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Methodology in Humanities | Set 1

1. Modern science depends on

Correct : C. facts

2. Methods that are create and speculative are employed by

Correct : B. humanities

3. Humanities emphasis the role of

Correct : D. all of these

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

Correct : A. philosophy

5. The classical Greek notion of philosophy was

Correct : B. to educate its citizens

6. Literature is primarily a subject of

Correct : C. humanities

7. History deals with

Correct : B. facts

8. Founding father of sociology

Correct : A. augustie comte

9. Term ideology was coined by

Correct : C. destutt de tracy

10. David Hume was a

Correct : A. german scientists

11. Twentieth century literary criticism attempted to keep away from

Correct : A. discuss on value

12. Positivism laid stress on use of

Correct : C. natural sciences

13. Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of

Correct : B. social sciences

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

Correct : D. social sciences

15. What is prominent factor in structuring taste?

Correct : C. social class

16. ______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging identity

Correct : B. essentialism

17. Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language are called _____ theories.

Correct : A. constructivist

18. The evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively is called.

Correct : A. culture

19. _____ is the verbal expression of culture

Correct : B. language

20. Capacity that separates humans from other primates

Correct : D. language

21. The core idea that man’s language moulds his perception of reality belongs to

Correct : A. sapir and whorf

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

Correct : D. semiotics

23. Hignlish is an example of

Correct : C. ethnolect

24. Father of modern linguistics

Correct : A. saussure

25. The Social, economic and cultural context in which reality is represented and communicates meaning is called

Correct : D. discourse

26. ______ Argued for English as a more neutral language where traditional caste names become irrelevant.

Correct : A. ambedkar

27. Narrative is an act of

Correct : B. communication

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

Correct : A. new critics

29. Who wrote Shamela

Correct : A. henry fielding

30. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a retelling of

Correct : C. robinson crusoe

31. Mary Shelly’s Fankenstein is about the quest of a

Correct : C. scientist

32. Who wrote wide Sargasso sea

Correct : A. jean rhys

33. The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion?

Correct : D. islam

34. Study of narrative is known as

Correct : D. narratology

35. The essay ‘Narrative Construction of Reality’ was written by

Correct : B. jerome bruner

36. The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____

Correct : A. plato and aristotle

37. According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis

Correct : B. catharsis

38. _____ is the direct representation of reality

Correct : A. mimesis

39. Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as

Correct : C. diegesis

40. If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by

Correct : B. italo calvino

41. Saleem Sinai is a character in

Correct : A. midnight’s children

42. Who prepared the two main modes of thinking Logico Scientific of the narrative

Correct : A. jerome bruner

43. Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s

Correct : B. sister

44. Narrative theory focuses on author, text and

Correct : A. reader

45. The concept of implied author was first formulated by

Correct : D. wayne c booth

46. Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy?

Correct : B. budhism

47. Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada?

Correct : A. jainsim

48. Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge?

Correct : B. anumana

49. Another name for illusion in

Correct : B. khyati

50. The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is

Correct : C. comparison

51. Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools?

Correct : A. perception

52. Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge?

Correct : A. doubt

53. The earliest available Indian literature on record are the

Correct : C. vedas

54. _____was the period of the early settlement of the Aryans in the Indus Valley.

Correct : C. vedic period

55. Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through

Correct : B. gita

56. Which school accepts only perception as a pramana?

Correct : A. carvaka

57. Commentaries on sutras are called

Correct : C. bhashya

58. Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element

Correct : B. space

59. The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths

Correct : A. four

60. According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called

Correct : D. purusha

61. The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called…….

Correct : B. langue

62. ______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication and production of meaning.

Correct : B. parole

63. Language is a system of ______

Correct : C. signs

64. The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified.

Correct : B. arbitrary

65. Language acquires meaning through ______

Correct : A. difference

66. To which game does Saussure compare language?

Correct : B. chess

67. The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is termed______

Correct : A. identity

68. Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____

Correct : C. culture

69. In every discourse _______ is inscribed in the way the values of the dominant party controls representation and communication.

Correct : B. power

70. Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are called _____

Correct : A. discourses

71. The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices is referred to as ______

Correct : C. agency

72. The authors of the work Social Construction of Reality.

Correct : B. berger and luckman

73. The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called …….

Correct : A. habitualisation

74. A set of beliefs “every body knows” that aim at making the institutionalized structure believable for the individual is called ______.

Correct : C. symbolic universes

75. The most widespread group of languages today is ______

Correct : C. indo-european

76. Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure.

Correct : C. william jones

77. “Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in _____.

Correct : C. 1835

78. The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it indigenous.

Correct : B. chutnification

79. The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native culture including language.

Correct : A. nativism

80. The Algerian freedom fighter who demanded the end to the violence on the native languages.

Correct : B. frantz fanon

81. In which poem does Derek Walcott subscribe to the idea of bilingualism?

Correct : C. “a far cry from africa”

82. Scientific method involves generating testable

Correct : A. hypothesis

83. Humanities often employs ______ as an important tool in the production and reproduction of meanings of culture, literature and history.

Correct : A. narrative imagination

84. Philosophy relies on

Correct : B. reasoned arguments

85. ‘What is history’ is written by

Correct : C. e.h. carr

86. Art of constructing history is called

Correct : D. historiography

87. History is a continuous dialogue between the ______ and the ______

Correct : B. present and past

88. _______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation

Correct : B. humanities

89. Persons who tried to enrich the methods of humanities were _____ and ____

Correct : B. h.g. gadmer & wilhem dilthey

90. If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself.

Correct : A. values

91. ______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of things.

Correct : A. plato

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

Correct : B. aristotle

93. Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts

Correct : C. aesthetic

94. ______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description.

Correct : A. david hume

95. Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are

Correct : B. norms

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

Correct : D. louis althusser

97. ‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by

Correct : B. wayne c. booth

98. A narrator who is outside the story is

Correct : D. hetrodiegetic

99. A heterodiegetic narrator narrating the story of other character from the inside of the story is called

Correct : B. heterodiegetic – intradiegetic

100. ______ is an example of multiple narrative

Correct : B. as i lay dying