Deck 4: Humanities and Literature Study

Question 1

Name an Orientalist who praised Sanskrit for its wonderful structure.

A)james mill
B)max muller
C)william jones
D)shelly

Answer 1

william jones

Question 2

"Minute on Education", formulated by Thomas Babington Macaulay came out in _____.

A)1857
B)1845
C)1835
D)1850

Answer 2

1835

Question 3

The term used by Salman Rushdie for the method of nativising English, making it indigenous.

A)falsification
B)chutnification
C)nativism
D)heteroglossia

Answer 3

chutnification

Question 4

The discipline of criticism resists colonial culture through the promotion of native culture including language.

A)nativism
B)orientalism
C)ethnicity
D)integration

Question 5

The Algerian freedom fighter who demanded the end to the violence on the native languages.

A)albert camus
B)frantz fanon
C)jean amrouche
D)richard mimouni

Question 6

In which poem does Derek Walcott subscribe to the idea of bilingualism?

A)"castaway"
B)"names"
C)"a far cry from africa"
D)none of these

Question 7

Scientific method involves generating testable

A)hypothesis
B)facts
C)arguments
D)principles

Question 8

Humanities often employs ______ as an important tool in the production and reproduction of meanings of culture, literature and history.

A)narrative imagination
B)reference
C)comparison
D)imagination

Question 9

Philosophy relies on

A)reasoning
B)reasoned arguments
C)experiences
D)argumentation

Question 10

'What is history' is written by

A)i.a. richard
B)roland barthes
C)e.h. carr
D)engel

Question 11

Art of constructing history is called

A)sociography
B)hermeneutics
C)histriology
D)historiography

Question 12

History is a continuous dialogue between the ______ and the ______

A)past and future
B)present and past
C)present and future
D)all the above

Question 13

_______ looks for meanings, orientations and value laden interpretation

A)astrology
B)humanities
C)mathematics
D)ontology

Question 14

Persons who tried to enrich the methods of humanities were _____ and ____

A)e.h. carr & maxweber
B)h.g. gadmer & wilhem dilthey
C)emile durkhiem & athuser
D)jerome bruner of b.f. skinner

Question 15

If we strip literature of _____ we would be wiping off the discipline itself.

A)values
B)expression
C)imagination
D)criticism

Question 16

______ considered artistic representation of the real world as an imagination of things.

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)descartes
D)socrates

Question 17

______ considered literature as a sphere separate from politics or ethics.

A)descartes
B)aristotle
C)plato
D)kant

Question 18

Aristotle stressed on the ______ value of literary texts

A)moral
B)educational
C)aesthetic
D)religious

Question 19

______ opined that there should be a logical gap between the description.

A)david hume
B)bertrand russel
C)saussure
D)chomsky

Question 20

Specific ways of preferred and practiced behaviour in social situation are

A)rules
B)norms
C)habits
D)standard

Question 21

According to whom ideology plays an active role in social formation.

A)terry eagleton
B)testutt de tracy
C)f. engel
D)louis althusser

Question 22

'The Rhetoric of fiction' was written by

A)vladimir propp
B)wayne c. booth
C)italo calvino
D)plato

Question 23

A narrator who is outside the story is

A)homodiegetic
B)author
C)autodigetic
D)hetrodiegetic

Question 24

A heterodiegetic narrator narrating the story of other character from the inside of the story is called

A)homodiegetic
B)heterodiegetic - intradiegetic
C)heterodiegetic
D)autodiegetic

Question 25

______ is an example of multiple narrative

A)sherlock holmes
B)as i lay dying
C)lucky jim
D)none of these