Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. ....is an important part of the flowing culture of the human civilization.
(a) Religion
(b) Translation
(c) Food
(d) All of them.

2. Who bridges the gap between the communities language and culture:
(a) Translation
(b) Journey
(c) Book
(d) Thought.

3. Which is the communication of the meaning of a text in a source language into a comprehensive version:
(a) Language
(b) text
(c) translation
(d) phrases.

4. In a poetry, a stanza is usually a set of:
(a) Blank lines
(b) Regular rhyme
(c) Metrical schemes
(d) All of them.

5. The rule based machine translation paradigm includes transfer based on:
(a) Machine translation
(b) Interlingual machine
(c) Dictionary based machine translation
(d) All of them.

6. Which holy book was translated in English language by William Tyndale:
(a) Bible
(b) Bhawat Geeta
(c) Quran
(d) Ramayana.

7. .......was the original grand English translation.
(a) Bhawat Geeta
(b) Bible
(c) Quran
(d) Ramayana.

8. .....is the process of translating a document that has already been translation into a foreign language back to the original language.
(a) Aramaic translation
(b) Back translation
(c) Prose translation
(d) Greek translation.

9. Who said 'Poetry is what gets lost in translation:
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Dryden
(d) James Joyce.

10. ....is said to be untranslatable or more subtly in a poetic text.
(a) Poetry
(b) Prose
(c) Drama
(d) Word.


11. Today's world English has the reputation of being an....language.  
(a) National
(b) International
(c) Local
(d) None of these

12. When we say that language is a social product we mean that?
(a) The society produces languages
(b) Language has many branches
(c) Language is an inseparable part of the social set-up
(d) None of these

13. Which one is not a type of translation?
(a) Literal translation
(b) Oriental translation
(c) Word-for-word translation
(d) Abridged translation

14. Evaluation is done in which type of translation?
(a) Machine translation
(b) Conceptual translation
(c) Literal translation
(d) Back translation

15. The modification according to the need gives rise to various type of -
(a) Translation
(b) Transliteration
(c) Translation period
(d) None of these

16. What is/are being pressed into service for carrying out translation?
(a) Human labour
(b) Various skills
(c) Newspapers
(d) Machines

17. What is not an easy activity ?
(a) Talking
(b) Telling tales
(c) Translation
(d) Teaching

18. Translation is a
(a) Science
(b) Art
(c) Craft
(d) All of these

19. The language into which the translation is being made include?
(a) Text language
(b) Target language
(c) Familiar language
(d) Speaking language

20. Back translation is also called as
(a) Own translation
(b) Again translation
(c) Re-translation
(d) Source translation

21. In the sentence 'He is a fox' means -
(a) He is cleaver
(b) He is clever
(c) He run very fast
(d) None of these

22. The art of translation deals with ......... the message from one language to another.
(a) Analysing
(b) Typing
(c) Amending
(d) Transfering

23. Linguistics is a science of -
(a) Speaking
(b) Language
(c) Down
(d) Sound

24. Culture is......
(a) Knowledge that the we have acquired in a society
(b) Civilized way of living in a society
(c) The structure of present day society
(d) Day-to-Day activities of human being

25. Language varieties are not only of importance in socio-linguistics, but are equally important to the -
(a) Narrator
(b) Writer
(d) Translator
(c) Layman

26. Some scholars call to the field of translation as -
(a) Applied linguistics
(b) Linking ideal
(c) Sound construction
(d) Pragmatics

27. Do two languages have the same structure?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Doubtful
(d) Uncertain

28. The translator transfers message from the ...... language into the..... language.
(a) English, Hindi
(b) Target, Source
(c) Source, Target
(d) Writer

29. As a..... one should know how language function and how language vary.
(a) Proof Reader
(b) Playwright
(c) Translator
(d) Writer

30. A translator goes through a process of .........
(a) Encoding
(b) Transfer
(c) Decoding
(d) All of these

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