KANNUR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE M.L.I.Sc ENTRANCE EXAMINATION Centre of Examination

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General Instructions 1. Fill up the columns carefully 2. The booklet contains 100 objective type multiple choice questions for 400 marks. 3. Each correct answer carries FOUR marks. 4. There is negative mark for wrong answers. For each wrong answer ONE mark will be deducted. 5. Select correct answer and darken the circle in the answer sheet provided. 6. DONOT OPEN THE BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

GENERAL ENGLISH

Find out the TYPE OF SENTENCE given below

1. My name is Hari. (a) Assertive (b) Imperative (c) Interrogative (d) Exclamatory 2. Delhi is a big city (a) Assertive (b) Imperative (c) Interrogative (d) Exclamatory 3. May God bless you. (a) Assertive (b) Imperative (c) Interrogative (d) Exclamatory

Find out the SUBJECT from the following sentences

4. Please help me. (a) Please (b) Help (c) Me (d) You 5. Lost are the days of glory (a) Lost (b) Days (c) Glory (d) Days of Glory

Fill in the blanks using APPROPRIATE WORD given below.

6. One of the boys ………….absent. (a) is (b) are (c) were (d) can 7. He is ………… weak to walk. (a) to (b) very (c) too (d)so 8. She is a girl of great ……………. (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautify (d) beautifully 9. I……………. play tennis every day. (a) was (b) may (c) used to (d) do 10. He has been ill …………..five days. (a) from (b) for (c) since (d) last

Find out the KIND OF WORD given in bold form.

11. Raman is a strong man. (a) Noun (b) Pronoun (c) Adjective (d) Adverb 12. The bag is under the table. (a) Verb (b) Adjective (c) Preposition (d) Adverb 13. I will do the work properly. (a) Adverb (b) Auxiliary verb (c) Adjective (d) Verb

Find out the ANTONYM of the word given below.

14. Inflate (a) Outflate (b) Unflate (c) Deflate (d) Disflate 15. Miser (a) Spender (b) Spendthrift (c) Giver (d) Lavish

Find out the suitable ONE WORD for the following.

16. Ran with short steps (a) Short run (b) Trotted (c) Slipped (d) Vivid 17. Spend lavishly (a) Squander (b) Stimulus (c) Torment (d) Stroll

Find out the word which is NOT A SYNONYM of the word given below.

18. List (a) Catalogue (b) Index (c) Inventory (d) Book 19. Book (a) Volume (b) Work (c) Journal (d) Tome 20. Titter (a) Giggle (b) Chuck (c) Snicker (d) Snigger

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

21. The first women judge in India was ………….. (a) Fathima Beevi (b) Anna Chandi (c) Sujatha V Manohar (d) K.K. Usha 22. The land of legends is………. (a) Goa (b) Delhi (c) Gujarat (d) Karnataka 23. The central minister who resigned first from the ministry was …….. (a) Jag Jeevan Ram (b) N.V. Gadgil (c) C.H. Baba (d) R.K. Shanmughan Shetty 24. Sections 29 and 30 of the Indian Constitution deals with…………… (a) Religion (b) Education and Culture (c) Equality (d) Freedom 25. Father of Nation of China (a) Sun Yat Sen (b) Sam Sujoma (c) Sukarno (d) Ramgulam 26. World Students’ day is celebrated on ……………. (a) November 14 (b) October 15 (c) January 24 (d) May 11 27. My rise and fall is authored by …………… (a) Lenin (b) Hitler (c) Mussolini (d) Fidel Castro 28. The pseudonym of Charles Dickens was ……………. (a) Boz (b) O’henry (c) Cirin (d) Mark Twain 29. Anusat is a satellite developed by ………………. (a) ISRO (b) Anna University (c) Andrews University (d) Anderson University 30. Right to Information Act in India was Passed in …………… (a) 2001 (b) 2003 (c) 2005 (d) 2007 31. Safarnama is a book authored by …………. (a) Nasir Khusrow (b) Amir Khusrow (c) Malik Mohammed (d) Nizamudhin 32. FIBA is an international Association related to ………….. (a) Atheletics (b) Baseball (c) Basketball (d) Badminton 33. Press TV News Channel is in …………….. (a) Iran (b) Indonesia (c) Iraq (d) UK 34. Rupiya is a currency used in ………………… (a) India (b) Indonesia (c) Iran (d) Israel 35. is a pseudonym used by …………… (a) Pathrose (b) K.M. Mathew (c) K.E. Mathai (d) P.C. Gopalan 36. Find the odd one. (a) Kabani (b) Periyar (c) Bhavani (d) Pambar 37. In Kerala, KL-17 is assigned to …………………. (a) Attingal (b) Muvattupuzha (c) Vadakara (d) Parashala 38. Fall of a Sparrow is the autobiography of ……………….. (a) Salim Ali (b) APJ Abdul Kalam (c) HG Wells (d) L.K. Advani 39. First opposition leader of the Kerala state assembly was ……………. (a) K. Karunakaran (b) P. T. Chacko (c) R. Shankara Narayanan Thampi (d) R. Shankar 40. Fasal Ali Commission(1953) in India was appointed for ………………. (a) Formation of states (b) Nationalisation of Banks (c) Formation of UGC (d) Development of Five year plans

CURRENT AFFAIRS

41. Present RBI governor is …………. (a) Urjit Patel (b) Reguram Rajan (c) Arundhathy Bhattacharya (d) Arun Jaitly 42. Kailasavadivoo Sivan is the chairman of ……………. (a) UGC (b) Finance Commission (c) Atomic Commission (d) ISRO 43. New president of Nepal is ……………. (a) Koirala (b) Madan Bhandari (c) Bidhya Devi Bhandari (d) Onsari Gharti Magar 44. The Common wealth games 2018 was held in ……………….. (a) Soul (b) Gold Coast (c) Edinburgh (d) Wrexham 45. In Santhosh trophy tournament 2018, Kerala defeated …………………in final match. (a) Manipur (b) West Bengal (c) Orissa (d) Karnataka 46. Vallathol Award 2017 is won by …………… (a) (b) Sugatha Kumari (c) (d) 47. Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2017 was given to ………….. (a) Manoj Kumar (b) Vinod Khanna (c) Amithab Bhachan (d) Sreedevi 48. National Film Award for Best actor 2017 was bagged by ……….. (a) Riddhi Sen (b) Vinod Khanna (c) Amithab Bhachan (d) Akshay Kumar 49. Sixteenth Lok Sabha of India came into being on ……………. (a) 26 May 2014 (b) 25 May 2014 (c) 24 May 2014 (d) 23 May 2014 50. The Chief Justice of Kerala High Court is ……………… (a) K.T. Joshi (b) P.N. Ravindran (c) Antony Dominic (d) K. Surendra Mohan 51. Present Vice chancellor of Kerala Kala Mandalam is…………… (a) Dr. K. Mohammed Basheer (b) Dr. T.K. Narayanan (c) Dr. Anil Vallathol (d) Prof. Gopinath Raveendran 52. The latest state in India is…………….. (a) Andra Pradesh (b) Goa (c) Puthucherry (d) Telengana 53. Present UN secretary general is …………… (a) Antonio Guterres (b) Ban Ki Moon (c) Sasi Tharoor (d) Gladwyn Jebb 54. Rohingya people reside in Rakhine state in ………………….. (a) India (b) Myanmar (c) Nepal (d) Bengladesh 55. Present Repo rate is ………………. (a) 6% (b) 6.75% (c) 5.75% (d) 6.25% 56. Current Literacy rate in India is……………… (a) 93.91% (b) 63.82% (c) 74.04% (d) 92.91% 57. Nobel prize 2017 in Literature is won by …….. (a) Kazuo Ishoguro (b) Bob Dylan (c) Svetlana Alexievich (d) Patrick Modiano 58. Oscar award 2017 for the best film goes to …………… (a) DarkestHour (b) Three Billboards (c) Coco (d) Shape of water 59. FIFA U-17 World cup 2017 was hosted by …………….. (a) Qatar (b) India (c) Brazil (d) Japan 60. Latest member (195th) of UNESCO is ………………. (a) Pakistan (b) Afganistan (c) Palestine (d) Myanmar

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

61. First generation computer is characterized with …………….. (a) Vacuum tube (b) Transistor (c) Integrated Chip (d) Integrated Circuit 62. Transistor was the special feature of …………… generation computers. (a) Fourth (b) Third (c) Second (d) First 63. Personal computers are introduced as …………….generation computers. (a) Fourth (b) Third (c) Second (d) First 64. Operating system was introduced as a feature of …………….generation computers. (a) Fourth (b) Third (c) Second (d) First 65. The first electronic digital computer was …………………… (a) UNIVAC (b) EDVAC (c) ABC (d) EDSAC 66. FORTRAN was introduced by …………….. (a) John Backus (b) Jack Kilby (c) John Kemny (d) Clifford Berry 67. The first laser jet printer was developed by ………….. (a) Ramington (b) Sony (c) Canon (d) HP 68. Windows Vista was released in the year …………. (a) 2000 (b) 2007 (c) 2006 (d) 2005 69. Macintosh computers were introduced by …………. (a) Microsoft (b) Macintosh (c) IBM (d) Apple 70. In TCP/IP, IP stands for ……………. (a) Internet Program (b) Internet Protocol (c) Information Protocol (d) Information Program 71. ………………..is an Open Source software. (a) Windows (b) DOS (c) Linux (d) Unix 72. Opera is a …………….. (a) Website (b) Database (c) Browser (d) Blog 73. Blogger is a free blog hoisting service launched in …………. (a) 2002 (b) 2001 (c) 2000 (d) 1999 74. Orkut is an internet network service run by …………….. (a) Facebook (b) Google (c) Yahoo (d) MSN 75. SOUL is a software developed by (a) CSIR (b) NISCAIR (c) INFLIBNET (d) IIT, Delhi 76. File Size is a data about e-document, which is an example of ………………… (a) Catalogue data (b) Bibliographic data (b) (c) Metadata (d) Citation data 77. Find the odd one. (a) Yahoo (b) Google (c) Alta Vista (d) Hotbot 78. ………………….is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. (a) HTTP (b) FTP (c) TELNET (d) SMTP 79. HTML is the standard markup language used for creating …………….. (a) Network (b) Institutional Repository (c) Database (d) Webpage 80. In the URL, http://www.example.com/index.html, index.html is …………………. (a) Name of protocol (b) Database name (c) File name (d) Host name

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

81. Library is a combination of Books, Staff and ………………… (a) Computer (b) Internet (c) Journals (d) Readers 82. Index is commonly found in ………………… (a) Encyclopedia (b) Dictionary (c) Books (d) Journals 83. Library Catalogue is used to …………… books. (a) Issue (b) Reserve (c) Select (d) Search 84. Personal assistance given to readers in a library is known as ……………. (a) Reference Service (b) Referral Service (c) Librarian‘s Service (d) Circulation Service 85. Stock number of a book in a library is actually called as ………….. (a) Accession number (b) Collection number (c) Class number (d) Book number 86. Books in a library are arranged on the shelf according to …………….. (a) Collection number (b) Accession number (c) Book number (d) Call number 87. In ISBN, S stands for ……….. (a) Supply (b) Standard (c) Service (d) Search 88. The largest library in the world is ………………… (a) National Library of Germany (b) National Library of India (c) Library of Congress (d) British Library 89. Kerala State Central Library is located at ………………….. (a) Trivandrum (b) Trichur (c) Ernakulam (d) Kottayam 90. Local libraries found in cities and towns are called …………….. (a) Special libraries (b) People’s library (c) Public library (d) Local library 91. ………………. is mainly responsible for the development of public libraries in Kerala. (a) Kerala Granthasala Sangham (b) State Central Library (c) National Library of India School (d) Kerala Library Association 92. ‘Malayalam’ is a weekly published by ……………… (a) Indian Express (b) The Hindu (c) Mathrubhoomi (d) Malayala Manorama 93. Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation is located at …………….. (a) Hyderabad (b) Bombay (c) Calcutta (d) New Delhi 94. Granthalokam is a Malayalam periodical published by …………….. (a) Kerala State Library Council (b) Kerala State Central Library (c) Government of Kerala (d) National Book Stall 95. Kerala Bhasha Institute publishes the Malayalam periodical …………….. (a) Vanitha (b) Grihalakshmi (c) Vijnana Kairali (d) Thozhilveedi 96. Kerala public libraries act was passed in ……………… (a) 1948 (b) 1964 (c) 1998 (d) 1989 97. Reference is a list of books given in the end of a …………….. (a) Chapter (b) First Page (c) Last page (d) Book 98. Wikipedia is an online …………….. (a) Textbook (b) Dictionary (c) Encyclopedia (d) Index 99. KOHA is a software used in libraries for ……………… (a) Webdesigning (b) Library automation (c) Internet search (d) Networking 100. Internet Public Library (IPL) is an online library run by ………………… (a) Oxford University (b) Drexel University (c) British Library (d) National Library of India