Deck 4: Literature, Philosophy, and History

Question 1

In the extract "the outcaste" what did the high caste girls offered the Mahar caste?

A) gift
B)their leftover food
C)books
D)cloths

Answer 1

their leftover food

Question 2

In the extract "the outcaste" the mother of the narrator looks the leftover food as___________.

A)Nectar
B)Waste
C) Gift
D)None of these

Answer 2

Nectar

Question 3

In the extract "the outcaste" What did the teacher ask the students to do the day after the picnic?

A)to write a summary
B)to write an essay
C)to write a letter
D)to write an experience

Answer 3

to write an essay

Question 4

Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of processes taking place in the ______.

A)human heart
B)human mind
C)human thought
D)human brain.

Question 5

From which work is the extract "Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life" taken

A)Joothan
B)Homo Deus
C)The poisoned Bread
D)Homo sapiens

Question 6

In which subject did Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize

A)humanitie
B)language and literature
C)Economic Studies
D)medicine

Question 7

Prozac is lift people out of _____________

A)illnes
B)happiness
C)depression
D)none of the these

Question 8

According to Harari, what is the level of happiness of a medieval French peasant versus a modern Parisian banker?

A)different
B)more than peasant
C)same
D)more than banker

Question 9

In the extract "Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life", Most parents declare that their children are their chief source of _____________

A)blessing
B)happiness.
C)sadness
D)headache

Question 10

Pearl S.buck won Pulitzer prize for her novel_______.

A)East wind, west wind
B)The Good Earth
C)The Dragon seed
D)The Christmas ghost

Question 11

Who said " my life is my message?

A)Mahatma gandhi
B)Nehru
C)Einstein
D)None

Question 12

Who is Gandhi's murderer?

A)Naturam Vinayak Godse
B)Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Question 13

Pearl S buck's essay 'Should the Assassin of Gandhi be Killed' is a ______

A)Satire
B)Editorial
C)Letter
D)Obituary

Question 14

Men wind confusion because they fear ____

A)Violence
B)Truth
C)People
D)Gandhi

Question 15

Who says, "No war brings peace, for violence only brings more violence ."?

A)Gandhi
B)Nehru
C)Pearl.S buck
D)Godse

Question 16

Who should take up Gandhi's world leadership?

A)Nehru
B)People of India
C)Pearl S buck
D)All of the above

Question 17

When did India adopt a new constitution?

A)26th Jan 1950
B)15th August 1947
C)3 November 1947
D)20th June 1967

Question 18

Drafting committee comprise of ___members

A)10
B)8
C)7
D)5

Question 19

The criticism against the Constitution was that it is _____

A)Not seriou
B)Incomplete
C)Nonsensical
D)A bag of borrowings

Question 20

The tradition of preamble began with ______

A)France
B)Africa
C)America
D)Greece

Question 21

Manto was an ____author.

A)Indian
B)Pakistani
C)Indo- Pakistani
D)None of the above

Question 22

Most of his writing were originally written in _____.

A)Urdu
B)English
C)Regional language
D)Marati

Question 23

Toba means ____in Punjab.

A)Kind
B)Cruel
C)Mad
D)Pond

Question 24

Which inmate of the lunatic asylum mourned over his lost love?

A)Bishan Singh
B)Mohammed Ali
C)A lawyer
D)A sweeper

Question 25

Who were worried about eating Chapatis?

A)Taralal
B)Fazal Din
C)Anglo Indians
D)Pakistanis

Question 26

Who wrote national anthem for India and Bangladesh?

A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Aurobindo Gosh
C)Sarojini Naidu
D)R.K Narayan

Question 27

What is Tagore's university called?

A)Aankan
B)Shantiniketan
C)Viswa bharati
D)Geetmalya

Question 28

Tagore urges for ______ in his poem "Freedom"

A)Truth
B)Freedom
C)Love
D)Power

Question 29

Who is the bard of Bengal?

A)Gandhi
B)Manto
C)Tagore
D)All of the above

Question 30

In the poem freedom is claimed to________

A)People
B)Colonizers
C)Foreigners
D)Motherland