FOLK LITERATURE
PAPER – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. Which of the religious texts of Hinduism deal with Cosmogony, Cosmology any Cosmic Cycles ?
(1) Itihasas
(2) Puranas
(3) Vedas
(4) Upanishads
2. ‘Buffalo horn dance’, which projects rehearsals for war, is performed by :
(1) Garo
(2) Chakma
(3) Oraon
(4) Mizo
3. During which festival lathi-wielding devotees hit each other on the heads to commemorate the killing of a demon by Siva ?
(1) Maha Sivaratri
(2) Holi
(3) Dussehra
(4) Baisakhi
4. ‘Adage’ is a synonym for :
(1) Proverb
(2) Joke
(3) Riddle
(4) Ballad
5. To give an overview of relevant theories and concepts for your research is done as part of :
(1) Correlation Method
(2) Literature Survey
(3) Fieldwork Survey
(4) Random Sampling
6. ‘Belief that gods are only deitified men’ is known as :
(1) Anthropomorphism
(2) Ego theism
(3) Theopantheism
(4) Anthropotheism
7. Which community follows the practice of burying the dead in a sitting posture resembling “dhyana mudra” ?
(1) Vellalar
(2) Lingayat
(3) Khatri
(4) Gurjar
8. ‘Kolatam’, a folk dance of Andhra Pradesh is having its equivalence in Gujarat in :
(1) Padhar
(2) Tippani
(3) Bhavai
(4) Dandiaraas
9. Who defined Folklore as “a body of knowledge, a mode of thought, or a kind of art” ?
(1) Alan Dundes
(2) Dan Ben-Amos
(3) Richard Bouman
(4) Americo paredes
10. A word formed from the initial letters or Syllables of other words is termed as :
(1) Cryptonym
(2) Antonym
(3) Paronym
(4) Acronym
11. Who opined that under the conditions of socialist reality, folklore assumes new forms and becomes new both in quality and content ?
(1) Soviet folklorists
(2) Finnish folklorists
(3) British folklorists
(4) French folklorists
12. The approach that works towards constructing genre and text type histories is termed as :
(1) Synchronic Approach
(2) Syntagmatic Approach
(3) Diachronic Approach
(4) Paradigmatic Approach
13. ‘Saga’ is a medieval narrative genre of :
(1) Scandinavia
(2) Bolivia
(3) Yugoslavia
(4) Serbia
14. A political system in which people of different races are segregated is termed as :
(1) Holocaust
(2) Racist
(3) Ethnic Nationalism
(4) Apartheid
15. The school of thought that viewed the Indo-European language roots as the basis for the ancient cultures is :
(1) Comparative Etymology
(2) Comparative Aetiology
(3) Comparative Philology
(4) Comparative Phonology
16. Which of the Shaivite Sect follow the practice of necrophagy ?
(1) Vira Shaiva
(2) Pasupata
(3) Goraknath
(4) Aghori
17. The method of bricolage used for the data to understand its structure with a priori formula is known as :
(1) Syntagmatic Structuralism
(2) Paradigmatic Structuralism
(3) Synchronic Structuralism
(4) Pragmatic Structuralism
18. ‘Khayal’ is a folk dance whose content is ascribed to two of the following texts :
(a) Matsya Purana
(b) Ramayana
(c) Mahabharata
(d) Bhagavat Gita
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (c) are correct
(3) (a) and (d) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
19. According to evolution theoreticians, “Folk” denotes two of the following.
(a) Survivals
(b) Cannibals
(c) Noble Savage
(d) Noble barbarians
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (a) and (c) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
20. The operation of ‘Oral Transmission’ is subject to the abstract principles of :
(a) Continuity
(b) Variation
(c) Innovation
(d) Selection
Code :
(1) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
(2) (b), (c) and (d) are correct
(3) (b) and (c) are correct
(4) (a) and (d) are correct
21. Identify the folklorist who published on sacred complexes and a folksong tradition respectively :
(a) Birendranath Datta
(b) L.P. Vidyarthi
(c) Praphulladatta Goswami
(d) Devendra Satyarthi
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (a) and (c) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
22. Identify the American folklorist who worked on Indian Ballad tradition and folksong tradition respectively :
(a) Brenda Beek
(b) Ruth Finnegan
(c) Margaret Trawiek
(d) Margaret Mead
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (a) and (c) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
23. Identify a popular dance form and a theatrical form from the North Indian folk traditions.
(a) Rouf
(b) Naqual
(c) Kundheinata
(d) Lavani
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (b) are correct
(3) (a) and (d) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
24. ‘Manaism’ is the study related to :
(a) Cosmology
(b) Primitive Religion
(c) Nature Worship
(d) Ancestral Worship
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (c) are correct
(3) (a) and (d) are correct
(4) (b) and (d) are correct
25. The concepts of Folklorism and Public Folklore are associated with :
(a) Regina Bendix
(b) Benjamin Botkin
(c) Barbara Babeock
(d) Felix Oinas
Code :
(1) (a) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (b) are correct
(3) (b) and (d) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
26. The term ‘Cacography’ refers to :
(a) Illegible dialect
(b) Bad Language
(c) Bad Spelling
(d) Illegible handwriting
Code :
(1) (a) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (b) are correct
(3) (b) and (d) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
27. Identify the diachronic theories of folklore :
(a) Functionalism
(b) Psychoanalytical
(c) Polygenesis
(d) Devolution
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (c) and (d) are correct
(3) (a) and (c) are correct
(4) (a) and (d) are correct
28. Identify the correct group of folklorists.
(a) Claude Bremond and Kongas Maranda
(b) Alan Dundes and Edward Said
(c) Bruce Jackson and Kenneth Goldstein
(d) James Mill and Stith Thompson
Code :
(1) (b) and (c) are correct
(2) (c) and (d) are correct
(3) (a) and (c) are correct
(4) (a) and (d) are correct
29. As a literary rhetorical device, ‘Epithet’ refers to a short poetic nickname often in the form of an adjective attached to the normal name and includes :
(a) Antonomasia
(b) Archetypal Onoma
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Polyonymous
Code :
(1) (a) and (b) are correct
(2) (a) and (c) are correct
(3) (b) and (c) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
30. The concept of folklorismus and Applied folklore are associated with :
(a) Roger Abrahams
(b) Hans Moser
(c) Alan Dundes
(d) Benjamin Botkin
Code :
(1) (a) and (c) are correct
(2) (a) and (b) are correct
(3) (b) and (d) are correct
(4) (c) and (d) are correct
31. Assertion (A) : According to Paul Ricoeur human beings experience time in two different ways.
Reason (R) : Phenomenological time is in linear succession and cosmological time is oriented as ‘Past – Present – Future’.
Code :
(1) (A) is true and (R) is false
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false
(3) (A) is false and (R) is true
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true
32. Assertion (A) : Freud analysed dreams on the basis of the manifest content of dream images, while Jung focussed on the underlying content of the dreams.
Reason (R) : Dreams reveal more than they conceal. They are a natural expression of our imagination and use mythic narratives.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(3) (A) is false and (R) is true and (R) is not the correct explanation.
(4) (A) is true and (R) is false.
33. Assertion (A) : Terukuttu is a street theatre form from Telangana State.
Reason (R) : Terukuttu performance centre on the enactment of personal narratives having political satire.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(3) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(4) (A) is true and (R) is false.
34. Assertion (A) : Malinowski defined the contextual specification of meaning as part of his ethnography theory of language .
Reason (R) : A very important distinction exists in ethnography of language between the context of situation and the context of culture.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
(3) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(4) (A) is true and (R) is false.
35. Assertion (A) : A pilgrimage is a displacement of individuals from their local communities for a temporary time frame.
Reason (R) : According to Victor Turner, pilgrimage has a tripartite rite of passage experience.
Code :
(1) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true.
36. Assertion (A) : Counter narrative is a narrative that explains a different version and opposes an existing dominant narrative.
Reason (R) : Counter narrative offers a society legitimation through a process of repelling.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(2) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(3) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true.
37. Assertion (A) : A living language is a concrete fact, grammar is its abstract substratum.
Reason (R) : Not a single concrete fact can be studied without the study of the abstract base.
Code :
(1) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(2) (R) is true and (A) is false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are false.
38. Assertion (A) : Sassure contended that language must be considered as a social phenomenon, a structured system.
Reason (R) : Language can be viewed synchronically and diachronically.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(3) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false and (R) is true.
39. Assertion (A) : Contextual folklorists leaning towards verbal behaviour, functionalism, role – playing and ego mechanisms applied these perspectives to the folklore traditions.
Reason (R) : Contextual studies aim at introducing the holistic rather than atomistic study of the unique social experience.
Code :
(1) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(2) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true.
40. Assertion (A) : Jainism does not believe in Supreme Being as a creator or destroyer deity.
Reason (R) : Jainism has been described as a trans – theistic religion referring to a system of thought which is neither theistic, nor atheistic, but is beyond them.
Code :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(3) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false and (R) is true.
41. Assertion (A) : Derrida uses the term ‘difference’ to describe the origin of presence and absence.
Reason (R) : ‘Difference’ may be the condition for that which is deferred, and may be the condition for that which is different.
Code :
(1) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(2) (A) and (R) are false.
(3) (A) is true and (R) is false and (R) is not the correct explanation.
(4) (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.
42. Identify the correct group of folk dance performances of the state of Punjab.
(1) Teej, Saag, Bhangra, Dhumal
(2) Bagurumba, Jagar, Giddha, Garba
(3) Bhangra, Giddha, Jhumar, Kikkli
(4) Dindi, Bhangra, Jhumar, Gotipua
43. Sequence the mythological Trickster characters – Hermes, Narada, Mercury and Heyoka -with the cultures mentioned below :
(a) Native American
(b) Indian
(c) Roman
(d) Greek
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (a), (c), (d), (b)
(3) (b), (d), (c), (a)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
44. Sequence the festivals according to their occurrence :
(a) Dusserah
(b) Holi
(c) Rathyatra
(d) X – Mas
Code :
(1) (b), (c), (a), (d)
(2) (c), (b), (d), (a)
(3) (a), (d), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (c), (b), (a)
45. Sequence of the Epic heroes – Rama, Hanuman, Krishna and Vishnu – who killed the following she-demons in Hindu mythology :
(a) Lankhini
(b) Holika
(c) Puthana
(d) Tataki
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (d), (c), (a)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
46. Sequence of the lingo of the folk communities that the following scholars worked with :
(a) Birendranath Datta
(b) Kailasapathy
(c) Paramashivaiah
(d) Wanjana Bedi
Code :
(1) Oriya, Tamil, Assamese, Kannada
(2) Assamese, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi
(3) Oriya, Kannada, Tamil, Assamese
(4) Assamese, Oriya, Kannada, Tamil
47. Sequence the following concepts with the Scholars – Clifford Geertz, Roland Robertson, Jean Baudrillard, David Harvey :
(a) Constructionalism
(b) Glocalisation
(c) Hyper reality
(d) Post – fordism
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (c), (d), (a)
(3) (a), (b), (d), (c)
(4) (c), (d), (a), (b)
48. Sequence the literary Devices – Antecedent, Archetype, Eulogy, Hyperbole – with the following usage :
(a) Exaggeration
(b) Refers back
(c) Praise
(d) Universal Pattern
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (d), (c), (a)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
49. Identify the correct group of phonological cues which form the oral texture.
(1) Stress shift, Gesticulation, Amplitude, Beckon
(2) Gesticulation, Cadence, Allusion, Cacophony
(3) Stress shift, Intonation, Amplitude, Tone
(4) Euphony, Assonance, Synecdoche, Anaphora
50. Sequence of Scholars who gave performance turn to the study of culture, is :
(1) Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, Milton Singer
(2) Ben Amos, Roger Abrahams, Richard Bauman
(3) John Foley, Alan Dundes, Mary Douglas
(4) Stuart Blackburn, Roger Abrahams, Lauri Hanko
51. Sequence the stages in Historic – Geographic method followed for analysing folklore texts :
(1) Redaction, Variant, Ur – form and Normal form
(2) Normal form, Redaction, Ur – form and Variant
(3) Variant, Redaction, Normal form and Ur – form
(4) Ur – form, Normal form, Variant and Redaction
52. Sequence the Goddess – Durga, Saraswati, Lakshmi, Ganga – with their vehicles :
(a) Crocodile
(b) Lion
(c) Owl
(d) Swan
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (d), (c), (a)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
53. Identify the correct group of Folklorists.
(1) Bauman, Frazer, James Mill, Toynbee
(2) Bauman, Max Muller, Ricardo, Dundes
(3) Ben Amos, Roger Abrahams, Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall
(4) Don Yoder, Richard Dorson, Barre Toeken, Milman Parry
54. Sequence of the Scholars who are connected with Evolutionary Theory :
(a) Lewis Henry Morgan
(b) Alfred Kroeber
(c) Franz Boas
(d) Edward Burnett Tylor
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (a), (c), (b), (d)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (b), (a), (c)
55. Sequence the Gods – Agni, Kubera, Shani, Yama – with their vehicles :
(a) Water Buffalo
(b) Man
(c) Crow
(d) Goat
Code :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (d), (c), (a)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
56. Which one is the correct sequence of the Scholars associated with the concepts ?
(a) Oral Literature
(b) Individuation
(c) Tradition – bearer
(d) Verbal art
Code :
(1) Carl Jung, Von Sydow, Robert Redfield, William Bascom
(2) William Bascom, Robert Redfield, Von Sydow, Carl Jung
(3) Robert Redfield, Carl Jung,Von Sydow, William Bascom
(4) Robert Redfield, William Bascom, Von Sydow, Carl Jung
57. Sequence the key steps in ethnographic research :
(1) Participant observation, Field notes, Interviewing, Research write-up
(2) Participant observation, Research question, Research write-up
(3) Non-participant observation, Interviewing, Research write-up
(4) Research question, observation of participation, Field notes, Interview
58. Sequence the terms – Alterity, Glocalization, Grand narrative and Hyperreality – coined by the scholars :
(a) Baudrillard
(b) Lyotard
(c) Robertson
(d) Althusser
Code :
(1) (c), (b), (d), (a)
(2) (a), (c), (d), (b)
(3) (d), (c), (b), (a)
(4) (a), (c), (b), (d)
59. Arrange the phobias – pneumatiphobia, phasmophobia, Hagiophobia, Zeusophobia in the correct order :
(a) Fear of God
(b) Fear of Saints
(c) Fear of Ghosts
(d) Fear of Spirits
Code :
(1) (a), (c), (b), (d)
(2) (d), (c), (b), (a)
(3) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(4) (d), (b), (c), (a)
60. Give the correct sequence of the Propp’s functions in Villainy :
(a) Kidnapping a person
(b) The threat of cannibalism
(c) Declaration of war
(d) False Substitution
Code :
(1) (b), (a), (d), (c)
(2) (c), (d), (a), (b)
(3) (b), (c), (a), (d)
(4) (a), (d), (b), (c)
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68. Which one of the pair is correctly matched ?
(1) Levi – Strauss – syntagmatic
(2) V. Propp – variable
(3) Stith Thompson – diachronic
(4) Von Sydow – emic
69. Match the following :
70. Which pair is not correctly matched that worked on Folktales ?
(1) Antti Aarne and Stith Thomson
(2) Vladimir Propp and Alan Dundes
(3) Max Muller and E.B. Tylor
(4) Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
71. Match the following :
72. Which of the pair correctly matched with proverbial scholarship ?
(1) Alan Dundes and Eric From
(2) Permiakov and Wolfgang Mieder
(3) M.B. Emeneau and Jack Zipes
(4) Archer Taylor and Catherine Bell
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74. Which one of the pair is not currectly matched ?
(1) Kalevepoeg – Finnish
(2) Byliny – Russian
(3) Shahnama – Iranian
(4) Nibelungenlied – Germany
75. Match the following :
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