Model Test Paper for IAS Set-2

Model Test Paper for IAS-2

Choose the correct answer:

1.     Which state in India occupies the same ranking position in respect of area and population?

        (1)  Gujarat                   (2)  Manipur

        (3)  Meghalaya             (4)  Nagaland

        Hint: Manipur’s rank in terms of area and population is the same i.e. 23 out of 28 states of Indian Union in descending order.

2.     When the World Population Day is observed?

        (1)  July 11                   (2)  July 7

        (3)  June 7                     (4)  July 28

3.     Who is the President of Russia?

        (1)  Yevgeny Primakov

        (2)  Dmitry Medvedev

        (3)  Vladimir Putin

        (4)  Mikhail Fradkov

        Hint: Vladimir Putin, the former Prime Minister of Russia, is now the President of Russia; Yevgeny Primakov and M. Fradkov were former Prime Ministers of Russia. Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia, is now the Prime Minister of Russia.

4.     Bharat Ratna — India’s highest civilian award — was given in 2008 to

        (1)  Pt. Bhim Sen Joshi

        (2)  Pt. Ravi Shanker

        (3)  Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

        (4)  Ratan Tata

        Hint: Bhim Sen Joshi is the famous classical singer of India, Ravi Shankar is an outstanding sitarist of international fame, Amjad Ali Khan is an eminent sarod player and Ratan Tata is the doyen of Indian industry. Bhimsen Joshi and Ravi Shankar, both recipients of Bharat Ratna, died recently.

5.     Who, amongst the following, is the author of the book ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ and ‘Fury’?

        (1)  Vikram Seth           (2)  Shobha De

        (3)  Salman Rushdie     (4)  Anita Desai

        Hint: Salman Rushdie is a Mumbai-born British writer. He is also the writer of ‘Satanic Verses’, ‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘East and West’, ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’. Islamic fundamentalists have accused him of blasphemy. For his alleged anti-Islamic writings, he was sentenced to death by Iranian clerics. Vikram Seth is the author of ‘A Suitable Boy’, the longest English novel ever written by an Indian writer. He is also the author of ‘The Golden Gate’ and ‘An Equal Music’; Anita Desai is the writer of the famous book ‘Fasting, Feasting’– the book was nominated for Booker Prize– and the novel ‘A Village by the Sea’.

6.     One-rupee note bears the signature of the

        (1)  Governor of Reserve Bank of India

        (2)  Finance Ministry

        (3)  Secretary, Ministry of Finance

        (4)  President of India

7.     Which of the following is not a cash crop?

        (1)  Jute                        (2)  Paddy

        (3)  Cashewnut             (4)  Sugarcane

8.     “Onges”, a tribal community, which is on the verge of extinction, are the inhabitants of

        (1)  Santhal Parganas

        (2)  South Bihar

        (3)  Andaman & Nicobar Islands

        (4)  Arunachal Pradesh

9.     University of Nalanda was established in what is now

        (1)  Odisha

        (2)  Bihar

        (3)  Madhya Pradesh

        (4)  Gujarat

        Hint: Nalanda was the most famous university of ancient India. It was a centre of Buddhist learning and culture. Besides Nalanda, there were two other centres of learning in ancient India-Taxila, now in Pakistan, and Vikramshila which was situated in what is now called, Bihar.

10.   Who is known as the Indian Shakespeare?

        (1)  Tagore                    (2)  Surdas

        (3)  Tulsidas                  (4)  Kalidas

        Hint: Shakespeare is the greatest poet and dramatist of English literature. Kalidas is the greatest poet and dramatist of Sanskrit literature. He flourished during the times of Chandragupta Vikramaditya during the Gupta period of Ancient Indian History which is also called the Golden Age of Indian History; Tagore is an outstanding poet, novelist and writer of Bengali and English language - won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his great work, ‘Gitanjali’; Surdas and Tulsidas are the two greatest poets of Hindi literature belonging to the Bhakti period of Hindi literature.

        Kalidas’s famous works are: Shakuntala, Meghdoot and Raghuvansha; Tulsidas’s Ramcharitamanas and Vinaypatrika; Surdas’s Sursagar. Shakespear’s outstanding dramas are Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like it.

11.   AIDS is caused by

        (1)  Bacteria                  (2)  Protozoa

        (3)  Helminth                (4)  Virus

        Hint: Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.

12.   Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation is better known by its brand name

        (1)  Heinz                     (2)  Horlicks

        (3)  Boost                     (4)  Amul

13.   Who asserted that ‘the end will justify the means’?

        (1)  Adolf Hitler           (2)  Ronald Reagan

        (3)  Machiavelli            (4)  Stalin

        Hint: Machiavelli, an Italian political thinker, who was the first thinker and writer to divorce morality from politics, wrote the world famous book ‘The Prince’.

14.   Which one of the following is known as the Land of the Thunderbolt?

        (1)  Nepal                     (2)  Tibet

        (3)  Bhutan                   (4)  Myanmar

15.   “Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation”. These words were said by

        (1)  Mahatma Gandhi   (2)  Napoleon

        (3)  Winston Churchill  (4)  Abraham Lincoln

16.   White House is the official residence of the US President. Whose official residence is called the Elysee Palace?

        (1)  President of Russia

        (2)  French President

        (3)  South Korean President

        (4)  Indonesian President

        Hint: The official residence of Indonesian President is known as Merdeka Palace.

17.   What is the name of Hong Kong’s stock exchange?

        (1)  Hang Seng             (2)  Kyoto

        (3)  Han Sing                (4)  Wall Street

        Hint: Wall Street is the greatest centre of American finance and stock-exchange in New York.

18.   Purple Heart is the name of the

        (1)  Bravery award instituted by the Queen of U.K.

        (2)  Gallantry award instituted by the US Armed Forces

        (3)  Highest military award in Germany

        (4)  The name of the artificial heart implanted in the USA

19.   The second most widely spoken language in India is

        (1)  Bengali                   (2)  Marathi

        (3)  Punjabi                   (4)  Telugu

        Hint: Hindi is the most widely spoken language of India. Telugu is the third most widely spoken language of India.

20.   ‘Queensberry Rules’ is the name given to the rules in

        (1)  Hockey                  (2)  Cricket

        (3)  Tennis                    (4)  Boxing

ANSWER: Model Test Paper for IAS-2

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