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SLET History exam Question Paper
Paper - I1
1. The most common shape of Harappan seal is
(A) square (B) round
(C) rectangular (D) oval.
2. In which part of India did the 'Nagara' style of architecture develop ?
(A) North-East India
(C) East India
(B) South India
(D) North India.
3. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched ?
I. Lothal - Ancient Dockyard
11. Sarnath - First sermon of Buddha
111. Rajgir - Lion capital of Ashoka
IV. Nalanda - Great seat of Buddhist learning.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(A) I, 11, I11 and IV
(C) I, I1 and IV
(B) I11 and IV
(D) I and 11.
4. Read the following statements carefully :
i. A large number of seals discovered from almost all the Harappan sites were
used for ritualistic purposes.
ii. A large number of seals discovered from almost all the Harappan sites were
used for symbolic purposes.
iii. A large number of seals discovered from almost all the Harappan sites were
used for familial traditions.
iv. A large number of seals discovered from almost all the Harappan sites were
used for diplomatic purposes.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are not correct ?
(A) i and ii (B) ii and iii
(C) iii only (D) iii and iv.
5. Buddha gave his first sermon in
(A) Bodh Gaya
(C) Sarnath
(B) Pataliputra
(D) None of these.
6. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, Magadha alone grew up into an empire.
Reason (R) : Magadha was ideally located.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true but. (R) does not explain (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A]
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) only partially explains (A)
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
7. In which of the following Edicts is Ashoka's name found ?
(A) Rock Edict XI1 (B) Pillar Edict VII
(C) Maski Edict (D) Minor Pillar Edict I.
8. Consider the following statements :
i. The Greeks were the earliest foreigners to invade India.
ii. The Huns were the earliest foreigners to invade India.
iii. The Parthians were the earliest foreigners to invade India.
Which of the above statements islare false ?
(A) ii only (B) ii and iii
(C) iii only (D) None of these
9. Choose the correct statement by using the codes :
i. Held at Rajagriha, the Second Buddhist Council was important for editing
his sermons.
ii. Held at Vaishali, the Second Buddhist Council marked the division of the
Buddhist Order.
iii. Held at Rajagriha, the Second Buddhist Council led to the emergence of
Mahayana and Hinayana.
Codes :
i ii iii
(A) True False True
(B) False True True
(C) False True False
(D) False False True.
10. Match List I with List I1 correctly and select your answer using the codes given below
List I List I1
i) Satavahana a) Maues
ii) Shunga
iii) Saka
iv) Tocharian
Codes :
i ii iii iv
b) Pushyamitra
C) Simuka
d) Kujula Kadphises.
11. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The City of Taxila revolted twice during the Mauryan period.
Reason (R) : The Mauryan emperors were despots.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
12. Which one of the following statements is not true about Samudragupta ?
(A) He built the most extensive empire after Ashoka
(B) A poetical work called the Krishna Charitam is attributed to him
(C) He is also known as Kaviraja
(D) He sent an embassy to China.
13. Select the correct statement using the codes :
i. Kumarasambhava is an epic poem and Raghuvamsha is a drama.
ii. Both Kumarashambhava and Raghuvamsha are dramas.
iii. Both Kumarashambhava and Raghuvamsha are epic poems.
iv. Kurnarashambhava is a drama and Raghuvamsha is an epic poem.
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) True False False False
(B) False True False True
(C) False False True False
(D) False False False True.
( Works )
i) Mrichchhakatika
ii) Mudrarakshasa
iii) Kamasu tra
iv) Ritusamhara.
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14. Match the following :
( Authors )
a) Kalidasa
b) Shudraka
C) Vishakhadatta
d) Vatsayana
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) iv i iii ii
(D) iv iii ii i.
15. Who among the following did visit India during the reign of Chandra Gupta I1 ?
(A) Fa Hien (B) Hiuen Tsang
(C) Megasthenes (D) None of them.
16. What is the language of the Sangam literature ?
(A) Tamil (B) Prakrit
(C) Pali (D) Sanskrit.
17. Who among the following visited the court of Deva Raya I1 of Vijayanagar ?
(A) Al-Beruni (B) Ibn Batuta
(C) Marco Polo (D) Abdur Rajak.
18. Match the following ruling dynasties with their capitals by using the codes given
below :
a) The Chalukyas of Gujarat I. Tripuri
b) The Kalachuris of Chedi 11. Ahilwad
C) The Paramaras of Malwa 111. Ajmer
d) The Chahamans of Sakambari IV. Dhara.
Codes :
a b c d
(A) I I11 I1 rv
(B) I1 I IV I11
(C) I1 111 IV I
(Dl IV I I1 111.
19. Joydev's Gita Govinda deals with the cult of
(A) Rama
(C) Shakti
20. Amritsar was founded by
(B) Siva
(D) Krishna.
(A) Guru Nanak (B) Teg Bahadur
(C) Guru Ram Das (D) Guru Govind Singh.
2 1. Raja Krishnadeva Raya belonged to the
(A) Sangama dynasty (B) Saluva dynasty
(C) Tuluva dynasty
22. The Divine Right means
(D) Aravidu dynasty
i. the right to pursue one's religion
ii. the right to impose majority religion over the rest
iii. the unquestionable authority of the king to rule
iv. the right of the state to usurp the private property.
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) False False False True
(B) True True False False
(C) False False False True
(D) False False True False.
23. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The Portuguese introduced violence in Asian waters.
Reason (R) : The Portuguese motive was to control the major sea lanes of Asian
trade.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false (B) Both (A) and (R) are true
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true (D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
24. Who among the following was deported to Rangoon ?
(A) Shah Jahan I11 (B) Shah Alam I1
(C) Akbar I1 (D) Bahadur Shah 11.
25. Who among the following did take away Jagir from the nobles ?
(A) Humayun
(C) Jahangir
(B) Akbar
(D) Shah Jahan
26. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(A) Jahangir - William Hawkins
(B) Akbar - Thomas Roe
(C) Shah Jahan - Travernier
(D) Aurangzeb - Manucci.
27. What was the Jajmani system ?
(A) A revenue system in which revenues of different units of land were assigned to
officials in lieu of salaries
(B) An administrative system in which ranks in terms of numbers were assigned to
nobles, military commanders and other prominent people for placing them in the
official hierarchy
(C) A reciprocal system that existed in rural India between the peasantry and other
occupational groups
(D) A commercial system that developed in urban India facilitating commercial
transactions on a large scale.
28. Which among the following statements is false ?
(A) The English East India Company was founded by a royal charter on
3 1 st December 1600 as a Joint Stock Company
(B) In 161 7 Jahangir received Sir Thomas Roe as a resident English envoy in his
court
(C) The East India Company formally started trading in India from 1640 after settling
scores with the French
(D) The East India Company enjoyed monopoly of all trade in India.
29. Ashtapradhan was associated with
(A) Shivaji (B) Aurangzeb
(C) Ranjit Singh (D) Akbar
30. The English Governor in Bengal at the time of the Battle of Buxar was
(A) Robert Clive (B) Henry Verelest
(C) Vansittart (D) Cartier.
31. The Commander-in-Chief of the Maratha troops in the Third Battle of Panipat was
(A) Vishwas Rao (B) Sadashiv Rao Bhau
(C) Malhar Rao Holkar (D) Dattaji Sindhia.
32. Who among the following had allied with the French against the British ?
(A) Hyder Ali (B) Tipu Sultan
(C) Nizam of Hyderabad (D) None of them.
33. Lord Macaulay was associated with
(A) Reforms in army (B) Abolition of Sati
(C) Codification of laws (D) Permanent Settlement.
34. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The revolt of 1857 was neither a national war of independence nor a
mu tiny.
Reason (R) : The newly educated middle class did not participate in it.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is only a partial explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A)
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
35. Sidhu and Kanhu were the leaders of the
(A) Kol uprising
(C) Rangpur Dhing
(B) Munda uprising
(D) Santal Hul.
36. Who were the constituent powers of a Triple Entente ?
(A) England, Austria, Germany (B) England, France, Russia
(C) Austria, Italy, France (D) Russia, England, Germany.
37. What is the correct sequence of the following events ?
i) Tilak's Home Rule League
ii) Kamagatamaru incident
iii) Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in India.
Codes :
(A) i, ii, iii (B) iii, ii, i
(C) ii, i, iii (D) ii, iii, i.
38. Swarajya Party was formed after the failure of
(A) Quit India Movement (B) Satyagraha Movement
(C) Non-Cooperation Movement (D) Civil Disobedience Movement.
39. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Partition of Bengal in 1905 brought an end of Moderates' role in Indian
freedom movement.
Reason (R) : Surat session of the Indian National Congress separated the Extremists
from the Moderates.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
40. Consider the following statements about the early Indian National Congress :
i) The early Congress leaders were great admirers of the English system of
government
ii) The Congress did not take note of the growing poverty of the peasants.
iii) The Congress demanded Indianization of the superior grades of
administrative services.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(A) (i) and (iii) (B) (ii) only
(C) (i) and (ii) (D) all of these.
41. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The anti-Partition agitation failed in Bengal because of the repressive
measures of the colonial state
Reason (R) : The anti-Partition agitation failed because of some inner weaknesses.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) only gives a partial explanation of (A)
(B) (R) is true, but (A) is false
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) Both [A) and (R) are true, and (R) is not the correct explanation of [A).
42. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The commercialization of agriculture did contribute to differentiation
within the peasantry.
Reason (R) : The commercialization led to general agricultural growth.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A)
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
43. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The textile centres of India underwent a decline in the last years of the
eighteenth century.
Reason (R) : The decline was the result of the company's de-industrialization policy.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is a partially valid explanation of (A)
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
44. Match List I with List I1 correctly and select your answer using the codes given below :
List I List I1
a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar 1 ) Punarvivah Mandal
b) Jamna La1 Bajaj 2) Indian Boy Scouts Association
c) Mrs. Annie Besant 3) Gandhi Seva Sangha
d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh 4) Samaj Samta Sangha
5) Indian Women's Association.
Codes :
a b c d
(A) 4 3 2 + 5 1
(B) 4 3 2 1 + 5
(C) 2 3 4 5
(Dl 1 2 3 + 5 4.
45. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(A) Satish Chandra Samanta - Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar
(B) Narendra Dev - Congress Socialist Party
(C) Chandrashekhar Azad - Forward Bloc
(D) Muzaffar Ahmed - Communist Party of India.
46. What is the correct sequence of the following events ?
i) The August offer
ii) I.N.A. Trial
iii) The Quit India Movement
iv) The Royal Indian Naval Ratings Mutiny.
Select the answer from the codes below :
(A) i,iii,ii,iv (B) iii, i, ii, iv
(C) i, iii, iv, ii (D) iii, i, iv, ii.
47. Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The Partition of India in 1947 led to large scale displacement of
population.
Reason [R) : The Partition was ill-conceived and irrational.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false
(B) Both [A) and [R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(C) [A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is a partial explanation of (A).
48. At the time of Indian Independence, who was Maharaja of Kashmir ?
(A) Hari Singh (B) Karan Singh
(C) Shalkh Abdullah (D) Trailok Singh.
49. Which one of the following Acts gave female children equal claims with male siblings to
inherit paternal property ?
(A) A Hindu Marriage Validating Act 1949
(B) The Constitution of India 1950
(C) The Hindu Succession Act 1956
(D) The Declaration of the Emergency in 1975.
50. Choose the correct statement by using the codes :
Judith Brown used the term 'sub-contractor' to denote :
i. The people in charge of construction work in British India
ii. The regional leaders following Gandhian programme of mass movement
iii. British officials following Gandhi.
Codes :
i ii iii
(A) False True False
(B) False False True
(C) True True False
(D) False False True.

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Some questions are given below :
1. Name the character in Chaucer’s
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
who marries five times :
(A) The Knight
(B) The Squire
(C) The Wife of Bath
(D) The Miller

2.
Ralf Roister Doister was written
by :
(A) Thomas Norton
(B) John Heywood
(C) Nicholas Udall
(D) Thomas Sackville

3.
Euphues was written by :
(A) John Lyly
(B) Michael Drayton
(C) Richard Hakluyt
(D) John Marston

4. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom
stale her infinite variety.” About
whom is this said ?
(A) Helen of Troy
(B) Cleopatra
(C) Juliet
(D) Queen Elizabeth I

5. Who wrote The Book of the
Duchess ?
(A) Marlowe
(B) Chaucer
(C) Kyd
(D) Boccaccio

6. Which of the following is a
Restoration Comedy ?
(A) Love for Love
(B) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(C) The Changeling
(D) The City Madam

7. The first line of Paradise Lost is :
(A) Of man’s first disobedience and
the fall
(B) Of man’s prime disobedience
and the fall
(C) Of man’s initial disobedience
and the fall
(D) Of man’s last disobedience and
the fall

8. The Country Wife is a play written
by :
(A) William Wycherley
(B) Thomas Otway
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege
9. Bosola is a character in :
(A) As You Like It
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Everyman in His Humour
(D) The Changeling
10. The characters Passion and Patience
appear in :
(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(B) Grace Abounding
(C) Paradise Regained
(D) Vertue
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11. Swift’s A Tale of a Tub is :
(A) a pastoral elegy
(B) a social satire
(C) a romantic tale
(D) a religious allegory
12. Which of the following is an
epistolary novel ?
(A) Tristram Shandy
(B) The Vicar of Wakefield
(C) The Scarlet Letter
(D) Pamela
13. The sentence “A little learning
is a dangerous thing !” is
from :
(A) Essay of Dramatick Poesie
(B) An Essay on Criticism
(C) An Essay on Man
(D) An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
14. The Bee and the Spider episode
occurs in :
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Battle of the Books
(C) Moll Flanders
(D) Tom Jones
15. A gothic novel is :
(A) a novel of horror
(B) a novel of education
(C) a novel of art
(D) a detective novel
16. In which of the following does the
young wife choose the old husband
to escape the boredom of country
living ?
(A) The School for Scandal
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) Count Basil
(D) Irene
17. ‘The Vision of Judgement” is a satire
on :
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) P.B. Shelley
18. Fanny Price is a character
in :
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Emma
19. Which of the following novels of
Walter Scott is set in the 18th
century ?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) The Heart of Midlothian
(C) Talisman
(D) Kenilworth
20. Charles Lamb wrote under the pen
name :
(A) Eric Blair
(B) Elia
(C) Alpha of the Plough
(D) Amelia
21. In which novel of Charles Dickens
does the character Uriah Heep
appear ?
(A) Great Expectations
(B) Dombey and Son
(C) Hard Times
(D) David Copperfield
22. Lockwood is a character in :
(A) Shirley
(B) Wuthering Heights
(C) Jane Eyre
(D) Villette
23. Who is the young sheep farmer
refused as a husband by Bathsheba
Everdene in Far From the Madding
Crowd ?
(A) Francis Troy
(B) Mr. Boldwood
(C) Gabriel Oak
(D) Jan Coggan
24. Elizabeth Browning wrote :
(A) The Dark Lady of the
Sonnets
(B) Sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) Astrophel and Stella
(D) The Golden Gate
25. “Andrea del Sarto” is written
by :
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Arnold
(D) Rossetti
26. George Bernard Shaw was
influenced by :
(A) Strindberg
(B) Dostoevsky
(C) Ibsen
(D) Ionesco
27. The story “The Selfish Giant” is
written by :
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Tolstoy
(C) Hans Anderson
(D) Katherine Mansfield
28. The Gokulashtami festival is
referred to in :
(A) A Passage to England
(B) A Passage to India
(C) Kanthapura
(D) India : a Million Mutinies Now
29. In which poem is modern humanity
described as “stuffed men” with
“headpiece filled with straw” ?
(A) ‘Ash Wednesday’
(B) ‘The Hollow Men’
(C) ‘East Coker’
(D) ‘Little Gidding’
30. “They know and do not know, that
action is suffering/And suffering is
action ....” These lines appear in :
(A) All My Sons
(B) Desire Under the Elms
(C) Murder in the Cathedral
(D) The Hairy Ape
31. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eightyfour
is a novel about :
(A) colonialism
(B) totalitarianism
(C) puritanism
(D) male chauvinism
32. Which of the following is “an essay
on subject of women” ?
(A) A Room With a View
(B) A Room of One’s Own
(C) Room at the Top
(D) Jacob’s Room
33. “The Bear and The Squirrel” game
is referred to in the play :
(A) The Playboy of the Western
World
(B) Strife
(C) Look Back in Anger
(D) Waste
34. “Sir, No Man’s Enemy” is written
by :
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Wilfred Owen
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) Evelyn Waugh
35. Mary Turner is the protagonist in
the novel :
(A) Sandcastle
(B) The Inheritors
(C) The Portrait of a Lady
(D) The Grass is Singing
36. The Ambassadors is written
by :
(A) Henry James
(B) William Dean Howells
(C) Samuel Butler
(D) Graham Greene
37. “I’d like to get away from earth
awhile/And come back to it and
begin over.” Who wrote these
lines ?
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) e.e. cummings
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Robert Frost
38. Billy Biswas is a protagonist in a
novel by :
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Arun Joshi
(C) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
39. Which of the following is
not a feature of Pre-Raphaelite
poetry ?
(A) sensuousness
(B) satire
(C) music
(D) visual beauty
40. Who is an Australian aborigine
writer ?
(A) Patrick White
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Alexis Wright
(D) Bruce Bennet
41. “The birth of the reader must be at
the cost of the death of the author”
is an assertion made by :
(A) Julia Kristeva
(B) Raymond Ticard
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Z. Todorov
42. With whose theory are the
terms “irony” and “paradox”
associated ?
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Mikhail Bakhtin
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Allen Tate
43. “Deautomatisation” is a term used
by :
(A) The Prague School
(B) Russian Formalists
(C) French Deconstructionists
(D) American New Critics
44. Who has translated Derrida’s Of
Grammatology into English ?
(A) Ranjit Guha
(B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Gayatri Spivak
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
45. Eliot speaks of “dissociation of
sensibility” in his essay :
(A) ‘The Metaphysical Poets’
(B) ‘Tradition and the Individual
Talent’
(C) ‘The Function of Criticism’
(D) ‘Use of Poetry and Use of
Criticism’
46. Who considered poetry to be “the
best and highest fruit of human
culture” ?
(A) Sidney
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Arnold
47. “Scansion” means :
(A) the study of stress patterns in
poetry
(B) the study of sound patterns in
poetry
(C) the study of alliteration in
poetry
(D) the study of figures of speech in
poetry
48. “Night’s candles are burnt out” is an
example of :
(A) Metaphor
(B) Metonymy
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Pathetic fallacy
49. The term “enjambment” refers to :
(A) striding over of a sentence from
one line of poem to the next
(B) different number of syllables in
each line
(C) an over-use of emotive
language
(D) use of blank verse
50. “Inscape” and “Instress” are terms
used by :
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Lord Tennyson
(C) G.M. Hopkins
(D) Walter de la Mare

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