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ENTRANCE TEST-2021
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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ANTHROPOLOGY
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1. Cultural Anthropology Studies: 7. The process by which individuals learn the culture
(A) Cultural variations and universals in the past of their society is called:
and present (A) Acculturation
(B) Cultural variations and universals in the past (B) Socialization
(C) Cultural variations and universals in the (C) Transculturation
present
(D) Assimilation
(D) Cultural variations in the past
8. Every society contains a large number of
2. The Book “Primitive Culture” is written by:
guidelines which direct conduct in particular
(A) Franz Boas
situations. These are called:
(B) L.H. Morgan
(A) Values
(C) E.B. Tylor
(B) Norms
(D) Ruth Benedict
(C) Mores
3. Who has coined the term “Anthropologist”?
(D) Folkways
(A) Kant
9. Which of the following is an achieved status?
(B) Aristotle
(A) Sex
(C) Herskovits
(D) Kluckhohn (B) Caste
4. Acculturation is: (C) Class
(A) When there is exchange of cultural traits and (D) Age
complexes 10. Family is an:
(B) When there is a reaction to the loss of own (A) Institution
individuality (B) Association
(C) When a whole way of life is in process of (C) Both (A) and (B)
change under the influence of another culture (D) None of these
(D) None of these
11. Hypergamy is also known as:
5. The concept of “Themes” is given by:
(A) Anuloma
(A) M E Opler
(B) Pratiloma
(B) E B Tylor
(C) Gotra
(C) Kluckhohn
(D) None of these
(D) Ruth Benedict
12. Family of Procreation is:
6. The concept of “Little Tradition” and “Great
Tradition” is first introduced by: (A) Family in which one is born
(A) Mckim Marriott (B) Family which one sets up after marriage
(B) Oscar Lewis (C) Family in which one lives for their whole
(C) Robert Redfield lives
(D) M N Srinivas (D) None of these

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20. Charles Darwin wrote “Origin of Species” in:
(A) R H Lowie (A) 1870
(B) Radcliffe Brown (B) 1860
(C) James Frazer
(C) 1859
(D) Emile Durkheim
(D) 1853
14. The study of Animism was pioneered by:

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by: (D) Gender roles
(A) Hutton J.H.
22. Nancy Chodorow is the author of:
(B) Lowie R.H.
(A) City of Ladies
(C) Maciver R.M.
(B) The Second Sex
(D) Ghurye G.S.
16. The term “Jajmani System” has been introduced (C) Vindication of the Rights of Women
by: (D) The Reproduction of Mothering

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(B) William Wiser
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17. Second Wave of Feminism is also known as:
(A) Liberal feminism
a (B) Sustainable Development
(C) Social Development
(B) Post modern feminism
(D) Human Development
(C) Radical feminism
(D) Black feminism 24. Harappan Culture existed during:
18. Empowerment refers to: (A) Stone Age
(A) Ability to fight for rights (B) Bronze Age

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a (A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati (B) Safeguards
(B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Detention
(C) Ram Mohan Roy (C) Freedom of Conscience
(D) Mahatma Gandhi (D) Freedom of Association

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26. The Indigo Revolt took place in: 33. Deforestation causes:
(A) 1856-57 (A) Soil Erosion
(B) 1851-52 (B) Flooding
(C) 1859-60 (C) Global Warming
(D) 1870-71 (D) All of these
27. What is a Secular State ?
34. Pollution coming from one country to another is
(A) Has no religion of its own called:
(B) Cabinet
(A) Trans boundary Pollution
(C) Constituent Assembly
(B) Accidental Pollution
(D) Parliament
(C) Chronic Pollution
28. Freedom of Speech is linked to:
(D) None of these
(A) Article 19
(B) Article 24 35. In 1873, he organised an association called the
“Satyashodhak Samaj” and asked his followers
(C) Article 14
not to engage any Brahman priest in the said
(D) Article 32
association:
29. The phrase “Survival of the Fittest” was coined
by: (A) B R Ambedkar
(A) J S Mill (B) Jyotiba Phule
(B) Herbert Spencer (C) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Charles Darwin (D) Sahajanand Saraswati
(D) None of these 36. Kinship based on marriage is called:
30. International Women’s Day is celebrated every (A) Consanguineous Kinship
year on: (B) Primary Kinship
(A) January 13 (C) Tertiary Kinship
(B) March 8
(D) Affinal Kinship
(C) May 16
37. Who was the last Viceroy of India ?
(D) April 10
(A) Lord Ripon
31. Bourgeois is used to refer to:
(B) Lord Lytton
(A) Peasant
(C) Lord Curzon
(B) Capitalist
(C) Socialist (D) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Liberal 38. Scheduled Castes constitute __________ percent
32. Karl Marx uses the term Infrastructure for: of total population in India as per 2011 Census.
(A) Culture (A) 16.6
(B) Religion (B) 17.6
(C) Economic Relations (C) 18.6
(D) Kinship (D) 10.6

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39. The five point Charter (PANCHSHEEL) for tribal 44. _____________ is an intensive study of a case
people is founded by: which may be an individual, an institution, a
(A) B R Ambedkar system, a community, an organization, an event or
even entire culture.
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(A) Survey method
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
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(C) 1953 (A) Social Surveys
(D) 1951 (B) Questionnaire
41. The _____________ was largely against the (C) Ethnography
feudal conditions in the princely state of (D) None of these
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42. Sachar Committee Report mainly addresses: (D) Ram Krishan Koul
47. Deficiency of __________ causes dry skin and
(A) Economic and Political conditions of Indians
night blindness.
(B) Educational and Economic condition of
(A) Vitamin D
Dalits
(B) Vitamin C
(C) Educational and Economic condition of
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(C) Culturalism (C) Sampling
(D) Multiculturalism (D) None of these

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49. ___________ lacks nucleus and membrane bound 55. The practice of calling Husband by Son’s name
organelles. is:
(A) Mitochondria (A) Teknonymy
(B) Prokaryotic (B) Avoidance
(C) Eukaryotic (C) Amitate
(D) None of these (D) Couvade
50. Which is the largest gland of human body ? 56. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), a centrally
(A) Liver sponsored Scheme, was launched in:

(B) Pancreas (A) 2012
(B) 2013
(C) Pineal gland
(C) 2014
(D) Thyroid gland
(D) 2015
51. Total Number of High Courts in India is:
57. Saiyid Sharafuddin (Bulbul Shah) was in Kashmir
(A) 20
during the reign of :
(B) 25
(A) Lalitaditya
(C) 26
(B) Rinchan Shah
(D) 28
(C) Sultan Zainulabidin
52. NITI Aayog came into existence on:
(D) Emperor Akbar
(A) 1st January 2015
58. The concept of Dysfunction is given by:
(B) 3rd December 2015
(A) Talcott Parsons
(C) 4th May 2014 (B) Herbert Spencer
(D) 6 November 2016
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(C) R K Merton
53. _________ was launched on 2nd April 2005 to (D) Emile Durkhiem
reduce Infant Mortality Rate and Maternal 59. ______ postulated three stages (Savage Society,
Mortality Rate. Barbarism, and Civilisation) to understand cultural
(A) NUHM evolution.
(B) MGNREGA (A) Tylor
(C) NRHM (B) Morgan
(D) Bharat Nirman (C) Radcliffe Brown
54. The Marriage of one man to several women is (D) Lévi-Strauss
referred to as: 60. In Ancient Kashmir, Nila was the King of:
(A) Polyandry (A) Nagas
(B) Polygamy (B) Pisachas
(C) Hypogamy (C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Polygyny (D) None of these

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