DOON UNIVERSITY

ENTRANCE TEST
5 Years M.A. Integrated Courses in Foreign Languages
(Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)

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Time Allowed: 2 hours Maximum Marks: 100

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GENERAL

(i) Write your Roll Number in the space provided above for the purpose.
(ii) Please do not make any stray marks on the Question Paper.
(iii) Pages at the end have been provided for writing long answers.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS

(i) The Question Paper contains 91 questions; out of which 90 of them are multiple choice
questions any carry one (1) mark each. Question no. 91 is a descriptive question and seeks
your views on the given topic in about 300 words. This question carries 10 marks.
(ii) All answers must be circled/written/tick marked directly on the question paper as desired.
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(iv) Correct answers must be ticked in the question paper itself. Mark your answer only in the
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1. Who among the following translated the 7. Which of the following SAARC summit was
Autobiography of Madam Curie in Hindi? held in Thimpu in April 2010?
a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee a) 13th
b) Lal Bahadur Shastri b) 14th
c) Choudhary Charan Singh c) 15th
d) Gobind Ballabh Pant d) 16th
8. In which of the following sea, scientists have
2. Which of the following prizes is given by the
found "loriciferans", the first found organisms,
UNESCO?
who live without oxygen?
a) Magsaysay Award
b) Kalinga Prize a) Pacific Ocean
c) Booker Prize b) Black Sea
d) Pulitzer Prize c) China Sea
d) Mediterranean Sea
3. Television broadcast for rural development 9. In which of the following countries is located
programmes in India started in- famous White Horse temple, which was
a) 1947 recently in news?
b) 1957 a) Japan
c) 1967 b) Thailand
d) 1977 c) Cambodia
d) China
4. Which of the following pairs is not correctly
10. What is the interval between two 'Kumbh
matched?
Melas‟ at the same place?
a) Indira Gandhi – Total Revolution
b) Mahatma Gandhi – Trusteeship a) 6 years
c) Balwant Raj Mehta – b) 10 years
Democratic Decentralisation c) 12 years
d) Vinoba Bhave – Anushasan d) 15 years
Parva 11. Who wrote the Book- "Four Essays on
Liberty".
5. On which date is Nobel Prize awarded? a) Herbert Spencer
a) December 10 b) J. S. Mill
b) January 10 c) Ernest Barker
c) April 10 d) Isaish Berlin
d) July 10
12. Who elects the President of India?
6. What was the theme of "International Day of a) Lok Sabha
Families" a UN observance celebrated on May b) Rajya Sabha
15, 2010? c) People of India
d) Parliament and State
a) The impact of migration on
Assemblies
families around the world
b) Mothers and Families: Challenges 13. The Fundamental Duties were incorporated in
in a Changing World the Constitution of India by the
c) Fathers and Families: a) Tenth Amendment
Responsibilities and Challenges b) Forty-second Amendment
d) Families and Persons with c) Thirty-second Amendment
Disabilities
d) Thirty-eighth Amendment

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14. Which of the following is the oldest 21. I _________ rather you didn‟t tell them about
monarchy in the world? this.
a) Japan a) should
b) U K b) can
c) Spain c) would
d) Nepal d) could
15. Which of the following is not an example of
Operating System? 22. It‟s as if that silly argument that we had has
a) Windows 98 driven a _______ between us.
b) BSD Unix a) hedge
c) Microsoft Office Xp b) ledge
d) Red Hat Linux c) wedge
d) plank
16. Entomology is the science that studies
a) Behavior of human beings 23. Here are some words translated from an
b) Insects artificial language.
c) The origin and history of malgauper means peach cobbler
technical and scientific terms
malgaport means peach juice
d) The formation of rocks
moggagrop means apple jelly
17. For which of the following disciplines is the Which word could mean "apple juice"?
Nobel Prize awarded? a) moggaport
a) Physics and Chemistry b) malgaauper
b) Physiology or Medicine c) gropport
c) Literature, Peace and d) moggagrop
Economics 24. Ram is younger than Meera.
d) All of the above
Mahesh was born after Ram.
18. First Opium War was fought between Meera is older than Mahesh.
a) China and Britain If the first two statements are true, the third
b) China and France statement is:
c) China and Russia a) true
d) China and Holland b) false
c) uncertain
19. The Blue Umbrella is a 2005 film directed by
d) contradictory
Vishal Bhardwaj and is based on the famous
novel The Blue Umbrella. Who is the writer of 25. 'Dandia' is a popular dance of
this novel? a) Punjab
a) Rudyard Kipling b) Gujarat
b) Jim Corbett c) Tamil Nadu
c) Ruskin Bond d) Maharashtra
d) None of the above
26. 'Madhubani', a style of folk paintings, is
popular in which of the following states in
20. In which year were the first general elections
India?
held in India after independence?
a) Uttar Pradesh
a) 1950
b) Rajasthan
b) 1951
c) Bihar
c) 1952 d) Orissa
d) 1953

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27. What kind of twins are "congenitally" united 34. The largest country of the world by
by part of their bodies? geographical area is
a) Italian Twins a) Russia
b) Siamese Twins b) China
c) Vietnamese Twins c) Australia
d) Chinese Twins d) Brazil

28. When Mahesh says to Meera “Please give me 35. The infrared radiation by sun are strongly
a hand”, He means absorbed by
a) Help me a) carbon dioxide
b) Marry me b) water vapours
c) Slap me c) carbon dioxide and water
d) Shake hands with me vapours
d) ozone
29. Complete the series: BCB, DED, FGF, HIH,
36. The greatest variety of animal and plant
___
species is found in
a) JKJ
a) temperate grasslands
b) IJI
b) tropical rain forests
c) HJH
c) tundra regions
d) JHJ
d) in hot deserts
30. Look at this series: 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, ... What
37. The largest part of our hydrosphere is
number should come next?
a) Atlantic Ocean
a) 7 b) Indian Ocean
b) 10 c) Pacific ocean
c) 14 d) Antarctic ocean
d) 15
38. Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty
31. Look at this series: 14, 28, 20, 40, 32, 64, ...
Four'?
What number should come next?
a) Thomas Hardy
a) 52 b) Oscar Wilde
b) 56 c) George Orwell
c) 96 d) Charles Dickens
d) 128
39. Who wrote the book 'War and Peace'?
32. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the a) Leo Tolstoy
intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the
b) Mahatma Gandhi
age of the youngest child? c) Maxim Gorky
a) 4 Years d) Rudyard Kipling
b) 8 Years
c) 10 Years 40. Who wrote the book „Anandamath‟?
d) None of the Above
a) Sarojini Naidu
33. A man is 24 years older than his son. In two b) Bankim Chandra
years, his age will be twice the age of his son. Chottapadhya
The present age of his son is: c) Sri Aurobindo
a) 14 Years d) Rabindrnath Tagore
b) 18 Years
c) 20 Years
d) 22 Years

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41. Who is the writer of 'Swamy and Friends'? 47. The first Indian to receive Noble Prize in
a) Munshi Premchand Literature was?
b) Khuswant Singh a) Mother Teresa

c) Ruskin Bond b) C. V. Raman

d) R. K. Narayan c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Sarojini Naidu
42. Which of the following Academies is
responsible for fostering the development of 48. The 'Cannes Award' is given for excellence in
dance, drama and music in India? which field?
a) National School of Drama a) Films
b) Sangeet Natak Akademi b) Journalism
c) Sahitya Akademi c) Literature
d) Lalit Kala Akademi d) Economics

43. The language of discourses of Gautama

49. Nail polish remover contains
Buddha was
a) Acetone
a) Maithli
b) Benzene
b) Magadhi
c) Petroleum Ether
c) Pali
d) Acetic Acid
d) Sanskrit

44. Tipu sultan was the ruler of 50. Igneous, Metamorphic and sedimentary are the
a) Hyderabad types of:
b) Madurai a) Climate

c) Mysore b) Forests
d) Vijayanagar c) Rocks
d) Wind
45. Tulsidas, the author of Ramcharitmanas, was a
contemporary of which of the following rulers? 51. Who was the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
a) Akbar a) Ian Fleming
b) Humayun b) Dr. Watson
c) Shahjahan c) Arthur Conan Doyle
d) Babar d) William Shakespeare

46. Which is the highest gallantry award in India?

52. Forms, paperwork and bureaucracy are
a) Param Vishishtat Seva Medal
sometimes called as ____ tape.
b) Param Vir Chakra a) red
c) Kirti Chakra b) blue
d) Vir Chakra c) green
d) black

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 53. The Ocean between America and Europe is 59. Which of the following is a correct spelling?
called: a) Surveillance
a) Pacific b) Survaillance
b) Arctic c) Survellance
c) Atlantic d) Surveilance
d) Southern
60. It's been ages since I've seen Arun and
54. If you won‟t go, I won‟t go ______. Brunhilde, and I'm excited about meeting them
a) Too for dinner! But just as I'm getting ready to leave
b) either for the restaurant, I get a phone call from Arun:
c) neither he wants me to know that they're "running late."
What does he mean by that?
d) none of the three
a) They have been delayed and
will arrive at the restaurant
55. The efforts of the whole team contributed later than expected.
_______ our success. b) He is complaining about their
a) In frequent late hours at the
business they manage.
b) for
c) Their favorite sports team has
c) to scored very late in the game.
d) on d) They are competing in a
footrace and are near the back
56. Which word best expresses the meaning of of the pack.
FEEBLE?
a) Weak 61. Here are some words translated from an
artificial language.
b) Vain godabim means kidney stones
c) Tired romzbim means kidney beans
d) Sick romzbako means wax beans
Which word could mean "wax statue"?
57. Pick the combination that makes a meaningful a) godaromz
sentence out of the following words:
b) lazbim
1) of 2) We 3) heard 4) him 5) had
a) 25314 c) wasibako

b) 24351 d) romzpeo

c) 25431 62. Here are some words translated from an

d) 52341 artificial language.
peslligen means basketball court
58. Even though it is very large house, ..... ligenstrisi means courtroom
a) there is a lot of space available oltaganti means placement test
in it for children Which word could mean "guest room"?
b) the servants take a long time
to clean it a) peslstrisi
c) there is no dearth of space for b) vosefstrisi
children
c) gantipesl
d) there is hardly any space
available for children d) oltastrisi

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63. Pointing to a photo, Dinesh said “His father is 69. Ural mountains are located in
the only son of my mother”. Who does the a) China
photo belong to? b) Serbia
a) Dinesh
c) Russia
b) Dinesh son
d) Mongolia
c) Dinesh‟s father
d) Dinesh‟s brother 70. The novel war and peace was written by
a) F.M. Dostoevsky
64. Find out the pair which is differently related.
a) Pen and Nib b) L.N. Tolstoy
b) Water and Bucket c) Anton Chekhov
c) Ink and Inkpot d) Ivan Turgnev
d) Oil and Lamp
71. Who translated Bible from Latin into German?
65. What is custom of having many wives called? a) William Tyndale
a) Bigamy
b) Philip Melanchthon
b) Misogamy
c) Martian Luther
c) Polygamy
d) John Calvin
d) Monogamy

66. That which can never be believed is: 72. „Medicine‟ is related to „patient‟ in the same
a) Irrevocable way as „Education‟ is related to
a) Teacher
b) Inevitable
b) School
c) Irritable
c) Student
d) Incredible
d) Tuition
67. Kalidas had written three famous plays, viz.,
Abhigyanam Shakuntalam and 73. Choose the subject which is different from
Vikramourvashi. Name the third. other
a) Kumarasambhava a) Mathematics
b) Meghadoota b) Arithmetic
c) Raghuvansha c) Geometry
d) Malavikagnimitra d) Algebra
74. Which of the following is different from
68. R.K. Narayan has his stories centered around
others?
which imaginary place?
a) DE
a) Malgudi
b) PQ
b) Malguri
c) TU
c) Talgudi
d) MO
d) Hemkhankhan

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75. Select the pair which has the same relationship 81. I have no interest _______music.
as the given pair Traveler: Destination a) In
a) Beggar : Donation b) Into
b) Teacher: Education c) To
c) Refugee: Shelter d) At
d) Accident: Hospital
82. Which one of the following is the native
76. ABEF is related to BCFG in the same way as religion of Japan?
GHKL is related to…? a) Confucianism
a) FGKJ
b) Sufism
b) HILM c) Shintoism
c) HIKJ d) Taoism
d) HIML
83. What was the old name of Japanese capital?
77. I have no acquaintance ______Karishma. a) Meiji
a) With
b) Edo
b) For
c) Nippon
c) To
d) Kyoto
d) In

84. Which one of the following is the national

78. Mohan has a strong affection ______that poor flower of Japan?
girl. a) Lotus
a) For
b) Cherry blossom
b) With
c) Lilly
c) In
d) Chrysanthemum
d) Into

85. Which one of the following nation will host

79. I have every claim_______ you. 2020 Olympics?
a) To a) China
b) For b) Japan
c) At c) Korea
d) In d) Australia
80. I have no complaint ________ her. 86. What is the national currency of Japan?
a) For a) Yuan
b) Against b) Real
c) In c) Dinar
d) To d) Yen

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 Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow (Question 87 – 90)
“That would have been the first time I'd heard the name Gabriel García Márquez. I don't
remember what passage my mother read. The novel was sad, but also exciting to her, because
Macondo, the fictional town in the novel inspired by the Colombian one that García Márquez
was from, reminded her of her family's village on the Guatemalan south coast. Thanks
to Hundred Years of Solitude, my mother discovered a mythological grandeur in her family's
backwater roots and misfortune, because from then on she relished those stories in a new way:
the deaf-dumb fortuneteller who'd induced my penniless Spanish-immigrant grandfather to
become a cattle rustler; "the most beautiful Indian girl in the village" who became his adolescent
bride and died in childbirth and from whom we are all descended, though her name has somehow
been forgotten …”

87. According to the passage, Gabriel Garcia

Marquez was: 90. The aim of the passage is:
a) a writer a) to talk about the life of the
mother.
b) a philosopher
b) to pay tribute to Gabriel Garcia
c) a doctor Marquez.
d) a scientist c) to talk about Macondo.
d) none of the above
88. According to the passage, Macondo filled the
mother with:
a) fear
b) regret
c) nostalgia
d) hope

89. What does the writer imply when he says

“Thanks to Hundred Years of Solitude, my
mother discovered a mythological grandeur in
her family's backwater roots and misfortune”?
a) The mother developed a sense
of pride for her family‟s past.
b) The mother became more
religious.
c) The mother developed a sense
of disgust for her family‟s past.
d) The mother developed a sense
of regret for her family‟s
misfortune.

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91. Express your views on any one of the following topics in 300 words.

a) „As a youth, my expectations from the next Indian Government.‟

b) Will modern technology such as the internet and e-books ever replace the book or the
written word as the main source of information?

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