TRIBAL & REGIONAL LANGUAGES – LITERATURE
PAPER – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
Read the following passage carefully and answer Question Nos. 1 – 5 :
“We want that the whole world should know that we are the worshippers of peace, that we have our own history and that we believe in the co-existence of the people of the world. In fact, the organisation of the competitions of the
Olympic Games is only a means. We do regard these games as only a festival of the youth of the world where they may develop the qualities of friendship, brotherhood and mutual goodwill by mingling with one another and playing together in a healthy competitive spirit.”
1. What would be the proper heading of this passage ?
(A) Co-existence
(B) Worshipper of peace
(C) Olympic Game
(D) Brotherhood
2. What do we believe in ?
(A) In worship
(B) In co-existence
(C) In competition
(D) In Olympic Game
3. What is Olympic Game in fact ?
(A) Means
(B) Worship
(C) Brotherhood
(D) Competition
4. What is Olympic Game ?
(A) Competition
(B) Festival of the youth
(C) Friendship
(D) Organisation
5. What is the purpose of Olympic Game ?
(A) Meeting
(B) Worship
(C) Struggle
(D) Development of friendship, brotherhood and goodwill
6. When the second Panchayat Election was held in Jharkhand ?
(A) March 2012
(B) December 2011
(C) October 2011
(D) January 2012
7. Which is the highest peak in Jharkhand ?
(A) Jhumra Hill
(B) Parasnath Hill
(C) Netarhat
(D) Ranchi Hill
8. With which festival ‘Bhains Chuman’ is related ?
(A) Sohrai
(B) Sarhul
(C) Dussera
(D) Karam
9. How many second State languages are in Jharkhand ?
(A) 9
(B) 12
(C) 15
(D) 2
10. Who has written ‘The Khadias’ ?
(A) Dr. K. N. Singh
(B) Dr. K.S. Singh
(C) Dr. L.P. Vidyarthi
(D) S.C. Roy
11. What is the traditional profession of Karmali tribe ?
(A) Jhum cultivation
(B) Hunting
(C) Making tool of iron
(D) Food gathering
12. In which tribe the tradition of ‘Dakua’ is in vogue ?
(A) Binjhia
(B) Gond
(C) Ho
(D) Kharia
13. In which revolution Thakur Vishwanath Shahi was involved ?
(A) 1857
(B) 1831
(C) 1900
(D) 1915
14. Have Adivasi been benefitted with the Reservation Policy ?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) A little
(D) Not known
15. Assertion (A) : Adivasi and Sadan both celebrate ‘Karam’ festival.
Reason (R) : Because it is a traditional festival of Jharkhand.
Codes :
(A) (A) and (R) both are correct.
(B) (A) is correct, not (R).
(C) (A) and (R) both are wrong.
(D) (R) is correct, not (A).
16. Who was the founder of Jharkhand Pary ?
(A) N.E. Horo
(B) S.K. Bage
(C) Paul Dayal
(D) Jaipal Singh
17. Which award was given to Albert Ekka ?
(A) Veer Chakra
(B) Mahaveer Chakra
(C) Paramveer Chakra
(D) Defence Service Medal
18. Which tribe observes ‘Bandai’ festival ?
(A) Khadia
(B) Munda
(C) Mahali
(D) Lohra
19. Father Hoffman is remembered for
(A) Missionary work
(B) Encyclopaedia Mundarika
(C) As a foreigner
(D) Supporter of Adivasi
20. Development of Jharkhand depends on
(A) Co-ordination between Government and people
(B) Privatisation of Education
(C) Foreign Direct Investment
(D) Open Market
21. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee has worked in the field of
(A) Linguistics
(B) Grammar
(C) Literature
(D) History
22. Which is not correct ?
(A) Language is an untraditional entity.
(B) Language is a social entity.
(C) Language is an acquired property.
(D) Language is not paternal property.
23. What kind of change is in Telephone > Phone, Aeroplane > Plane, Bharatvarsh > Bharat ?
(A) Economy of effort
(B) Illiteracy
(C) Ignorance
(D) Uncarefulness
24. In which part of speech the word does not change ?
(A) Noun
(B) Pronoun
(C) Adjective
(D) Constant (Abyaya)
25. Identify the group of language having three numbers :
(A) Sanskrit, Hindi, Nagpuri, Mundari
(B) Mundari, Khadia, Ho, Sanskrit
(C) Santhali, Khortha, Kudukh, Kurmali
(D) Panchpargania, Sanskrit, Bangla, Odiya
26. ‘Dara Singh was the Bhim of Kaliyug.’ What is ‘Bhim’ in this sentence ?
(A) Noun
(B) Object
(C) Adjective
(D) Subject
27. What was Malinovski’s main field of study ?
(A) History
(B) Linguistics
(C) Economics
(D) Grammar
28. To which group the sounds Cha, Chha, Ja, Jha, Yian belong ?
(A) Bilabial
(B) Cerebral
(C) Dental
(D) Palatal
29. Identify the correct match :
30. Which statement is not correct ?
(A) There is no final form of language.
(B) The stream of language flow from easy to difficult form.
(C) Language has a historical and geographical limit.
(D) The change of language happens first in oral form.
31. Which group is correct in regard to the Indo-European family ?
(A) Arabic, Chinese, Tamil, Kudukh
(B) Greek, Malayalam, Tibatti, Santhali
(C) French, Kannada, Japani, Mundari
(D) Sanskrit, Parsi, Latin, German
32. Whether Sadani belongs to the Austric group of language ?
(A) No
(B) Yes
(C) To some extent
(D) To great extent
33. When a dialect becomes language ?
(A) When the Government accepts it.
(B) When the people accept it.
(C) When best literature is written.
(D) When grammar and dictionary are standardised.
34. Which statement is more correct in regard to the mother-tongue ?
(A) Deprives from International language
(B) Handicaps love of nation
(C) Strengthens base of education
(D) Obstructs national language
35. Which is the correct example of contraction of meaning ?
(A) Pashu, Mrig, Murg
(B) Patra, Tail, Maharaj
(C) Var, Akashwani, Mugdh
(D) Asur, Ling, Ghrina
36. What is ‘Mani Praval’ ?
(A) Classical mix-up of Sanskrit and local languages
(B) Pearl necklaces
(C) Marathi word
(D) Pali language
37. When Ramanujacharya reached to Assam ?
(A) 15th century
(B) 2nd century
(C) 13th century
(D) 21st century
38. Which is written in ‘Laukik Sanskrit” ?
(A) Upanishad
(B) Puran
(C) Mahabharat
(D) Kumar Sambhavam
39. ‘Manimekalai’ is related to
(A) Vaishnavas
(B) Baudhs
(C) Sanatanis
(D) Jains
40. To which State Chaitanya Mahaprabhu belonged ?
(A) Assam
(B) Bengal
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Punjab
41. Who has named ‘Veergatha Kal’ ?
(A) Ramvilas Sharma
(B) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
(C) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi
(D) Ram Chandra Shukla
42. Which is the period of ‘Bhakti Kal’ ?
(A) 1050 – 1375 A.D.
(B) 1375 – 1700 A.D.
(C) 1400 – 1800 A.D.
(D) 1700 – 1900 A.D.
43. Who is the author of ‘Padmavata’ ?
(A) Jayasi
(B) Kabir
(C) Nanak
(D) Raidas
44. Who has written “Bharat Durdasha’ ?
(A) Biharilal
(B) Rahim
(C) Bharatendu
(D) Hariaudh
45. Who is modern Meerabai ?
(A) Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
(B) Yashodhara Rathaur
(C) Mahadevi Verma
(D) Gargi
46. Which one is the novel of Tarashankar Bandopadhyay ?
(A) Gora
(B) Charitraheen
(C) Geetanjali
(D) Arogya Niketan
47. When the publication of the Assamese Patrika, Arunoday started ?
(A) 1848 A.D.
(B) 1880 A.D.
(C) 1846 A.D.
(D) 1800 A.D.
48. Who was the cultural leader of Orissa ?
(A) Dr. B.K. Behura
(B) Gope Bandhu Das
(C) Gopal Chandra Prahraj
(D) Fakir Mohan Senapati
49. Which writer of Jharkhand has been awarded with ‘Durgawati Samman’ ?
(A) Mahua Maje
(B) Rose Kerketta
(C) Vidyabhusan
(D) Ashok Pagal
50. Who is the main character of ‘Godan’ ?
(A) Dhania
(B) Gobar
(C) Hori
(D) Rai Saheb
51. ‘Poetry is the best word in best order.’ Who has defined poetry in these words ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Plato
(D) Browning
52. What is the primary element of literature ?
(A) Feeling
(B) Thought
(C) Imagination
(D) Style
53. What is flashback technique ?
(A) Imagination of future
(B) Present anxiety
(C) Remembrance of the past
(D) Historical events
54. Is literature useful for society ?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) To some extent
(D) To great extent
55. “Sabdarthou Sahitau Kavyam.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?
(A) Bhamah
(B) Dandi
(C) Mammata
(D) Vishwanath
56. Which ‘Kavya-guna’ is appropriate for Veer Rasa ?
(A) Oj
(B) Madhurya
(C) Prasad
(D) None
57. ‘His village is heaven.’ What is ‘heaven’ in this sentence ?
(A) Upmeya
(B) Upman
(C) Samanya Dharm
(D) None
58. What alankar is in ‘Chhavigrih deepshikha janu barai’ ?
(A) Upma
(B) Rupak
(C) Utpreksha
(D) None
59. What is ‘Kavya-dosh’ ?
(A) Which obstruct the realisation of Rasa
(B) Which is helpful in the understanding of meaning
(C) Lack of Alankars
(D) None
60. Who is the author of ‘Sahityadarpan’ ?
(A) Bhamah
(B) Mammat
(C) Vishwanath
(D) Anandvardhan
61. What is expressed in Folk-literature ?
(A) Folk mind
(B) Individual mind
(C) Civic Sense
(D) Common Sense
62. What is the simple identification of folk-literature ?
(A) Unavailability of name of writer
(B) Availability of the name of writer
(C) Simplicity of language
(D) Local colour
63. What is the name for the folktales related to the fairies ?
(A) Fairy Tales
(B) Lori
(C) Ballad
(D) Legend
64. In which folk-literature religious belief is dominant ?
(A) Myth
(B) Legend
(C) Fairy tales
(D) None
65. Whether State language and folklanguage are one and the same ?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) To some extent
(D) To great extent
66. To which category of language Santhali belongs ?
(A) National language
(B) Language of Santhal Pargana
(C) 8th Schedule language
(D) Extinct language
67. On which language Ahlad Tirkey has worked ?
(A) Nagpuri
(B) Kudukh
(C) Hindi
(D) English
68. What is the field of work of Dhanursingh Purty ?
(A) Grammar
(B) Story
(C) History
(D) Drama
69. Who is the first poet of Khadia ?
(A) Julius Baa
(B) Nuas Kerketta
(C) Joakim Dungdung
(D) Paulus Kullu
70. Which is the first novel of Nagpuri ?
(A) Du Dair : Bis fool
(B) Shankar Gotek Jingi
(C) Nerua Lota
(D) Sato Nadi Par
71. Jharkhand is a ‘Jhumar Desh’. Whose statement is this ?
(A) Girish Chandra Mahanti
(B) Nand Kishore Singh
(C) H.N. Singh
(D) Basant Kumar Mehta
72. Who is the writer of ‘Palas Ke Ful’ ?
(A) Deenbandhu Mahto
(B) Parmanand Mahto
(C) Karam Chand Ahir
(D) Santosh Sahu Preetam
73. What is ‘Metmat’ ?
(A) Drama
(B) Novel
(C) Story collection
(D) Collection of poems
74. Who is the editor of ‘Jonoka Kajiko’ ?
(A) Tulsinarayan Singh Munda
(B) Mansidha Badajud
(C) Amita Munda
(D) Ram Dayal Munda
75. Is it necessary to include the tribal and regional languages in the education system of Jharkhand State ?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) To some extent
(D) To great extent
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