UGC-NET (NTA) Exam, BUDDHIST, JAINA, GANDHIAN AND PEACE STUDIES, December-2019

91. Read the passage carefully and attempt the questions which follow.

Thus speaks the Beloved of Gods, the King Piyadassi: when I had been consecrated twelve years, I commanded as follows: Everywhere in my empire, the yuktas, subordinate officers with Rajukas, rural administrators and the Pradeshikas, head of the districts, shall go on tour every five years, in order to instruct people in the Dhamma as well as for other purposes.
It is good to be obedient to one's mother and father, friends and relatives, to be generous to brahmana and shramanas, it is good not to kill living beings, it is good not only to spend little, but to own the minimum of property.
The council will instruct the officials to record the above, making it both manifest to the public and explaining why.
What was the command given to the council?
(A): Instructed official to record the command of the king.
(B): Not to explain and manifest the people.
Choose the most appropriate option:

A. (A) is correct and (B) is not correct
B. (A) and (B) both are correct
C. (A) is not correct, but (B) is correct
D. (A) and (B) both are incorrect

Correct Answer: A. (A) is correct and (B) is not correct

92. In the given passage who was the higher official of the king.

Choose the most appropriate option:

A. Yukta
B. Rajuka
C. Pradeshika
D. Council

Correct Answer: C. Pradeshika

93. People should be generous to whom?

A. The King
B. Mother and Father
C. Brahmana
D. Shramana and Brahmana

Correct Answer: D. Shramana and Brahmana

94. Identify the custodian of the command of the king:

Choose the most appropriate option:

A. Brahmana and Shramana
B. Pradeshika
C. Rajuk
D. Council

Correct Answer: D. Council

95. In which year of king's reign, the command was proclaimed?

A. 12th year
B. 5th year
C. 4th year
D. 20th year

Correct Answer: A. 12th year

96. Read the passage carefully and attempt the questions which follow.

The issue between violence and non-violence has now become more than ever a matter of immediate and practical importance for us. We owe to Mahatma Gandhi this new word non-violence.
He has presented it to us in the course of his patent technique of resistance known as Satyagraha. For more than thirty years now, he has been spending his argumentative and demonstrative talents to make it conception clear to us.
But still many of us feel that it is either too subtle for our intelligence, or that its practice is beyond our intelligence, or that its practice is beyond our capacity.
On the other hand, we all understood what violence is. We associate with it malevolence, hatred, revenge, enmity, murder, injury, war, cruelty, barbarity, torture, deception, rape, loot, exploitation and so on".
What is immediate and practically important for us?

A. The concept of Non-violence
B. The issue between violence and nonviolence
C. Our association with many forms of violence
D. The concept of violence

Correct Answer: B. The issue between violence and nonviolence

97. What do we owe to Mahatma Gandhi?

A. The technique of resistance
B. Non-violence
C. Our association with violence
D. Our feeling that it is too subtle

Correct Answer: B. Non-violence

98. How is it easy to understand the concept of violence and not the concept of nonviolence?

A. Violence has manifold in many forms such as malevolence, revenge, enmity, murder, etc
B. No personalities like Gandhiji has even tried their talent to make us understand
C. We associate easily with many forms of violence
D. Non-violence is too subtle

Correct Answer: C. We associate easily with many forms of violence

99. What is the hindrance to make the concept of resistance clear to us?

A. The argumentative and demonstrative talent of Gandhiji
B. The concept of Satyagraha is very subtle
C. Since 30, years, Gandhiji was spending his talent to clear it but we were not ready for its practice
D. Many of us feel against it

Correct Answer: B. The concept of Satyagraha is very subtle