General Awareness Practice Test - 4

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. His works often explore themes of memory, identity, and the German occupation of France. He is considered one of the most important French writers of his generation.

There are essentially 3 types of muscles in the humans body, those are skeletal, cardiac and smooth.

The receptor is the right answer as it reserves the chemical signals externally from the calls.

Dry farming is done in the regions where average rainfall is less than 75 cm and hot and dry conditions prevail.

Correct option is (1).

Correct option is 4.

Correct option is (2).

Rajiv Mehrishi succeeded Arvind Mayaram as Union Finance Secretary in 2014. This is a factual question about bureaucratic appointments in the Indian government. The other options are all senior bureaucrats who held important positions but not this specific portfolio at that time.

The Purvas were the ancient lost scriptures of Jainism that Sthulabhadra helped preserve through a council in Mathura. When Bhadrabahu was in South India, Northern monks realized these sacred texts were being forgotten, so they convened to recompile them. This was a critical moment in Jain religious history to prevent the loss of foundational teachings.

Dalia Grybauskaite won the Lithuanian presidential election in May 2014, securing a second term as President. She was a prominent European politician known for her fiscal conservatism and pro-European Union stance.

Correct option is (4).

Correct option is (2).

Sauraseni is a Prakrit language that evolved into various regional languages in northern India, such as Braj Bhasha and other Western Hindi dialects. Pali and Magadhi are distinct Prakrit forms, and Kharoshti is an ancient script.

Option (2) is correct.

Correct option is (4).