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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

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LINGUISTICS

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1. Cell wall of fungi is mostly made up of 7.
Polysemy refers to
(A) Chitin (A) Bee communication
(B) Cellulose (B) Many possible meanings of a word or phrase
(C) Pectin (C) Many languages spoken by a person
(D) Both (A) and (B) (D) Study of Polyesters
8. Which of the following processes explains formation
2. The term apiculture refers to
of the word Scuba as in Scuba diving?
(A) Tissue culture
(A) Derivation
(B) Pisciculture
(B) Blending
(C) Beekeeping
(C) Clipping
(D) Animal-keeping (D) Acronomy
3. The major binding force in diamond, silicon and quartz 9. Who among the following received the National
is Florence Nightingale Award 2021?
(A) Electrostatic force (A) Parvez Koul
(B) Electrical attraction (B) Shad Ramzan
(C) Covalent bond force (C) Ahmadullah Wani
(D) Van der-Waals force (D) Umran Malik
4. The first law of thermodynamics is concerned with 10. Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday is celebrated on
the conservation of (A) 8th of August
(A) Number of molecules (B) 23rd of September
(B) Number of moles (C) 13th of July
(D) 8th of September
(C) Temperature
11. Mohra Heritage Hydro Electric project, which was
(D) Energy
recently in news, is located at
5. Who among the following is a famous Linguist?
(A) Shopian
(A) Jeff Bezos
(B) Ramban
(B) Noam Chomsky (C) Uri
(C) Boris Johnson (D) Gulmarg
(D) Clint Eastwood 12. Which of the following set a Lincoln Book of Records
6. Which of the following is not a branch of Linguistics? by writing the Holy Quran on a 500-meter white scroll
(A) Syntax paper?
(B) Morphology (A) Mustafa ibne Jamil
(C) Phonology (B) Athar Amir Khan
(D) Numismatics (C) Altaf Hussain Shah
(D) Shah Faisal

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Which of the following was Prime Minister of England
(A) Ballistic missile before Rishi Sunak?
(B) Hydro power plant (A) Boris Johnson
(C) Superfast train (B) Donald Trump
(D) River cruise ship (C) Theresa May
14. Rahman Rahi was awarded the Jnanpith award for
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which of the following works? 20. Where was 2022 United Nations Climate Change

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(A) Nauroz-i-Saba

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Conference (COP 27) held?

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(A) Sharm El Sheikh

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(B) Rio de Janeiro
(D) Kahwat
(C) Paris
15. Which of the following is the grammatical category of
(D) Glasgow
English word ‘subject’?
21. The Sun temple at Martanda was built during the reign
(A) Both verb and noun
of
(B) Both noun and adjective
(C) Both verb and adjective (A) Lalitaditya Muktapida
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16. Which of the following sentences carries a past (C) Chandrapida

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(A) I am watching a series on ants.
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(A) Sultan Mahmud Shah
(D) I have watched a series on ants. (B) Akbar
17. Which of the following isn’t a form of verb ‘be’? (C) Mir Ali Hamadani
(A) Was (D) Ranjit Singh
(B) Were 23. Where and when was Treaty of Amritsar concluded?
(C) Are (A) Jammu in 1934
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(B) Any museum
(A) Rectangle
(B) Triangle
(C) All museums (C) Square
(D) All of the above (D) Cone

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25. Find the odd man out : 28. What is the choice of Kunal?
(A) Universe (A) Bengali sweets
(B) Sun (B) Dry fruits
(C) Moon (C) Ice cream
(D) Star (D) Can’t be determined
26. Find the odd man out : 29. What is the choice of Anjali?
8 64 100 125 216 343 (A) Dry fruits
(A) 125
(B) Bengali sweets
(B) 100
(C) Ice cream
(C) 64
(D) Can’t be determined
(D) 343
30. In which month was Kunal born?
27. Find the odd man out :
10 25 45 54 60 75 80 (A) January

(A) 25 (B) May
(B) 45 (C) January or May
(C) 54 (D) Data inadequate
(D) 75 31. Which combination of month and item is correct for
Study the following information carefully and answer Jayant?
the below Question No. 28 to Question No. 31 (A) February – Ice Cream
(i) Jayant, Kunal, Namrata, Anjali and Tanmay are
(B) February – Pastries
five members of a family.
(C) March – Pastries
(ii) Each member has his/her birthday in one of the
(D) None of these
months from January to May.
(iii) Each member likes to have one particular item 32. A man had missed the bus to Gulmarg, when he
for his/her birthday from Bengali sweets, reached Lal Chowk Bus terminal at 3 PM. At the
Chocolate, Pastries, Ice Cream, Dry fruits same time an announcement was made that the next
(iv) The one who likes pastries is born in the month bus will leave for Gulmarg in 2 hours’ time, as the bus
which is exactly in the middle of the months given leaves every 7 hours. At what time had the bus left

(v) Anjali doesn’t like ice cream but brings the terminal?
chocolates for Jayant in February (A) 10 AM
(vi) Tanmay who is fond of Bengali sweets is born (B) 12 Noon
in the next month immediately after Namrata (C) 9 PM
(vii) Namrata doesn’t like dry fruits or ice cream (D) 8 AM

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Total number of people staying in locality J forms
for Pahalgam has left 20 minutes ago and the next approximately what percent of the total number of
bus as per schedule will leave at 6:30 PM. What is people staying in locality F?
the time now? (A) 81
(A) 3 PM (B) 72
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(B) 1278
breakfast in another 15 minutes and leave for their
(C) 1827
office which takes another 35 minutes. At what time
(D) 1728
do they leave Javed’s home for their office?
38. Which locality has highest number of women ?
(A) 7:40 AM
(A) H
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minutes before. If the time now is 10:45 AM, What is (A) 4115
the time for the next flight? (B) 4551
(A) 4:10 AM (C) 4515
(B) 2:20 AM (D) 4155
(C) 3:20 PM 40. Which of the following Maqams of Kashmiri Sufiyana
(D) 3:55 PM Music has been taken from Persian?
(A) Araq
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(B) Chenab Valley
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(D) Rajouri
J 4900 42 41 17

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42. Purigpa or Purki is 47. Kashmiri is a
(A) A language/dialect mostly spoken in Kargil (A) V2 language
(B) A musical instrument of Paharis (B) Postpositional language
(C) A river in Kupwara district (C) 8th Schedule language
(D) Name of a fruit (D) All of the above
43. The Kashmiri Literary Journal Soun Adab has been 48. Which of the following dialects is spoken outside the
associated with Kashmir Valley proper?
(A) Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art Culture (A) Maraz
and Languages (B) Kamraz
(B) University of Kashmir (C) Yamraz
(C) Adbi Markaz Kamraz (D) Kishtiwari
(D) None of the above 49. Which among the following is the official language of
44. Which of the following has been wrongly matched? J&K?
(A) The Jammu and Kashmir Accountability (A) Kashmiri
Commission - 2002 (B) Dogri
(B) The Jammu and Kashmir Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine (C) Urdu
Act - 2000 (D) All of the above
(C) The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms 50. The Kashmiri Drama Suya has been written by
Act - 1976 (A) Ali Mohamad Lone
(D) None of the above (B) Rahman Rahi
45. Which of the following is the oldest Hindi Newspaper (C) Mehjoor
published from Jammu? (D) Samad Mir
(A) Vritanta Bitas 51. The Kashmiri Nazm SheshRang has been written by
(B) Kavi Vachan Sudha (A) Rahman Dar
(C) The Bharat Mitra (B) Akhtar Mohiuddin
(D) None of the above (C) Shams Fakir
46. Which of the following languages has influenced (D) Wahab Khar
Kashmiri the most in ancient period?
52. http in web communication refers
(A) Sanskrit
(A) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
(B) Hindi
(B) Hypo Text Transfer Protocol
(C) Urdu
(C) Hyper Text Transfer Period
(D) Punjabi
(D) Hyper Transfer Text Protocol

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53. Who among the following Kashmiri writers is the 57. Complete the series DKY, FJW, HIU, JHS, _____
recipient of Padma Shri Award? (A) LFQ
(A) Shad Ramzan (B) LGQ
(B) Shafi Shouq (C) KGR
(C) Amin Kamil (D) KFR

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59. If in a certain code language MAN is coded as
(D) All of the above
NBO, which of the following will be the code for
55. Where was National Youth Festival 2023 held?
SKY?
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World Cup Football Tournament in India?
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(A) Zee (A) AMSLR
(B) Star (B) MSLAR
(C) Channel 18 (C) MASRL
(D) ESPN (D) SAMLR

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