Sample Question  Paper:

1.    According to Upanishadic philosophy means of liberation is

A   knowledge

B   devotion

C   action

D    both knowledge and action

2.    According to Upanishadic philosophy cause of bondage is

A   identity of soul and body

B   difference of  jiva and Brahman

C   difference of  Atman and Brahman

D   all the three

3.According to Upanishadic philosophy cause of rebirth is

A  only actions with desires

B  both with and without desires

C  only actions which are prohibited

D  none of these

4 Concept of Rta is given by

A  Veda

B  Buddhism

C  Jainism

D  Samkhya

5 Liberation according to Upanishads is

A  cessation of misery

B  cessation of the cycle of rebirth

C  state of bliss

D  all the three

6.Samsara is due to

A  karma

B process of creation

C  self-manifestation of Brahman

D  all the three

7 Brahman is the ------------------- cause of the universe

A  material

B  efficient

C  both

D  none

8 To get rid of Devrna one has to perform------------

A  yajnas

B  study  scriptures

C  procreate

D  teach and preach others

9 Ashvamedha yajna is performed

A for the development of the kingdom

B  for longevity

C  for children

D  to declare the king victorious

10 Shreyas is the -------------- for people

A  pleasant things

B  good things

C  neutral things

D  none of these

11 The sequence of karmas is

A  prarabdha, sanchit,sanchiyaman

B  sanchit, prarabdha, sanchiyaman

C  sanchiyaman,prarabdha,sanchit

D  prarabdha,sanchiyaman,sanchit

12’ Understanding maketh nature out of the materials it does not

       Make’  is said by

A  Locke

B Berkeley

C Hume

D  Kant

13’ Existence precedes essence’  is the statement made by

A  Husserl

B  Hegel

C  Kant

D Sartre

14 ‘Kingdom of God is within you’ is said in

A  Islam

B Hinduism

C Christianity

D Judaism

15 ‘I was oblised to destroy knowledge in order to make room for

        Faith’  was said by

A  Spinoza

B   Aquinas

C   Leibnitz

D  Kant

16 According to Upanishads Brahman is

A  Immanent

B  Transcendent

C  both

D  none

17. Jivanmukta is he who is

A  enlightened yet embodied

B  enlightened , without body

C  renunciate

D  none

18.Videhamukti happens

A  after death

B before death

C  after the cessation of samsara

D  none of these

19 The process of creation is

A prana,anna,manas,vijnana,ananda

B  manas,prana , vijnana,ananda,anna

C  anna,prana, manas,vijnana,ananda

D  ananda,vijnana,manas,prana,anna

20 Creation,according to Upanishads is the

A Self-manifestation of Brahman

B  self-manifestation of Ishvara

C  self-manifestation of the Devatas

D  natural development 

 ---what is our idea of necessity,when we say that two objects are necessarily connected together? Upon this head I repeat,what I have often had occasion to observe,that as we have no idea that is not derived from an impression,we must fint some impression that gives rise to this idea of necessity,if we assert we have really such an idea.In order to this,I consider in what objects necessity commonly supposed to lie;and,finding that it is always ascribed to causes and effects,I turn my eye to two objects supposed to be placed in that relation and examine them in all the situations of which they are susceptible.I immediately perceive that they are contiguous in time and place,and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect.In no one instance can I go any further,nor is it possible for me to discover any third relation between these objects.I therefore enlarge my view to comprehend several instances,where I find like objects always existing in like relations of contiguity and succession.The refiection on several instances only repeats the same objects;and therefore can never give rise to a new idea.But upon further inquiry I find that the repetition is not in every particular the same,but produces a new impression,and by that means the idea which I at present examine.For,after a frequent repetition,Ifind that upon the appearance of the objects the mind is determined by custom to consider its usual attendant,and to consider it in a stronger light upon account of its relation to the first object.It is this impression,then,or determination,which affords me the idea of necessity.

21  The author wants to

A  refute the idea of necessary connection

B  assert the idea of necessary connection

C  assert that idea of necessary connection is based on reason

D none of these

22 According to the author the reasin behind the idea of necessary

      Connection is

A  contiguity of time and place

B  contiguity of time

C  contiguity of place

D  none

23 According to the author mind is determined by

A  belief

B  hypothesis

 C  custom

D  none

24 According to the author the sole source of knowledge is

A  idea

B impression

C both

D none of these

25 According to the author the cause of the idea of necessary connec

      Tion is

A  impression of necessary connection

B  idea of necessary connection

C  frequent repetition

D none of these

26.’Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavati’ means

A  identity of jiva and Brahman

B identity of Brahman and Ishvara

C identity of jiva and creation

D identity of Brahman with creation

27.’I think therefore I exist’ is said by

A  Leibnitz

B  Kant

C  Descartes

D  Hume

28.Which one is not written by Kant

A  Critique of Pure Reason

B  Critique of Practical Reason

C  Treatise on Human Nature

D  Critique of Practical Reason

29. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is written by

A    A J Ayer

B    Rudolf Karnap

C    Wittgenstein

D     Bradley

30.’ Reason is the only source of knowledge’ according to

A     empiricists

B      rationalists

C      logical positivists

D      none of these

31. Which one is not the right match

A    Brahma Parinamvad     -     Ramanuja

B    Brahma  Vivartvada      -      Shankara

C    Prakriti Parinamvad      -       Samkhya

D  Natural Development    -     Nyaya

32. Which one is the right sequence for four figures

   1.   M  P    2.   P    M   3.  P   M   4.  M    P

         S    M         M   S          S   M        M    S

          S     P         S    P           S   P         S      P

A        1    ,   2  , 3 ,  4

B         1   ,    3  ,  2  ,4

C          1   ,    3  ,  4  , 2

D          4   ,    2  ,  3  ,  1

33. Two propositions are contradictory when

A    both of them cannot be true

B     both of them cannot be false

C     both of them cannot be true and both of them cannot be false

D     none  of these

34. Conversion is invalid in

A   all the four propositions

B   only in I and  O propositions

C   only in A and O propositions

D   only in E and O propositions

35.According to existential import

A  there isn’t any member in particular propositions

B  there is only one member in particular propositions

C  there is at least one member in particular propositions

D there is at least one member in general propositions

36.Which one is not true

A there must be three terms in a categorical syllogism

B middle term must be distributed in at least one premise

C any term which is not distributed in premises cannot be

   Distributed in conclusion

D syllogism with two negative premises is valid

37. The tenets of Islam is based on

A .   Veda

B .   Kuran

C .   Bible

D .   Avesta

38. ‘L anguage,Truth and Logic’ is written by

A     Wittgenstein

B     Ayer

C     Karnap

D  Husserl

39. Which one is not the correct match for all the four

       Pramanya is

A    Nyaya -  paratah

B    Samkhya – svatah

C    Vedanta  -  svatah

D    Bauddha -  svatah

40. Which one is not the true match

A    Charvaka   -   perception

B    Bauddha   - perception,inference,verbal testimony

C    Samkhya   - perception,inference,verbal testimony

D   Nyaya        - perception,inference,verbal testimony,comparison

41. Assertion:

 a.     Violence is not recommended by Gandhiji

       Reason:

   b.   Others are also integral part of our own being

A .    both are true and b is true reason for a

B .    both are true but b is not true reason for a

C .    both are false

D .    a is true but b is false

42.Assertion:

 a.    An atheist doesn’t believe in the existence of God

     Reason:

b.   because we cannot know God

1.   both are true and b is true reason for a

2.   both are true but b is not true reason for a

3.   a is true but b is false

4.   both are false

43.’Life Divine’ is written by

a.   Tagore

b.   Aurobindo

c.   Gandhiji

d.   Vivekanand

44.According to ‘theory of verification’ only those things exist of    

      Which we can have

a.      Empirical knowledge

b.     Rational knowledge

c.      Intuitional knowledge

d.     Idea

45. According to materialists only

 A   matter is real

B  only mind is real

C  both mind and matter are real

D  none of these

46.An idealist thinker is he, who believes in the existence of only

A  matter

B  sense impressions

C  ideas

D none

47.’ Cosmos is created of water’ according to

A      Aneximander

B      Thales

C       Anaximenes

D      none of these

48.’Becoming is the only reality’ according to

A    Parmenides

B    Heraclitus

C    Socrates

 D    Plato

49.’Knowledge is virtue and virtue is knowledge,’ according to

 A   Plato

B   Aristotle

C   Socrates

 D   none of these

50. ‘Theory of Ideas’ was propounded by

A      Aristotle

B       Plato

C       Socrates

 D     Aquinus

51. Formal,efficient and final causes are only transformations of

A    material cause

B    final cause

C    efficient cause

D    formal cause

52.’ God is unmoved mover’ according to

A     Plato

B     Aristotle

C     Socrates

 D    Anselm

53. To prove the existence of God,ontological argument was given by

A    Erigena

B   Anselm

C   Augustine

D  none of these

54.Conceptualism was propounded by

A   Aquinus

B   Anselm

C   Augustine

D  none of these

55.To prove the existence of God ,cosmological argument was given

      By

A   Plato

B   Augustine

C   Erigena

D   none of these

56.Metaphysics is refuted by

A   rationalists

B   empiricists

C   logical positivists

D   none of these

57. ‘Whereof we cannot speak thereof we must pass over in silence’

        Is said by

A   Ayer

B   Karnap

C   Wittgenstein

D   none of these

58.’Synthetic a priori judge is possible’ according to

A     Hume

B     Kant

C     Leibnitz

D    none of these

59. ‘Every proposition is partially true and partially false’ according

         To

A     Ayer

B     Wittgenstein

C     Bradley

 D   none of these

60. P . Q  is true

A   if both are true

B   if both are false

C  if p is true and q is false

D  if p is false and q is true