1. Folklore which is taken out of context and used for other purposes with or without altering the same is called
Meta folklore

Urban folklore

Applied folklore

Rural folklore



2. William John Thoms defined folklore as the

artistic communication in small groups


cultural product of a group of people


behaviour of a group of people


traditional beliefs, legends and customs current among the common people



3. Narratives that concentrate on representative incidents of named individuals or groups are known as

Episodes

Anecdotes

Motifs

Allegories



4. What is the functional role of Folklore

Religious and Psychological issues are settled


Validation of beliefs and rituals


Legends glorify conduct


All the above



5. "The Folklore of a people can be fully understood only through knowledge of their culture" is stated by

William Bascom


Malinowski


Franzy Boas


Alan Dundes


6. Panchatantra deals with

Fairy tales


Numskull tales


Moral tales


Religious tales


7. "A group of words which is regularly employed under the same material conditions to express a given essential idea" is known as

Formula

Refrain

Chorus

Parole


8. One of the well known indigenous tribes of the Eastern Ghats whose traditional economy is hunting-gathering

Garo

Chenchu

Bhil

Khasi


9. The popular Soap-Opera "Ramayana' is produced by

B.R. Chopra


Rama Naidu


Siddharta Basu


Ramanand Sagar


10. The custom of marrying maternal uncle to his sister's daughter is called

The patrilineal system


The matrilocal system


The avunculate system


The trilineal system




11. Performance refers to

A folklore event


A live presentation of an item of folklore


A fleeting existence of the performance


A description of the assemblage of the performers and the acts they perform



12. 'Kangra' painting is the folk art form of

Himachal Pradesh


Uttar Pradesh


Madhya Pradesh


Andhra Pradesh



13. The concept of in folktale is propounded by

E.K. Maranda


Antti Aarne


Theodore Benfey


Warren E Roberts



14. Jallikattu is a taming sport of

Camels


Snakes


Goats


Bulls



15. The purpose of Free Association technique of Sigmund Freud is

to deliver the patient from latent dreams.


to probe into the preconscious level of mind.


to discover the unconscious level of mind.


to cognate the process of functioning of mind.



16. Style and Artistry of the folk are the basic features of

Metaphor


Anecdote


Ethnic Slur


Aesthetics



17. The German scholar who worked on Vedic Gods is

Hermann Gundert


Furrer Haimendorf


Gunther Sontheimer


Max Muller



18. 'Language in context' is the field study of

Computational linguistics


Historical linguistics


Sociolinguistics


Generative linguistics



19. "Folklore must be considered from the socio-political point of view as an aid to understanding the hopes and expectations of working masses in the past." Who said it

Lenin

Gorky

Sokolov

Karl Marx



20. "The materials handed on traditionally may be physical objects, ideas or words" Who made this statement

Marian W. Smith


E.B. Tylor


Archer Taylor


George Hergog




21. In folk narrative research, the first form of a narrative from which all known variants emerged is called as
I. Original form
II. Ur-form
III. Archetype
IV. Ecotype

Codes

I and II are correct.


I and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.



22. Human bodily communication of signs include

I. Transience
II. Ellipsis
III. Kinesies
IV. Proxemies


Codes

I and II are correct.


III and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and III are correct.



23. According to Anti Aarne if a tale has to be a type

I. It has to be independent
II. Should have tradition
III. It has to be complete in itself
IV. Can have one or more motifs


Codes

I and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and III are correct.


All are correct.



24. The scholars who worked with the synchronic material to develop a theory in folkloristics are

I. Andrew Lang
II. Albert Lord
III. E.B. Tylor
IV. Alan Lomax


Codes

I and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.



25. Comparative Mythology is the study of mythology that attempts to reach conclusions through cross-cultural investigation and the advocates of this method include

I. Victor Turner
II. Jacob Grimm
III. Van Gennep
IV. Max Muller


Codes

II and IV are correct.


I and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.



26. The term animism is used to signify

I. Spirits inherent in animate objects
II. Souls dwelling in purgatory
III. Theory of origin of God-men
IV. Theory of origin of religion


Codes

I and III are correct.


I and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.



27. According to Alan Dundes Eico types are formed due to

I. Genetic factors
II. Cosmological factors
III. Environmental factors
IV. Cultural factors

Codes

II and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


II, III and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.



28. According to Victor Turner a social relationship that differs from the normal social and ideological order of things is known as

I. Liminalitas
II. Communitas
III. Hybriditas
IV. Immunitas


Codes

I and IV are correct.


I and II are correct.


II and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.



29. The Trickster character figures in

I. Legends
II. Epics
III. Myths
IV. Folktales


Codes

I and II are correct.


I and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.



30. Alan Lomax s choreometrics is a method for describing and rating movement patterns in general qualitative terms to find out

I. Dance theme
II. Dance style
III. Dance type
IV. Dance motifs


Codes

II and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.


II, III and IV are correct.


All are correct.



31. Language is a Science of man because of its

I. Distinctive feature
II. Extra-somatic phenomenon
III. Non-measurability
IV. Psycho-somatic feature


Codes

I and II are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.



32. In North American Universities, folklore was first taught by scholars as part of

I. Literature
II. Ethnology
III. Philosophy
IV. Anthropology


Codes

I and II are correct.


II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.



33. The un organized part of the personality structure that contains a human s basic instinctual drive and un presentable part of the psyche is termed as

I. Persona
II. Id
III. Ego
IV. Shadow

Codes

I and IV are correct.


II and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and III are correct.



34. Albert B. Lord is the author of

I. The Singer of Tales
II. Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making
III. The Making of Homeric Verse
IV. Epic Singers and Oral Tradition


Codes

I and II are correct.


II and III are correct.


I and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.



35. Identify the correct group of folklorists who made significant contribution to South Indian folklore

I. Alan Dundes
II. Brenda Beck
III. Peter Claus
IV. Devender Satyarthi


Codes

II and III are correct.


I and III are correct.


II and IV are correct.


None of the above



36. Assertion Research in social sciences is a systematic approach concerning generalisation and formulation of a theory.

Reason Folklore research is a careful investigation especially through search for new facts in any aspect of a cultural group for some theoretical formulation.


Codes

Both and is false.


Both and is true.


is true and is not correct explanation.


is true and is false.



37. Assertion Historic-geographic method was based on the text-critical approach of philology to discover the original form, place of creation, and age of a given item of folklore.

Reason Geography atlases and environment cartographies are the resultant of the historic-geographic method.


Codes

is false and is true.


is true and is the correct explanation.


is true and is false.


is false and is the correct explanation.



38. Assertion Evolutionary Theory is based on the assumption that history of culture has been one of advancement or progress form complex to simpler forms.

Reason Only through contact with a much more advanced culture, a less developed culture can bypass or slip a stage in the evolutionary process of development.

Codes

is false and is correct explanation.


Both and are false and

is not the correct explanation.


is true and is false.


is false and is true.



39. Assertion Graphia is the process of trying to understand, describe, and analyse a cultural group.

Reason Ethnography is a literary genre and a piece of writing that is about a particular culture.


Codes

Both and are false.


is true and is correct explanation.


is true and is not correct explanation.


is false and is correct explanation.



40. Assertion An act or expression that transgresses a culture's ordinary norms of social decorum is known as obscene lore.

Reason Folk being innocent, pure and religious never produced any obscene lore and therefore it cannot be made as a part of folkloristics.


Codes

Both and are false.


is false and is true.


is true and is the correct explanation.


is true and is not the correct explanation.



41. Assertion Manism is a belief in the deification of deceased ancestors.

Reason According to this hypothesis, ghosts developed into Gods and their offering places into the shrines for ritual propitiation.


Codes

Both and are false.


is false and is true.


is true and is the correct explanation.


is true and is not the correct explanation.



42. Assertion Folklorism is a "Process of adaptation, reproduction and transformation of folklore placed in a new social context."

Reason Folklorism is the conscious recognition and repetition of folk tradition as a symbol of ethnic, regional, or national identity.


Codes

is true and is the correct explanation.


is false and is true.


is false and is not correct explanation.


is true and is false.



43. Assertion The function of myth is to strengthen tradition and endow a sense of empowerment.

Reason As it traces it back to a higher, supernatural and make believe reality.


Codes

is false and is true.


is true and is partial true.


is false and is the correct explanation.


is false and is not the correct explanation.





44. Assertion Currently considerable number of folk aesthetic forms in rural India are loosing their existence from their socio-cultural contexts.

Reason This is due to the effect of popular culture and mass media.

Codes

Both and are true and is the correct explanation.


Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation.


is true, but is false.


is false, but is true.



45. Assertion Gender studies so far probed into the body of behaviours, roles and expectations of only one biological sex.

Reason Acceptance of Third Gender by the Supreme Court may challenge the existing theories such as rites of passage.


Codes

Both and are false.


Both and are true.


is true and is false.


is false and is true.



46. Assertion For constructing oral histories, historians do not discover the facts "out there" but rather construct them through narratives.

Reason Facts are primarily the domain of language of a particular cultures and constructed by historians in language.


Codes

is false and is true.


is false and is not correct explanation.


is true and is the correct explanation.


is true and is false.



47. Sequence the scholars who are connected with performance studies
I. Ben Amos
II. Richard Bauman
III. Victor Turner
IV. Roger Abrahams


Codes

II, IV, III


III, II, IV


IV, III, II


IV, II, III



48. Sequence the deities Somanatha, Mallikarjuna, Mahakaleswara, Vaidyanatha with the places

I. Srisailam
II. Prabhas Pattan
III. Deogarh
IV. Ujjain


Codes

III, II, IV


II, IV, III


IV, III, II, I


III, IV, II



49. Identify the cultural performances associated with the States of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Kashmir

I. Naqual
II. Burrakatha
III. Koodiyattam
IV. Bhand Pather


Codes

III, II, IV


II, IV, III, I


IV, III, II, I


II, III, IV




50. Geographically arrange the sacred mountains from South to North India

Nallamalai, Neelakant, Sabarimala, Sahyadris


Sahyadris, Sabarimala, Nallamalai, Neelakant


Sabarimala, Nallamalai, Sahyadris, Neelakant


Neelakant, Sahyadris, Sabarimala, Nallamalai



51. Sequence Shakti Pithas from South to North India

Kanchi, Srisailam, Kolhapur, Mysore


Kanchi, Mysore, Srisailam, Kolhapur


Kanchi, Kolhapur, Mysore, Srisailam


Mysore, Kanchi, Srisailam, Kolhapur



52. The sequence of Proppian functions that constitute preparatory part of the fairytales

Absentation, interdiction, violation, reconnaissance, delivery, trickery, complicity


Absentation, violation, trickery, interdiction, delivery, reconnaissance, complicity


Absentation, violation, interdiction, delivery, trickery, complicity, reconnaissance


Absentation, violation, interdiction, trickery, delivery, reconnaissance, complicity



53. Sequence of life cycle ceremonies in India

I. Death
II. Birth
III. Marriage
IV. Puberty

Codes

II, III, IV


IV, III, II, I


II, IV, III, I


III, IV, II



54. Identify the profounders of the concepts multiforms, migration, Indian Oedipus, performance setters
in the order of sequence

I. A.K. Ramanujan
II. Theodor Benfey
III. Louri Honko
IV. S. Blackburn


Codes

III, II, IV


II, IV, III, I


IV, II, III


III, II, IV



55. Sequence the places associated with the epic Ramayana from North to South

I. Rameshwaram
II. Panchavati
III. Lanka
IV. Ayodhya


Codes

II, III, IV


II, IV, III


IV, II, III


IV, II, III



56. Identify the dance forms from East to West in order of sequence

I. Kalbelia
II. Bihu
III. Garba
IV. Gambhira


Codes

IV, III, II


II, IV, III


III, II, IV, I


III, II, IV




57. Correct sequence of Indian folklorists from South to North is

I. Krishnadev Upadhyaya
II. Narayana Rao
III. Hem Barua
IV. Vaanamaamalai

Codes

IV, II, III


II, IV, III


III, IV, II, I


III, IV, II



58. Give the correct order of Calenderic festivals celebrated in India

I. Baisakhi
II. Deepavali
III. Makara Sankranti
IV. Ganesh Chaturthi


Codes

III, IV, II


II, IV, III


III, IV, II


III, II, IV



59. Correct sequence of Indian folklorists is

Jawaharlal Handoo, Ravinder Bhramar, Satyendra, Devendra Satyarthi


Satyendra, Jawaharlal Handoo, Devendra Satyarthi, Ravinder Bhramar


Ravinder Bhramar, Satyendra, Jawaharlal Handoo, Devendra Satyarthi


Devendra Satyarthi, Satyendra, Ravinder Bhramar, Jawaharlal Handoo



60. Identify the correct order of genres put according to the stages of childhood to death

crying songs, play songs, puberty songs, lullaby


play songs, puberty songs, crying songs, lullaby


lullaby, play songs, puberty songs, crying songs


lullaby, play songs, crying songs, puberty songs



61. Match the following

List I List II
I. Binary 1. Kaarrle Krohn opposites
II. Comparative 2. Levi Strauss Philology
III. Historical 3. Richard Geographical Bauman Method
IV. Performance 4. Max Muller Approach


Codes
I II III IV

4 3 2 1


2 4 1 3


2 3 4 1


1 3 2 4



62. Match the following
List I List II
I. Guru Granth 1. Judaism Sahib
II. Talmud 2. Buddhism
III. Zend-Avesta 3. Zoroastri­anism
IV. Dhammapada 4. Sikhism


Codes
I II III IV

4 1 3 2


3 2 1 4


2 4 3 1


1 3 4 2



63. Match the following

List I List II
I. Tribal Heritage 1. Sankar Sen of India Gupta
II. Folk Theatre of 2. J. Handoo India
III. Folklore 3. Balwant Research in Gargi India
IV. A Bibliography 4. S.C. Dube of Indian Folk Literature

Codes
I II III IV

3 2 1 4


2 3 4 1


4 3 1 2


1 4 2 3



64. Match the following

List I List II
I. Tulu 1. Palnadu
II. Manipuri 2. Annanmaar Swami Kathai
III. Tamil 3. Siri
IV. Telugu 4. Khamba Thoibi


Codes
I II III IV

4 3 1 2


3 4 2 1


2 4 3 1


1 2 4 3



65. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched

Bhishma Ramayana


Manthara Mahabharata


Kalidasa Kumara Sambhavam


Karna Bhagwat Puran



66. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched

Peter Claus Performance Studies


Alan Dundes Fables of the ancients


Levi-Strauss Narrative inquiry


Benjamin Deathlore


Cohen

67. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

Research that Applied aims at finding Research a solution for an immediate problem facing a society is Research that Fundamental

concerns with Research generalizations to formulate a theory is


Research that Conceptual relate to some Research abstract idea or theory is


Research that Scientific relies on Research experience alone is



68. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

Janapada Kannada


Lok Sanskriti Manipuri


Lok Sahitya Bengali


Lokavarta Hindi




69. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

Balinese Clifford cockfight Geertz


Anthropology Victor of Experience Turner


Narrative Focault Identity


Heteroglossia Bakhtin



70. Which one of the following pairs (festival and the place) is correctly matched

Bonalu Odisha


Raja Parba Manipur


Shigmo Goa


Pongal Rajasthan



71. Which two of the following pairs are correctly matched

I. Ugadi Chaitramasa
II. Madelpuranam Caste myth of weavers
III. Indian Oedipus Margaret Mills
IV. Gadamer Philosophical Hermeneutics
Codes

I and III


Iand II


III and IV


Iand IV



72. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched

In research Deliberate method, sampling purposive selection of particular units


Selection of Systematic entire units sampling


Each and every Simple unit has an random equal chance sampling of inclusion


If the units do Stratified not constitute a sampling homogenous group



73. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched

Tales ending Fairy tales with a question are


Tales ending Supernatural with a question tales are


Tales ending Dilemma with a question tales are


Tales ending Numskull with a question tales are



74. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

Alan Dundes America


Marcel Mauss France


Louri Honko Finland


Radcliffe Brown Germany



75. Which one is not correctly matched

Tamasha is social type of folk drama of Maharashtra.


Jatra is a socio-religious folk drama of Bengal


Nautanki is religious folk drama of Gujarat


Raslila is religious folk drama of Uttar Pradesh