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ENTRANCE TEST-2021
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
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1. Which of the following spectral series of Hydrogen 5. The famous Airlines, Lufthansa has its registered
atom lies in the visible region of electromagnetic office and corporate headquarters located in :
radiation ? (A) Hamburg
(A) Lyman
(B) Berlin
(B) Brackett
(C) Bremerhaven
(C) Paschen
(D) Cologne
(D) Balmer
6. What is the motto of University Grants
2. Who gave Mirza Ghalib the title of “Mirza
Nosha” ? Commission ?

(A) Fakhr-ud Din Mirza (A) Gyan-Vigyan Vimuktaye

(B) Bahadur Shah Zafar (B) Gyanum Darshanum Vimuktaye
(C) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (C) Vigyan-Darshan Vimuktaye
(D) Shah Alam (D) Vigyanum-Gyanum Vimuktaye
3. Match the poems against the names of their 7. Match the following :
respective poets :
(a) North Korea (i) Land of Smiles
(a) The Pains of Sleep (i) Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (b) Thailand (ii) Land of Blue Sky

(b) The Masque of Anarchy (ii) John Keats (c) Mongolia (iii) The Hermit
(c) Sleep and Poetry (iii) Percy Bysshe Kingdom
Shelley (d) Indonesia (iv) Emerald of the
(d) Childe Harold’s (iv) Lord Byron Equator
Pilgrimage (a) (b) (c) (d)
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
4. “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” has been 8. Who among the following is the youngest Nobel
authored by : Prize Winner in the field of Physics (as of 2020) ?

(A) Simon De Beauvoir (A) Tsung-Dao Lee
(B) Mary Wollstonecraft (B) William Lawrence Bragg
(C) J.S. Mill (C) Carl D. Anderson
(D) Sarojini Naidu (D) Paul A.M. Dirac

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9. Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 was 14. The width of a rectangle is 10 meters, and the area
passed by Indian Parliament on : of the rectangle is equal to the area of a square
whose side is 4 meters. What is the length (in
(A) 14 December 2016
meters) of the rectangle ?
(B) 15 December 2016 (A) 1
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“Most Decorated Olympian” ?
(A) Michael Phelps
(C) Swimming Skills
(B) Lance Armstrong
(D) Self- Education
(C) Usain Bolt
11. Bengali romance novel Devdas is written by :
(D) Carl Lewis
(A) Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
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(D) Agnes Grey
“Pietà” & “David” are associated with :
17. According to Jean Piaget, what process goes
(A) Leonardo da Vinci through sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
(B) Tiberio Calcagni operational, and formal operational stages ?

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19. Match the following personalities against the 24. Picric Acid is :
places where they were born : (A) 2-nitrophenol
(a) Johannes Kepler (i) Italy (B) 4-nirophenol
(b) Galileo (ii) Poland (C) 2, 6-dintrophenol
(c) Nicolaus Copernicus (iii) Germany (D) 2, 4, 6-trinitrophenol
(d) Henry Norris Russell (iv) United States 25. The process of nutrient enrichment of water and
(a) (b) (c) (d) subsequent loss of species diversity is referred to
(A) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) as :
(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv) (A) Nitrification
(C) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) (B) Biomagnification
(D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (C) Eutrophication
20. Biographical film, Thalaivi starring Kangana (D) Bioconcentration
Ranaut is about the life of which famous politician ? 26. Quiescent Centre is found in plants at :
(A) V. N. Janaki (A) Root Tip
(B) Akkamma Devi (B) Shoot Tip
(C) V. Jeyalakshmi (C) Cambium
(D) Jayaram Jayalalithaa (D) Leaf Tip
21. GATT is the predecessor of which of the following 27. Kranz Type of anatomy is found in :
organization ? (A) C4 Plants
(A) WTO (B) C3 Plants
(B) ASEAN (C) Succulents
(C) ADB (D) None
(D) IFM 28. “Ramachandran Plot” is used to confirm the
22. Who has authored the book, “End of Ideologies” ? structure of :
(A) Karl Marx (A) DNA
(B) Friedrich Engels (B) RNA
(C) Daniel Bell (C) Proteins
(D) Sigmund Freud (D) None
23. Who among the following has propounded the 29. With the rise in temperature, the coefficient of
concept of “End of History” ? viscosity of a gas :
(A) Edward Said (A) Increases
(B) Francis Fukuyama (B) Decreases
(C) Noam Chomsky (C) Does not change
(D) Robert Kaplan (D) None

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36. Six friends are sitting before a dining table in the
30. Tusks of elephants are modified :
(A) Molars following order. B is sitting opposite to D. E is
sitting opposite to C. A is on the extreme left end
(B) Canines
of the table facing F. Who is sitting on the right-
(C) Premolars hand side of F ?
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stomach” mean ? (C) 600
(A) To feel hungry (D) 640
(B) To feel nervous/excited 38. Raheem started walking from his house. He first
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(D) Get lost age of his son. At present the father’s age is 3 times
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41. The famous “Content Platform” Netflix was 46. Which among the following is not a COVID-19
founded by : Vaccine ?
(A) Reed Hastings & Marc Randolph (A) Pfizer
(B) Jack Dorsey & Evan Williams (B) Covishield
(C) Sören Hofmayer & Horst Fickenscher (C) Astrozeneca
(D) Zhang Yiming (D) Imovax
42. Who coined the term “Deep Web” ? 47. Which among the following countries is not an ally

(A) Narinder Singh Kapany to “TAKM - Organization of the Eurasian Law
Enforcement Agencies” (as of 2020) ?
(B) Michael K. Bergman
(A) Turkey
(C) Daniel Colladon
(B) Azerbaijan
(D) Jacques Babinet
(C) Kyrgyzstan
43. Full form of JSON, a lightweight data-interchange
(D) India
format is :
48. Theme for the “International Women’s Day
(A) Java Source Object Notation
2021" ?
(B) Java Source Objective Notation
(A) Choose to Challenge
(C) JavaScript Object Notation
(B) Each for Equal
(D) Java Set Objective Notation
(C) Balance for Better
44. In the context of computing, the term Worm – a
(D) Generation Equality
self-replicating program, was first used in which
49. Who won the Femina Miss India title for the year
famous science fiction novel ?
2020 ?
(A) The Shockwave Rider
(A) Manushi Chhillar
(B) The Time Machine
(B) Suman Rao
(C) Edge of Tomorrow
(C) Shreya Shanker
(D) The Outer Limits
(D) Manasa Varanasi
45. Famous video-sharing social networking service,
50. Who among the following earned a whopping
TikTok is owned by :
25 Billion Dollars in a single day ?
(A) ByteDance
(A) Jeff Bezos
(B) Suning.com
(B) Bill Gates
(C) Tencent
(C) Elon Musk
(D) Alibaba
(D) Mark Zuckerberg

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51. Match the libraries against their year of 56. Match the following novels with the characters
establishment : revolving around them :
(a) British Library (i) 1948 (a) Anna Karenina (i) Jean Louise
(b) Library of Congress (ii) 1973 (b) To Kill a Mockingbird (ii) Konstantin
Levin
(c) Swiss National Library (iii) 1800
(c) A Passage to India (iii) Cyril Fielding
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(A) Lexicography Holmes’s friend and helper ?
(B) Ethnography (A) Speleologist
(C) Bibliography (B) Physician
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59. “Home in the World: A Memoir” has been
with : authored by :
(A) Library of Congress (A) Arundhati Roy
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