Reading Prose Set 4

Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English)

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This set of Reading Prose Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Reading Prose Set 4

Q1 | Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint?
  • locke
  • newton
  • danton
  • rousseau
Answer: locke
Q2 | “The Spirit of Laws” was written by …………………………
  • bacon
  • hume
  • voltaire
  • newton
Answer: hume
Q3 | “All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu” who said this?
  • bacon
  • hume
  • voltaire
  • faguet
Answer: faguet
Q4 | Letters Persaneswas a significant work by ……………………..
  • montesquieu
  • voltaire
  • diderot
  • hume
Answer: montesquieu
Q5 | “I salute you, I love You, I revere you” to whom Diderot pay this compliment?
  • hume
  • aristotle
  • d’ alembert
  • condillac
Answer: hume
Q6 | According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed “the profane trio”?
  • voltaire, diderot and rousseau
  • rousseau, hume and voltaire
  • voltaire, gibbon and locke
  • diderot, d’ alembert and boswell
Answer: voltaire, diderot and rousseau
Q7 | Who wrote Emile?
  • napoleon
  • kant
  • dryden
  • rousseau
Answer: rousseau
Q8 | The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ……………….
  • rousseau
  • kant
  • voltaire
  • hume
Answer: kant
Q9 | “Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requiresenlightenment to preserve it from excess” Who affirms this?
  • d’ alembert b)
  • locke c)
  • rousseau d)
  • hume
Answer: d’ alembert b)
Q10 | Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)?
  • locke
  • diderot
  • condillac
  • hume
Answer: diderot
Q11 | “In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration andastonishment…”Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this?
  • diderot
  • voltaire
  • hume
  • locke
Answer: diderot
Q12 | “We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent ofphilosophers. Who is praised here?
  • locke
  • bacon
  • hume
  • plato
Answer: bacon
Q13 | Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature?
  • hume
  • rousseau
  • darwin
  • locke
Answer: hume
Q14 | “His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true”Who made this prophecy?
  • rousseau
  • voltaire
  • hume
  • gibbon
Answer: hume
Q15 | “An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses “ Who madethis statement?
  • voltaire
  • rousseau
  • gibbon
  • diderot
Answer: voltaire
Q16 | Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in………………..
  • voltaire’s novelette candide
  • rousseau’s emile
  • diderot’s la religieuse
  • hume’s history of england
Answer: voltaire’s novelette candide
Q17 | Who termed Primitive man as ‘noble savage’?
  • rousseau
  • voltaire
  • locke
  • hume
Answer: rousseau
Q18 | Who wrote “An Essay on Man”?
  • dryden
  • dr. johnson
  • wordsworth
  • pope
Answer: pope
Q19 | Life becomes successful only after we ----------the knowledge we acquired.
  • Apply
  • Debate
  • report
  • capture
Answer: Apply
Q20 | The essay Of Studies stresses on the need for------
  • Practical wisdom
  • education
  • hard work
  • creativity
Answer: Practical wisdom
Q21 | Studies provide-------------in leisure hours
  • Energy
  • pleasure
  • stress
  • success
Answer: pleasure
Q22 | Common man------book learning
  • Adapt
  • admire
  • adopt
  • None of the above
Answer: admire
Q23 | Study of Law is a cure for-------------memory
  • Study
  • dull
  • unsteady
  • good
Answer: unsteady
Q24 | Spending too much time on studies is---------
  • Good
  • sloth
  • compulsory
  • None of the above
Answer: sloth
Q25 | Cunning men find their cunningness as----------for book learning
  • substitute
  • device
  • inability
  • aid
Answer: substitute
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