MH CET LAW 2020 LLB (5 Year) Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs (October 11)

MH CET LAW Questions

• 1.

  The author criticises scholars who are not geographers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

  • the importance they place on the role of individual decisions when studying human phenomena.
  • their outdated interpretations of past cultural and historical phenomena.
  • their labelling of geographic explanations as deterministic.
  • their rejection of the role of biogeographic factors in social and cultural phenomena.
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• 2.

  The bulk modulus of a liquid is 3 × 10¹⁰ Nm-2. The pressure required to reduce the volume of liquid by 2% is

  • 3 × 10⁸ Nm^–2

  • 9 × 10⁸ Nm^–2

  • 6 × 10⁸ Nm^–2

  • 12 × 10⁸ Nm^–2

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• 3.

  The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best
  answer for each question.
  Many human phenomena and characteristics - such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes,
  incomes, life expectancies, and other things - are influenced both by geographic factors and by
  non-geographic factors. Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to
  geographic location, including climate, the distributions of wild plant and animal species, soils,
  and topography. Non-geographic factors include those factors subsumed under the term
  culture, other factors subsumed under the term history, and decisions by individual people....
  [T]he differences between the current economies of North and South Korea ... cannot be
  attributed to the modest environmental differences between [them] ... They are instead due
  entirely to the different [government] policies ... At the opposite extreme, the Inuit and other
  traditional peoples living north of the Arctic Circle developed warm fur clothes but no
  agriculture, while equatorial lowland peoples around the world never developed warm fur
  clothes but often did develop agriculture. The explanation is straightforwardly geographic,
  rather than a cultural or historical quirk unrelated to geography. . . Aboriginal Australia
  remained the sole continent occupied only by hunter/gatherers and with no indigenous farming
  or herding ... [Here the] explanation is biogeographic: the Australian continent has no
  domesticable native animal species and few domesticable native plant species. Instead, the
  crops and domestic animals that now make Australia a food and wool exporter are all nonnative (mainly Eurasian) species such as sheep, wheat, and grapes, brought to Australia by
  overseas colonists.
  Today, no scholar would be silly enough to deny that culture, history, and individual choices
  play a big role in many human phenomena. Scholars don't react to cultural, historical, and
  individual-agent explanations by denouncing "cultural determinism," "historical determinism,"
  or "individual determinism," and then thinking no further. But many scholars do react to any
  explanation invoking some geographic role, by denouncing "geographic determinism" ...
  Several reasons may underlie this widespread but nonsensical view. One reason is that some
  geographic explanations advanced a century ago were racist, thereby causing all geographic
  explanations to become tainted by racist associations in the minds of many scholars other than
  geographers. But many genetic, historical, psychological, and anthropological explanations
  advanced a century ago were also racist, yet the validity of newer non-racist genetic etc.
  explanations is widely accepted today.
  Another reason for reflex rejection of geographic explanations is that historians have a
  tradition, in their discipline, of stressing the role of contingency (a favorite word among
  historians) based on individual decisions and chance. Often that view is warranted . . . But
  often, too, that view is unwarranted. The development of warm fur clothes among the Inuit
  living north of the Arctic Circle was not because one influential Inuit leader persuaded other
  Inuit in 1783 to adopt warm fur clothes, for no good environmental reason.
  A third reason is that geographic explanations usually depend on detailed technical facts of
  geography and other fields of scholarship ... Most historians and economists don't acquire that
  detailed knowledge as part of the professional training.

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• 4.

  On the basis of the nature of the relationship between the items in each pair below, choose the odd pair out:

  • Postcolonial novels : Anti-colonial nationalism
  • Indian Ocean novels : Outward-looking
  • Indian Ocean world : Slavery
  • ostcolonial novels : Border-crossing
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• 5.

  All of the following statements, if true, would weaken the passage's claim about the relationship between mainstream English-language fiction and Indian Ocean novels EXCEPT:

  • the depiction of Africa in most Indian Ocean novels is driven by a postcolonial nostalgia for an idyllic past.
  • most mainstream English-language novels have historically privileged the Christian, white, male experience of travel and adventure.
  • the depiction of Africa in most Indian Ocean novels is driven by an Orientalist imagination of its cultural crudeness.
  • very few mainstream English-language novels have historically been set in American and European metropolitan centres.
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• 6.

  All of the following claims contribute to the "remapping" discussed by the passage, EXCEPT:

  • the global south, as opposed to the global north, was the first centre of globalisation.
  • cosmopolitanism originated in the West and travelled to the East through globalisation
  • Indian Ocean novels have gone beyond the specifics of national concerns to explore rich regional pasts
  • the world of early international trade and commerce was not the sole domain of white Europeans
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