Deck 6: Philosophy, Language, and History

Question 1

Name of Adi Sankara's guru

A)yogananda
B)gaudapada
C)namdev
D)ramanuja

Answer 1

gaudapada

Question 2

The Indian word for philosophy is

A)vedanta
B)darsana
C)sastra
D)mokshamarga

Answer 2

darsana

Question 3

_____ is an essential characteristic of valid knowledge

A)truth
B)avadhi
C)apprehension
D)smriti

Answer 3

truth

Question 4

Nyaya school with its science of reasoning is also known as

A)dharma sastra
B)tarkasastra
C)yoga sutras
D)all of the above

Question 5

The dialectic method propounded by Nagarjuna is known as the

A)direct method
B)prasanga method
C)tharka method
D)none of these

Question 6

Thomas Luckmann is a follower of _____ school of sociology.

A)naturalistic
B)pragmatist
C)phenomenological
D)existentialist

Question 7

God or Brahman cannot be the cause of world is suggested by

A)naiyayikas
B)yoga school
C)sankhya school
D)sankara

Question 8

Lack of mutual intelligibility between two language is known as

A)mutual intelligibility
B)language barrier
C)language boundary
D)language island

Question 9

The Gate keeper was book written by

A)terry eagleton
B)e.h. carr
C)peter widdowson
D)raymon williams

Question 10

_____ revolutionized historiography in the 19th century

A)voltaire
B)leopold von ranke
C)hegd and marx
D)michel foucault

Question 11

Group of South Asian scholars interested in the post-colonial and post-imperial societies of South Asia in particular and the developing world in general.

A)common wealth
B)post colonial
C)post modern
D)subaltern

Question 12

_____ is relatively new field of history

A)cultural history
B)economic history
C)environmental history
D)ethnohistory

Question 13

_____ in the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

A)paleography
B)genealogy
C)numismatics
D)family history

Question 14

_____ is a school of Budhism which accepted plurality of realities.

A)mahayana
B)hinayana
C)sautranikas
D)vaibhasikas

Question 15

_____ is a quantitative philosophy

A)nyaya
B)vaisesika
C)vedanta
D)sankhya

Question 16

______ composed Sankhya Aphorisms

A)gotama
B)kapila
C)patanjali
D)sankara

Question 17

______ philosophy says that control over Citta gives the power of control over everything.

A)nyaya
B)sankya
C)yoga
D)vedanta

Question 18

Sociolinguistics can be defined as

A)study of language in relation to society
B)study of society in relation to language
C)interaction of society and linguistics
D)study of language and literature

Question 19

Linguistics competence is a notion proposed by

A)bloom field
B)chomsky
C)saussure
D)derrida

Question 20

According to J. Derrida

A)test in an entity
B)text is a gas
C)test is a non existing
D)text is discourse

Question 21

Who proposed seven standards of Textuality

A)de beangrande and dressler
B)chomsky and bloom field
C)derrida and saussure
D)none of these

Question 22

Language of literature is

A)cryptic
B)delphic
C)accurate
D)ornamental

Question 23

Theory of ______ is perhaps one of the greatest contribution of prague school.

A)theory of criticism
B)theory of signs
C)theory of functional style
D)theory of grammar

Question 24

Course in General Linguistics was written by

A)sapir
B)chomsky
C)saussure
D)bloomfield

Question 25

When sign designate the whole word concept is signified and _____ is signifies

A)the object
B)sound image
C)verbal symbol
D)none of these