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The Passage:
From the 1940s to the 1980s films were watched by two kinds of Indians -young men in all male groups, and families. An anthropologist working in northern India found that 'many unmarried men are intensive users of film culture'. They liked films in themselves, for the entertainment they provided and for offering them an escape from the trials of family living. The theatre was a place where they could smoke cigarettes (prohibited at home), and joke and play around with their friends. Although young women rarely went to the movies, older men sometimes took along their wives and parents. The two groups tended to prefer different kinds of films. Young men liked those with 'unrestrained dance and fight scenes', whereas mixed groups chose to watch films depicting the joys and troubles of family life.

The passion for films was even more intense in south India. Here, male moviegoers had constituted themselves into fan clubs, each devoted to celebrating a particular male star. The town of Madurai in TamilNadu, for example, had as many as 500 such clubs, whose members were mostly in their late teens or early twenties. They included tailors, rickshaw pullers, vegetable sellers and students. The club activities were aimed at promoting their star, by pasting posters of his films, buying tickets to watch them and generally singing his praises in public and in private. Occasionally, the club's activities took a more philanthropic turn, by donating blood in the hero's name or raising money for disaster relief.

In earlier chapters we have met M.G. Ramachandran of TamilNadu and N.T. RamaRao of AndhraPradesh, movie stars who became chief ministers of their state on the strength of their acting career alone. As adorned in his native heath was the Kannada film actor Rajkumar, although he did not seek to convert this adoration into political advantage. In all cases, the veneration was a consequence of the fact that, in this part of India, film was a prime vehicle for the articulation of linguistic nationalism. The people of the south saw their languages under threat from Hindi; mobilizing to protect it, they sought hope and support from the actors who spoke most eloquently their own beloved tongue. In their films, these stars enacted the essential themes of human existence -life and death, romance and betrayal, prosperity and misery -and did so in phrases and idioms drawn from the rhythms and cadences of everyday speech. Literally as well as metaphorically, NTR and his fans, MGR and his fans, and Rajkumar and his fans spoke the same language.

In the Hindi heartland, the love of films was not so closely tied in with one's social identity. (As it was spoken by more Indians than any other language, Hindi was scarcely seen as being under threat.) Still, because their catchment was bigger, the Hindi stars could command a wider though not necessarily deeper-appreciation. Arguably the most popular film star of all time is the Hindi actor AmitabhBachchan. speak here not merely ofIndia but of the world as a whole Bachchan was voted as such in an online poll conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2001.)

Born in 1942, the son of a famous Hindi poet of Allahabad, AmitabhBachchan joined films after a stint in the corporate world. He was very tall and fairly dark, in both respects at odds with the popular heroes who preceded him. These handicaps were soon overcome by his imperious manner and his magnificent deep voice. Bachchan rose to stardom in the early 1970s a time of great cynicism with regard to the political system, which was being challenged by such extra parliamentary forces as the Naxalites and JayaprakashNarayan's Bihar movement. His roles were in keeping with the times. He played the angry young man, pitted against but always overcoming the system -as a militant worker against unfeeling capitalists, an honest police officer against corrupt superiors. even as an underworld don whose wicked manner hid (not very successfully) a golden heart.
In 1982 Bachchan was hospitalized after an accident suffered on the set. Millions prayed, successfully, for his recovery. Three years later he became a Congress MP from Allahabad, at the invitation of his childhood friend Rajiv Gandhi

A sixtieth-birthday tribute to Bachchan spoke of how his career had 'traversed emotions and generations'. Perhaps the only other figure to have done that successfully is the singer Lata Mangeshkar. She too had a gifted father, the singer, actor and composer Dinanath Mangeshkar. He died in 1942, when Lata was only thirteen but having spent the better part of her life learning music from her father. As the eldest of five siblings, Lata very quickly became the family's main breadwinner. She sang at first in Marathi films, but soon moved to the more popular and better paying Hindi arena.

Lata Mangeshkar's first song as a playback singer was recorded in 1947. By the end of the decade she had become the best-known singer in India. As well as the most sought-after, for no producer or director could think of a film without a song by her. In a career spanning five decades she has recorded more than 5,000 songs...

One feature of the film industry has been its capacious cosmopolitanism. Parsi and Jewish actors have rubbed shoulders with Hindus and Muslims and Christians. Some of the greatest film directors have been from Bengal or south India.
A very representative example is one of the most successful films ever made, Sholay (1975). Its director was a Sindhi, while its lyricist and one male lead were Punjabi. Other male leads were from UttarPradesh, Gujarat and North-West Frontier Province respectively. (Another, who was dropped at the last moment, was from Sikkim.) Of the two female leads, one was a Tamil, the other a Bengali domiciled in Madhya Pradesh. The music director was a Bengali -from Tripura.

It was not just in Bombay that the film industry was socially inclusive. In the Madras studios of the Tamil director S. S. Vasan the 'make-up department was fIrst headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and then left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga). an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. ...

Above all, the film industry provided generous refuge for India's largest and often very vulnerable minority, the Muslims. Many of the best lyricists, as already noted, were Muslim; so were some popular scriptwriters. Some of the best male singers were Muslim. So too were some top directors and. even more strikingly, some top actors. When, shortly after India's fIrst general election, a Bombay magazine asked its readers to choose their favourite actor, a Muslim man polled the most votes. a Muslim woman the second most. Interestingly, both had assumed non­Muslim names -Yusuf Khan becoming the Hindu-sounding Dilip Kumar and Fatima Rashid taking the neutral pseudonym Nargis (after the Narcissus flower). As Muslim actors and actresses became more established, they no longer needed to resort to such subterfuge. A great star of the 1950s and 1960s was the actress Waheeda Rahman. Much later, in the 1990s, the top male stars in Hindi films were three Muslims with a common surname, Khan.
(Source: Ramachandra Guha, 200S.India After Gandhi. New Delhi: Picador India: 725-29.)

1. Who among the following were the major viewers of films between 1940s and 1980s?

Young men
Children
Old men
Young women

2. Which of the following statement is more correct?

Fan clubs had members mostly from the student community
Fan clubs donates blood whenever it is needed
Fan clubs sometimes took up philanthropic work
Fan clubs always raised money for relief at the time of disasters

3. Which of the following South Indian cities had around 500 fan clubs?

Chennai
Coimbatore
Madurai
Thanjavur

4. Which of the following is incorrect regarding the film culture of independent India prior to 1990s?

Family viewers loved films on the joys and troubles of family life
Younger male moviegoers considered theatres as an escape from the trials of family life .
Theatre was a place where men could smoke and play around with their friends
Young women viewers loved films of love and romance

5. Which of the following actors did not seek to convert his adoration in films into political
advantage?

NT. Rama Rao
Amitabh Bachchan
Rajkumar
M.G. Ramachandran


6. The activities of the South Indian fan clubs did not include

Watching the films of their star without fail
Pasting posters of the movies of their star
Praising their star in public and private
Mobilising finance for producing the films of their star

7. In which region of India support to actors was also a support to the language they spoke in

Northern India
Southern India
Western India
Eastern India

8.Which was the same language spoken by the fans ofNTR, MGR and Rajkumar?

South Indian nationalism
Cinematic nationalism
Linguistic nationalism
Religious nationalism

9.Which of the following statements on Hindi films is false?

Films scarcely see Hindi as being under threat
Hindi films' catchment area was bigger than any other language films in India
Hindi film stars enjoyed a wider geography of appreciation
Love of Hindi films was always tied with one's social identity

10. Who among the following is considered to be the most popular film star of all time in Hindi?

Dilip Kumar
Shahrukh Khan
Amitabh Bachchan
Waheeda Rahman

11. 'Which of the following proved to be Amitabh Bachchan's greatest asset as an actor?

His tallness
His fairly dark complexion
His deep voice
His experience in the corporate world

12. Who among the following is associated with the Bihar movement?

Jayaprakash Narayan
Naxalites
Amitabh Bachchan
Rajiv Gandhi

13. Which of the following is correct about the films of Bachchan during a time of great cynicism?

His renowned poet father had written screenplays for his films
His imperious mannerisms endangered his success
He played the angry young man fighting the system and, overcoming it
He challenged extra-parliamentary forces like the Naxalites


14. When did Amitabh Bachchan become a Member ofParliament from Allahabad?

1982
1985
1988
1980

15. Who among the following is seen as the only figure as successful as AmitabhBachchan?

Lata Mangeshkar
MGR
NTR
Rajkumar

16.How many siblings did Lata Mangeshkar have?

a)6
b)5
c)4
d)3


17. One of the male leads of the film Sholay hailed from
Sindh
Bengal
Sikkim
North-West Frontier Province


18. Which of the following statement about Lata Mangeshkar is wrong?

She lost her father in her teenage
She became the best-known singer in India only by the end of 1950s
She sung first in Marathi films, but became more popular in Hindi films
Her first song as a playback singer was recorded in the year of Indian independence

19. Which of the following statement is true?

Tamil director S.S. Vasan's make-up team was once headed by an Anglo-Burmese
S.S. Vasan's female leads were always Tamils
An Indian Christian was part of S.S. Vasan's make-up department
Madras studios were unknown for social inclusivity

20. Which of the following communities received generous accommodation in the film industry?
Muslims
Christians
Sikhs
Parsis

21. Which of the following actor/actress assumed a community-neutral pseudonym?

YusufKhan
Waheeda Rahman
Dilip Kumar
Fatima Rashid

22. Which of the following is incorrect?

Hindi films gave first preference to Muslims, as actors, directors and musicians
Muslim actors remain popular in Indian film industry Many of the best lyricists in the industry were Muslim
Muslim actors used to change their name after coming to film industry

23. Which of the following features best explain the film industry in India?

Regionalism
Linguistic nationalism
Exclusivism
Cosmopolitanism


24. Pick the correct statement from the following

Lata Mangeshkar's father was also a gifted lyricist
Amitabh Bachchan's famous father promoted him in the film industry
Lata Mangeshkar's father was her principal support for a major part ofher career
Both Amitabh Bachchan and Lata Mangeshkar had accomplished fathers

25.In which of the following year Lata Mangeshkar was born?

1947
1929
1942
1931


26.Six students and F are sitting in a row. D and C are immediate neighbours of E.B is neighbour of A only, A is fourth from F. Who are on the two extremes?

B and D
A and C
B and F
A and F

27. If C+E 8 and find out the value of R x

306
396
360
378

28. In the series STOP, TOPS, OPST, the next term is

POTS
POST
PSTO
PTSO

29. In a certain code means "How are you"; means "How is life"; means "She is wonderful"; and 2,6,8means "You are wonderful; which numerical in that language means"You"

a)5
b)2
c)7
d)8

30. B is Wife of A. By referring A says C is my father's only daughter-in-law's daughter. What is A to

Father
Grandfather
Mother
Daughter


31.If the 7th of the month is Thursday, which of the following day will occur five times in that month?

Sunday
Monday
Friday
Tuesday


32. Rafi is facing North. Which of the following sequence of turning will lead Rafi to face West?

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

33. Raju starts with 24. Which of the following sequential operations will not lead Raju to 48?

15 5 20
16 10 12 3
12 10 14 16
14-6 8-10 5-4 17

34. Complete the series:

100
121
144
159

35. If South-West becomes East and North-East becomes West and so on, what would South East become?

East
West
South
North


36.896739378399563969398 In the above given series, how many "9s" are there which are preceded by "3" but not immediately followed by "9"

a)1
b)5
c)3
d)4

37.What is the missing word in the series: air, ball,

Herald
Pear
Beard
Secret

38.HOT: OVEN COLD:

Air conditioner
Snow
Ice Cream
Refrigerator

39.Which is the odd-one-out?

Sparrow
Bat
Parrot
Kingfisher

40. What is the missing word in the sequence in the series: bet, seventeen.

Fifteen
Teenager
Creamer
Sweet

41. If Delhi is 10, Hyderabad is 18, and Mumbai is 12 then what is 14?
Kolkata
Bangalore
Amaravati
Jaipur

42. Except one, all the group of letters follows a pattern, find the odd-one-out?
MOVR
KMTQ
FHOK
BDKG

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

1 hour 09 minutes
1 hour 03 minutes
1 hour 10 minutes
1 hour 33 minutes

44.Choose the number pair which is different from the rest:

5:48
11:102
15:139
17:156

45. Sarita is wiser than Rasi. Divya is wiser than Lata. Preethi is wiser than Malti, Rasi is wiser than Preethi, Lata is wiser than Sarita. Who is the wisest of all?

Preethi
Divya
Sarita
Malti

Read the following table of Indian Population, sex ratio (2011 Census) and answer the questions from 46-50

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46. Which state has the highest sex ratio?

Meghalaya
Andhra Pradesh
Manipur
Kerala

47.Which Union Territory has the highest sex ratio?

Chandigarh
Puducherry
NCT of Delhi
Kerala

48. Which state has the highest sex ratio among the North-Eastern States?

Meghalaya
Mizoram
Manipur
West Bengal

49.South Indian states have better sex ratio than North Indian states?

True
False
Can't say
both have equal sex ratio

50.'Which of the following state or union territory has a below average sex ratio in the given table?

Andhra Pradesh
Mizoram
Meghalaya
Gujarat

51.Let z>1 which of the following is false?

has to be positive
yz can be less than one
xy can never be zero
is always negative

52.The number of positive integers not greater than 100, which are not divisible by or 5 is:

24
26
29
None of the above

53.Ten 50 paise coins are placed on a table. Six of these show tails while four show heads. A coin is chosen at random and flipped over (not tossed). This operation is performed seven times. One of the coins is then covered. Of the remaining nine coins five show tails and four show heads. The covered coin shows

head
tail
More likely a head
More likely a tail

54.A group of workers was put on a job. From the second day onwards, one worker was withdrawn each day. The job was finished when the last worker was withdrawn. If no worker was withdrawn at any stage, the group would have finished the job· in two-thirds the time. How many workers were there in the group?

2
3
5
10


55. The diameter of a hollow cone is equal to the diameter of a spherical ball. If the ball is placed
at the base of the cone, what proportion of the ball will be outside the cone?

50%
Less than 50%
More than 50%
100%

56.A ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 18 miles from the shore, a seaplane, whose speed is ten times that of the ship is sent to deliver a mail. How far from the shore does the seaplane catch up with the ship?

200 miles
220 miles
22 miles
20 miles


57. If ab=2*sqrt(3) then the value of

14
16
18
20

58.If x then the value of the expression:


0
1
x

59.15 years hence a man will be just 4 times as old as he was 15 years ago. His present age is

25 years
20 years
15 years
10 years

60.
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61.Let then A n B is

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62.The radius of a circle is r. The length of a tangent drawn to this circle from a point distant d from its center is

a)sqrt(d^2
sqrt(d^2
r^2 d^2


63. In an examination the average score of ten students is 60.If the score of one student is omitted and the average score becomes 55, then the score of that student must have been.

55
b)115
c)105
d)60

64. A man had Rs.2000. He lent a part of this at interest and the rest at interest per annum. The total interest he received in one year was Rs.92. The money he lent at interest was.

Rs. 1050
Rs.1100
Rs.1150
Rs.1200


65.The current population of a town is 10,000. If the population increases by 10% every year, then the population of the town after three years will be

13,000
13,300
13,310
13,330

66.6 men earn as much as 8 women, 2 women earn as much as 3 boys and 4 boys earn as much as 5 girls. If a girl earns Rs.50 a day, then the earnings of a man would be

Rs.1l5
Rs.125
Rs.135
Rs.150

67. HCF and LCM of two positive integers are 23 and 11339 respectively. If one of the integers is 391, then the other one must be

29
493
529
667

68. lOg10 10^2 +logl0 l0 equals



x


69.If a decoration piece costs Rs.64 after a 20% discount what IS its original price

Rs.76.80
Rs.86.60
Rs.80
Rs.88

70.If tan sqrt(5)/2 ,then the possible value of Cos x is
2/3
3/2
sqrt(5)/3
3/sqrt(5)


71.The locus of a point equidistant from two parallel lines is

A line perpendicular to the given lines
Empty
A pair of lines, one of which is parallel and other perpendicular to the given lines
A line parallel to the given line such that its distance from both the lines is the same

72.The mean of the following numbers: ,51 is

12
26
25
17

73.In a frequency distribution of words in the following extract "statistics is the science of measurement of the social organism as a whole in all its manifestations" proportion of words with five letters or more according to their length (number of letters), omitting punctuation marks, will be

7/17
6/17
7
8/17


74.The difference between the simple interest and compound interest on a certain sum of money is Rs.24.80 at 10% per annum in 3 years. The sum (in Rs.) is

200
400
800
1600

75. The graphs of the equations 2x 5y=34 and x 3y 20 meet at the point





76.The first Asian Games were held at
Bangkok
New Delhi
Kuala Lampur
Tokyo

77. According to the Constitution, which Fund will be under the control of the President of India?

Contingency Fund ofIndia
Public Provident Fund
Consolidated Fund of India
State's Consolidated Fund of India

78. What is the power ofRajyaSabha regarding Bills related to finance/money matters?

It can amend the bill
It can summarily reject the bill
It has no power regarding finance/money related bills.
It can withhold the bill for 14 days and make recommendations

79. Which among the following is NOT a land locked country?

Nepal
Bhutan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh


80.At which place, Buddha delivered his first sermon?

Lumbini
Gaya
Sarnath
Vaishali

81.Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code relates to which of the following:

Imposition of uniform civil code
Criminalising homosexuality
Legalising same sex marriage
Legalising mutual consent to divorce

82. Which of the following is true?

The President ofIndia has the power to impose financial emergency and has imposed this many times
The President of India has the power to impose national emergency and has imposed this on a few occasions
The President ofIndia has the power to impose constitutional emergency/president's rule in the State(s) and has imposed this only thirty times
ThePresident ofIndiacandismissthePrimeMinistereven if the latter enjoys majority support in the LokSabha .


83.Which of the following is true?

Only the President ofIndia has the power to disqualify members of the State Legislative Assembly
Only the Governor of the State has the power to disqualify members of the State Legislative Assembly
Only the Speaker of the LokSabhahas the power to disqualify members oftheState Legislative Assembly
Only the Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly has the power to disqualify members
of the State Legislative Assembly

84.What does the acronym NIA stand for?
National Intelligence Agency
National Information Agency
National Investigation Agency
National Infrastructure Agency

85.Which of the following is not true about Indian parliament?
It is a bicameral house
The President ofIndia presides over the sessions of both houses of the Parliament
The judiciary cannot question the legislative wisdom of the Parliament
The Speaker of the Lok Sabha presides over joint session of both houses of the Parliament.

86.The number of pin code zones in India is

a)10
b)12
c)8
d)9

87.Which of the following is known as 'silent killer'?
Elephantiasis
Tuberculosis
Blood Pressure
AIDS

88. Which of the following animal breathe through their
skin?
Fish
Earthworm
Grasshopper
snake

89.Which of the following is an example for ball-and-socket joint in human body?
Wrist
Neck
Shoulder
Knee

90.Ozone layer is present in between the following two layers of atmosphere

Exosphere-Thermosphere
Thermosphere-Mesosphere
Troposphere-Stratosphere
Stratosphere-Mesosphere

91.Roger Revelle, Charles David Keeling, William Nierenberg, Fred Seitz, Fred Singer and Lancaster are names associated with

Economic Crisis in Greece and the IMF Representatives
U.S Senate and NATO officials
Global Warming and Climate Change
Attack on Paris and Security Analysts

92.Who is the Author of the book Capital in the Twenty First Century
David Harvey
Joseph Stiglitz
Thomas Piketty
JagdishBhagwati

93. The Chairman of the National Commission for Enterprises in Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) appointed by the government ofJndia was:

C.Rangarajan
R.Radhakrishna
C.H.Hanumantha Rao
Arjun Kumar Sengupta

94.To prevent recurrence of scams in the Indian Capital markets, the Government ofIndia has assigned regulatory powers to

CII
RBI
SEBI
SERA

95.India has been placed in which of the following positions in the 2015 Human Development
Index rankings

170
130
143
125

96.Who among the following had abolished the practice of sati by law?

William Bentinck
Warren Hastings
Marquess Wellesley
Henry Hardinge

97.Who among the following is considered to be the architect of the idea of 'village community' in India?

Henry Maine
James Mill
James Grant
Thomas Macaulay

98.Which of the following ancient Indian king was referred to as Devanampiya in his edicts?

Bimbisara
Samudragupta
Asoka
Pushyamitra Sunga

99.Which of the following British Indian province was known for the canal colonies?

United Province
Punjab
Madras
Bengal

100.Which of the following areas of trade did India
dominate in the world till the 18th century?

Timber
Food grain
Horse
Textile