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‘ Maximum : 100 marks
Time : 1 hour and 15 minutes

1.Who is considered as the founder of inductive Method?
(A)Aristotle 
(B) Leibniz
(C ) Francis Bacon
(D) Plato

2.Who among the modern thinkers suggested the ontological proof for the existence of God?
(A) John Locke
(B)Descartes
(C ) Spinoza
(D)Hegel

3.John Lacke denied the validity of:
(A) Abstract ideas
(B)Absolute ideas
(C ) Innate ideas
(D)Relative ideas

4.Whose philosophy is known as Absolute Idealism?
(A) Hegel
(B)Marx
(C ) Kant
(D)Berkeley

5.‘Intcractionism' is related to :
(A) Descartes
(B)Bacon
(C ) Locke
(D)Kierkegaard

6,Who is considered as the first recorded philosopher of the West?
(A) Plato
(B)Zeno
(C ) Thales
(D)Socrates

7.‘Esse est Percipii leads to :
(A) Perception
(B)Solipcism
(C ) Objectivity
(D)Skepticism

8.Who among these thinkers explained the paradoxes of motion?
(A) Heeraclitus
(B)Marx
(C ) Hegel
(D)Zeno

9.'Ethics’ is written by :
(A) Aristotle
(B)Spinoza
(C ) Kant
(D)William Lilly

10.‘Transcendental Metaphysical Pluralism' is related to :
(A)Hegel
(B) Anaxi mander
(C ) Sophists
(D) Leibniz

11.introduces the term henotheism’.
(A) Paul Deossen 
(B)Max Muller
(C ) Karl Potter
(D) Bloomfield

12.Who says that difference is the very nature of things?
(A) Sri Sankara
(B) Nimbarka 
(C )Madhva
(D) Ramanuja

13.Mimamsa believes in the unseen power called :
(A) Dharma
(B) Apurva 
(C ) Nitya
(D) Vibhu

14.A fallacy in Indian logic is known as :
(A) Abhava 
(B) Hetva bhasa 
(C ) Vyapti
(D) Hetu

15.The only means of valid knowledge for Carvaka is
(A) Inference 
(B) Sabda 
(C ) Abhava
(D) Perception

16.‘Anyatakyati’ is a theory of error in : 
(A) Nyaya School 
(B) Samkya School 
(C ) Vedanta School
(D) Buddhism

17.‘Dharmabhuta Jnana’ is a key concept in :
(A) Advaita 
(B) Visistadvaita 
(C ) Duaitu
(D) Jainism

18.Which among the following is not a principle of Niyama?
(A)Ahimsa
(B)Saratosha
(C )Tapas
(D)Swadhyaya

19.The advaita theory of superimposition is :
(A)Avidhyu
(B)Maya
(C )Akyati
(D)Adhyasa

20.Which among the following is not included in Prastanatraya?
(A) Ramayana
(B) Brahma sutra
(C ) Upanisud
(D) Bhagavat Gita

21.-------------is making a mental union of fads observed by means of a general conception.
(A) Universal law
(B)Parity of reasoning
(C ) Simple enumeration
(D)Colligation of facts

22.A' hypothesis leads to nowhere is called :•
(A) Rival hypothesis
(B)False hypothesis
(C ) Barren hypothesis
(D)Working hypot hesis

23.Full inverse of SAP is :
(A) SEP
(B)SIP
(G) SOP
(D)PAS

24.'induction is the inverse operation of deduction'Whosays so:
(A) J.S. Mill
(B)Aristotle
(C ) Bacon
(D)Jevon

25.A negative fallacy of omission of facts is called :
(A) Mal-obscrvation
(B)Non-observation
(C ) Illogical non observation
(D)Observation of facts

26.(dve).(fvg)
DVE is a form of:
(A) absorption
(B)addition
(C ) conjunction
(D)simplification

27.An O’ proposition distributes :
(A) PredicatemSubject
(C ) Both subject and predicate
(D)None of these

28.Blind’ is aterm.
(A) Positive
(B)Negative
(C ) Relative
(D)Privative

29.Genus and species refer to.......of a term. 
(A)Denotation 
(B) Connotation
(C ) Definition
(D) Division

30.Which of the following proposition does not yield a contra positive?
(A)A
(B)E ’
(C )I
(D)O

31.Which among the following is the norm of Ethics?
(A)Truth
(B)Beauty
(C ) Goodness
(D) Knowledge

32.Choose the theory that considers pleasure as the ultimate standard of morality?
(A) Hedonism
(B) lntuitionism
(C )Rationalism
(D)None of these

33.The theory of categorical imperative is associated with:
(A)llegel
(B)Kant
(C )J.S. Mill
(D)Bentham

34. Who regarded that the story of universe as a process of spiritual evolution?
(A) Marx 
(B) Descartes 
(C ) Hegel
(D) Bacon

35.Choose the odd concept among the following :
(A) Wisdom 
(B) Courage
(C ) Temperance
(D) Love

36.Ethical Skepticism is associated with :
(A) logical positivism 
(B) Categorical Imperative
(C ) Psychologism
(D) Ordinary Language Philosophy

37.Which of the following is not a maxim of Kant’s moral theory?
(A) Universality
(B) Dignity of man
(C ) Kingdom of ends
(D) Maximum amount of pleasure

38. Who holds the view that individuals special duties are determined by his stution in society?
(A) Kant
(B)Hegel
(C ) Bradley
(D)J.S. Mill

39.'We ought to seek pleasure’ is:
(A) Ethical Hedonism
(B)Psychological Hedonism
(C ) Utilitarianism
(D)None of these

10.Ethical statements are mere expression of emotion - This theory is known as :
(A) Rational theory to ethics
(B)Conceptual theory of ethics
(C ) Emotive theory of ethics
(D)Derivative theory of ethics

41.“A complete self-knowledge in all things and at all moments’ is the gift of the Gnostic being.
(A) psvchicised
(B)overmental
(C ) supramental
(D)intuitional

42.Mahatma Gandhi asserted that he had never found a double meaning of Truth, and even atheists had not denied the power of Truth. So he preferred the aphorism :
(A) Truth is God
(B)God is Truth
(C ) God is Love
(D)God is Absolute

43.M. N. Roy conceived the human urge for freedom as ahigher manifestation of the biological:
(A) survival
(B)competition
(C ) struggle for existence
(D)none of these

44.Problems of Ethics is the work of :
(A) M. X. Roy
(B)G. E. Moore
(C ) Rudolf Carnap
(D)Moritz Schlick

45.Of the following, , according universal religion.to Vivekananda, is the specific feature of
(A) agnosticism
(B)catholicity
(C ) intolerance
(D)pantheism

46.Sree Narayana Guru defined Jati as :
(A) species
(B)caste
(C ) bovinity
(D)progeny

47.According to B. R. Ambedkur, what is unnatural about caste system is precisely the :
(A)sub-division of society
(B)self-enclosed nature of the sub-division
(C )class division
(D)all these

48.Martin Luther King’s remark “Christ furnished the spirit and motivation white Gandhi furnished the method'' refers to :
(A)Swaraj
(B)Sarvodaya
(C )Satyagraha
(D)Karma Yoga

49.The triple transformation through psychicisation, spiritualization, and supramentalization constitutes :
(A)Jnana Yoga
(B)Hatha Yoga
(C )Laya Yoga
(D)Puma Yoga

50.J.N. Mohanty remarks, “In the functioning body the mundane a‘nd the transcendental coincide”. Here he contextualizes the prospects of integration between ----------and phenomenology in consciousness studies.
(A)metaphysics
(B)neuroscience
(C ) mysticism'
(D) all these

51.According to J. Krishnamurty. “Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another.” This, is so because the former is not--------------like the latter.
(A)free from authority
(B) in the past
(C ) a bondage
(D) both (B) and (C )

52.In feminist criticism, the distinction between ‘female' and ‘feminine’ implies the distinction between the----------------------perspectives.
(A) gender-based and cultural
(B) biological and cultural
(C ) political and cultural
(D) none of these

53.The neologism'differa nee’ signifies both 'difference’ and :
(A) different
(B) deference
(C ) deferential
(D) deferral

54.In Kierkegaardian dialectic, a societal and community life is lived in------------stage.
(A)ethical
(B) aesthetic
(C ) religious
(D) both (A) and (B)

55.According to Sartre, being-for-itself refers to the :
(A)future
(B) past
(C ) present
(D) facticity

56.According to Heidegger, the------------------of Dasein causes its inauthenticity.
(A) existenz
(B) fallenness
(C ) facticity
(D) all these

57.Philosophical hermeneutics, by denying the scope of ‘the controlled bracketing-off of presuppositions’, recognized the role of-----------------------in the acquisition of knowledge.
(A) scientific method
(B) evidence
(C ) interpretation
(D) demonstration

58.Ecofeminist critique of the binary opposites which are expressive of a power structure attacks :
(A) anthropocenlricisra
(B) androcentrism
(C ) both(A) and (B)
(D) neither (A) nor (B)

59.Saussure’s pronouncement ‘there is no inherent connection between a word and what it designates’ signifies precisely that a sign in language is :
(A) structural 
(B) ideal 
(C ) constitutive
(D) arbitrary

60.According to C.S. Pierce, “It is absurd to say that thought has any meaning----------------to
 its only function".
(A) related 
(B) equivalent
(C ) unrelated
(D) experimental

61.---------------as an ideological construct is to crucial to cultural/caste/gender studies.

(A) otherness 
(B) re-reading 
(C ) humanism
(D) multiculturalism

62.Foucault’s concept of ‘panoptiedsm’ signifies :
(A) reforming prisoners 
(B) all-seeing surveillance 
(C ) social construction
(D) linguistic framework

63. In medical field, a questionable increase has been reported in the number of Caesarian surgeries. This refers to the unethical practice of:
(A)rebates and commission
(B) advertising and promotion
(C ) violating confidentiality
(D) unnecessary procedures

64.one can do Indian philosophy outside Sanskrit/’ This remark indicates the current trendthat follows the attempts of Vivekananda and Aurobindo to-----------------the conventional elitist and exclusive tendency in the study of classical Indian philosophy.
(A) reintroduce 
(B)definite descriptions
(C ) remove
(D) none of these

65.Russell proposed the elimination of...like ‘the present King of France’ from a perfect language scheme.
(A) indefinite descriptions
(C ) proper names
(B)reinforce
(D)reassess

66.“Meaning is not something external to language-use and therefore there is no gap between what we do in language and the meaning of language.” This remark explicates the nature of:
(A) picture theory
(B) language-games
(C )perfect language
(D) semantics

67.“FalsificationisnT and Incommensurability thesis’ represent the initiative of contemporary philosophers of science to challenge the -----------of scientism.
(A) weakness 
(B)subjugation
(C ) plurality
(D)hegemony

68.Noam Chomsky’s innatist linguistic theory asserts the existence of : 
(A) universal grammar
(B) pragmatics
(C )perfect language
(D) all these

69. The term .- implies the dialectics of the revival of traditional wisdom and for social revolution
(A) Scientism (C ) Neo-Platonism
(B) Neo-Vedanta (D) Neo-Colonialism

70.Business ethics insists on entrepreneurs being transparent about the :
(A) source of labour
(B) environmental risks
(C )ingredients used in the product
(D)’ all these

71.Which of the following sampling method is preferred for studying heterogeneous population?
(A) Simple random sampling
(B) Stratified sampling
(C ) Convenient sampling
(D) Systematic sampling

72.A test that examine subjects’ thoughts and thought processes is :
(A)Cognitive test
(B)Affective test
(C )Standardized test
(D)Generalized test

73.Which of the following is most appropriate about discussion part of a research paper?
(A)It elaborates importance of the topic
(B)Explain how the findings concur with that of others
(C )Deals with method of sampling and recruitments
(D)Deals with findings of the relevant studies

74.The process of collecting and analyzing information to develop or enhance a theory is :
(A)Basic research
(B)Applied research
(C )Evaluation
(D)None of the above

75.If you want to determine whether and to what degree a relationship exists between two or more variables what kind of study you have to do?
(A)Descriptive
(B)Correlation
(C )Causal-comparative
(D)Experimental

76.Creating a class room climate conducive to develop positive self concept in students is by :
(A)Challenge and freedom
(B)Respect and warmth
(C )Control and success
(D)All the above

77.Which of the following teacher will be liked most?
(A)A teacher who maintain discipline in the classroom
(B)A teacher who make teaching learning process enjoyable
(C )A teacher who give more home work
(D)A teacher who take more number of classes

78.An instructional model that identifies the major variable in the teaching Learning process includes :
(A)Individual differences
(B)Principle of learning
(C )Teacher behaviour
(D)All the above

79.The extent of teachers’ subject matter and pedagogical expertise indicates the teachers :
(A)Efficacy
(B)Morale
(C )Competency
(D)Efficiency

80.What will be the impact of interactive teaching?
(A)It will make teaching learning process difficult
(B)It will create confusion among students
(C )Students will bo expected to listen only
(D)It will make teaching learning process effective, democratic and friendly

81.The term socialist has been inserted in the preamble by the------------------Amendment Act of the Constitution.
(A) 43
(B) 42
(C ) 41
(D) 40

82. Right for freedom to form Association is provided in---------------Article of the Constitution.
(A) 19(l)(a)
(B)19(1)(b)
(C ) 19(l)(C )
(D)19(1 )(d)

83Money Bill can be introduced in :
(A) Lok Sabha
(B)Kajya Sabha
(C ) Both (A) and (B)
(D)N'one of the above

84. legislative council of a State :
(A)Can be dissolved by the Governor
(B)Can be abolished by the President with the advice of the Governor of the State
(C )Can be abolished by the Parliament based on the resolution passed by the majority of the Legislative Assembly
(D)Can be abolished by the Governor based on the resolution passed by the majority of the Legislative Assembly

85.Which of the following statement is true?
(1)The President can make a proclamation declaring emergency only when he receives in writing the decision of the Union Cabinet to this effect
(2)The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of internal disturbance
(3)The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of Armed Rebellion
(4)The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of External Aggression
(A)1,2,3
(B)1, 3, 4
(C ) 2.3,4
(D) 1, 2, 3, 4

86.According to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 Child mean the person who has not completed his----------year of age.
(A)18
(B)16
(C )15
(D)14

87.What in the penalty for the refusal of the RT1 application by the Public information Officer?
(A)Rs. 5,000 and 1 month imprisonment 
(B)Rs.1,000 and 1 month imprisonment
(C )Rs. 5,000
(D)Rs.25,000

88.Which of the following statement is not true?
(A)Nochild shall be requiredto work for more than3hours at a stretch
(B)Nochild shall be requiredto work for more than6hours includingrefit, period
(C )Nochild shall be permitted to work between 8 p.m.and 8 a.m.
(D)None of the above

89.The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act., 2013:
(1)Protects women working in that place
(2)Protects any women who enters the work place like clients, customer, etc.
(3)Protects all the employees who are working there
(4)Protects only women working in government institutions
(A)1 and 2.
(B)2 and 3
(C )3 and 4
(D)1,3.4

90.Whoever contravenes the provisions of S.24 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, prohibition on use of stream or well for disposal of polluting matter shall he punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than :
(A)1 year but which may extend to 6 years
(B)2 year but which may extend to 8 years
(C )1.4- year but which may extend to 8 yearsandwithfine
(D)1-k year but which may extend to 6 yearsandwithfine

91.In which novel of Kesava Dev ‘Pappu’ appears as the main character?
(A)Odayil Ninnu
(B)Branthalayam
(C )Kannadi
(D)Ayalkkar

92.The First editor of ‘Swadeshabhimani’ daily :
(A) Balakrishna Pilla
(B)K. Ramakrishna Pilla
(C ) Vakkam Abdulkhader Moulavi
(D)C.P. Govinda Pilla

93.Who organised ‘Misrabhojanam'?
(A) Sri Narayana Guru
(B)Sahodaran Ayyappan
(C ) Ayyamkali
(D)Chattambhi Swamikal

94.‘Pattini Jatha’ led by :
(A) K. Kelappan
(B)Dr. Ayyathan Gopalan
(C ) A.K. Gopalan
(D)P.K. Chathan Master

95.Who took Prime rolo in the publication of ‘Rajyasamacharam’?
(A) Clement piyanoos padre
(B) Dr. Herman Gundert
(C ) Arnos Padre
(D) James Augustus

96.The Chief guest on the occassion of 65th Republic day celebration :
(A) Shinzo Abe
(B) Hu Zhang Tao
(C ) Yoshihiko Noda• 
(D) Wen Jiabo

97.Which amount the following diseases is eradicated through immunisation programme m India?
(A) Polio
(B)Tuberculosis 
(C ) Diptheria
(D)Jaundice

98.Who inaugurated the new Kerala legislative assembly building in 1998? (A) A.B. Vajpayee
(B) I.K. Gujral
(C )K.R. Narayanan
(D) Krishna Kant

99.The Minister who presented and passed the Land reformation act of Kerala in 1909 : 
(A) T.V. Thomas
(B) ICT. Jacob
(C ) C. Achutha Menon
(D) K.R. Gouri

100.The bowler to take Sachin’s wicket in his last test: 
(A) Darren Sammy
(B)Narsingh Deo Narine
(C ) Chris Gayle
(D)Keron Pollard
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