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Reading Prose | Set 2

1. Which of the following is not included in the uses of studies by Bacon?

Correct : A. Debate

2. Little reading, according to Bacon, is

Correct : B. bad

3. --------men condemn studies

Correct : C. crafty

4. Bacon compares natural abilities to --------

Correct : B. Plants

5. “Reading maketh a -------man”

Correct : A. full

6. A Chronicle of the peacocks belongs to the genre ---------

Correct : D. short story

7. Intizar Husain migrated from Utter Pradesh to -------at the time of partition.

Correct : B. Lahore

8. Husain compares the result of the ------- to that of the war in Mahabharath.

Correct : C. Nuclear tests

9. The search for the peacocks in the story symbolizes the craving for -------

Correct : A. peace and joy

10. Name the great criminal of Kurukshetra who appears in “ AChronicle of the peacocks”?

Correct : B. Ashwathma

11. How did the peacocks react to the nuclear tests in Rajasthan

Correct : A. They flew up screaming

12. The peacock in Sravasthi reminded the narrator of the days of ----

Correct : C. Buddha

13. The peacock was banished from paradise, because he had helped -------

Correct : D. satan

14. The question raised by Parikshit concerns ---------

Correct : B. the futility of war

15. The shadow of Ashwathama represents----------

Correct : D. all of these.

16. ---------grew in the narrator’s mind like the fish in Manujis pond

Correct : A. notion of the frightened peacocks

17. To shake off the evil shadow following him, the narrator of the chronicle goes finally to -----

Correct : B. Pakistan

18. Paul Krugman got the Nobel Prize for ------in 2008

Correct : C. Economics

19. ”Grains Gone Wild” is a -------

Correct : A. News paper article

20. Krugman is known for his contribution to --------

Correct : B. New Trade Theory

21. In his article, Krugman comments on the world ---crisis

Correct : D. food

22. The overall demand for grains has increased due to the increase in the number of -------

Correct : B. Meat eating Chinese

23. -----is the world’s 2nd largest exporter of wheat

Correct : C. Australia

24. Ethanol is an example of a ----------

Correct : A. Biofuel

25. The production and use of biofuels is seen as an example of -------

Correct : B. bad policy

26. Grain dealers have reduced their precautionary stocks as they depend on ---------

Correct : A. food imports

27. Which of the following has been a big mistake according to Krugman ?

Correct : C. subsidies to biofuels

28. Martin Luther King accepts the Nobel Prize on behalf of -------

Correct : B. American Civil Rights Movement

29. The Negroes in America were chained down by -----

Correct : D. all of the above

30. According to Martin Luther King -----is the answer to the political and moral problems of our time.

Correct : A. Non violence

31. ------and violence are antithetical concepts

Correct : C. civilization

32. The road of love and progress taken by the nonviolence activists has lead to -------

Correct : A. The Civil Rights bill

33. King refuses to accept -------as the future reality of the nations of the world.

Correct : C. Thermo Nuclear destruction

34. The promise of the ideal world of peace, referred to in King’s speech is found in --------

Correct : B. Bible

35. King recalls the services of ---------to the struggle for freedom and justice.

Correct : B. Chief Lutili

36. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Prize in the year ------

Correct : D. 1964

37. Martin Luther King Jr. was involved in the -------

Correct : C. American Civil Rights Movement

38. A beautiful mind is a biography of --------

Correct : C. John Nash

39. Nash won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in-------

Correct : B. Game theory

40. The academy award-winning movie directed by Ron Howard in 2001 was-------

Correct : A. Beautiful mind

41. Nash came to live with ----- of Princeton in 1970

Correct : B. Alicia

42. Who co-edited the work The Essential John Nash?

Correct : D. Sylvia Nasar

43. The Professor of Mathematics who became a close friend of Alicia after her divorce was--------

Correct : B. Coleman- Moore

44. John David Stier was the ------of John Nash

Correct : A. son

45. Johny solved many unsolved classical problems in the -----

Correct : B. Number theory

46. John Nash Jr. won his Ph.D from ----

Correct : C. Rutger

47. Sylvia Nazar is the -----of John Nash

Correct : C. biographer

48. Joothan : A Dalit’s life by Omprakash Valmiki is a ---------

Correct : D. Autobiography

49. Omprakash Valmiki belonged to the community of--------

Correct : C. sweepers

50. The word “Joothan” means -------

Correct : A. scraps of food

51. The dwellings of the untouchables were separated from the rest of the village by a -----

Correct : B. pond

52. What work did the members of Valmiki’s family do ?

Correct : D. all of the above

53. The Christian Sevakram Massihi used to -----

Correct : B. teach the children

54. His school fellows used to call Valmiki------

Correct : A. Chuhre ka

55. Kaliram came to the school as the new -----

Correct : C. Headmaster

56. Kaliram ordered Omprakash to ------

Correct : A. sweep the school

57. The encounter with the headmaster filled Omprakash with -----

Correct : D. fear

58. Whose work inspired Mrinal Sen for his entry in to the film world ?

Correct : A. Rudolf Arnheim

59. “You are a difficult judge of your work” – who is the speaker ?

Correct : B. Ramin Jahanbejloo

60. I wish your countrymen whom I love so much not success but remorse. Who said this ?

Correct : B. Tagore

61. -------has been the breeding ground for many of Sen’s films

Correct : B. Calcutta

62. In which of his works Sen talks about conformism

Correct : A. An Uncertain journey

63. ------was Sen’s first Hindi film.

Correct : C. Bhuvan Shome

64. Which film of Sen made a satire on bureaucracy

Correct : A. Bhuvan Shome

65. “If you ask me again, my answer will be, I don’t know myself, I don’t want to” --- the speaker is----

Correct : B. Mrinal Sen

66. Mrinal Sen,s wish is to see his film as a --------

Correct : B. dress rehearsal

67. The autobiography of Mrinal Sen is entitled-------

Correct : D. Always Being Born

68. Which of the following is not included in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy

Correct : B. Ek din Pratidin

69. The film Bhuvan Shome was made in the year--------

Correct : A. 1969

70. The film maker who criticized Mrinal Sen for his ignorance of character in an open letter was -----

Correct : A. Satyajith Ray

71. The film Antareen was influenced by------

Correct : C. Both of these

72. Name the essay from which the extract ‘On Good Resolutions’ is taken

Correct : A. The Book of this and That

73. The essay ’On Good Resolutions’ brings out-------

Correct : B. futility of human resolutions

74. Resolutions become popular as-------approaches

Correct : A. New year

75. We--------when a man readily agrees to behave in a better way.

Correct : C. discourage him

76. Our virtue, we put almost entirely into our ----------

Correct : C. resolutions

77. What hinders human beings from accommodating rapid changes?

Correct : B. nature

78. Mediocre ------- are said to be a pair of twins contemptible

Correct : B. promise and performance

79. ---------are morality at its dawn

Correct : B. Good resolutions

80. Good resolutions are ----- of the day’s work

Correct : A. Golden anticipations

81. There would be very little------to be got out of a single sitting face to face with a German grammer.

Correct : C. intoxication

82. The essay On Good Resolutions was published in the year--------

Correct : A. 1915

83. Which of these is an essay by Robert Lynd.

Correct : A. The Herring Fleet

84. Who compares virtue to a flower in his tribute to the Prince Consort ?

Correct : A. Tennyson

85. Name the author of ‘Religion and Civilization

Correct : B. Mushirul Hasan

86. Islam’s -------principles offered the converts a hope of a better future

Correct : A. egalitarian

87. Politics in the pre-independent period was structured around---------

Correct : A. religious categories

88. The spirit of a --------Indian nation runs contrary to the values of a secular policy and society.

Correct : B. Spiritualist

89. Religious and cultural anxieties in India were mainly due to the arrival of------

Correct : B. the missionaries

90. The Indian Nationalist leaders tried to evolve an --------ideology.

Correct : A. inclusive

91. The Author of ‘Legacy of a Divided Nation’ is--------

Correct : B. Mushirul Hasan

92. The Mughal Empire weakend due to the breakdown of ------among the ruling elites.

Correct : B. consensus

93. Who referred to the unified Hindu religion as ‘Syndicated Semitised Hinduism’?

Correct : A. Romila Thaper

94. The Indian Constitution followed a policy of --------

Correct : C. Secularism

95. Name the first novel of James Baldwin

Correct : B. Go tell it on the Mountain

96. My Dungeon Shook is taken from

Correct : A. Fire Next Time

97. The crime mentioned in the letter is --------

Correct : C. innocence of the Whites

98. In the letter ‘My Dungeon Shook’ , Baldwin asks for

Correct : A. brotherhood of all

99. ’My Dungeon Shook’ is in the form of a --------

Correct : D. personal letter

100. Baldwin addresses his letter to his ------

Correct : C. nephew