture
c) Ideologies d) Reality

72) 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

73) 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

74) The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called …….
a) Habitualisation b) Institutionalization
c) Reification d) Personalization

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75) 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

76) The most widespread group of languages today is ______

a) Afro-asiatic b) Dravidian
c) Indo-European d) Balto Salvonic

77) Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure.
a) James Mill b) Max Muller
c) William Jones d) Shelly

78) “Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in

_____.
a) 1857 b) 1845
c) 1835 d) 1850

79) The Kenyan novelist who advised a complete break with the coloniser’s language
and the abolition of all English Departments.
a) Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O b) Meja Mwangi
c) Margaret Ogola d) Ama Ata Aidoo

80) The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it
indigenous.
a) Falsification b) Chutnification
c) Nativism d) Heteroglossia

81) The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native
culture including language.
a) Nativism b) Orientalism
c) Ethnicity d) Integration

82) 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

83) 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

84) Scientific method involves generating testable

a) Hypothesis b) Facts
c) Arguments d) Principles

85) 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
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86) Philosophy relies on

a) Reasoning b) Reasoned arguments
c) Experiences d) Argumentation

87) ‘What is history’ is written by

a) I.A. Richard b) Roland Barthes
c) E.H. Carr d) Engel

88) Art of constructing history is called

a) Sociography b) Hermeneutics
c) Histriology d) Historiography

89) 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

90) _______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation
a) Astrology b) Humanities
c) Mathematics d) Ontology

91) 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

92) If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself.
a) Values b) Expression
c) Imagination d) Criticism

93) ______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of

things.
a) Plato b) Aristotle
c) Descartes d) Socrates

94) ______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics.

a) Descartes b) Aristotle
c) Plato d) Kant

95) Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts

a) Moral b) Educational
c) Aesthetic d) Religious

96) ______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description.
a) David Hume b) Bertrand Russel
c) Saussure d) Chomsky

97) Who used the term ideology to imply something that mystifies and hider reality?
a) Lenin & Stalin b) Walford & Walsby
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c) Tracy & Mannheim d) Karl Marx & Engel

98) Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are
a) Rules b) Norms
c) Habits d) Standard

99) According to whom ideology plays an active role in social formation.

a) Terry Eagleton b) Testutt De Tracy
c) F. Engel d) Louis Althusser

100) ‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by

a) Vladimir Propp b) Wayne C. Booth
c) Italo Calvino d) Plato

101) A narrator who is outside the story is

a) Homodiegetic b) Author
c) Autodigetic d) Hetrodiegetic

102) 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

103) ______ is an example of multiple narrative

a) Sherlock Holmes b) As I lay dying
c) Lucky Jim d) None of these

104) Autodiegetic narrator is

a) Homodiegetic b) Heterodiegetic
c) Author d) Reader

105) When narrator is a character in the story he/she is known as

a) Protagonist b) Antagonist
c) View point Character d) Chorus

106) Fabula and Sjuzet are introduced in literary narratives by

a) Structuralist b) Formalist
c) New criticism d) Russian formalist

107) Who studied and analysed the plot structures of folktales?

a) Victor Shaklovsky b) Vladimir Propp
c) Frantz Fanen d) Frantz Kafka

108) 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

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109) According to Gerard Genette narration in all literary narrative include

a) Historic b) Recit
c) Narrating d) All the above

110) The image of new country dreamt by Francis Bacon

a) Utopia b) New Atlantic
c) Brave New World d) Caligula

111) 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

112) Who is the founder of deconstruction?

a) Roland Barthes b) Jacques Derrida
c) Kent d) Saussure

113) A work in the physical, printed book the narrative inside it is known as
a) Text b) Sign
c) Narration d) Story

114) _____ is the relationship of one text to others

a) Textuality b) Inner text
c) Fluid text d) Comparative literature

115) _____ is the relationship of a text to other text in the genre/type

a) Intertextuality b) Architextuality
c) Metatextuality d) Hypertextuality

116) Epigraphs, prefaces, forwards, etc. that have some connection to the main narrative
is known as
a) Hypertextuality b) Para text
c) Architextuality d) Metatextuality

117) _____ is a construction and it is implied is the work known as implied reader.
a) Author b) Characters
c) Narrator d) Reader

118) Text on computer screen which can alter their appearance is called
a) Solid Text b) Liquid Text
c) Fluid text d) Screen play
119) ______ is a form of digital literature

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a) Facebook b) Orkoot
c) Blog d) Webpage

120) Foe is a novel by

a) Ben Okri b) Ama Ata Aidoo
c) J.M. Coetzee d) Jean Rhys

121) ______ is a best example for intertextuality

a) Wide Sargarso Sea b) Waste land
c) New Atlantis d) Foe

122) W.H. Auden has an architextual connection with satires of

a) Sheridan b) Alexander Pope
c) Jonathan Swift d) Ben Johnson.

123) Who among the following outlined the four periods of the development of Indian
Philosophy.
a) Aurabindo b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c) J. Krishnamurthy d) Swami Vivekananda

124) Vaisesika School of Philosophy was founded by

a) Mahavira b) Kanada
c) Dharmakriti d) Yaska

125) Through which pramana do we get the knowledge of non-existence

a) Anitya b) Anupalabdhi
c) Abhini bodha d) Bhavana

126) Which school of philosophy deals with the ritualistic aspects of Vedas
a) Vedanta b) Mimamsa
c) Sankhya d) Charvaka

127) Which school of philosophy was founded by Gotama?

a) Budhism b) Nyaya
c) Vaisesika d) Jainism

128) Astika Schools accepted the authority of

a) Upanishads b) Epics
c) Vedas d) Vedantas

129) Yoga school of philosophy was found by

a) Yogananda b) Nagarjuna
c) Patanjali d) Nimbaraka
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130) Name of Adi Sankara’s guru

a) Yogananda b) Gaudapada
c) Namdev d) Ramanuja
131) The Indian word for philosophy is
a) Vedanta b) Darsana
c) Sastra d) Mokshamarga

132) _____ is an essential characteristic of valid knowledge

a) Truth b) Avadhi
c) Apprehension d) Smriti

133) Nyaya school with its science of reasoning is also known as

a) Dharma Sastra b) Tarkasastra
c) Yoga Sutras d) All of the above

134) The dialectic method propounded by Nagarjuna is known as the

a) Direct method b) Prasanga method
c) Tharka Method d) None of these

135) Thomas Luckmann is a follower of _____ school of sociology.

a) Naturalistic b) Pragmatist
c) Phenomenological d) Existentialist

136) God or Brahman cannot be the cause of world is suggested by

a) Naiyayikas b) Yoga school
c) Sankhya School d) Sankara

137) Lack of mutual intelligibility between two language is known as

a) Mutual intelligibility b) Language barrier
c) Language boundary d) Language Island

138) The Gate keeper was book written by

a) Terry Eagleton b) E.H. Carr
c) Peter Widdowson d) Raymon Williams

139) _____ revolutionized historiography in the 19th century

a) Voltaire b) Leopold Von Ranke
c) Hegd and Marx d) Michel Foucault

140) 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

141) _____ is relatively new field of history

a) Cultural history b) Economic History
c) Environmental History d) Ethnohistory

142) _____ in the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
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a) Paleography b) Genealogy
c) Numismatics d) Family history

143) _____ is a school of Budhism which accepted plurality of realities.

a) Mahayana b) Hinayana
c) Sautranikas d) Vaibhasikas

144) _____ is a quantitative philosophy

a) Nyaya b) Vaisesika
c) Vedanta d) Sankhya

145) ______ composed Sankhya Aphorisms

a) Gotama b) Kapila
c) Patanjali d) Sankara
146) ______ philosophy says that control over Citta gives the power of control over
everything.
a) Nyaya b) Sankya
c) Yoga d) Vedanta

147) 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

148) Linguistics competence is a notion proposed by

a) Bloom field b) Chomsky
c) Saussure d) Derrida

149) According to J. Derrida

a) Test in an Entity b) Text is a gas
c) Test is a non existing d) Text is discourse

150) Who proposed seven standards of Textuality

a) de Beangrande and Dressler b) Chomsky and Bloom field
c) Derrida and Saussure d) None of these

151) Language of literature is

a) Cryptic b) Delphic
c) Accurate d) Ornamental

152) 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

153) Course in General Linguistics was written by

a) Sapir b) Chomsky
c) Saussure d) Bloomfield

154) When sign designate the whole word concept is signified and _____ is signifies
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a) The object b) Sound image

c) Verbal Symbol d) None of these

155) Exponent of reader response theory

a) Derrida b) Lacan
c) Stanley Fish d) R.P. Warren

156) Of ‘Grammatology’ is written by

a) Harold Bloom b) Derrida
c) Paul de Man d) Roland Barthes

157) _____ proposed the name narratology to the study of narratives.

a) Derrida b) Roland Barthes
c) Todorov d) Tracy

158) Which among the following is heterodox school of philosophy

a) Mimamsa b) Lokayata
c) Sankhya d) Vaisesika

159) Five old system of discipline or five rows are the teachings of ____ philosophy
a) Budhism b) Mimamsa
c) Jainism d) Carvaka

160) 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

161) Which of the pramanas is not accepted by Sankhyas?

a) Perception b) Inference
c) Testimony d) Comparison

162) Citta-vriti-nirodha can be attained through

a) Pranayama b) Niyama
c) Pratyahara d) All the above

163) Our understanding of reality is based on

a) Conception b) Codes of perception
c) Interpretation d) Description

164) Who analyzed a set of six actants in narrative

a) Athuses b) Vladimir Propp
c) A.J. Greimas d) Wayne C. Booth

165) ______ codes informs our interpretation of narrative

a) Proairetic code b) Hermaneutic code
c) Cultural code d) Semic code

166) Who proposed the three levels of narrative Historic, Recit and narrating?
a) Vladimir prop b) Gerard Genette
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c) Antoni Gramci d) Roland Barthes

167) New critics argued that

a) Meaning is inside the text
b) Meaning lies outside the text
c) Meaning in created
d) None of these

168) Among the given critics who is not in new criticism

a) Wimsatt b) Beardsley
c) Robert Penn Warren d) Northrop Frye

169) Among the given critics who is not exponent of deconstruction

a) F.R. Levis b) Derrida
c) Harold Bloom d) Paul de Man

170) A text that can be read in form of several different texts is called
a) Interactive b) Multimodal
c) Intertextual d) Fluid text

171) _____ is a collection of shared expectations about such long public habits.
a) Universe b) Institution
c) Community d) Legitimization

172) _____ is the process by which subjective everyday reality becomes objective reality.
a) Universalization b) Naturalization
c) Reification d) Legitimatization

173) The word difference was coined by

a) J.M. Coetze b) Derrida
c) Saussure d) Chomsky

174) Who is the first western philosopher who attempted a systematic study of society?
a) Aristotle b) Ibn Khaldun
c) Plato d) Longinus

175) In which year the term sociology was coined?

a) 1798 b) 1839
c) 1846 d) 1739

176) 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

177) The book sociology is written by

a) M. Ginsberg b) J.S. Mill
c) Davis and Moore d) Rosenberg

178) According to Aristotle

a) Art counteracts nature
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b) Art finishes the job that nature leaves underdone

c) Art initiate the crude aspects of nature
d) None of the above
179) Criticism which seeks a synthesis between the psychological criticism and
sociological criticism
a) Psycholinguistics b) Ontological criticism
c) New criticism d) Eco criticism

180) The Golden Bough was written by

a) W.H.R. Rivers b) Morgan
c) James Frazer d) Evans.

181) There are two type of causal explanation namely

a) Scientific and Historical b) Positive and Negative
c) Positivist and Phenomenologist d) Scientific and sociological

182) In social sciences empiricism sometimes goes by the name

a) Negativism b) Naturalism
c) Positivism d) Phenomenology

183) 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

184) Louis Althusser is a

a) German Philosopher b) American Philosopher
c) French Philosopher d) Greek Philosopher

185) Post modern art and thought favours

a) Reflexivity and self consciousness b) Fragmentation
c) Discontinuity d) All of the above

186) ____ involves demystifying a text to reveal internal arbitrary hierarchies and
presupposition.
a) Post modernism b) Anti colonialism
c) Deconstruction d) Positivism

187) The Vaisesika’s atomism agrees with the ____ atomism

a) Vedanta b) Greek
c) Nyaya d) Jaina
188) The theory of no soul is attributed to
a) Budhism b) Hinduism
c) Jainism d) None of the above

189) According to Patanjali God is never

a) Free b) In bondage
c) Without purpose d) Cruel

190) According to Berger and Luckman all knowledge is derived from and maintained by
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a) Search for truth b) Social interaction

c) Education d) Philosophy
191) 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

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ANSWER KEY
1. (c) Facts 2. (b) Humanities
3. (d) All of these 4. (a) Philosophy
5. (b) To educate its citizens 6. (c) Humanities
7. (b) Facts 8. (a) Augustie Comte
9. (c) Destutt de Tracy 10. (a) German Scientists
11. (a) Discuss on value 12. (c) Natural sciences
13. (b) Social Sciences 14. (d) Social Sciences
15. (c) Social class 16. (b) Essentialism
17. (a) Constructivist 18. (a) Culture
19. (b) Language 20. (d) Language
21. (a) Sapir and Whorf 22. (d) Semiotics
23. (c) Ethnolect 24. (a) Saussure
25. (d) Discourse 26. (a) Ambedkar
27. (b) Communication 28. (a) New Critics
29 (b) Roland Barthes 30. (a) Henry Fielding
31. (c) Robinson Crusoe 32. (c) Scientist
33. (a) Jean Rhys 34. (d) Islam
35. (d) Narratology 36. (b) Jerome Bruner
37. (a) Plato and Aristotle 38. (b) Catharsis
39. (a) Mimesis 40. (c) Diegesis
41. (b) Italo Calvino 42. (a) Midnight’s Children
43. (a) Jerome Bruner 44. (b) Sister
45. (a) Reader 46. (d) Wayne C Booth
47. (b) Budhism 48. (a) Jainsim
49. (b) Anumana 50. (b) Khyati
51. (c) Comparison 52. (a) Perception
53. (a) Doubt 54. (c) Vedas
55. (c) Vedic Period 56. (b) Gita
57. (a) Carvaka 58. (c) Bhashya
59. (b) Space 60. (a) Four
61. (d) Purusha 62. (b) Langue
63. (b) Parole 64. (c) Signs

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65. (b) Arbitrary 66. (a) Difference

67. (b) Chess 68. (a) Identity
69. (c) Culture 70. (b) Power
71. (a) Discourses 72. (c) Agency
73. (b) Berger and Luckman 74. (a) Habitualisation
75. (c) Symbolic Universes 76. (c) Indo-European
77. (c) William Jones 78. (c) 1835
79. (a) Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O 80. (b) Chutnification
81. (a) Nativism 82. (b) Frantz Fanon
83. (c) “A Far Cry from Africa” 84. (a) Hypothesis
85. (a) Narrative imagination 86. (b) Reasoned arguments
87. (c) E.H. Carr 88. (d) Historiography
89. (b) Present and past 90. (b) Humanities
91. (b) H.G. Gadmer & Wilhem Dilthey 92. (a) Values
93. (a) Plato 94. (b) Aristotle
95. (c) Aesthetic 96. (a) David Hume
97. (d) Karl Marx & Engel 98. (b) Norms
99. (d) Louis Althusser 100. (b) Wagne C. Booth
101. (d) Hetrodiegetic 102. (b) Heterodiegetic–intradiegetic
103. (b) As I lay dying. 104. (a) Homodiegetic
105. (c) View point Character 106. (d) Russian formalist
107. (b) Vladimir Propp 108. (b) Roland Barthes
109. (d) All the above 110. (b) New Atlantic
111. (c) Julia Kristeva 112. (b) Jacques Derrida
113. (a) Text 114. (a) Textuality
115. (b) Architextuality 116. (b) Para text
117. (d) Reader 118. (c) Fluid text
119. (c) Blog 120. (c) J.M. Coetzee
121. (b) Waste land 122. (b) Alexander Pope
123. (b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 124. (b) Kanada
125. (b) Anupalabdhi 126. (b) Mimamsa
127. (b) Nyaya 128. (c) Vedas
129. (c) Patanjali 130. (b) Gaudapada
131. (b) Darsana 132. (a) Truth

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133. (b) Tarkasastra 134. (b) Prasanga method

135. (c) Phenomenological 136. (c) Sankhya School
137. (c) Language boundary 138. (a) Terry Eagleton
139. (b) Leopold Von Ranke 140. (d) Subaltern
141. (c) Environmental History 142. (b) Genealogy
143. (b) Hinayana 144. (d) Sankhya
145. (b) Kapila 146. (c) Yoga
147. (a) Study of language in relation to society 148. (b) Chomsky
149. (b) Text is a gas 150. (a) de Beangrande and Dressler
151. (b) Delphic 152. (c) Theory of functional style
153. (c) Saussure 154. (b) Sound image
155. (c) Stanley Fish 156. (b) Derrida
157. (c) Todorov 158. (b) Lokayata
159. (c) Jainism 160. ( b) Sutras
161. (d) Comparison 162. (d) All the above
163. (b) Codes of perception 164. (c) A.J. Greimas
165. (b) Hermeneutic code 166. (b) Gerard Genette
167. (a) Meaning is inside the text 168. (d) Northrop Frye
169. (a) F.R. Levis 170. (b) Multimodal
171. (b) Institution 172. (c) Reification
173. (b) Derrida 174. (c) Plato
175. (b) 1839 176. (c) Socious and logus
177. (a) M. Ginsberg 178. (b) Art finishes the job that
nature leaves underdone
179. (b) Ontological criticism 180. (c) James Frazer
181. (a) Scientific and Historical 182. (c) Positivism
183. (a) Colonialism 184. (c) French Philosopher
185. (d) All of the above 186. (c) Deconstruction
187. (b) Greek 188. (a) Budhism
189. (b) In bondage 190. (b) Social interaction
191. (c) Denigrate

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