UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
M. A. Entrance Examination, June 2011
Hall Ticket
Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 100
Instructions:
The Question Paper consists oftwo Parts: Part A and Part B.
Part A of the question paper consists oUS objective (multiple-<:hoice) questions of
oa. mark each. There will be a aegativ. markiag of for every wrong answer.
You have to answer the questions in this part in the question paper itself.
Part B consists ofthrec: sections. Section I concerns comprehension and the
questions should be answ.red in the question paper itself.. Seetloa. n aad ill consist
nfsbort and loog ....y type questions which should be answered in the separate
answer hook provided.
Part A
1. The helio-centric theory was first put forth by

Kepler

Galileo

Ptolemy

Copernicus

2. 'The Taj Mahal is beautiful' is a

Value judgement

Factual judgement

Both a value judgement and a factual judgement

None of the above

3. Mahatma Gandhi is the author of

Discovery of lndia

Gitanjali

Hind Swaraj

The kingdom of God is within you

4. Tolstoy's celebrated novel is

Vicar of Waike field

Waverly

Resurrection

Crime and Punishment

5. Father of Indian Economic Nationalism. is

Mahatma Gandhi

Lokamanya Tilak

Ambedkar

Dadabhai Navroji

6. Which of the given sentences has the propaty of being either true or false?

What a beautiful days

In India cricket is the most popular game

Do not watch late night shows.

May God bless you!

7. The role of philosophy in relation to religion is to ...

Justify religion

Criticize religion

Confirm the truth of religion

Rationally understand religion

8. The author of the National Anthems of India and Bangladesh is

Premchand

Rabindranath Tagore

Bamkimchandra

Sarojini Naidu

9. 'The Sun is larger than the Moon' is

A Self-evident truth

An Empirical truth

A mathematicaJ truth

An axiomatic truth

10. The truth of the statement 'All crows are black'

Can be conclusively verified by empiricaJ observation.

Can be decided by legislation.

Can never be conclusively verified by empirical observation.

Can be argued logically.

11. Which one of the following uses in ethical sense?

Today's weather is not good

His motorcycle is not good

Lying is not good

This building is not good

12. Find the odd group of personalities

Shyam Benegal, Madhur Bhandarkar and Satyajit Ray

Leander Paes, Geet Sethi and Sania Mirza

Aditya Birt, Rajesh KhaIUl8 and Baichung Bhutia

Arundhati Roy, Shobhs De and ViJamn Seth

13. The 'Pink Revolution' begao in

Egypt

Libya

C)China

Tunisia

14. The 'Dronacharya' award is meaDl for the best lndian

Athlete

Coach

C)Umpire

Commentator

15. If A is a brother of B and B is a sister of then it follows that

A is a broth ofC

B is a broth ofA

C is a broth of B

C is a sister ofB


16. Assume that two trains are running in opposite direction on two different tracks at the speed of 60·km/ hour. The distance between them is 60 km.How much time will it take for the trains to go past each other?

One hour

Two hour

1/2 hour

None of the above

17. Suppose there are 100 balls in a pot, 90 of these balls are red in colour. The rest are blue in colour. Suppose at any time you take out one ball. The probability that it will be of red colour is ...

I

0.1

0.9

None of the above

18. Jainism is a nastika darasana because ...

It does not believe in the existence of God

ItacceplS Mahavira as God

It denies the authority ofVedas

It is critical of Hinduism

19. Skepticism stands for ...

Denial of the existence of the world

Denial of the knowledge of the existence of the world

Denial of the existence of God

Denial of feelings

20. The Nightingale of India was a well known ...

Nurse in a hospital

Politician

Poet

Poet and politician

21. Who among the followers is the founder of Jainism?

Mahavira

Gautama

Parsvanatha

None of the above

22. Which of the following is a logical contradiction?

Circles are squares.

It rains rarely in a desert.

A bachelor is not married.

The brave deserve the beautiful.

23. Who started the Bboodan Movement?

BabaArnIe

Anna Hazare

Balagangadbar Tilak

Vinoba Bbave

24. Gita Rahasya is written by ...

Mahatma Gandhi

Aurobindo

Swami Vivekananda

Ba1agangadbar Tilak

25. Sankaracarya was born in the state of ...

Tamila Nadu

Kerala

Karnataka

Andhrm Pradesh


26. The inner solar system is the name of the terrestrial planets and asteroid bell Terrestrial is just a faDey way of saying rocky. Like the Earth, terrestrial planets have a core of iron and rock. At the center of the solar system is the Sun. The Sun is a big ball of hydrogen powered by nuclear reactions. Massive explosions are going aD all of the time inside the Sun. It's what makes the light .very day and keeps our planet warm. Light zips from the Sun to us in about eight minutes. The Sun is the most. massive thing in our solar system. It is so big you could fit about a million Earth's inside of it! Closest to the Sun is the planet Mercury. you could squeeze about eighteen Mercurys inside of Earth. It is mad. of mostly rock, but it has a hug. iron core and it generates a big magnetic fie1d. Speedy little. Mercury sails around the sun in only eighty-eight days. Mercury was the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, known for his speed.

Second in liin. comes Venus, which is sometimes called Earth's twin. It's about the same size as Earth, but that's where the similarities end. Venus is always coved in thick clouds full of sulphuric acid. Th.y whip around the planet at more than two hundred twenty mph. Violent winds shoot sand mad. of silicate around Venus's very dry, arid surface. The temperature averages nine hundred d.gr.... and the pressure's ninety times that on Earth. It takes two hundred and twenty four days to orbit the SUD. Like Mercury, Venus was also named after a Roman Goddess, the Goddess oflov you know what planet is next you live on it! yup, the Earth is number three. We have a rocky iron core at the center of our planet. We have liquid water, and our air is mad. of mostly nitrogen and oxygen. It takes three hundred and sixty-five days for us to circle the sun. We only have one moon.

almost 684 days.Next to us is Mars. Mars also has a core of rock and iron. It is a like. more than half the. size ofEanh. The most distinct feature about Mars is its red color. Dust rich in iron oxide coven the planet. It's sort of like the planet is rusting. Whit. caps at the poles are water, forever frozen because of the colder temperatures fourth from the Sun. The only place the temperature rises above freezing is at the equator, or the middle of the planet. Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phoebe but they are much smaller than our own moon. It takes nearly twice as long for Mars to circle the sun .

The last part of the inner solar system is called the Asteroid Belt. It's the link between the inner rocky planets and the out... gaseous planets. Unlike the rest of the Inner Solar System, the Asteroid Belt isn't a planet at all. It is a bunch of large rocky chunks, mostly meteoroids. There's also a dwarf planet named Ceres in the asteroid half. The rest aren't very large.

The Earth is the only planet that we know of with life on it, but universe is • big place. Much of our solar system is still a mystery, there is still plenty to explore.

1. How does the aim of Mercury compare to Earth?

a. Mercury is 18 times the size of Earth

b. Mercury is 1/18 the size of Earth.

c. Earth is 1/18 the size of Mercury.

d. Earth is. 18 times smaller than Mercury.

2. Which statement about the inner planets' orbits Is true?

a. Venus orbits the sun more quickly then Mercury.

b. Mercury orbits the sun more slowly than Mars.

c. Earth orbits the sun more quickly than Venus.

d. Mars orbits the sun more slowly than Earth.

3. Whet two types d gas make up most of Earth's atmosphere?

4. According to information in the article, where would you find WIIter on Mars?

5. How long does it take light to travel from the sun to the Earth?

6. Which would be the most appropriate nickname for Venus?

a. the cold desert planet

b. the first inner planet

c. the windy planet

d. the triple mooned planet

27. Fill in the missing letters to create a word from the article. Then, write the full
word on the line. Be sure you spell each word correctly.

1.

clue: an imaginary line around the center of a planet

2.

clue: made of gas

3._e s 3.

clue: rocky



clue: containing a lot of mass; large



28. What according to you, is real education?
29. Why should one be moral?
30. Despite a legal ban on it, the inhuman practice of female foeticide continues in India. What may be the reasons for this?
31. Why does child labour still persist in India?
32. Are Nuclear power reactors necessary for material prosperity of India?
33. What is Philosophy? Why are you interested in Philosophy?
34. Discuss Gandhi's concept of Sarvodaya and its relevance today.
35. Discuss the relation between science and philosophy
36. Is corruption a necessary evil of democratic governance?
37. What are the shortcomings of globs1ization?