TNPSC Group I 2007 Exam Paper-Part 2
Assertion (A): Buddhism does not accept the theory of Karma.
Reason (R): It does not accept the existence of permanent self.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given below:
79. During the Sangam Age, war was usually declared or provoked by
Assertion (A): Silver articles on exposure to air become black.
51. The iqtadari system was introduced by
a) Balban
b) Aibek
c) Iltutmish
d) Aluddin Khilji
Answer: c
52. Which of the following is wrongly matched?
a) Mesolithic
period - mocrolithic industry
b) Paleolithic period - Wandering life
c) Neolithic period - Settled life
d) Chalcolithic period - Food producing
stage
Answer: d
53. Which one of the following does not belong to the
"Three Ratnas" of Jainism?
a) Full Knowledge
b) Meditation
c) Good
action
d) Liberation
Answer: d
54. Who of the following attended all the three Round Table
Conferences?
a) B.R. Ambedkar
b) M.M.Malaviya
c) M.K.Gandhi
d) V.S.
Srinivasa Sastri
Answer: a
55. Which stories were explained in Ajanta
Paintings?
a) Ramayana
b) Mahabharata
c) Pancha Tantram
d) Jataka stories
Answer: d
56. Identify the correct order in which Europeans came to India
a) Portuguese. Dutch, English, French
b) Dutch, English, Portuguese, French
c) English,
Dutch, French, Portuguese
d) French, Portuguese, English, Dutch
Answer: a
57. Match List I with List II correctly
and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I Works of Mahayana
- List II Dealing With
a) Sadharma-pundarika
- 1) divine grace
b) Vajrachedika -
2) heaven
c) Sukhavati vyuha -
3) conduct
d) Karanda vyuha -
4) metaphysics
Codes:a b c d
a) 4 2 3 1
b) 2
4 1 3
c) 3 4 2 1
d) 4
3 2 1
Answer: c
58. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Buddhism does not accept the theory of Karma.
Reason (R): It does not accept the existence of permanent self.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given below:
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.
Answer: d
59. Kamalambal Charitram was written by
a) Vedanayakam Pillai
b) Lakshmi
c) Rajam lyer
d) Sivashankari
Answer: c
60. Manimekalai was written by
a) Tolkappiyar
b) Kabilar
c) Elangoadigal
d) Sittalai Sattanar
Answer: d
61. ............was the primary food of the Indus Valley
a) Rice
b) Wheat
c) Corn
d) Millets
Answer: b
62. The earliest mention of medicine occurs in which of the
following Vedas?
a) Rigveda
b) Samveda
c) Yajurveda
d) Atharvaveda
Answer: d
63. Ashrams of four stages of life came to be well
established during which period?
a) Pre-Vedic period
b) Rigvedic period
c) Later-
Vedic period
d) None of these
Answer: c
64. What does the Rigveda contain?
a) Collection of prayers
b) Collection of stories and events
c) Collection
of a chronological sequence of dynasties
d) Collection of magic rituals
Answer: a
65. Which among the following geographical area was not
inhabited by the early Aryans?
a) Baluchistan
b) Easter Afghaistan
c) Punjab
d) Fringes of Western Uttar Pradesh
Answer: a
66. The root cause for all sufferings of mankind according to
the preaching of Buddha is
a) anger
b) lust
c) pride
d) desire
Answer: d
67. The basic social organisation of the Rigvedic people was
a) Matriarchal family
b) Patriacrchal family
c) Both matriarchal and Patriarchal families
d) none
of these
Answer: b
68. Sagam literature was written in
a) Avadhi
b) Tamil
c) Maithili
d) Malayalam
Answer: b
69. Mandiram Avathu Neeru the song was written by
a) Thirumoolar
b) Gnana Sambandar
c) Kannappar
d) Mangayarkarasiyar
Answer: b
70. The Pallava rulers believed in
a) Jainism
b) Buddhism
c) hinduism
d) Shaivism
Answer: d
71. Which was the port town of the Indus
valley Civilzation?
a) Lothal
b) Kalibangan
c) Ropar
d) Mohenjodaro
Answer: a
72. The main focus of the Rigvedic culture was
a) the Indo-Gangetic Valley
b) the
Punjab and Delhi
c) the Indus Valley
d) the region between the Swat and the Indus
Answer: c
73. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Curzon partitioned Bengal
in 1905.
Reason (R): He wanted to destroy nationalistic unity.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given
below:
a) Both
(A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
b) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
c) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R)is
the correct explanation of (A)
d) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer: a
74. Consider the following statements:Assertion (A): Hiuen
Tsang came india
a) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
b) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R)is
the correct explanation of (A)
c) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
d) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer: a
75. Who wrote'Ananda Math'?
a) Rabindranath
Tagore
b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
c) Aurobindo
d) Madhusudan
Dutta
Answer: b
76. Match List I with List II
correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I President of
Congress - List II Place
a) George yule -
1) Allahabad
b) Dr. R.C. Dutta - 2) Lucknow
c) Annie Besant - 3) Calcutta
d) Sarojini Naidu 4) Kanpur
Codes:a b c d
a) 4 2 3 1
b) 2
4 1 3
c) 3 1 2 4
d) 1
2 3 4
Answer: d
77. The British receive permission to establish their company
in India
a) Akbar
b) Jahangir
c) Shanjahan
d) Aurangzeb
Answer: b
78. When did the 'Chauri Chaura' incident take place?
a) 1920
b) 1923
c) 1922
d) 1921
Answer: c
79. During the Sangam Age, war was usually declared or provoked by
a) cutting the tutelary tree of the enemy
b) lifting the cattle of the enemy
c) besieging
the enemy's fort
d) crushing the crops of the enemy's
territory under the feet of elephants.
Answer: b
80. When was the Madras
a) 1883
b) 1882
c) 1884
d) 1886
Answer: c
81. The Green Revolution came on the scene around
a) mdi1960
b) mdi1950
c) mdi1970
d) mdi1980
Answer: a
82. Demographic pressure acts as a push factor in
a) migration
b) financial assistance
c) economic
growth
d) none of these
Answer: a
83. Dr. Raja J. Cheliah Tax Reforms Committee was set up in
a) August, 1990
b) September, 1992
c) August, 1991
d) June, 1993
Answer: c
84. When was the New Industrial Policy announced?
a) July, 1991
b) June,
1992
c) October, 1996
d) January, 1994
Answer: a
85. The incidence of poverty can be computed from
a) NAS data on national accounts
b) NSS data on consumption of expenditure
c) Both (A) and (B)
d) None of these
Answer: b
86. The World Conference on Human Environment was held on
a) 1970
b) 1972
c) 1981
d) 1985
Answer: b
87. The Central pollution Control Board was set up in the
year
a) 1989
b) 1985
c) 1981
d) 1991
Answer: a
88. The Wild Life Protection Act was formulated in the year
a) 1970
b) 1972
c) 1990
d) 1986
Answer: b
89. In Tamil Nadu, the district with highest density of
population is (as per 2001 Census
a) Kanniyakumari
b) Thiruvalluvar
c) Caddalore
d) Vellore
Answer: a
90. In population among the all states in India, Tamil nadu
occuples the
a) sixth position
b) third
position
c) tenth position
d) fifth position
Answer: a
91. Drinking soda is
a) neutral
b) amphoteric
c) basic
d) acidic
Answer: d
92. which of the following is found in kidney stone?
a) Ammonium oxalate
b) Calcium oxalate
c) Potassium
oxalate
d) sodium oxalate
Answer: b
93. Which of the following is a laughing gas?
a) Carbon monoxide
b) Carbon
dioxide
c) Nitrous oxide
d) Sulphur dioxide
Answer: c
94. Coating of zinc over iron article is known as
a) Galvanisation
b) Electroplating
c) Electrorefining
d) Etching
Answer: a
95. Tincture of iodine is
a) Iodine
b) iodine
and iodoform
c) Iodine and potassium iodide
d) iodoform
Answer: a
96. The protein content is of the order
a) soyabean>egg yolk>rice
b) egg yolk>soyabean> rice
c) egg yolk> rice> soyabean
d) soyabena>
rice> egg yolk
Answer: a
97. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
a) Liquid gold - Lead
b) Liquid silver - Mercury
c) Aqua regia - Silver
d) Green silver – Copper
Answer: b
98. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
a) Charcoal - inactive carbon
b) Diamond - Conductor
c) Graphite
- insulator
d) Fullerene - Soluble form of carbon
Answer: d
99. Match List I with List Ii
correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I
List II
a) lead tetraethyl 1.
Global warming
b) Liquid hydrogen 2.
antiknocking agent
c) Hydrogen peroxide 3.
Rocket fuel
d) Carbon dioxide 4.
Bleaching agent
Codes:a b c d
a) 4 2 3 1
b) 2
3 4 1
c) 3 1 2 4
d) 1
2 3 4
Answer: b
100. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Silver articles on exposure to air become black.
Reason (R): Silver ix oxidised to silver oxide.
Select your answer according to the coding scheme given
below:
a) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
b) Both (A) and (R) are correct, 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.
Answer: a
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