Deck 3: Language, Indian Literature, and Philosophy

Question 1

Which of the Pramanas was accepted by all the schools?

A)perception
B)inference
C)doubt
D)representation

Answer 1

perception

Question 2

Which among the following is a type of invalid knowledge?

A)doubt
B)testimony
C)inference
D)tarka

Answer 2

doubt

Question 3

The earliest available Indian literature on record are the

A)puranas
B)sasthras
C)vedas
D)itihasas

Answer 3

vedas

Question 4

_____was the period of the early settlement of the Aryans in the Indus Valley.

A)epic period
B)sutra period
C)vedic period
D)none of these

Question 5

Democratization of upanishadic ideas occurred through

A)jainism
B)gita
C)carvaka school
D)nyaya

Question 6

Which school accepts only perception as a pramana?

A)carvaka
B)yoga
C)mimamsa
D)vaiseshika

Question 7

Commentaries on sutras are called

A)kavya
B)sabda
C)bhashya
D)mantra

Question 8

Materialism does not accept _____ as a primal element

A)air
B)space
C)water
D)earth

Question 9

The first of the central doctrines of Budhism concerns the ___ noble truths

A)four
B)six
C)eight
D)nine

Question 10

According to Sankhya School, the unchanging eternal self is called

A)prakriti
B)guna
C)dravya
D)purusha

Question 11

The shared system of structures and conventions and rules in language is called…….

A)parole
B)langue
C)signs
D)pidgin

Question 12

______ is the specific utterance that arises out of language to enable communication and production of meaning.

A)langue
B)parole
C)signification
D)sound

Question 13

Language is a system of ______

A)langue
B)parole
C)signs
D)symbols

Question 14

The linguistic sign is an ______ link between a significant and signified.

A)affiliatory
B)arbitrary
C)affective
D)attractive

Question 15

Language acquires meaning through ______

A)difference
B)destruction
C)arbitrariness
D)change

Question 16

To which game does Saussure compare language?

A)monopoly
B)chess
C)cards
D)carems

Question 17

The state or fact of remaining the same under varying aspects or conditions is termed______

A)identity
B)ethnicity
C)sexuality
D)essentiality

Question 18

Subjectivity is not an essence of the individual; it is an effect of _____

A)nature
B)identity
C)culture
D)individual

Question 19

In every discourse _______ is inscribed in the way the values of the dominant party controls representation and communication.

A)culture
B)power
C)reality
D)politics

Question 20

Structures of power that determine what is written or said, that is, represented are called _____

A)discourses
B)culture
C)ideologies
D)reality

Question 21

The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices is referred to as ______

A)ability
B)competence
C)agency
D)acceptance

Question 22

The authors of the work Social Construction of Reality.

A)sapir and whorf
B)berger and luckman
C)halliday and bloomfield
D)marx and engel

Question 23

The process whereby every day repeated practices slowly become the norm is called …….

A)habitualisation
B)institutionalization
C)reification
D)personalization

Question 24

A set of beliefs "every body knows" that aim at making the institutionalized structure believable for the individual is called ______.

A)ideology
B)customs
C)symbolic universes
D)beliefs

Question 25

The most widespread group of languages today is ______

A)afro-asiatic
B)dravidian
C)indo-european
D)balto salvonic