Deck 8: Virtue, Morality, and Indian History

Question 1

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

A)faith
B)ability
C)resolutions
D)life

Answer 1

resolutions

Question 2

What hinders human beings from accommodating rapid changes?

A)life
B)nature
C)creativity
D)ignorance

Answer 2

nature

Question 3

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

A)promise and faith
B)promise and performance
C)love and life
D)habits

Answer 3

promise and performance

Question 4

---------are morality at its dawn

A)life
B)Good resolutions
C)values
D)performances

Question 5

Good resolutions are ----- of the day's work

A)Golden anticipations
B)true guide
C)followers
D)none of the above

Question 6

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

A)desire
B)love
C)intoxication
D)reality.

Question 7

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

A)1915
B)1939
C)1945
D)1950

Question 8

Which of these is an essay by Robert Lynd.

A)The Herring Fleet
B)Of Studies
C)Dalits' Life
D)none of these

Question 9

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

A)Tennyson
B)Browning
C)Robert Lynd
D)Dickens

Question 10

Name the author of 'Religion and Civilization

A)Satyajith Ray
B)Mushirul Hasan
C)C.J.Thomas
D)Francis Bacon

Question 11

Islam's -------principles offered the converts a hope of a better future

A)egalitarian
B)Orthodox
C)difficult
D)none of the above

Question 12

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

A)religious categories
B)interest groups
C)Majority
D)none of the above

Question 13

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

A)developed
B)Spiritualist
C)underdeveloped
D)third world

Question 14

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

A)the blacks
B)the missionaries
C)the political parties
D)none of the above

Question 15

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

A)inclusive
B)exclusive
C)separatist
D)none of the above.

Question 16

The Author of 'Legacy of a Divided Nation' is--------

A)Sylvia Nasar
B)Mushirul Hasan
C)Intizar Husain
D)Sylvia plath

Question 17

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

A)Economic treaties
B)consensus
C)patriotism
D)none of these

Question 18

Who referred to the unified Hindu religion as 'Syndicated Semitised Hinduism'?

A)Romila Thaper
B)Mushirul Hasan
C)K.P.S.Menon
D)Jinnah

Question 19

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

A)Monotheism
B)fanaticism
C)Secularism
D)none of these.

Question 20

Name the first novel of James Baldwin

A)My life
B)Go tell it on the Mountain
C)Fire
D)Love song

Question 21

My Dungeon Shook is taken from

A)Fire Next Time
B)Go Tell it on the Mountain
C)A Beautiful Mind
D)none of these.

Question 22

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

A)toughness of the Whites
B)toughness of the blacks
C)innocence of the Whites
D)mask of the Blacks

Question 23

In the letter 'My Dungeon Shook' , Baldwin asks for

A)brotherhood of all
B)rivalry
C)destruction
D)hard work

Question 24

'My Dungeon Shook' is in the form of a --------

A)short story
B)novel
C)speech
D)personal letter

Question 25

Baldwin addresses his letter to his ------

A)son
B)publisher
C)nephew
D)friend