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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

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1. Weather occurs in which layer of earth’s atmosphere? 6. The human eye forms an object’s image at its
(A) Mesosphere ________.

(B) Ionosphere (A) Cornea

(C) Troposphere (B) Pupil

(D) Stratosphere (C) Retina

2. Where is the Lakshadweep Island located? (D) Iris

(A) Arabian Sea 7. What is the main composition of the sun?

(B) Bay of Bengal (A) Methane, Ethane and Hydrogen

(C) Pacific Ocean (B) Hydrogen, Oxygen and Ammonia

(D) Atlantic Ocean (C) Hydrogen and Oxygen

3. The freshwater is mainly obtained from surface runoff (D) Hydrogen and Helium
and groundwater that is continually being renewed 8. James Webb Space Telescope was developed by
and recharged through the ________. ________.
(A) Helium cycle (A) NASA
(B) Carbon cycle (B) Canadian Space Agency
(C) Hydrogen cycle (C) European Space Agency

(D) None of the above (D) All of the above
4. Which of the following diseases is caused by the 9. What is the allotropic form of carbon?
severe deficiency of Vitamin D? (A) Hydrogen
(A) Rickets (B) Diamond
(B) Scurvy (C) Helium
(C) Night blindness (D) Nitrogen
(D) None of these 10. When pressure is increased the density of gas
5. What is the main cause of blueness of the sky? ________.

(A) The presence of water vapor (A) Increases

(B) The scattering of sunlight by air molecules (B) Decreases

(C) Absorption of blue light by the air (C) Remains static

(D) Emission of blue light by the atmosphere (D) Sometimes increases sometimes decreases

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17. What is the other name used for Old Stone Age?
(A) China (A) Mesolithic Era
(B) Rome (B) Palaeolithic Era
(C) Russia (C) Neolithic Era
(D) Egypt (D) Ancient Age

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a planet lunar orbits?
(D) None of the above (C) Pestalozzi
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(A) Sun 19. Which body organ is most impacted by heavy alcohol
(B) Earth consumption?

(C) Jupiter (A) Liver

(D) Black matter (B) Stomach
(C) Spleen

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(A) Carbon
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15. What unit of measurement is employed to measure
the astronomical distance? (C) 2006
(A) Light Year (D) 2016
(B) Black hole 21. What is the full form of IAEA?
(C) Kelvin (A) International Atomic Energy Act

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(D) Gravitational interaction between the Earth and (C) Family
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23. In which year Bengal Sati Regulation Act was passed? 29. How many galaxies exist in the observable universe
(A) 1819 according to current scientific understanding?
(B) 1829
(A) 10 million
(C) 1839
(B) 10 billion
(D) 1849
24. Which is the first cereal used by man? (C) 10 trillion
(A) Rice (D) 10 zillion
(B) Millet 30. What is the basic unit of home electricity
(C) Barley consumption?
(D) Oats
(A) Joule hour
25. Who was the first Muslim general to invade Indian
subcontinent? (B) Kilowatt
(A) Muhammad bin Qasim (C) Kilowatt-hour (kWh)
(B) Muhammad Ghaznavi (D) Watt
(C) Muhammad Ghori
31. Whatis the antonym of Stale?
(D) Qutbuddin Aibak
(A) Old
26. The 1857 war of independence was started by
________ (B) Break
(A) The Peasants (C) Tale
(B) The Sepoys
(D) Fresh
(C) The Plantation Workers
32. His application for a visa was turned ________ by
(D) The Zamindars
the consulate.
27. Which king of Kashmir is popularly known as ‘Bod
Shah’ ? (A) out
(A) Sultan Alau’d-Din (B) over
(B) Sultan Shibu’d-Din
(C) down
(C) Sultan Qutubu’d-Din
(D) aside
(D) Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin
28. What was the post Second World War rivalry 33. He ate the burger. Point out the predicate :
between the USA and USSR called? (A) he
(A) Cold War (B) ate
(B) Warm War
(C) the
(C) Economic War
(D) burger
(D) Apartheid Clash

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34. Shagufta ________ to buy the new dress she wants. 39. If in a code language, COULD is written as BNTKC
(A) doesn’t have money enough and MARGIN is written as LZQFHM, how will
MOULDING be written in that code?
(B) isn’t enough money
(A) CHMFINTK
(C) doesn’t have enough money
(B) LNKTCHMF
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(D) Whale
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44. Which of the following is higher grade intel processor? 50. Which of the following US Democrat’s short visit to
(A) Intel i5 12th generation Taiwan brought one of the tenser moments of 2022?
(B) Intel i7 10th generation (A) Kevin McCarthy
(C) Intel Core2duo (B) Rich Hudson
(D) Intel dual core (C) Barbara Lee
45. ICT refers to all the methods, tools and concepts
(D) Nancy Pelosi
related to ________.
51. Bibliothèque nationale is the national library of
(A) Recording digital information
________.
(B) Sending digital information
(A) USA
(C) Storing digital information
(D) All of the above (B) Germany

46. Which country won the Football World Cup - 2022? (C) France
(A) Argentina (D) Ireland
(B) France 52. The first public library in Jammu & Kashmir was
(C) Brazil established by the then ruler, Maharaja Ranbir Singh
(D) Portugal in 1879 at ________.
47. On which of the following dates war between Ukraine (A) Jammu
and Russia started? (B) Srinagar
(A) 24 January 2022 (C) Ladakh
(B) 24 February 2022
(D) Mirpur
(C) 24 March 2022
53. Which one of the tools a library user makes use of to
(D) 24 April 2022
search required documents possessed by the library?
48. Who bought social network ‘Twitter’ in the year
(A) Bay Guides
2022?
(A) Elon Musk (B) OPAC

(B) Bill Gates (C) Classification scheme
(C) Jeff Bezos (D) All of the above
(D) All of the above bought it together 54. Which is the oldest library of the world that is still in
49. Which former Prime Minister of Japan was shot dead operation?
in the year 2022? (A) Library of Pergamum (Turkey)
(A) Fumio Kishida (B) Saint Catherine’s Monastery Library (Egypt)
(B) Shinzo Abe
(C) Library of Alexandria (Egypt)
(C) Yoshihiko Noda
(D) Al-Qarawiyyin Library (Morocco)
(D) Naoto Kan

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58. Which one of the following books is authored by
(A) Library for special children Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins?
(B) Library for Physically challenged (A) Freedom at Midnight
(C) Library for blind (B) Mein Kampf

(D) None of the above (C) Paradise Lost

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57. The book titled “The Third Wave: The Classic Study (D) A. G. Noorani
of Tomorrow” is written by : 60. “Wings of Fire”, is the autobiography of ________
(A) Samuel W. Green (A) P. J. Abdul Kalam
(B) Samuel Huntington (B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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