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Methodology in Humanities | Set 1
1. Modern science depends on
A. opinions
B. beliefs
C. facts
D. intuitions
Correct : C. facts
2. Methods that are create and speculative are employed by
A. social science
B. humanities
C. physical science
D. natural science
Correct : B. humanities
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
Correct : D. all of these
4. The source of all the sciences and social sciences is
A. philosophy
B. history
C. psychology
D. astrology
Correct : A. philosophy
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
Correct : B. to educate its citizens
6. Literature is primarily a subject of
A. natural sciences
B. social sciences
C. humanities
D. psychology
Correct : C. humanities
7. History deals with
A. fancies
B. facts
C. hypotheses of past
D. beliefs
Correct : B. facts
8. Founding father of sociology
A. augustie comte
B. emile durkheim
C. max weber
D. karl marx
Correct : A. augustie comte
9. Term ideology was coined by
A. louis althusser
B. terry eagleton
C. destutt de tracy
D. frantz fanan
Correct : C. destutt de tracy
10. David Hume was a
A. german scientists
B. british philosopher
C. french sociologist
D. american educationist
Correct : A. german scientists
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
Correct : A. discuss on value
12. Positivism laid stress on use of
A. social science method
B. cultural studies
C. natural sciences
D. spiritual metaphysics
Correct : C. natural sciences
13. Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of
A. natural sciences
B. social sciences
C. literature
D. philosophy
Correct : B. social sciences
14. There is relative freedom from subjective biases in study of
A. philosophy
B. literature
C. natural sciences
D. social sciences
Correct : D. social sciences
15. What is prominent factor in structuring taste?
A. education
B. family status
C. social class
D. personality
Correct : C. social class
16. ______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging identity
A. idealism
B. essentialism
C. constructivism
D. naturalism
Correct : B. essentialism
17. Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language are called _____ theories.
A. constructivist
B. essentialist
C. idealist
D. pragmatist
Correct : A. constructivist
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
Correct : A. culture
19. _____ is the verbal expression of culture
A. signs
B. language
C. signals
D. symbols
Correct : B. language
20. Capacity that separates humans from other primates
A. emotions
B. mobility
C. communication
D. language
Correct : 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
Correct : A. sapir and whorf
22. The study of the cultural system of signs is called
A. linguistics
B. pragmatics
C. symbolism
D. semiotics
Correct : D. semiotics
23. Hignlish is an example of
A. dialect
B. idiolect
C. ethnolect
D. genderlect
Correct : C. ethnolect
24. Father of modern linguistics
A. saussure
B. bloomfield
C. halliday
D. chomsky
Correct : A. saussure
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
Correct : 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
Correct : A. ambedkar
27. Narrative is an act of
A. imitation
B. communication
C. imagination
D. expression
Correct : B. communication
28. Wimsatt and Robert Pen Warren belong to a group called
A. new critics
B. structuralist
C. post modernist
D. formalist
Correct : A. new critics
29. Who wrote Shamela
A. henry fielding
B. shakespeare
C. samuel richardson
D. daniel defoe
Correct : A. henry fielding
30. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a retelling of
A. jane eyre
B. wide sargasso sea
C. robinson crusoe
D. joseph andrews
Correct : C. robinson crusoe
31. Mary Shelly’s Fankenstein is about the quest of a
A. explorer
B. poet
C. scientist
D. doctor
Correct : C. scientist
32. Who wrote wide Sargasso sea
A. jean rhys
B. charlette bronte
C. daniel defoe
D. emile bronte
Correct : A. jean rhys
33. The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion?
A. hinduism
B. judaism
C. jainism
D. islam
Correct : D. islam
34. Study of narrative is known as
A. sociology
B. grammatology
C. lexicology
D. narratology
Correct : D. narratology
35. The essay ‘Narrative Construction of Reality’ was written by
A. walter scott
B. jerome bruner
C. roland barthes
D. derek walcott
Correct : B. jerome bruner
36. The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____
A. plato and aristotle
B. plato and longinus
C. dryden and longinus
D. socrates of descartes
Correct : A. plato and aristotle
37. According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis
A. monologue
B. catharsis
C. confession
D. confusion
Correct : B. catharsis
38. _____ is the direct representation of reality
A. mimesis
B. diegesis
C. reality
D. logos
Correct : A. mimesis
39. Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as
A. mimesis
B. narration
C. diegesis
D. description
Correct : C. diegesis
40. If On a Winter’s Night Traveler is a novel by
A. salman rushdie
B. italo calvino
C. daniel defoe
D. shakespeare
Correct : B. italo calvino
41. 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
Correct : A. midnight’s children
42. 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
Correct : A. jerome bruner
43. Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth’s
A. mother
B. sister
C. wife
D. daughter
Correct : B. sister
44. Narrative theory focuses on author, text and
A. reader
B. critic
C. narrator
D. critic
Correct : A. reader
45. The concept of implied author was first formulated by
A. roland barthes
B. immanuel kant
C. vladimir propp
D. wayne c booth
Correct : D. wayne c booth
46. Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy?
A. nyaya
B. budhism
C. vaisesika
D. yoga
Correct : B. budhism
47. Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada?
A. jainsim
B. sankhya
C. vedanta
D. yoga
Correct : A. jainsim
48. Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge?
A. tarka
B. anumana
C. smriti
D. pramana
Correct : B. anumana
49. Another name for illusion in
A. smrit
B. khyati
C. anumana
D. samvada
Correct : B. khyati
50. The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is
A. perception
B. inference
C. comparison
D. testimony
Correct : C. comparison
51. Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools?
A. perception
B. inference
C. doubt
D. representation
Correct : A. perception
52. Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge?
A. doubt
B. testimony
C. inference
D. tarka
Correct : A. doubt
53. The earliest available Indian literature on record are the
A. puranas
B. sasthras
C. vedas
D. itihasas
Correct : C. vedas
54. _____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
Correct : C. vedic period
55. Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through
A. jainism
B. gita
C. carvaka school
D. nyaya
Correct : B. gita
56. Which school accepts only perception as a pramana?
A. carvaka
B. yoga
C. mimamsa
D. vaiseshika
Correct : A. carvaka
57. Commentaries on sutras are called
A. kavya
B. sabda
C. bhashya
D. mantra
Correct : C. bhashya
58. Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element
A. air
B. space
C. water
D. earth
Correct : B. space
59. The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths
A. four
B. six
C. eight
D. nine
Correct : A. four
60. According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called
A. prakriti
B. guna
C. dravya
D. purusha
Correct : D. purusha
61. The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called…….
A. parole
B. langue
C. signs
D. pidgin
Correct : B. langue
62. ______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication and production of meaning.
A. langue
B. parole
C. signification
D. sound
Correct : B. parole
63. Language is a system of ______
A. langue
B. parole
C. signs
D. symbols
Correct : C. signs
64. The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified.
A. affiliatory
B. arbitrary
C. affective
D. attractive
Correct : B. arbitrary
65. Language acquires meaning through ______
A. difference
B. destruction
C. arbitrariness
D. change
Correct : A. difference
66. To which game does Saussure compare language?
A. monopoly
B. chess
C. cards
D. carems
Correct : B. chess
67. The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is termed______
A. identity
B. ethnicity
C. sexuality
D. essentiality
Correct : A. identity
68. Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____
A. nature
B. identity
C. culture
D. individual
Correct : C. culture
69. 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
Correct : B. power
70. Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are called _____
A. discourses
B. culture
C. ideologies
D. reality
Correct : A. discourses
71. 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
Correct : C. agency
72. 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
Correct : B. berger and luckman
73. The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called …….
A. habitualisation
B. institutionalization
C. reification
D. personalization
Correct : A. habitualisation
74. 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
Correct : C. symbolic universes
75. The most widespread group of languages today is ______
A. afro-asiatic
B. dravidian
C. indo-european
D. balto salvonic
Correct : C. indo-european
76. Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure.
A. james mill
B. max muller
C. william jones
D. shelly
Correct : C. william jones
77. “Minute on Education”, formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in _____.
A. 1857
B. 1845
C. 1835
D. 1850
Correct : C. 1835
78. The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it indigenous.
A. falsification
B. chutnification
C. nativism
D. heteroglossia
Correct : B. chutnification
79. The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native culture including language.
A. nativism
B. orientalism
C. ethnicity
D. integration
Correct : A. nativism
80. 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
Correct : B. frantz fanon
81. 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
Correct : C. “a far cry from africa”
82. Scientific method involves generating testable
A. hypothesis
B. facts
C. arguments
D. principles
Correct : A. hypothesis
83. 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
Correct : A. narrative imagination
84. Philosophy relies on
A. reasoning
B. reasoned arguments
C. experiences
D. argumentation
Correct : B. reasoned arguments
85. ‘What is history’ is written by
A. i.a. richard
B. roland barthes
C. e.h. carr
D. engel
Correct : C. e.h. carr
86. Art of constructing history is called
A. sociography
B. hermeneutics
C. histriology
D. historiography
Correct : D. historiography
87. 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
Correct : B. present and past
88. _______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation
A. astrology
B. humanities
C. mathematics
D. ontology
Correct : B. humanities
89. 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
Correct : B. h.g. gadmer & wilhem dilthey
90. If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself.
A. values
B. expression
C. imagination
D. criticism
Correct : A. values
91. ______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of things.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. descartes
D. socrates
Correct : A. plato
92. ______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics.
A. descartes
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. kant
Correct : B. aristotle
93. Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts
A. moral
B. educational
C. aesthetic
D. religious
Correct : C. aesthetic
94. ______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description.
A. david hume
B. bertrand russel
C. saussure
D. chomsky
Correct : A. david hume
95. Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are
A. rules
B. norms
C. habits
D. standard
Correct : B. norms
96. According to whom ideology plays an active role in social formation.
A. terry eagleton
B. testutt de tracy
C. f. engel
D. louis althusser
Correct : D. louis althusser
97. ‘The Rhetoric of fiction’ was written by
A. vladimir propp
B. wayne c. booth
C. italo calvino
D. plato
Correct : B. wayne c. booth
98. A narrator who is outside the story is
A. homodiegetic
B. author
C. autodigetic
D. hetrodiegetic
Correct : D. hetrodiegetic
99. 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
Correct : B. heterodiegetic – intradiegetic
100. ______ is an example of multiple narrative
A. sherlock holmes
B. as i lay dying
C. lucky jim
D. none of these
Correct : B. as i lay dying