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