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Reading Prose | Set 1

1. The fall of Constantinople is associated with

Correct : C. renaissance

2. Enlightenment was

Correct : C. eighteenth century movement

3. ‘Ancient Regime’ is a term connected with the government in

Correct : B. france

4. Taille was

Correct : B. a land tax

5. Tithe was the tax given to

Correct : B. the church

6. Who wrote the essay What is Enlightenment?

Correct : C. immanuel kant

7. “Enlightenment is man’s emrgence from his self imposednonage”. Who said this?

Correct : D. kant

8. “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” is written by

Correct : A. locke

9. The man who proved that the nature obeys certain fundamental laws

Correct : B. newton

10. Tabula Rasa is a term coined by

Correct : A. locke

11. The spirit of Laws was written by

Correct : D. montesquieu

12. “Humanity had lost its title deeds and Montesquieu recovered them”. Who said this?

Correct : A. voltaire

13. Who was Diderot’s co-editor of The Encyclopaedia?

Correct : B. d’ alembert

14. “All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu”. Who said this?

Correct : C. faguet

15. “He was scornful of revealed truth”. Who? BA English IV Semester READING Prose

Correct : B. diderot

16. “Reason is the most perfect, the most noble, the most beautiful of all our faculties”. Who said this?

Correct : C. montesquieu

17. Who wrote the ‘Discourse Preliminarie’ of The Encyclopedia?

Correct : B. d’alembert

18. “We are tempted to regard him as the greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers”. Who is praised here?

Correct : A. bacon

19. The author of La Religieuse?

Correct : B. diderot

20. Treatise on Human Nature was written by?

Correct : A. hume

21. “An Englishman like a free man goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses”. Who made this statement?

Correct : C. hume

22. The author of Candide ? BA English IV Semester READING Prose

Correct : A. voltaire

23. Prof.Pangloss is a character in

Correct : D. candide

24. Who termed primitive man ‘noble savage’ ?

Correct : B. rousseau

25. The author of Social Contract?

Correct : D. rousseau

26. Who wrote Emilie

Correct : D. rousseau

27. Who wrote the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

Correct : D. wordsworth

28. the Essay on Man is written by

Correct : B. pope

29. Who coined the term ‘Esemblastic Imagination’

Correct : C. coleridge

30. Who wrote The Solitary Reaper?

Correct : C. wordsworth

31. Kubla Khan is written by

Correct : C. coleridge

32. BiographiaLiterariais authored by

Correct : B. coleridge

33. The Vindication of the Rights of Women is written by

Correct : B. mary wollstonecraft

34. Manuals of good conduct for girls like The Wives of England, Daughters of England etcwere written by

Correct : B. sarah stickney ellis

35. The woman who fought against oppressive marriage laws

Correct : A. caroline norton

36. The fragmentary novel ‘Cassandra’ is written by BA English IV Semester READING Prose

Correct : B. florence nightingale

37. A magazine the pleaded for the rights to women

Correct : C. the english women’s journal

38. The first higher education institution for women?

Correct : A. girton college

39. The founder of the women’s anti-slavery society

Correct : B. lucretiaott

40. The author of Women in the Nineteenth Century?

Correct : B. margaret fuller

41. The History of Women suffrage was written by

Correct : A. elizabeth stanton

42. The Seneca Falls Convention is associated with

Correct : A. women’s suffrage

43. The Revolution was a newspaper founded by

Correct : A. margaret fuller

44. Author of the Book The Feminine Mystique

Correct : B. betty friedan

45. The second sex is written by

Correct : B. simon de beauvoir

46. The first serious book on feminist theory

Correct : B. the second sex

47. “One is not born, but becomes a woman” is said by

Correct : A. simone de beauvoir

48. The author of Dialectic of Sex?

Correct : B. shulamith firestone

49. The author of Female Eunuch is

Correct : C. germaine greer

50. The Poetical is the Political is written by BA English IV Semester READING Prose

Correct : A. t. v. reed

51. “No other movement has been so grounded in poetry as Feminism”. Who said this?

Correct : C. t.v. reed

52. Simone de Beauvoir was influenced by

Correct : C. existentialism

53. Who Said it Was Simple is a poem by

Correct : A. audrelorde

54. Dalit is a term derived from

Correct : B. marathi

55. The first man who launched the anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

Correct : B. jyotibabhule

56. SathyaShodhakSamaj was

Correct : A. an organisation of the lower castes

57. The leader who converted the Dalits to Budhism

Correct : B. ambedkar

58. Who collected the folk songs dealing with Ambedkar?

Correct : B. indira junghare

59. The political party representing the dalits

Correct : B. the republican party

60. The radical writers of the Dalit Sahithya Movement is known as

Correct : B. black panthers

61. Dalit sangharshSamiti was formed in

Correct : B. karnataka

62. White Paper is a poem by

Correct : A. sankumarlimbale

63. gold from Grave is a

Correct : A. short story

64. Karakkuis the autobiography of

Correct : B. bama

65. The wretched of the Earth is a book by

Correct : B. frantz fanon

66. Orientalism is a book by

Correct : B. edward said

67. Garden of Forking Paths is a novel by

Correct : B. borges

68. Macondo is

Correct : B. the name of a village

69. The SadhujanaParipalanaSangham was founded by

Correct : B. ayyankali

70. Yuktivadiwas founded by

Correct : C. sahodaranayyappan

71. Who wrote the “Introduction to the Lyrical Ballads?

Correct : C. wordsworth

72. “Nothing can work without the third and everything would work infinitely better without the other.” Who said this?

Correct : D. sieyes

73. The Essay entitled “What is Enlightenment” is written by……………………..

Correct : C. kant

74. Who was e author of the treatise “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”?

Correct : D. locke

75. Who was the chief editor of The Encyclopaedia?

Correct : A. diderot

76. Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint?

Correct : A. locke

77. “The Spirit of Laws” was written by …………………………

Correct : B. hume

78. “All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu” who said this?

Correct : D. faguet

79. Letters Persaneswas a significant work by ……………………..

Correct : A. montesquieu

80. “I salute you, I love You, I revere you” to whom Diderot pay this compliment?

Correct : A. hume

81. According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed “the profane trio”?

Correct : A. voltaire, diderot and rousseau

82. Who wrote Emile?

Correct : D. rousseau

83. The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ……………….

Correct : B. kant

84. “Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requires enlightenment to preserve it from excess” Who affirms this?

Correct : A. alembert

85. Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)?

Correct : B. diderot

86. “In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration and astonishment…”Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this?

Correct : A. diderot

87. “We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers. Who is praised here?

Correct : B. bacon

88. Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature?

Correct : A. hume

89. “His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true” Who made this prophecy?

Correct : C. hume

90. “An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses “ Who made this statement?

Correct : A. voltaire

91. Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in………………..

Correct : A. voltaire’s novelette candide

92. Who termed Primitive man as ‘noble savage’?

Correct : A. rousseau

93. Who wrote “An Essay on Man”?

Correct : D. pope

94. Life becomes successful only after we ----------the knowledge we acquired.

Correct : A. Apply

95. The essay Of Studies stresses on the need for------

Correct : A. Practical wisdom

96. Studies provide-------------in leisure hours

Correct : B. pleasure

97. Common man------book learning

Correct : B. admire

98. Study of Law is a cure for-------------memory

Correct : C. unsteady

99. Spending too much time on studies is---------

Correct : B. sloth

100. Cunning men find their cunningness as----------for book learning

Correct : A. substitute