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A -2- 116/2018 1. Name the Annales historian who wrote the book The Cheese and the Worms. A) Carlo Ginzburg B) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie C) Ferdinand Braudel D) Marc Bloch

2. The rst Indian Historian who had received honourary membership in American Historical Association. A) Romila Thapar B) Bipan Chandra C) Jadunath Sarkar D) Burton Stein

3. Among the following which one is not applicable to positivist historiography ? A) Objectivity is an anathema B) Should follow scientic method C) Fact is real and independent of the perception of the historian D) Believes that history moves in linear sequence

4. Parenthetical notes are descriptions indicating the source of information placed A) At Footnotes B) Endnotes C) Bibliography D) Within the body of the paper

5. Among the following statements which one is not forming an assumption of Gender history ? A) Women have agency in social transformation B) Gender difference is cultural C) Gender difference is a social construction D) Gender difference is natural

6. The name ‘philosophy of history’ was invented in the eighteenth century by A) Hegel B) Voltaire C) Rousseau D) Montesquieu

7. Among the following which one is not part of early Indian historical tradition ? A) Itihasa-Purana B) Sramanic C) Sutas (records of the bards) D) Panchatantra

8. Among the following concepts which one is not related to Karl Marx thinking A) Feudal mode of production B) Segmentary mode of production C) Asiatic mode of production D) Capitalist mode of production

9. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of Christian historiography ? A) Scientic B) Rational C) Providential D) Humanistic

10. Name the author of Kitab al Rehla. A) Amir Khusru B) Abdul Fazl C) Ibn Batuta D) Ibn Khaldun

A -3- 11 ¡¢ £1¤ 11. Among the following who did not form part of Greek population ? A) Achaeans B) Ionians C) Dorians D) Scythians

12. The Roman emperor who shifted his capital from to Nicomedia was A) Dioeletian B) Nero C) Augustus D) Caesar

13. Among the following which word stands for ‘Greece’ ? A) Hellen B) Hellas C) Hellennese D) Greeks

14. The person known as “Morning star of Renaissance” was A) Plutarch B) Michaelangelo C) Dante D) Titian

15. “Black Shirts” was the volunteers of A) Mussolini B) Hitler C) Napolean D) Lenin

16. “Tennis Court Oath” happened during the period of A) Louis – XIV B) Louis – XV C) Louis – XVI D) Henry – VIII

17. The war aims of 1 st World War were declared as A) Pacic Charter B) Atlantic Charter C) Bill of Rights D) Versailles

18. The Organization formed for the creation of Israel was A) P.L.O. B) Israelites C) Zionism D) Liberation Army

19. The man behind the policy of “Perestroika” was A) Yeltsin B) Gorbachev C) Hitler D) Mussolini

20. The “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 happened in England during the period of A) Henry – VIII B) Charles – II C) James – II D) James – I

A -4- 116/2018 21 . In which of the following Tamil texts, reference about ve types of burial is found ? A) Thirukural B) Manimekhalai C) Silappatikaram D) Kuruntokai

22. Who is the author of the work ‘ Karikala Valavan ’ ? A) K. A. N. Shastri B) Y. Subbarayalu C) KI Jagannathan D) M. Krishnakumari

23. What was the term used to mention ofcer in charge of elephants in Gupta administration ? A) Mahabaladikrita B) Mahashvapati C) Mahattaras D) Mahapilupati

24. Which of the following centers is not related to Buddhism ? A) Gaya B) Rajgir C) Pawapuri D) Vaishali

25. Who was given the sobriquet ‘Indian Machiavelli’ for his political treaties ? A) Megasthanes B) Banabhatta C) Vishakhadatta D) Vishnugupta

26. Amaravati, a site famous for Buddhist stupa remains is located in which of the following districts of Andhra Pradesh ? A) Guntur B) Krishna C) Kurnool D) Chittoor

27. According to some scholars, the word ‘Pandya’ is derived from the Tamil word ‘pandi’ which means A) Lion B) Cow C) Bull D) Buffalo

28. Which Sultanate ruler defeated the Mongols in consecutive battles of Jallandar and Kili, and Amroha and Ravi ? A) Alauddin Khilji B) Giyazuddin Balban C) Muhammad Bin Tuglaq D) Iltutmish

29. The Virupaksha temple at Pattadakkal was built by A) Queen Lokamahadevi B) Vikramaditya II C) Pulakeshi II D) Pulakeshi I

30. Portrait of which Mughal ruler is exhibited in Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington ? A) Humayun B) Babur C) Shahjahan D) Akbar

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31. at Calcutta was started by A) Lord Cornwallis B) Lord Wellesley C) Lord William Bentinck D) Lord Dalhousie

32. The First Factory Act of 1881 mainly dealt with A) Child labour B) Women labour C) Safety of workers D) Union activities

33. Who gave the call to the Indian youth “Be Strong and Fearless” ? A) Raja B) Swami Dayananda Saraswathi C) Mrs. D)

34. Who was called the ‘Liberator of Indian Press’ ? A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy B) Sir John Lawrence C) Sir Charles Metcalfe D) Lord Ripon

35. Who said “Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise” ? A) Lord Lytton B) Lord Dufferin C) Lord Willington D) Lord Curzon

36. Muslim League observed the on A) 16 August 1945 B) 16 September 1945 C) 16 August 1946 D) 16 September 1946

37. Who was not one among those who were put in the INA trials ? A) Lekshmi Seth B) G. S. Dhillon C) Prem Sehgal D) Shah Nawaz Khan

38. Under whose guidance the First Five Year Plan was drafted ? A) K. N. Raj B) Sukumar Sen C) Mahalnobis D) Dr. John Mathayi

39. The term ‘Garibi Hatao’ means A) Remove Untouchability B) Remove poverty C) Remove illiteracy D) Remove alcoholism

40. Who was the popular freedom ghter who had undertaken a fast unto death over the demand for a separate Andhra State and expired after fty eight days ? A) Vaikunta Swamikal B) E. V. Ramaswami C) Potti Sriramalu D) A -6- 116/2018

41. Who was the author of the book “Kerala Charitrathinte Atisthana Silakal” ? A) Elamkulam Kunhan Pillai B) Rajan Gurukal C) M. G. S. Narayanan D) Kesavan Veluthat

42. Uzhavar was lived in which Tinai of ancient Tamilakam ? A) Mullai B) Marutham C) Palai D) Kurinchi

43. Who among the following posthumously published K. P. Padmanabha Menon’s book “History of Kerala ” ? A) P. K. Sankunni Menon B) A. Sreedhara Menon C) T. K. Krishna Menon D) T. K. Raman Menon

44. Bovine-shaped sarcophagi have been reported from which among the following place in Kerala ? A) Kattakambal B) Karinthalam C) Nirmalagiri D) Pilikkode

45. Who among the following was not a member of “ Pathinettara Kavikal ” at Zamorin’s court ? A) Punam Namboothiri B) Sankaradeva Swamikal C) Kakkasseri Bhattatiri D) Uddanda Sastrikal

46. Who rstly discovered Neolithic axes from the foot of Kannyakad hills in Kerala ? A) Ragava Varrier B) William Logan C) Stephen Dale D) Philip Lake

47. Which among the following place was not a Brahmin settlement mentioned in Keralolpathi ? A) Kottiyur B) Cokiram C) Kaviyur D) Cellur

48. What was the name of the ruler connected with Pullur Kotavalam Temple Inscription ? A) Pazhassi Raja B) Sreekanta C) Bhaskara Ravi D) Kolathiri

49. Which among the following is closely associated with Cochin royal family ? A) Perumpadappu B) Nediyirippu C) Elayidathu D) Trippappur

50. Who was Karunandadakkan ? A) King of Kumbla dynasty B) Minister of Mushaka dynasty C) Minister of Kollangode dynasty D) King of Ay dynasty

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51. The District of British Malabar was transferred from Bombay to in A) 1792 B) 1800 C) 1805 D) 1810

52. Who among the following was not a member in the ‘Joint Commissioners’ appointed to British Malabar ? A) General Abercromby B) Mr. Farmer C) Major Dow D) Jonathan Duncan

53. Who described Pazhassi Raja as “an extraordinary and singular character” ? A) General Macleod B) Major Dow C) Major Cameron D) T. H. Baber

54. The “Kundara Proclamation’ was issued on A) January 7, 1809 B) January 9, 1809 C) January 11, 1809 D) January 13, 1809

55. The ‘Janmi-Kutiyan Proclamation’ of Travancore was issued by A) Ayilyam Tirunal B) Utradam Tirunal C) Visakham Tirunal D) Sri Mulam Tirunal

56. ‘Abstention Movement’ was started in Travancore as a protest against A) Land Reforms B) Revenue Reforms C) Social Reforms D) Constitutional Reforms

57. The Arabi-Malayalam monthly published by Vakkom Abdul Khadir Moulavi A) Al Islam B) Al Amin C) Muslim D) Deepika

58. In Travancore, the administration of villages were under the A) Karyakkar B) Pravarthikkar C) Menon D) Adhikari

59. A. K. Gopalan led the ‘hunger march’ from Kannur to A) Kozhikode B) Coimbatore C) Thiruvananthapuram D) Madras

60. The rst session of the ‘Cochi Rajya Praja Mandalam’ was held at A) Trissur B) Kodungallur C) Irinjalakkuda D) Piravam

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61. Who dened history as ‘the unfolding story of human freedom’ ? A) F. W. Maitland B) John Seely C) Lord Acton D) J. B. Bury

62. What was the theory formulated by Arnold J. Toyenbee in Historical Research ? A) History of Mentalities B) Challenge and Response C) Dialectical Materialism D) Radical Historicism

63. Who was the proponent of the concepts such as ‘structure’, ‘conjuncture’, and ‘event’ ? A) Ferdinand Braudel B) Roger Chartier C) Marc Bloch D) Simmel

64. Which method of enquiry was introduced by Claude Levi Strauss into the studies of Social Sciences ? A) Romanticism B) Structuralism C) Post Modernism D) Idealism

65. The term ‘Positivism’ was coined by A) Herder B) Hegel C) Auguste Comte D) Leo Pold Von Ranke

66. Who edited the rst six volumes of ‘Subaltern Studies’ ? A) Dipesh Chakrabarthy B) Gayatri Spivak C) Ranajit Guha D) Sumit Sarkar

67. Which among the following book was written by Michael Foucault ? A) Royal Touch B) Bond Men Made Free C) On History D) Archaeology of Knowledge

68. The school of Historiography started by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre A) Structural Marxism B) Annales School C) Subaltern School D) Revisionists School

69. The author of ‘Age of Capital’ is A) E. P. Thmpson B) Keith Jenkins C) Karl Marx D) Eric Hobsbawm

70. The Historiographical Movement started by Leo Pold Von Ranke is known as A) Berlin Revolution B) Paris Revolution C) Rationalism D) Romanticism A -9- 11 ¡¢ £1¤

71. The competency of a teacher judged by A) Length of association with a school

B) Meeting the needs of students C) Personality

D) Books published

72. A teacher in the class should keep the pitch of the voice A) High enough

B) Low C) Moderate

D) Sometimes low and sometimes high

73. The classroom communication should essentially be A) Abstract B) Non-descriptive C) Contrived D) Empathetic

74. Which of the following Universities has received the Visitors Award for the best central University in India in Feb. 2017 ? A) Banaras Hindu B) City of Hyderabad C) Texpur University D) University

75. The principle in which computer assisted instruction is based on A) Classical conditioning B) Operant conditioning C) Pavlovian conditioning D) Respondent conditioning

A -10- 116/2018 76. The relationship described by a theory must be A) Directly observed B) Deduced from a law C) Inferred from data D) Revealed by divine inspiration

77. Two dening characteristics of experimental research are A) Measuring predictor and criterion variables B) Random assignment of participants and measuring dependent variables C) Manipulation of independent variables and control over extraneous variable D) Random assignment of participants and control over extraneous variables

78. Cohen’s Kapa is a statistics used to A) Simplify data from an observational study B) Establish your behavior categories are valid C) Estimate the amount of inter rater reliability D) Establish the objectivity of observation

79. A functional graph that shows a uniformly increasing or decreasing functional relationship is said to be A) Monotonic B) Negatively skewed C) Normal D) Positively skewed

80. The most appropriate statistical test for an experiment with two independent groups and the dependent variable measured on an interval scale is A) Chi square B) The t-test for independent sample C) One sample and test D) A two factor ANOVA A -11- 11 ¡¢ £1¤ 81. Who proposed the preamble before the Drafting Committee of the Constitution ? A) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar B) Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyer C) Jawaharlal Nehru D) M. K. Gandhi

82. Consider the following : 1. Rajya Sabha is dissolved in every 6 years. 2. Legislative Council is dissolved in every 6 years. Which among the above statement/s is/are correct ? A) Only 1 B) Only 2 C) Neither 1 nor 2 D) Both 1 and 2

83. Maximum number of States/Union Territories in India comes under the Jurisdiction of which of the following High Courts ? A) Bombay High Court B) High Court of Delhi C) Guwahati High Court D) Kolkata High Court

84. Which among the following Article was inserted in the Indian Constitution by 42 nd Amendment 1976, in purview of India being a signatory of Stockholm Conference of 1972 ? A) Article 47 B) Article 46 C) Article 44 D) Article 48A

85. What is the minimum stay essential before a person can apply for Indian Citizenship ? A) 2 years B) 5 years C) 7 years D) 10 years

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86. The legislation called the Transplantation of Human Organ Act (THO) was passed in India in ______to streamline organ donation and transplantation activities. A) 1994 B) 1991 C) 1997 D) 1995

87. Sexual molestation is not the only crime against women. Anything that harms the dignity of a woman should be checked. This team will even ensure that women get their reserved seats in buses and public places. It is the general belief that blue is for boys, so Kerala Police named the initiative as A) Red Alert B) Community Police C) Pink Police D) Black Panther

88. Identify the three-tier structure of Kerala Kudumbashrees women community network in hierarchical order. A) Neighbourhood Groups – Block Development Societies – Area Development Societies B) Gram Sabha – Panchayath Samithi – Zilla Parishath C) Gram Panchayath – Panchayath Samithi – Zilla Parishath D) Neighbourhood Groups – Area Development Societies – Community Development Societies

89. Under Right to Information Act, which among the following is not come under the exception from disclosure of information ? A) Affect the sovereignty and integrity of India B) Would cause a breach of privilege of Parliament C) Cabinet papers D) Afdavits submitted by candidates for general election

90. Parliament passed National Food Security Act (NFSA), in ______, with the objective to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people. A) 2013 B) 2012 C) 2016 D) 2000

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91. Rajyasamacharam, the rst Malayalam journal was published from A) Anchuthengu B) Illikkunnu C) Nagarcovil D) Mattancheri

92. The founder of Bhashaposhini Sabha was A) Kumaranasan B) Kandathil Varghese Mappila C) Ulloor D) Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar

93. Tagore visited Sree in the year A) 1921 B) 1932 C) 1924 D) 1922

94. Among the following social reformers whose birth place was Cherayi ? A) Sahodharan Ayyappan B) C) Chattampi Swamikal D) Poykayil Yohannan

95. Rohingyas are the refugees from which country ? A) Bangladesh B) Myanmar C) Indonesia D) China

96. The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness is the novel written by A) Anita Desai B) Sasi Tharoor C) Arundathi Roy D) Kiran Desai

97. Sardar Sarovar Dam is built across the river A) Krishna B) Godavari C) Narmada D) Kaveri

98. Mumbai FC is the team associated with A) ISL B) IPL C) I-League D) Santhosh Trophy

99. Who is the brand ambassador of Harithakeralam mission ? A) Mammootty B) K. J. Yesudas C) Manju Varior D) Mohan Lal

100. Savarnajatha was the event associated with A) Guruvayoor Satyagraham B) Paliyam Satyagraham C) Channar Agitation D) Vaikkom Satyagraham

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