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1.Writer of The famous book - 'We the people'?

A. T.N.Kaul

B. J.R.D. Tata

C. Khushwant Singh

D
Nani Palkhivala
.

2.  Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?

A. Thomas Hardy

B. Emile Zola

C. George Orwell

D
Walter Scott
.

3.  Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?

A. Gaban

B. Godan

C. Guide
 D
Manasorovar
.

4.  Who is the author of the book 'Forbidden Verses'?

A. Salman RushDie

B. Abu Nuwas

C. Ms. Taslima Nasrin

D
D.H. Lawrence
.

5.  The lead character in the film 'The Bandit Queen' has been played by

A. Rupa Ganguly

B. Seema Biswas

C. Pratiba Sinha

D
Shabama Azmi
.

6.  Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?
 A. My God Died Young

B. Islamic Bomb

C. Look Back in Anger

D
A Suitable Boy
.

7.  Who wrote the line: ' A thing of beauty is a joy forever'?

A. John Keats

B. Robert Browing

C. P.B.Shelley

D
William Wordsworth
.

8.  Who has written the book 'My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir'?

A. Anees Jung

B. Jagmohan

C. M.J.Akbar

D
Nissim Ezekiel
.

9.  The book 'To Live or Not Live' was written by

 A. V.S. Naipaul

B. Alexandra Dumas

C. George Elliot

D
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
.

10.  In India the first television programme was broadcasted in

A. 1959

B. 1965

C. 1976

D
1957
.

'

11 A Voice for Freedom' is a book written by

A. Corazon Aquino
. 
B. Nayantara Sahgal

C. Aung San Suu Kyi

 D
Benazir Bhutto
.

12.  Who is the father of English Poetry?

A. Milton

B. Wordsworth

C. Chaucer

D
Charles Dickens
.

13.  The popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by

A. Rahi Masoom Raza

B. Sharad Joshi

C. Ashapurna Devi

D
Harivansh Rai Bachachan
.

14.  Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

A. Leo Tolstoy

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Charles Dickens
 D
Kipling
.

15.  Which of the book was written by Graham Greene?

A. O' Jerusalem

B. The Power and Glory

C. Crisis in India

D
Of Human Bondage
.

16.  George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was

A. a Welsh

B. an Irishman

C. a Soctsman

D
an Englishman
.

17.  'Mirchchhakatika' was written by

A. Vikramaditya

B. Shudraka

C. Kalhana
 D
Banabhatta
.

18.  The famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by

A. Sarojini Naidu

B. Bankim Chandra Chottapadhya

C. Sri Aurobindo

D
Rabindrnath Tagore
.

19.  Who directed the film '1942: A love story'?

A. Mahesh Bhatt

B. Vidhu Vinod Chopra

C. Yash Chopra

D
Ketan Mehta
.

20.  Who is the author of famous statement: "That Government is the best which governs
least"?

A. Herbert Spencer

B. Harold Laski
 C. Alexis De Tocqueville

D
Henry David Thoreau
.

21. Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland'?
A. Rudyard Kipling

B. John Keats

C. Lewis Carroll

D. H G Wells

22. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
A. Lord Alfred Tennyson

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Johannes Gutenberg

D. René Descartes
 23. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?
A. Browning

B. Marx

C. Shakespeare

D. Kipling

24. Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?
A. The Railway Children

B. Winnie the Poo

C. Jungle book

D. Peter Pan

25.Animal communication often uses visual, auditory, chemical, electrical means to convey
information. These are examples of:

A. a symbol

B. a signal

C. a non-verbal gesture

D. nonverbal communication

26.Which of the following is a low context culture?

A. Japan

B. China

C. India

D. Sweden

27. Which of the following is likely to occur in a high context culture?

A. asking a boss “are you sure this is what you want and meant?

B. directly confronting a colleague at work

C. questioning a boss’ decision

D. avoiding a verbal argument to save a colleague at work from embarrassment

28. Clancy’s work illustrates how cultural settings shaped the way children construct their speech
and gestures to reveal motives and desires. What is one salient cultural difference between
Japanese and English speakers?

A. most Japanese speakers use more command words that most English speakers do

B. most Japanese speakers use more declarative words than most English teachers do

C. most Japanese speakers speak considerably less than most English speakers do

D. most Japanese speakers used direct forms of communication more than most English
speakers do

29. According to Clancy, children learn cultural scripts through their language exchanges with
caregivers and adults. Japanese children learn that arguing and giving someone a direct order
will not meet with adult approval because it violates the principle of empathy. Which concept
reflects the Japanese experience of empathy?
 A. omiyari

B. amae

C. lonne

D. tatemae

30. In the Japanese experience, amae relates to obligation and kindness to indulge another’s request.
Amae is a social strategy in which the requester asked for a very atypical favor. Amae is
important in Japanese communication exchanges because:

A. it reinforces empathy

B. reinforces respect for elders

C. reinforces group harmony

D. helps speakers learn to anticipate that listeners will be able to understand the speaker’s
feelings and motives

31. In their study on Argentinian, Japanese, French, and American mother-infant conversational
exchanges, Bornstein and colleagues found:

A. as a group, Argentinian mothers used more indirect speech than any other group

B. as a group US mothers used more commands as a way to structure learning context in

conversation than any other group

C. mothers in all cultural groups converse more with older children than with their infants

D. Japanese mothers were less responsive to their children than mothers in any other group

32. Crying, cooing, and babbling are all examples of which stage of language development?
 A. pre-linguistic

B. linguistic

C. referential

D. expressive

33. Around 2 to 3 months of age, infants are capable of producing open vowel sounds. These sounds
are examples of:

A. babbling

B. cooing

C. one-word utterances

D. morphemes

34. Enrique is a seventh month old infant. He is now making vocalizations that combine consonants
and vowels. He is communicating using which of the following?

A. cooing

B. phonemes

C. linguistic speech

D. babbling

35. Which of the following IS TRUE regarding infants abilities to discriminate sounds?

A. infants never acquire the ability to recognize sounds that do not belong to their native
language
 B. infants can only recognize the sounds of their native language when they hear verbal speech

C. somewhere between 2-3 months infants are able to distinguish sounds they hear frequently in
their native language from other unfamiliar sounds

D. somewhere between 10-12 months babies are better at distinguishing sounds they hear
frequently while weeding out unnecessary sounds

36. Isabella is fluent in six different languages. Her language ability makes her a:

A. bilingual speaker

B. polyglot

C. monolingual speaker

D. linguist

37. Katie is thinking about taking a foreign language while she is a university student. Which of the
following IS TRUE about language learning?

A. all individuals are similar in their ability to learn different languages

B. you can only learn a language while you are young

C. you can learn a language at any age but it is easier to do so while you are younger

D. you can only learn two languages throughout your lifetime

38. Neuroscience has contributed to our understanding of language acquisition. Which of the
following IS TRUE?

A. learning a language later in life has no cognitive benefits

B. if you learn different languages at birth, the same brain region will process those languages
 C. language learning decreases gray matter

D. language learning leads to white matter decay in the brain

39. The process by which children are socialized both through and to use language within a
community relates to:

A. enculturation

B. assimilation

C. accommodation

D. language socialization

40.Language socialization functions to teach children all of the following EXCEPT:

A. knowledge about cultural norms

B. knowledge about mind in culture

C. knowledge about cultural practices

D. how to produce speech

 Answers
Answer 1 – D

Answer 2 – C

Answer 3 - C

Answer 4 – B

Answer 5 – B

Answer 6 – D

Answer 7 – A

Answer 8 – B

Answer 9 – D

Answer 10 – A

Answer 11 – B

Answer 12 – C

Answer 13 – A

Answer 14 – A
Answer 15 – B

Answer 16 – B

Answer 17 – B

Answer 18 – B

Answer 19 – B

Answer 20 – D

Answer 21 – C

Answer 22 – A

Answer 23 – C

Answer 24 – D

Answer 25 – D

Answer 26 – D

Answer 27 – C

Answer 28 – C

Answer 29 – A

Answer 30 – D

Answer 31 – C

Answer 32 - A
Answer 33 - B

Answer 34 - D

Answer 35 - D

Answer 36 - B

Answer 37 - C

Answer 38 - B

Answer 39 - D

Answer 40- B