1. An Autobiography, also known as Toward Freedom , is an autobiographical book written by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was in prison between June 1934 and February 1935, and before he became the first Prime Minister of India. An Autobiography which was written in_________?
A:) 1936
B:) 1937
C:) 1938
D:) 1939
springline- Correct option: A:) 1936
2. An Autobiography : The first edition was published in 1936 by John Lane, The Bodley Head , London, and has since been through more than 12 editions and translated into more than 30 languages. It has over 672 pages and is published by Penguin Books India. How many chapters it have?
A:) 88
B:) 77
C:) 58
D:) 68
springline- Correct option: D:) 68
3. Who also wrote the foreword to this edition, in which she encourages the reader to combine its content with Nehru's other works, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, in order to understand ‘the ideas and personalities that have shaped India through the ages?
A:) N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
B:) Sonia Gandhi
C:) Kamala Nehru
D:) Indira Gandhi
springline- Correct option: B:) Sonia Gandhi
4. Nehru clarifies his aims and objectives in the preface to the first edition, as to occupy his time constructively, review past events in India and to begin the job of ‘self-questioning’ in what is his ‘personal account’. What is the first title of this book?
A:) Decent from Country
B:) Decent from Delhi
C:) Descent from Kashmir
D:) Decent from India
springline- Correct option: C:) Descent from Kashmir
5. Jawaharlal Nehru : He did not target any particular audience but wrote ‘if I thought of an audience, it was one of my own countrymen and countrywomen. For foreign readers I would have probably written differentlyNehru begins with explaining his ancestors migration to Delhi from Kashmir in 1716 and the subsequent settling of his family in Agra after the revolt of ________?
A:) 1857
B:) 1858
C:) 1859
D:) 1855
springline- Correct option: A:) 1857
6. Jawaharlal Nehru : He states ‘my object was...primarily for my own benefit, to trace my own mental growth. Written during the long illness of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage.In An Autobiography, Which Chapter is devoted to ‘Harrow and Cambridge’ and the English influence on Nehru ?
A:) chapter two
B:) chapter four
C:) chapter six
D:) chapter eight
springline- Correct option: B:) chapter four
7. Jawaharlal Nehru : In the book, he describes nationalism as ‘essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country’. He is self-critical and writes , ‘He have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere, Perhaps his thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called ________?
A:) northern than southern
B:) northern than western
C:) western than Eastern
D:) western than southern
springline- Correct option: C:) western than Eastern
8. Jawaharlal Nehru ; On 4 September 1935, five and a half months before the completion of his sentence, he was released from Almora District jail due to his wife's deteriorating health, and the following month he added a postscript whilst at Badenweiler, Schwarzwald, where she was receiving treatment. When he includes an epilogue on ______?
A:) 14 February 1935
B:) 15 February 1937
C:) 19February 1938
D:) 21 March 1939
springline- Correct option: A:) 14 February 1935
9. M.G. Hallet, was appointed to review the book, with a view to judging if the book should be banned. In his review, he reported that Nehru's inclusion of a chapter on animals in prison, was ‘very human’, and he strongly opposed any ban of the book. According to Whom , had Nehru not been well known as India's first prime minister, he would have been famous for his autobiography?
A:) Helen Gerner
B:) Peter Carey
C:) Tim Winton
D:) Walter Crocker
springline- Correct option: D:) Walter Crocker
10. Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat and author who was a central figure in India during the middle-third of the 20th-century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for _______?
A:) 17 years
B:) 18 years
C:) 14 year
D:) 16 years
springline- Correct option: A:) 17 years
11. Nehru was a prolific writer in English and produced several books, such as The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, and his autobiography, Toward Freedom. He had written 30 letters to his daughter Indira Gandhi when she was _______?
A:) 12 years old
B:) 8 years old
C:) 10 years old
D:) 11 years old
springline- Correct option: C:) 10 years old
12. Nehru: He promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocks of the cold war. A widely admired author, his books written in prison, such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography and The Discovery of India which was written in______?
A:) 1946
B:) 1947
C:) 1948
D:) 1949
springline- Correct option: A:) 1946
13. Nehru described his childhood as a ‘sheltered and uneventful one’. He grew up in an atmosphere of privilege at wealthy homes, including a palatial estate called the Anand Bhavan. His father had him educated at home by private governesses and tutors. Influenced by the Irish theosophist Ferdinand T. Brooks' teaching, Nehru became interested in science and _______?
A:) theology
B:) theosophy
C:) colonialism
D:) modernism
springline- Correct option: B:) theosophy
14. Nehru's theosophical interests had induced him to the study of the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures. According to Whom, these scriptures were Nehru's ‘first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of [India]. ...[They] provided Nehru the initial impulse for [his] long intellectual quest which culminated…in The Discovery of India’?
A:) Ranjit Hoskote
B:) Bishnu Dey
C:) Dilip Chitre
D:) Bal Ram Nanda
springline- Correct option: D:) Bal Ram Nanda
15. The writings of Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Lowes Dickinson and Meredith Townsend moulded much of his political and economic thinking. After completing his degree in 1910, Nehru moved to London and studied law at the Inner temple Inn. During this time, he continued to study Fabian Society scholars including ______?
A:) Thomas Arnold
B:) Richard Bentley
C:) Beatrice Webb
D:) Robert Burns
springline- Correct option: C:) Beatrice Webb
16. Coomaraswamy is considered as a leading member of Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought. In 1906 Coomaraswamy founded ‘The Ceylon Social Reform Society’ ; addressed itself to the preservation and revival of not only of traditional arts and crafts but also of social values and customs which had helped to shape them. In India Coomaraswamy formed a close relationship with ______?
A:) R.K. Narayan family
B:) Sarojini Naidu family
C:) Mulk Raj family
D:) Tagore family
springline- Correct option: D:) Tagore family
17. The story of Shiva who dances and tamers the tiger and wear its skin as if it is silk cloth, wears the serpent as if it is a garland, and defeated the malignant dwarf , Muyalaka and continued to dance is being retold by Coomaraswamy. This dance of Shiva is the motif of the south Indian copper images of _________?
A:) A.N. Jani
B:) Sri Nataraja
C:) Jose Pereira
D:) Bettina Baumer
springline- Correct option: B:) Sri Nataraja
18. According to the latest subatomic research the interaction of subatomic particles gives rise to the stable structures, which build-up the material world, which again do not remain static but oscillate in_______?
A:) rhythmic movements
B:) literary movements
C:) musical movements
D:) logical movements
springline- Correct option: A:) rhythmic movements
19. Which has therefore shown as that the whole universe is thus engaged in endless motion and activity in a continual cosmic dance of energy and The metaphor of cosmic dance has found its most profound and beautiful expression in Hinduism in the image of Dancing god, Shiva – King of Dancers?
A:) Modern Art
B:) Modern Physics
C:) Modern Science
D:) Modern education
springline- Correct option: B:) Modern Physics
20. According to the Hindu belief, life is a part of a great rhythmic process of creation anddestruction, of death and rebirth. Shiva‟s dance symbolizes this eternal life-death rhythm which goes on endless cycles. Coomaraswamy says, ‘In the fullness of time, still dancing. He destroys all forms and names by ________?
A:) crescent
B:) burning
C:) fire
D:) dancing
springline- Correct option: C:) fire
21. Shiva‟s dance lies in his own nature, all his gestures are his own, spontaneous and purposeless- for his being is beyond the realm of purposes. Dance of Shiva is identified with the Panchakshara or five syllables of the prayer Siva-ya-na-ma, ________?
A:) Strom to Shiva
B:) Hail to Shiva
C:) Fire on Shiva
D:) Beat to Shiva
springline- Correct option: B:) Hail to Shiva
22. Coomaraswamy points out that, the eternal significance of Shiva‟s dance is threefold: Firstly: It is the image of his rhythmic play as the source of all movements within the cosmos. Secondly: The purpose of his dance is to release the countless souls of men from the snare of _______?
A:) illusion
B:) sleet
C:) fantasy
D:) fallacy
springline- Correct option: A:) illusion
23. Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy was a Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician, pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as ‘the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West. He was born in_____?
A:) 1874
B:) 1875
C:) 1876
D:) 1877
springline- Correct option: D:) 1877
24. Coomaraswamy moved to England in 1879 and attended Wycliffe College, a preparatory school in Stroud, Gloucestershire, at the age of twelve. On 19 June 1902, Coomaraswamy married Ethel Mary Partridge. His work in Ceylon fueled Coomaraswamy's anti-Westernization sentiments. After their divorce, Partridge returned to England, where she became a famous weaver and later married the writer _______?
A:) Philip Mairet
B:) Harilal Dhuruv
C:) William of Ockham
D:) Richard Bentley
springline- Correct option: A:) Philip Mairet
25. Coomaraswamy : By 1909, he was firmly acquainted with Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill, the city's two most important early Modernists, and soon both of them had begun to incorporate Indian aesthetics into their work. The curiously hybrid sculptures that were produced as a result can be seen to form the very roots of what is now considered _________?
A:) Indian Modernism
B:) British Modernism
C:) Indian Classicism
D:) British Classicism
springline- Correct option: B:) British Modernism
26. Coomaraswamy then met and married a British woman Alice Ethel Richardson and together they went to India and stayed on a houseboat in Srinagar in Kashmir. Commaraswamy studied Rajput painting while his wife studied Indian music with Abdul Rahim of Kapurthala. When they returned to England, Alice performed Indian song under the stage name _____?
A:) Thandavam
B:) Sakthi devi
C:) Rudhra
D:) Ratan Devi
springline- Correct option: D:) Ratan Devi
27. Coomaraswamy : His writings of this period are filled with references to Plato, Plotinus, Clement, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, Shankara, Eckhart, Rumi and other mystics. When asked how he defined himself foremost, Coomaraswamy said he was a ‘metaphysician’, referring to the concept of perennial philosophy, or sophia perennis. He was described by Whom as ‘That noble scholar upon whose shoulders we are still standing’?
A:) Robert Gerhard
B:) Heinrich Zimmer
C:) Enoch Powell
D:) George Alexander
springline- Correct option: B:) Heinrich Zimmer
28. Coomaraswamy agrees with Guénon on the universal principles, Coomaraswamy's works are very different in form. By vocation, he was a scholar who dedicated the last decades of his life to ‘searching the Scriptures’. He offers a perspective on the tradition that complements Guénon's. Along with René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, Coomaraswamy is regarded as one of the three founders of____?
A:) Perennialism
B:) Ecclesiasticism
C:) anticolonialism
D:) confessionalism
springline- Correct option: A:) Perennialism
29. Coomaraswamy was extremely perceptive regarding aesthetics and wrote dozens of articles on traditional arts and mythology. His works are also finely balanced intellectually. Although born in the Hindu tradition, he had a deep knowledge of the Western tradition as well as a great expertise in, and love for, Greek metaphysics, especially that of Plotinus, the founder of ______?
A:) phenomenalism
B:) bioreligionalism
C:) supernaturalism
D:) Neoplatonism
springline- Correct option: D:) Neoplatonism
30. Coomaraswamy : Through 1932, from his base in Boston, he produced two kinds of publications: brilliant scholarship in his curatorial field but also graceful introductions to Indian and Asian art and culture, typified by The Dance of Shiva, a collection of essays that remain in print to this day. Deeply influenced by _____?
A:) Thomas Keneally
B:) Peter Carey
C:) René Guénon
D:) James Clavell
springline- Correct option: C:) René Guénon