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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)

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1. ‘‘Mudra ’ is a/an d) Geology

a) Newspaper agency 8. Which of the following was 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) c) 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) 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) 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. - 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)

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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) () 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

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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, , 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

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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) d) 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

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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. union

list, state list and the concurrent 55. The minimum age of the voter in India is list a) 15 years

b) 18 years 61. The phrase 'bicameral legislature' means c) 21 years a) a single assembly d) 25 years b) an elected legislature

c) a legislature consisting of a

56. The members of the Rajya Sabha are lower and an upper chamber a) directly elected by the people d) parliamentary system of government on the basis of universal adult franchise b) elected by the members of the 62. The power of Supreme Court of India to decide state legislative assemblies the dispute between the centre and states falls c) elected by the members of the under its state legislative councils a) advisory jurisdiction d) elected by the members of the b) appellate jurisdiction state legislative councils and c) original jurisdiction state legislative assemblies

d) constitutional jurisdiction

57. The office of the president can fall vacant due to a) Resignation 63. The name of the union given in the Constitution is b) Death a) Hindustan or Bharatavarsha c) Removal b) India or Hindustan d) All of the above c) India or Bharat

d) Bharatadesh or India

58. The members of the parliamentary committee a) are appointed by the president 64. The Nagaland State of India cannot be termed as a in consultation with the prime state because it lacks minister a) Sovereignty

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b) bicameral legislature 70. Washing soda is the common name for c) a high court exclusively of its a) Sodium carbonate own b) Calcium bicarbonate d) None of the above c) Sodium bicarbonate

d) Calcium carbonate

65. The objective of the Morley-Minto Reforms 71. In the state of India, the State Financial was Corporation have given assistance mainly to a) extension of provincial develop assemblies a) agricultural farms b) to give more powers to local b) cottage industry government c) to abolish the post of secretary c) large-scale industries of the state for India d) medium and small-scale d) to establish diarchy in industries provinces

72. States earn maximum revenue through 66. The president can be removed from his office a) land revenue before the expiry of his normal term only on the recommendation of b) custom revenue a) the Supreme Court c) commercial taxes b) the chief justice of India d) excise duties on intoxicants

c) council of ministers d) the two Houses of Parliament 73. Which of the following is the first Indian private company to sign an accord with

Government of Myanmar for oil exploration in 67. The members of the State Public Service two offshore blocks in that country? Commission are appointed by the a) Reliance Energy a) Chief minister b) Essar Oil b) Chief justice c) GAIL d) ONGC c) Governor

d) Vice-president 74. Revenue of the state governments are raised from the following sources, except 68. The national anthem was written by a) entertainment tax a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee b) expenditure tax b) Rabindranath Tagore c) agricultural income tax c) Sarat Chandra Chatterjee d) land revenue

d) Aurobindo Ghosh

75. In India, which one among the following 69. Which of the following is used in pencils? formulates the fiscal policy? a) Graphite a) Planning Commission b) Ministry of Finance b) Silicon c) Finance Commission d) The Reserve Bank of India c) Charcoal

d) Phosphorous 76. The budget deficit means

a) the excess of total expenditure,

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including loans, net of lending c) Methane over revenue receipts d) hydrogen b) difference between revenue

receipts and revenue 83. Which of the following is an element? expenditure a) Ruby c) difference between all receipts and all the expenditure b) Sapphire d) fiscal deficit less interest c) Emerald payments d) Diamond

77. Foreign Direct Investment ceilings in the telecom sector have been raised from 74 84. Decibel is the unit for percent to a) Speed of light a) 80 percent b) Radio wave frequency b) 83 percent c) Intensity of sound c) 90 percent d) Intensity of heat

d) 100 percent

85. Which of the following is used as a 78. Which of the gas is not known as green house moderator in nuclear reactor? gas? a) Thorium a) Methane b) Graphite b) Nitrous oxide c) Radium c) Carbon dioxide d) Ordinary water

d) Hydrogen

86. 'OS' computer abbreviation usually means? 79. Galvanised iron sheets have a coating of a) Order of Significance a) lead b) Open Software b) chromium c) Operating System c) zinc d) Optical Sensor d) tin

80. Carbon, diamond and graphite are together called 87. Which is a type of Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory? a) Allotropes a) Flash b) Isomers b) Flange c) Isomorphs c) Fury d) isotopes d) FRAM

81. What is laughing gas? 88. Who developed Yahoo? a) Nitrous Oxide a) Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson b) Carbon monoxide b) David Filo & Jerry Yang c) Sulphur dioxide c) Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn d) Hydrogen peroxide d) Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

82. Marsh gas is 89. The most common format for a home video a) Nitrogen recorder is VHS. VHS stands for...? b) Ethane a) Video Home System

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b) Very high speed c) Video horizontal standard 96. Find the average of first 40 natural numbers. d) Voltage house standard a) 40

b) 35 90. How many bits is a byte? c) 30.6 a) 4 d) 20.5 b) 8

c) 16

d) 32

91. What is the difference between the Internet 97. Complete the series: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ? and an Intranet? a) 12 a) One is public, the other is private b) 32 b) One is safer than the other c) 34 c) One can be monitored, the other can't d) 36 d) None of the above

98. 7 Pink, 5 Black, 11 Yellow balls are there. 92. A DV camcorder is... Minimum no. atleast to get one black and a) Capable of creating video in HDTV yellow ball. b) Used to create digital video a) 17 c) Limited to the Direct Video format b) 13 d) A Denon Video brand product c) 15

d) 19 93. If (2x-y) =4 then (6x-3y) =? a) 15 99. 12% of 580 + ? = 94 b) 12 a) 24.4 c) 18 b) 34.4 d) 10 c) 54.4

d) 65.4 94. 8 15 24 35 48 63 _? a) 70 b) 80 100. Some green are blue. No blue are white. a) Some green are white c) 75 b) No white are green d) 88 c) No green are white

95. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains d) None of the above 10 minutes in 24 hours. What will be the true time when the clock indicates 1 p.m. on the 101. A is twice as good a workman as B and following day? together they finish a piece of work in 18 a) 48 min. past 12 days.In how many days will A alone finish b) 38 min. past 12 the work? c) 28 min. past 12 a) 27 d) 25 min. past 12 b) 26

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c) 25 d) 28 years d) 24 107. NECKLACE: ADORNMENT:: ? 102. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the a) Medal: Decoration intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is b) Bronze: Medal the age of the youngest child? c) Scarf: Dress a) 4 years d) Window: House b) 8 years

c) 10 years

d) None of these 103. A father said to his son, "I was as old as you 108. WINDOW: CURTAIN::? are at the present at the time of your birth". If a) Door: Frame the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age b) Book: Jacket five years back was- a) 14 years c) CPU: Cabinet b) 19 years d) Casing: Wire c) 33 years d) 38 years 109. Amnesia: Memory:: Paralysis: ? a) Movement 104. Six years ago, the ratio of the ages of Kunal b) Limbs and Sagar was 6: 5. Four years hence, the c) Handicapped ratio of their ages will be 11: 10. What is d) Legs Sagar's age at present?

a) 18 years 110. Radio: Listner::Film: ? b) 16 years a) Producer c) 20 years b) Actor d) None of these c) Viewer

d) Director 105. Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50 years, what is definitely the difference 111. Skeleton: Body:: Grammer:? between R and Q's age? a) Language a) I year b) Sentence b) 2 year c) Meaning c) 25 years d) Education d) Data inadequate 112. Which word does NOT belong with the

others? 106. Sachin is younger than Rahul by 7 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7 : 9, a) Acute how old is Sachin? b) Right a) 16 years c) Obtuse b) 18 years d) Parellel c) 24.5 years

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113. Which word does NOT belong with the (118-121) Each question has an underlined word others? followed by four answer choices. You will choose a) Beak the word that is a necessary part of the underlined b) Wing word c) Fin 118. Purchase. d) Rudder a) Trade b) Money c) Bank d) Acquisition (114 -115) In these series, you will be looking at 119. Election both the letter pattern and the number pattern. a) President Fill the blank in the middle of the series or end b) Voter of the series. c) November 114. SCD, TEF, UGH, ____, WKL d) Nation a) CMN b) UJI 120. Lightning a) Electricity c) VIJ b) Thunder d) IJT c) Brightness

115. JAK, KBL, LCM, MDN, _____ d) Rain a) OEP 121. Language b) NEO a) Student c) MEN b) Report card d) PFQ c) Pictures

(116-117) The words in the bottom row are d) Learning related in the same way as the words in the top row. For each item, find the word that completes (122-126) Below you will be given a list of three the bottom row of words. "nonsense" words and their English word 116. Apple fruit supermarket meanings. The question(s) that follow will ask Novel book ? you to reverse the process and translate an a) Magazine English word into the artificial language. b) Bookstore 122. There are some words translated from an artificial language. c) Vegetable hapllesh means ‘cloudburst’, d) Shopping srenchoch means ‘pinball’, resbosrench means ‘ninepin’ 117. Snow Mountain Ski Which word could mean "cloud nine"? Warmth Lake? a) leshsrench a) Sand b) ochhapl b) Swim c) Sunburn c) haploch d) Vacation d) haplresbo

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123. Here are some words translated from an artificial Eric is older than Cliff. language. migenlasan means ‘cupboard’, lasanpoen means If the first two statements are true, the third ‘boardwalk’, cuopdansa means ‘pullman’ statement is Which word could mean "walkway"? a) True a) poenmigen b) False b) cuepeisel c) Can’t say c) lasandansa d) Uncertain d) peonforc 128. All the trees in the park are flowering trees. 124. Here are some words translated from an Some of the trees in the park are dogwoods. artificial language. All dogwoods in the park are flowering trees. daftafoni means ‘advisement’, imodafta means ‘misadvise’, imolokti means ‘ If the first two statements are true, the third misconduct’ statement is Which word could mean "statement"? a) True a) Kratafoni b) False b) Kratadafta c) Can’t Say c) Loktifoni d) Uncertain d) Daftaimo

129. During the past year, Raghu saw more movies 125. Here are some words translated from an than Stephen. artificial language. Sheena saw fewer movies than Deepak. dionot means ‘oak tree’, blyonot means ‘oak Deepak saw more movies than Raghu. leaf’, blycrin means maple leaf

Which word could mean "maple syrup"? If the first two statements are true, the third a) blymuth statement is b) hupponot a) True c) patrician b) False d) crinweel c) Cant Say d) Uncertain 126. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. 130. All the offices on the 9th floor have wall-to- granamelke means ‘big tree’, pinimelke means wall carpeting. ‘ little tree’, melkehoon means ‘tree house’ No wall-to-wall carpeting is pink. Which word could mean "big house"? None of the offices on the 9th floor has pink a) granahoon wall-to-wall carpeting. a) pinishur If the first two statements are true, the third b) pinihoon statement is c) melkegrana a) True b) False (127-131) Each problem consists of three c) Cant Say statements. Based on the first two statements, the third statement may be true, false, uncertain or d) Uncertain Can’t say 131. Class A has a higher enrollment than Class B. 127. Tanya is older than Eric. Class C has a lower enrollment than Class B. Cliff is older than Tanya. Class A has a lower enrollment than Class C.

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137. ARGUE If the first two statements are true, the third a) Agree statement is b) Avoid a) True c) Statement b) False d) Quarrel c) Can’t say d) Uncertain

(132-136) Choose the synonyms of the word underlined from the given options: 132. DELEGATE 138. ABBREVIATE a) Advance a) Officer b) Extend b) Participant c) Reach c) Representative d) Diffuse d) Member

133. VOGUE 139. COMPOUND a) Fashion a) Reveal b) Rejection b) Concentrate c) Order c) Activate d) Satisfaction d) Separate

134. IRRUPTION 140. CONTINUITY a) Hate a) Disjunction b) Bursting in b) Disability c) Interference c) Discomfort d) Altercation d) Deceit

135. DISTINCTION 141. DECORUM a) Degree a) Constant austerity b) Diffusion b) False humility c) Difference c) Impropriety d) Disagreement d) Flexibility

136. MUTATION (142-144) Fill in the blank from the options given a) Variation below. 142. The court______cognizance of the criminal’s b) Displays word. c) Severance a) Took d) Silence b) Made

c) Gave (137-141) Choose antonyms of the word d) Allowed underlined from the given options:

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143. As he got older his belief in these principles a) She is a clever girl. did not_____ a) Wither b) It is a pleasant evening. b) Shake c) He is an honest man c) Waver d) I play chess regularly d) Dither

144. Your father was the principal of this school______149. Find the sentence in which the underlined a) Did he? word is used as a verb. a) I have an English guide b) Doesn’t he? b) Where is the tour guide? c) Does he? c) Parents guide their children. d) Didn’t he? d) We are in a guides camp

(145-147) Fill in the blank with suitable article- 150. Find the sentence in which the underlined word is a proper noun.

145. My sister is ______famous Doctor in a) I am a teacher. Nainital. b) My son is a doctor. a) A c) I live in Delhi. b) An c) The d) I have two daughters.

d) No Article

146. ______painting which I gave you was made by me. a) A b) An c) The d) No article

147. I always wanted to be ______Actor. a) A b) An c) The d) No Article

148. Identify the sentence which does not contain an adjective.

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