Doon University, Dehradun Entrance Test 5-Years Integrated M.A. Communication Roll Number Programme Name Examination Centre Date of Examination Signature of Candidate Name of the Invigilator Signature of the Invigilator Time Allowed: 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 150 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES Candidates must read carefully the following instructions before attempting the Question Paper GENERAL (i) Write your Roll Number in the space provided on the top of this Question Paper. (ii) Please do not make any stray marks on the Question Paper. (iii) Pages at the end have been provided for rough works. INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANSWERIGN QUESTIONS Answer all 150 Questions. Correct answers must be ticked in the question paper itself. Mark your answer only in the box given against the options as follows. a. b. c. d. Once marked, no change in the answer is allowed. Nothing must be attached to the question paper. There is no negative marking. Use ONLY BLUE/BLACK Ballpoint Pen ( Do not use Pencil) Page 1 of 15 1. ‘‘Mudra India’ is a/an d) Geology a) Newspaper agency 8. Which of the following was Satyajit Ray b) Advertising Company associated with? c) Electronic Media Company a) Classical Music d) Textile Company b) Commercial art c) Film Direction 2. Who is the brand Ambassador of Pulse Polio d) Classical Dance Immunization Programme in India? a) Amitabh Bacchan 9. Who among the following is a social activist b) Vidya Balan campaigning against child labour? a) Baba Amte c) Ashutosh Rana b) Shabana Azmi d) Amir Khan c) Mira Nair d) Swami Agnivesh 3. Who played the character ‘Jhilmil’ in film Barfi? a) Ranbir Kapoor 10. R. K. Laxman is a renowned b) Ileana D’cruze a) Dance Master c) Priyanka Chopra b) Writer d) Sumona Chakravartu c) Cartoonist d) Journalist 4. Who won the Popular reality Show ‘Big Boss- 7’ a) Tanishaa Mukharjee 11. Mr. Sham Lal has done commendable work in the b) Arman Kohli field of? a) Journalism c) Ajaz Khan b) Politics d) Gauhar Khan c) Social Service d) Trade Union 5. ‘Romio and Juliet’ is a famous play of a) Willium Shakespeare 12. Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held for b) Julius Caeser a) Possessing unlicensed weapon c) Oscar Wilde b) Possessing drugs d) Willium Wordsworth c) Possessing stolen goods d) Possessing fake certificate 6. Who was known as ‘Iron man of India’? a) Govind Ballabh Pant 13. Which of the following pairs of artists and their b) Jawahar lal Nehru areas of specialization is not correct? c) Subhash Chandra Bose a) Pt. Ravi Shankar- Sitar d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel b) M. S. Subulakshmi- Dance c) Hari Prasad Chaurasia-Flute 7. Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the d) Ustad Zakir Hussain Khan-Tabla fields? a) Biochemistry 14. Who is known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'? b) Electronics a) Florence Naightingale c) Economics b) Sarojini Naidu Page 2 of 15 c) Indira Gandhi c) Discovered that the Movement of Pendulum d) Joan of Arc Produces a Regular Time Measurement 15. Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime d) All of the above Minister of 22. Federation Cup, World Cup, Allywyn a) Portugal International Trophy and Challenge Cup are b) Canada awarded to winners of a) Tennis c) Switzerland b) Volleyball d) Congo c) Basketball 16. Entomology is the science that studies d) Cricket a) Bahaviour of Human Beings b) Insects 23. Fire temple is the place of worship of which of the following religion? c) The Origin and History of Technical and Scientific Terms a) Taoism b) Judaism d) The Formation of Rocks c) Zoroastrianism (Parsi Religion) 17. For which of the following disciplines is Nobel d) Shintoism Prize awarded? a) Physics and Chemistry 24. Guru Gobind Singh was b) Physiology and Medicine a) The 10th Guru of the Sikhs c) Literature, Peace and Economics b) Founder of Khalsa, the Inner d) All the above Council of the Sikhs in 1699 c) Author of Dasam Granth 18. Film and TV Institute of India is located at a) Pune (Maharashtra) d) All of the above b) Rajkot (Gujarat) 25. Ecology deals with c) Pimpri (Maharashtra) a) Birds d) Perambur (Tamilnadu) b) Cell Formation 19. Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is c) Relation between Organisms and known as Their Environment a) Labour Party d) Tissues b) Nazi Party c) Ku-klux-Klan 26. Golden Temple, Amritsar is India's a) Largest Gurudwara d) Democratic Party b) Oldest Gurudwara 20. FFC stands for c) Both Option A and B are Correct a) Foreign Finance Corporation d) None of the above b) Film Finance Corporation c) Federation of Football Council 27. Fathometer is used to measure d) None of the above a) Earthquakes b) Rainfall 21. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who a) Developed the Telescope c) Ocean Depth b) Discovered Four Satellites d) Sound Intensity Page 3 of 15 b) 20 Yards apart c) 22 Yards apart d) 24 Yards apart 28. Firdausi was 35. India's Integrated Missiles Development a) A Poet Programme was started in ____ under the b) Well Known for his Epic chairmanship of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. ‘Shahnama’ a) 1979-80 b) 1980-81 c) Both Option A and B d) None of the above c) 1981-82 d) 1982-83 29. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was a) A German Physicist 36. Human Rights Day is on b) Developed the Mercury a) 24 February Thermometer in 1714 b) 10 December c) Devised Temperature Scale d) All of the above c) 15 May d) 21 July 30. India's first Technicolor film ____ in the early 1950s was produced by ____ a) ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’, Sohrab Modi 37. India became a member of the United Nations in b) ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’, Sir Syed Ahmed a) 1945 c) ‘Mirza Ghalib’, Sohrab Modi b) 1947 d) ‘Mirza Ghalib’, Munshi Premchand c) 1959 31. India's first satellite is named after d) 1960 a) Aryabhatta b) Bhaskara II 38. In big cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai police is headed by a c) Bhaskara I a) Commissioner of Police d) Albert Einstein b) Inspector General of Police c) Deputy Inspector General of 32. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in Police a) 1974 d) None of the above b) 1984 c) 1994 39. The 'Black flag' signifies d) 2004 a) Revolution/Danger b) Peace 33. How many players are there on each side in the c) Protest game of Basketball? a) 4 d) Truce b) 5 c) 6 40. The 2012 Olympics Games were held in a) London d) 7 b) Seoul 34. In cricket, the two sets of wickets are c) Sydney a) 18 Yards apart Page 4 of 15 d) Tokyo c) Japan's policy of expansion and imperialism of England and France d) All the above 47. The first Indian to be awarded the Oscar for lifetime achievements in 41. Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated inCinema in 1992 was a) 1961 a) Satyajit Ray b) 1971 b) Bhanu Athaiya c) 1981 c) Dilip Kumar d) Amitabh Bachchan d) 1991 48. The Chief of Air Staff is assisted by 42. Raja Rammohan Roy a) Vice-chief of the Air Staff a) was a social reformer who tried to b) Deputy-chief of the Air Staff eradicate sati, purdah and child c) Air Officer Incharge Administration b) advocated widow remarriage and d) All of the above woman's education c) was the founder of the Brahmo 49. The first Dada Saheb Phalke Award, given in Samaj 1969, was received by d) All of the above a) Devika Rani b) Pankaj Mullick 43. Satyajit Ray received Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts in c) Kanan Devi a) 1963 d) Sohrab Modi b) 1965 c) 1966 50. How many Lok Sabha seats belong to Rajasthan? a) 32 d) 1967 b) 25 c) 30 44. Study of earthquakes is known as a) Ecology d) 17 b) Seismology 51. The Parliament of India cannot be regarded as a c) Numismatics sovereign body because d) None of the above a) it can legislate only on subjects entrusted to the Centre by the 45. The first meeting of the SAARC was opened in Constitution a) Dhaka b) it has to operate within the limits prescribed by the b) Bangalore Constitution c) Kathmandu c) the Supreme Court can declare laws passed by parliament as d) Islamabad unconstitutional if they contravene the provisions of the 46. The basic cause of World War II was Constitution a) an unjust Treaty of Versailles d) All of the above b) rice of the Nazi Party in Germany 52. The members of the panchayat are a) nominated by the district officer Page 5 of 15 b) the electorates of the respective b) are appointed by the president territorial constituencies on the recommendation of the c) nominated by local self- speaker government minister of the state c) are taken from various groups d) nominated by the block and parties in Parliament in development organization proportion to their respective strength 53. The members of Lok Sabha hold office for a term d) both (b) and (c) of 59. Preamble enshrines the ideals of liberty, a) 4 years equality and fraternity - ideals inspired by the b) 5 years a) Russian Revolution b) Irish Revolution c) 6 years c) French Revolution d) 3 years d) US Constitution 54. The minimum age to qualify for election to the Lok Sabha is 60. The Parliament enjoys legislative power over a) 25 years subjects in b) 21 years a) the union list only b) the concurrent list only c) 18 years c) both union and concurrent list d) 35 years d) all the three lists, viz.