1. Which of these tissues is neither hard nor elastic?

Skin

Bone

Muscle

Blood

2. Name the instrument used to measure the electric current

Lactometer

Voltmeter

Galvanometer

Electroscope


3. SMS in communication means

Sudden Motion Sensor

Standard Modular System

Short Message Service

Systems Management Server

4. Match the following and choose the correct answer.

Cultural Heritage Site Location -State
I Mahabalipuram A. Uttar Pradesh
II Sanchi B. Tamil Nadu
III Hampi C. Karnataka
IV Fatehpur Sikri D. Madhya Pradesh
E. Delhi

III-C, IV-D

II-A III-C, IV-E

III-C, IV-A

II-D III-C, IV-E

5. The Indus Valley Civilization belongs to

Old Stone Age

New Stone Age

Iron Age

Chalcolithic Age

6. Human culture is

Inherited

Static

Dynamic

All of the above


7. According to 2011 census, rural population in India constitutes about

68.84%

69.82%

72.19%

72.50%


8. Kinship is

Only specific to tribal societies

Not found in urban societies

Found partly among the rural societies

Found among all human societies


9. Polyandry is a form of marriage in which

One man marries more than one wife

One woman marries more than one man

One man marries one woman

A group of men marry a group of women


10. Family as a social group is characterized by

Common residence

Economic cooperation

Reproduction

All the above

11. Which one of the following statements is not true of caste system?

Caste system is rooted in Hindu society

Caste system is based on occupational specialisation

Caste system has been affected by the influence of western culture and education

Caste system does not exist among the Muslims and Christians in India

12. The study of social stratification addresses the issues related to

Social organization

Social disorganization

Social inequalities

Social mobility

13. The office term of President of India is years?

6 years

3 years

5 years

4 years

14. The Constitution of India came into force on?

January 26, 1951

January 26, 1950

January 26, 1949

January 26, 1947

15. Which Indian state having largest sea coast line?

Gujarat

Karnataka

Kerala

Maharashtra

16. The largest continent of the world is?

Australia

North America

Europe

Asia

17. How many countries are having common border with India?

7

6

5

4

18. Which phenomenon happens when the earth comes in between the sun and the moon?

Solar eclipse

Lunar eclipse

Both

None

19. Main problem affecting scheduled tribes in India is

Maoist problem

Illiteracy c

III health and malnutrition

Pressure on resources

20. The state where caste based reservations exceeds the 50% limit imposed by Supreme Court judgment.

Andhra Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Delhi

Tamil Nadu

21. Caste system in India can be eliminated by

Banning caste suffixes and prefixes in names

Prohibiting caste associations

Giving equal treatment to all castes

Introducing compulsory Inter caste marriages


22. In traditional Indian society, 'stridhana' or women's property of upper and middle strata is meant for

Spending by women as per their wishes and requirements

facilitating purchase of gold jewellery for female children

paying the widow, in case of husband's death

Use in common family expenditure.

23. In urban areas caste is relevant in

Day to day interaction

Commensal relations (inter dining)

The choice of occupations

The choice of marital alliances

24. The legal constitutional category of OBC is made up of

All middle level communities, i.e., those below the twice born castes and those above the scheduled castes.

Castes and communities of poor peasantry, artisans, and other vimukta jatis.

All backward communities not included in scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

Those who have low educational and occupational status and inadequate representation in government services.

25. The community in north India that was recently agitating for inclusion in to the list of scheduled tribes is

Minas

Gujjars

Bhils

Jarwas.


Write an Essay on any ONE of the following in 300 words.

26. Suicide as a method of protest

27. Violence against women

28. Quality in higher education


Write an Essay on any ONE of the following in about 300 words:

29. Write an essay on child labour in Indian society and its relation with family and society at large.

30. Compare the problems of urban society with rural India.

31. Write an essay on the role of sports in achieving global harmony.


32. Read the following passage carefully and summarise all the important ideas contained in it in about 300 words.

According to psychologists the first few years of life are critical regarding the imprint of culture on nature, supplementing instinctive behaviour with socially conditioned responses. The first year of a Manus child's life is spent secure and warm, close to its mother. The two remain in seclusion behind a mat curtain for the first month or so after the birth. They emerge only when the mother's relatives have amassed enough sago, pots, shell and dogs' teeth wealth to mount a feast and an exchange marking the child's arrival. The event comprises a canoe flotilla laden with the exchange goods, heralded by slit-gong calls. The mother is uncomfortably weighed down with some of the fine wealth, which she is expected to wear in the prestation to her husband's kin. Mother and child remain largely housebound for the first year or so, the child being breast-fed on demand. Adults keep a watchful eye on the crawling infant, although they do not cosset it. Indeed, the emphasis is on encouraging some independence early in life, and children quickly develop the considerable physical agility, which their waterborne life demands. Parents introduce toddlers to the sea and encourage them to splash about around the piles of their homes at low tide; children learn to swim at an early age, almost simultaneously with learning to walk. Sometimes their introduction to the sea comes very young when they fall through the slat floors of their elevated homes or, shoulder-riding on parents, take a rude ducking When canoes capsize. Infants learn to hold tightly to their parents' necks as they are carried around, not releasing their grip even when doused in salty, eye-smarting sea water. As children become more independent, their fathers begin to playa more prominent part in their lives. The father is an indUlgent figure who plays with his children and takes them on interesting trips to trade, fish and so on. The mother spends increasing periods of time engaged in subsistence activities unsuitable for child participation such as shell fishing and sago processing and leaves children in their father's company. Relations between husband and wife are portrayed as distant and shame-ridden, occasionally even violent, and children soon learn to take advantage of this situation to get their own way. They realise that the father is the important figure in their house, which is situated among the dwellings of his kin, and his relatives continually emphasise his relation to his children in behaviour and speech and belittle his wife's claims to parental regard. The image is vividly conveyed by three-year olds who frequently leave their father's arms to satisfy themselves at their mother's breast only to return swaggeringly to their tractable fathers, grinning insolently at their mothers. At some time during this period the mother is likely to become pregnant again and will start to wean the child. It is a slow process. The child is used to having its own way and being fed on demand. The mother may tie bundles of hair to her nipples to repel the child, who resents her withdrawal and turns increasingly to the father for comfort.
Weaning is one of the early experiences which psychologists consider significant in the development of personality. Suckling characterises the first Freudian stage of libido or psychosexual development. The second stage is the one, focusing on sphincter control and excretion, and is marked by the emergence of either a sense of autonomy or feelings of shame and doubt. Young Manus boys learn at about three that a certain lee place on the island, never visited by females, serves as a latrine. No severe stress is placed on relieving oneself at the appropriate place at a young age, but children do begin to become aware of a certain adult prudishness. Relations between the sexes on Manus, particularly between those eligible to marry and their respective kin, are severely constrained. Children notice the shame that attaches to relations between the sexes as they pass through the third 'phallic' stage of libido development, when pleasurable sensations centre on the genitals, indiViduality develops, and they may experience feelings of guilt. Adults communicate their sense of shame not by chastisement but by the repugnance they display towards acts of carelessness, such as being uncovered before others, although they allow children to run around naked for the first ten years or so of their lives. Children learn that there are supernatural sanctions behind the tense relations between members of the opposite sexes. On Manus people believe that the spirits of their ancestors watch over them, and they keep the skulls and finger bones of their deceased relatives in carved bowls suspended in the roof spaces of their houses. They think that these ancestral spirits help them in fishing and protect them, particularly from attack by malicious spirit forces, but in return expect their charges to lead chaste and virtuous lives. When people become ill or die, the Manus expect all their relatives to search their consciences for any sexual improprieties that could have angered the ghosts and to confess and so allow appropriate ritual aertion to appease the angered ancestors. The offence need not be serious, ancestral ghosts punish not only illicit intercourse ,but also the breaking of any of the taboos that hedge around relations between the sexes, such as breaking in-law avoidance requirements, improper physical contacts, and even suggestive jests. The Manus feel unworthy only when others find out about their wrongdoing but reveal behavioural violations when they experience remorse with believed supernatural discovery (i.e. they are both shame-and gUilt oriented). Sickness is common on Manus, and children live in an atmosphere of constant suspicion and supernatural sanction. The sullen, stifling and shame-ridden life depicted on Manus seems to apply more to women than to men. It is common throughout Melanesia for women's and men's social obligations and responsibilities, even to some extent their cultural worlds, to be sharply separated, and we can detect this separation early in the socialisation of children. On Manus, as elsewhere, girls are obliged to wear skirts and cover themselves sooner than boys and to pay considerable attention to decorum. They are taught to take great care when they are menstruating in particular and to avoid others at this time. This is a common avoidance throughout Melanesia, where people regularly regard menstrual blood with abhorrence, men frequently equating it with poison. The tedium of in-law avoidance also falls more heaVily on women than on men. They regularly have to carry a cloak with them under which they can cower if they come near tabooed relatives, sometimes huddled for lengthy periods in uncomfortable places such as the stifling hull of a canoe under a hot sun on a rolling
sea. Females also have to take up the onerous duties of adulthood in their early teens, several years before their male counterparts. who are unlikely to assume adult responsibilities before their early twenties. And girls have to endure antagonistic marital relations, with little affection and perhaps some brutality among their husbands' kin, sexual relations are perfunctory and aggressive.


33. Read the following passage carefUlly and answer the questions given below the passage.


The concept of Egalitarianism suggests a philosophicaVpolitical positioning that all members of a society should be treated with equality. While egalitarianism may sound straightforward, there are actually various types of equality that underpin highly divergent political systems. For example, the political discourse of the USA is that 'all human beings are created equal' in a 'land of opportunity'. These beliefs underpin a legal system that is supposedly blind to an individual's socio economic status, race, or gender; a democratic government in which all citizens have an equal right to participate in political decision making; and a system with enough social mobility to allow everyone an opportunity to become what they wish -there are no legislated barriers to success. There is, however, no promise of material equality. As a capitalist society, wealth is not shared equally and is, in fact, intended to be earned entrepreneurially. For any variety of reasons, members of minority groups often face inequity. Minorities are also less likely to be involved in political processes, and are highly under represented in the highest echelons of society. Egalitarianism is actually one of the most powerful ideas in modern history since it lays the foundation for any number of diverse political, religious and social movements. Yet, it's notoriously difficult to achieve. While the desire to be treated with equality is central to on-going battles for social justice, so is the desire for power. And this tension makes egalitarianism, and its use as political rhetoric by those in power (who generally wish to remain in power), a fascinating construct to explore. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacqus Rousseau were key figures in the seventeenth-century 'Enlightenment' who strongly believed that individuals should be equal before a society's political and civil institutions. When it comes to political theory related to equality of material conditions, key figures would be Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. Different from the notion of an egalitarian society, a system of Social stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals and groups according to wealth, status and power. Schools, for example, often stratify kids according to perceived ability which sets them down a particular educational path. As adults we are again classified and stratified, but this time according to things like socio economic status. And while we have little power over the process, the classifications we are assigned can have a major impact on life opportunities. When it comes to education there are those who see stratification as functional. On the other hand the argument against this functional notion is that stratification leads to labelling and discrimination, and creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where those relegated to the bottom have no expectations to live up to. These are some of the arguments that surround stratification based on socio economic status. Functionalists claim that societal stratification is necessary since those at the top need to be rewarded if they're to take on more crucial societal roles. Critical theorists, however, claim that stratification perpetuates inequity and exploitation, and keeps

those at the bottom of the hierarchy in their place. In the West we may not have a caste system where social stratification is non-negotiable and without opportunity for social mobility, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Western systems of social stratification are far from open and meritorious. Critical theorists argue that they positively reek of racial, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination that only serves the wealthy. Whether the perspective is anthropological, sociological, philosophical, economic, socio-psychological or political, inequity, such as that captured in social stratification systems, is a key theme. How such inequities are measured, understood, created, used, manipulated, maintained, perpetuated, and overcome is of critical importance across the social sciences. Theorists who have worked on the functional aspects of social stratification include functionalists like Bronislaw Malinowski, Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons. More critical theorists who have contributed to this area include Karl Marx, who was instrumental in the exploration of class division, class conflict, and class-based exploitation, and Max Weber, who explored stratification along social, economic and political lines. In the Indian context, social anthropologists and sociologists including Louis Dumont, M N Srinivas, G. S Ghurye and many others made their contributions to the study of social stratification. In the recent years, the concept of marginalization emerged as one of the key concepts to understand social stratification in a more critical fashion. The process by which indiViduals, social groups, and even ideas are made peripheral to the mainstream by relegating or confining them to the outer edges or margins of society is known as marginalization Every society has a mainstream culture, a dominant ideology and social or cultural groups that help define that particular society. But rarely does this represent the diversity likely to exist within a society's boundaries. There are always people, groups and ideas that are pushed to the margins and kept there by both subtle and overt processes. Take African-Americans as an example. In addition to blatant racism and discrimination, subtle cultural realities reinforced to them a marginal position. The constant use of in literature was a subtle, yet effective, way of keeping women at the margins of intellectual thought. The exclusion of domestic labour in our economic calculations similarly acts in marginalizing. ways by keeping the contribution of, say mothers, from being recognized, and fully valued. Marginalization keeps 'others' from threatening the ideological, cultural, economic and political power of the dominant, and is therefore extremely effective in maintaining the status quo. Looking at the mainstream, the status quo, and the dominant is important in all studies of culture, but it won't give you the full story. Exploring the margins, partiCUlarly exploring the relationship between the dominant and the marginalized, can expose key cultural values often hidden among political/cultural rhetoric. A number of contemporary writers have explored the concept of marginalization across various contexts. Homi Bhabha explores marginalization as a legacy of colonialism, while bell hooks explores how
relationships between race, class, and gender can produce and perpetuate oppression and domination. There is a new social and political movement which sees corporate power, government power and police power as merging together to marginalize the rights of tribal communities and indigenous peoples, the powerless and workers.

1. What is marginalization?

2. What are the limitations of the concept of egalitarianism?

3. Who are the major thinkers worked on the concept of social stratification?

4. What is the significance of the study of marginalization in Understanding social relations?

5. Who are the major thinkers who worked marginalization and what are their ideas? on the concept of

6. What is the functional notion on social stratification?

7. What is egalitarianism concept? and who are the major proponents of the

8. Explain the concept of social stratification with suitable examples.

9. Explain the critical theory approach to the study of social stratification

10. What are the ways in which marginalization take place in different cultural contexts? Explain with the support of examples.




34. Find the number that does not fit into the series:

400,484,512,576,and 676

676

484

512

400

35. I start with 24. Which of the following sequential operations will not lead me to 48?










36. In the series given below, how many even numbers are immediately preceded by "6" as well as immediately followed by "3"

6656839436736432864682663

4

2

1

3


37. Divide 18 oranges between A and so that, A will have more than B. What number will A and B have?



B-8

B-5

B-8

38. How much is 30% of 3 hours and 30 minutes?

1 hour and 20 minutes

1 hour and 35 minutes

1 hour and 3 minutes

1 hour and 9 minutes

39. The product of three numbers is 71757. One of the numbers is 51 and another 21. What is the third number?

76

59

67

66

40. In a code language means "How are you", means "How is life", means "You are wonderful" and means "You is wonderful" which numerical in that language means "You"?

5

7

6

9

41. I am facing North. Which of the following sequence of turning will not lead me to face West?

Left, Left, Right, Right, Right, Right, Right

Right, Right, Right, Right, Left, Right, Left

Right, Left, Left, Right, Right, Left, Left

Right, Right, Left, Right, Right, Left, Left

42. POPULAR: QPQVMBS;

GNQPST

BGSNQT

GBNPVT

GBNSTV


43. If SHIRT is coded as 53721 and TIE is coded as 178, how can REST be coded?

2851

2751

2371

2671

44. If Delhi is 11, Mumbai is 13, and Chennai is 15, What is 19?

Kolkata

Hyderabad

Chandigarh

Shillong

45. Find out the word that does not belong to the same group:
FAX, E-MAIL, SMS, XEROX

SMS

XEROX

FAX

E-MAIL

46. X is the son of Y and brother of Z. X married the daughter of sister. son is A. How is A related to

Niece

Son

Nephew

Brother

47. If the 1st day of the month is Wednesday in a leap year, which of the following days will occur five times in that month.

Wednesday

Tuesday

Thursday

Sunday

48. Soon is to Never; as:

Near is to far

near is to dear

near is to nowhere

near is to away

49. Read the table carefully and state which of the following statements are True/False: Sex Ratio of Total population and child population in the age group 0-6 and years: 2001 and 2011 <img src='./qimages/1830-49.jpg'>

The sex ratio in the total population increased from 2001 to 2011 in all the states and also at the National level

True/False



50. Read the table carefully and state which of the following statements are True/False: Sex Ratio of Total population and child population in the age group 0-6 and years: 2001 and 2011
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The sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 has decreased in all the states and in India.

True/False

51. Read the table carefully and state which of the following statements are True/False: Sex Ratio of Total population and child population in the age group 0-6 and years: 2001 and 2011
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Among all the states, Kerala has the best sex ratio in all the age groups·

True/False

52. Read the table carefully and state which of the following statements are True/False: Sex Ratio of Total population and child population in the age group 0-6 and years: 2001 and 2011
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The sex ratio in Madhya Pradesh fall down at an alarming rate when compared to all other states.

True/False

53. Read the table carefully and state which of the following statements are True/False: Sex Ratio of Total population and child population in the age group 0-6 and years: 2001 and 2011
<img src='./qimages/1830-49.jpg'>

Among all the states and also in the National level the sex ratio in the population aged 7 and above decreased from 2001 to 2011.

True/False