OSS 101 Solved Question Paper December 2016

OSS-101 : Preparatory Course in Social Sciences

OSS 101 Solved Question Paper December 2016

Time : 2 hours

Maximum Marks : 50

General instructions :

Preparatory course in Social Sciences (OSS – 101)

Questions 1 – 50. 

 (i) All questions are compulsory, each of which carries one mark.

(ii)  Each question has four alternatives, one of which is correct. Write the serial number of your correct alternatives/answers below the corresponding question number in the answer Sheet and then mark the rectangle for the same number in that column. If you find that none of the given alternatives is correct then write 0 and mark in column 0.

(iii) Do not waste time in reading the whole question paper. Go on solving questions one by one. You may come back to the left out questions if you have time at the end.

1. Science is based on

1. Observation
2. Measurement
3. Experimentation
4. All of these

2. NSSO provides data on

1. Agriculture, Consumption and Expenditure, Industry and Labour
2. National Accounts Statistics
3. Report on Currency and Finance
4. None of the above

3. Dates in history are expressed in two terms

1. BC and AD
2. AD and AC
3. BC and BD
4. DC and AD

4. The history of humankind has sequentially passed through three stages

1. Hunting-gathering, Industrial and Agrarian
2. Agrarian, Industrial and Hunting-gathering
3. Hunting-gathering, Agrarian and Industrial
4. None of the above

5. What are the indicators of affluence in the modern world?

1. A much greater availability of food
2. Decline of death rate
3. Increase in the formal literacy and the size of the middle class
4. All of the above

6. The First World War was fought during

1. 1915 – 1918
2. 1912 – 1915
3. 1914 – 1918
4. 1945 – 1948

7. Who was the founder of the Gupta dynasty?

1. Chandragupta I
2. Chandragupta Maurya
3. Chandragupta II
4. None of the above

8. State and society in the Early Medieval period (7th – 12th centuries) were views historians as

1. Democratic
2. Socialist
3. Feudal
4. Communist

9. Who were often mentioned as the Lords of the Kaveri Delta?

1. Cheras
2. Cholas
3. Pandyas
4. All of the above

10. ‘Brahmadeya’ means

1. Land grants made to Kshatriyas
2. Land grants made to Brahmins
3. Land grants made to Shudra
4. None of the above

11. Bhakti ideology gained ground during

1. 3^rd – 6^th century
2. 6^th – 8^th century
3. 8^th – 13^th century
4. None of the above

12. ‘Ur’ is the assembly of elders in

1. Brahmin villages
2. Non-Brahmin villages
3. Both (1) and (2)
4. None of the above

13. The philosophy of ‘Satyagraha’ is based on the principle of

1. Truth and Non-violence
2. Truth and Violence
3. Non-violence
4. None of the above

14. Jallianwala Bagh incident took place on

1. April 13, 1919
2. April 13, 1917
3. April 14, 1918
4. None of the above

15. An economy in which there is free trade of goods and services is referred to as

1. Market economy
2. Subsistence economy
3. Transitional economy
4. Agrarian economy

16. Which of the following is a feature of the industrial society?

1. Invention of new machines
2. Factory system
3. Developments in transportation and communication
4. All of the above

17. In which session did the congress declare ‘Purna Swaraj’?

1. Gaya session
2. Pune session
3. Lahore session
4. None of the above

18. Who was the first President of the All India Kisan Sabha?

1. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
2. Jay Prakash Narayan
3. Acharya Narendra Dev
4. Ram Mohan Lohia

19. Which article deals with the Right to Equality?

1. Article 14
2. Article 16
3. Article 46
4. Both (1) and (2)

20. Which chapters of the Indian Constitution deal with the Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles?

1. Chapters II and III
2. Chapters II and IV
3. Chapters I and IV
4. Chapters III and IV

21. Who is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?

1. President
2. Vice-President
3. Lok Sabha Speaker
4. None of the above

22. The term of Lok Sabha is

1. six years
2. three years
3. five years
4. None of the above

23. Who was the first Governor General of India?

1. Lord Warren Hastings
2. Lord Macaulay
3. Lord Dalhousie
4. None of the above

24. Who gave the concept of ‘Sanskritsation’?

1. G. Bailey
2. Yogendra Singh
3. N. Srinivas
4. None of the above

25. Polygyny refers to

1. a women marrying more than one man
2. a man marrying more than one woman
3. one man marrying one woman
4. None of the above

26. ‘Patrilocal Residence’ refers to
27. a newly married woman goes to stay in her husband’s house
28. a newly married man goes to stay in her wife’s house
29. Both (1) and (2)
30. None of the above

27. The 73^rd Amendment of the Constitution of India provides

1. three-tier Panchayati Raj structure
2. two-tier Panchayati Raj structure
3. single-tier Panchayati Raj structure
4. None of the above

28. Commodification made the peasants

1. Rich
2. Assertive
3. Poor
4. None of the above

29. Primary sector refers to

1. all activities that are land or animal centred
2. all activities that factory – based
3. Service sector
4. None of the above

30. Capita income refers to

1. The total national income of the country divided by its total population
2. The total population of the country divided by its total national income
3. Both (1) and (2)
4. None of the above

31. The first five year plan emphasised on

1. Industry
2. Agriculture
3. Service sector
4. All of the above

32. When did five year plans begin in India?

1. 1947
2. 1950
3. 1951
4. 1956

33. Which of the following was emphasised during the fourth five year plan?

1. Heavy industries
2. Removal of poverty
3. Irrigation
4. Export

34. Water pollution is a result of which of the following?

1. Effluents from factories, Refineries and households
2. Contaminants contained in the soil
3. Contaminants contained in the air
4. All of the above

35. Ozone depletion is a result of

1. Carbon dioxide
2. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
3. Oxygen
4. All of the above

36. Green house refers to

1. A glass chamber where is warm climate is maintained by trapping solar radiation and heat
2. A wooden chamber where a warm climate is maintained by trapping solar radiation and heat
3. A metal chamber where a warm climate is maintained by trapping solar radiation and heat
4. None of the above

37. The new economic policy of 1991 emphasised on

1. Economic liberalisation
2. Economic control
3. Restriction of foreign trade
4. None of the above

38. Ecosystem is a

1. Combination of all living and non-living elements in area
2. Living elements
3. Non-living
4. None of the above

39. Who has given the concept “culture of poverty”?

1. Karl Marx
2. Oscar Lewis
3. Emile Durkheim
4. Max Weber

40. Max Weber explains the concept of class in terms of

1. Economics
2. Wealth
3. Life chances
4. Political affiliation

41. Karl Marx identified two classes in capitalist society namely

1. Bourgeoise and proletariat
2. Upper class and lower class
3. Middle class and new middle class
4. Rich and non-rich

42. Policies that favour the disadvantaged are

1. Preferential policies
2. Discriminatory policies
3. Referential policies
4. Rational policies

43. ASEAN stands for

1. Association of South Asian Nations
2. Association of South-East Asian Nations
3. Association of East African Nations
4. Association of South-East American Nations

44. Which of the following groups of countries is a part of the European Union?

1. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg Netherlands
2. Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey
3. Turkey, Netherlands,Poland, Belgium
4. Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Italy, Norway

45. The headquarters of WTO is located at

1. Geneva
2. France
3. New York
4. Australia

46. Vande Mataram was composed by

1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. MK Gandhi
4. Dr BR Ambedkar

47. Which of the following is matrilineal?

1. Naga
2. Mizo
3. Khasi
4. Warli

48. The contribution of Lord Macaulay was in the area of

1. Politics
2. Religion
3. Economy
4. Education

49. The major challenge to democracy in India is

1. Communalism
2. Secularism
3. Consumption pattern
4. Educational services

50. Political science studies

1. Different political institutions
2. Ideologies and Systems
3. Democracy and human rights
4. All of the above

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