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41
Which feature best distinguishes the classical Persian ghazal?
A. Long narrative couplets telling a continuous story
B. Independent couplets unified by a common rhyme and refrain (qāfiya and radif)
C. Strict four-line stanzas with AABA rhyme
D. Written exclusively in prose
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A ghazal consists of autonomous couplets that share the same meter and a common rhyme and refrain (qāfiya and radif).
42
In the Perso-Arabic script used for Persian, which of the following letters does NOT connect to the following letter (i.e., has no left-joining form)?
A. Alef (ا)
B. Noon (ن)
C. Meem (م)
D. Seen (س)
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Alef is one of the non-connecting letters in Perso-Arabic script and therefore does not join to the following letter.
43
Classical Pashto formal poetry often made use of which prosodic system inherited from Arabic and Persian traditions?
A. Free verse (no fixed meter)
B. Arūz (quantitative Arabic–Persian prosody)
C. Vedic syllabic meters
D. Accentual-syllabic meter (stress-timed)
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Many classical Pashto poets adopted the arūz system of quantitative meter from Arabic and Persian poetic tradition for formal compositions.
44
Which language has exerted the most significant historical lexical and cultural influence on Balochi?
A. Arabic
B. Persian (Farsi)
C. Turkish
D. Sanskrit
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Persian has been the primary source of lexical borrowing and literary influence on Balochi over centuries.
45
Which script has historically been and remains most commonly used for Balochi literary writing?
A. Latin alphabet
B. Cyrillic script
C. Perso-Arabic (modified) script
D. Devanagari script
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Balochi literary texts are most commonly written in a modified Perso-Arabic script adapted from Persian/Urdu orthography.
46
Which of the following languages is not a member of the Indo-European family?
A. Urdu
B. Pashto
C. Persian (Farsi)
D. Arabic
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Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, whereas Urdu, Pashto, and Persian are Indo-European languages.
47
Which region of the world was declared "Free of Wild Polio" on 25th August 2020?
A. Africa
B. South Asia
C. East Asia
D. None of these
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On 25 August 2020 the WHO African Region was formally certified free of wild poliovirus after years of eradication efforts and Nigeria’s last wild case in 2016.
48
The word Pakistan first coined by?
A. Choudhry Rahmat Ali
B. Quaid-i-Azam
C. Allama Iqbal
D. None of these
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Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined the name Pakistan in his 1933 pamphlet, forming the word from regional names and the Persian suffix -stan.
49
Who Translated Holy Quran the first time in Persian?
A. Hazrat Majdad Alif Sani
B. Shah Wali Ullah
C. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani
D. None of these
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Shah Wali Ullah produced an early and well-known Persian translation of the Qur'an, which is why he is named here.
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Who Translated Holy Quran the first time in Persian?
A. Hazrat Majdad Alif Sani
B. Shah Wali Ullah
C. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani
D. None of these
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Shah Wali Ullah is credited in the question source with producing the first Persian translation of the Holy Quran.
