LDC Mixed Practice Test #292

Question 1

Art 40 directs:

Accepted Answer

Village Panchayats — Organise village panchayats.

Answer

Uniform Civil Code

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Cow protection

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Free legal aid

Question 2

Supreme Court first judgment on basic structure:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Kesavananda Bharati — Kesavananda Bharati (1973) — established Basic Structure doctrine.‌​‍

Answer

Maneka Gandhi

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Golaknath

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Minerva Mills

Question 3

Sahodaran Ayyappan:

Accepted Answer

Social reformer — Against caste divisions in Kerala.

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Musician

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Actor

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Politician

Question 4

Habitus (Bourdieu) refers to:

Accepted Answer

Internalised dispositions shaped by one's social position — Habitus: embodied schemes of perception, thought, action — how class/culture shapes individual practice unconsciously.

Answer

Habits

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Diet

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Location

Question 5

Due to which case was the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act amended?‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Jaya Bachchan / Sonia Gandhi case 2006 — 2006 office-of-profit controversy: Sonia Gandhi resigned from Lok Sabha (UPA Chair); Jaya Bachchan disqualified. ‌​‍97th Amendment ratified retrospective exemption.

Answer

Arvind Kejriwal

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Tamil Nadu politicians

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Jayalalitha

Question 6

IPL 2024 MVP:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Sunil Narine — Narine — player of tournament.‌​‍

Answer

Gautam Gambhir

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Virat

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Pat Cummins

Question 7

Kumaranasan 3 major works:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Veenapoovu, Chandala Bhikshuki, Chintavishtayaya Sita — Several landmark poems.‌​‍

Answer

Many

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Two

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Only one

Question 8

Something that can be heard:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Audible — Audible = can be heard.‌​‍

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Visible

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Edible

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Legible

Question 9

According to Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man', the first stage of life is:

Accepted Answer

The infant — Shakespeare's seven ages: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, second childhood.

Answer

The soldier

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The schoolboy

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The justice

Question 10

A student misinterprets the phrase 'the cat sat on the mat' as 'the mat sat on the cat.' Which of Bruner's modes of representation is the student primarily using in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

C. Symbolic representation (language-based). — Bruner's iconic mode involves visual or image-based understanding, and misinterpreting the subject-object relationship in a sentence suggests the student is relying on a literal or visual interpretation of the words rather than their symbolic meaning. Enactive (A) involves physical action, symbolic (C) involves abstract language rules, and concrete operational (D) is Piaget's concept, not Bruner's.

Answer

A. Enactive representation (action-based).

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B. Iconic representation (image-based).

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D. Concrete operational representation (logical thinking).

LDC Mixed Practice Test #292