Lecture 33 Self evaluation :

1)  Each question carries 1 mark.

2) There are five alternatives - (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) given against each question out of which only one is the most appropriate answer. If (A) is correct, round on the correct alternative like (A) .

3) If a question is answered wrongly or more than one answers are marked, 0.20 marks will be deducted for each such question.

Q.1 The best of all the ideas that the traditionalists provide and in which the divine, the spiritual or the religious reference frame is used to develop solutions to worldly problems are the ideas of:

(A)   Progress

(B)   Cooperation and holism

(C)   Socialism

(D)   Meditation

Q.2 Apologists of traditions have long attempted to show that the Indian society could not have been sustained for five thousand years without the continuity of cardinal values of:

(A)   Casteism

(B)   Formalism

(C)   Pluralism

(D)   None of the above

Q.3 Gandhi favored law to enforce the redistribution of land:

(A)    Where land was in the hands of the upper castes

(B)   Where average size of land was less than 2 acres

(C)    If there is preponderance of small and marginal farmers

(D)   In case the voluntarism fails

Q.4 Gandhi supported Khilafat movement as:

(A)   He was unaware that the common Muslims of India did not at all know about Khalifa

(B)   Muslims of India could not identify Turkey on the world map?

(C)   Gandhi did not want to create a strong nation and a strong state which could later become undemocratic or exploitative

(D)   This was part of a larger strategy to involve masses in freedom struggle irrespective of caste, religion and nationality.

Q.5 Regarding equality sociologists think that:

(A)   It is a dream not achieved anywhere

(B)   We have to fight once and for all against the hegemonic tendencies present in society

(C)   Socialist societies only are equal

(D)   To practice equality one needs a special kind of training