| Post Name | INVESTIGATOR (Anthropology/Sociology) - KIRTADS |
|---|---|
| Question Paper Code | 140/2023 |
| Category Code | 185/2022 |
| Date of Test | 4 August 2023 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | OMR Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
The nature of Anthropology is deals about
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D. All of the above
2
The Scientific Theory of culture is explaining about
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C. Need of humans
3
Which species of the first hominid specimens to be subjected to Radio Dating ?
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D. Zini
4
Who was found the first stone tools in Olduvai Gorge area
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C. Louis Leakey
5
The principle meaning of Ecology is
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B. Adaptation to environment
6
The Potlatching is a practice of the Indians of the
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B. North West Coast of America
7
Indus Valley Civilization was a combination of
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A. Stone Age and Metal Age
8
The culture and personality study were carried out by Morris E. Opler among the following :
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C. An Apache life way
9
The Shaman is a
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B. Religious Practitioner
10
The handbook on cultural patterns and technical value of anthropological research is deals
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B. Public Health, Healthcare, Agricultural practices
11
The RanikKhera village is located in
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A. North India
12
The society (or) culture of mankind has passed through three successive development stages, namely,
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D. Religion and Science
13
In which book the contemporary study of religious traditions in India was dealt ?
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B. Structure and change in Indian Society by Milton Singer
14
The main scope of pre-historic Archaeological Anthropology is as follows :
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C. Study of Paleolithic Man and Culture
15
Who has attempted to make a distinction between Social Structure and Social Organization ?
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C. Raymond Firth
16
The “Good enough” was studied the aspects of
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B. The problem in Polynesian Organization
17
The levels of socio-cultural integration were introduced by
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C. Julian H. Steward
18
Redfield concept of folk society and folk culture are based largely on his studies of
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C. The Maya Indians
19
The village study of Kathalen Gough was conducted in Tanjore District in South India, it focusses on
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C. Village Social System
20
Tylor what he discussed in his book, Primitive Culture ?
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A. Cultural Evolutionism
21
Morgan Theory mainly discusses about
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B. Family organization and kinship terminology
22
Which statement is correct ?
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A. Malinowski was a Functionalist
23
Parochialization is opposite process to Universalization said by
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C. Mckim Marriot
24
The circulating exchange of valuables in the Archipelagoes of Eastern New Guinea
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C. Kula
25
Who makes a distinction between ‘Development Anthropology’ and ‘Anthropology of Development’ ? i) Escobar li) Rapport iii) James Frazer iv) James Herskovits Choose the correct answer from below :
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A. Only i
26
We understand that the system of distribution prevails in all types of societies. The American economic anthropologists Karl Polanyi and Paul Bohannan distinguish three different modes of distribution or exchange. They are i) Reciprocity li) Redistribution lit) Market exchange iv) None of the above Choose the correct answer from the following :
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C. Only i, ii and iii
27
Which of the following is true about Negative Reciprocity ? i) Itis a form of exchange in which one tries to get something, out of nothing, or for a lesser value. ii) On certain occasions, the goods are collected by a central agency. It is then distributed to others who are in need of it. ii) In potlatch a chief or a host accumulates materials for redistribution among its members. iv) Silent trade or dumb barter has been noted in some African societies. It is a specialized form of barter in which no verbal communication takes place. Choose the correct answer from the following :
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B. Only i is true
28
The Class differences which are defined in terms of levels of income and wealth are reflected in class-specific consumption patterns. In cultures with class structures, upper-class people spend more on consumption than the poor. The poor, however, spend a higher percentage of their total income on consumption than the rich, especially on needs such as i) Food li) Clothing iii) Shelter iv) Transportation Choose the correct answer from the following :
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A. Only i and ii and iii are true
29
In contemporary industrial societies, money is key item of exchange. No dollar bill has more meaning or significance than any other. In many other economies, money plays a less important role and valued items such as the below are prominent exchange items. i) Time li) Labour iii) Goods iv) Digital exchange Choose the correct answer from the following :
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C. All the three i, ii and iii are correct
30
Gender is the key factor structuring the organization of labour, with male and female work roles often being clearly differentiated. Male and female roles fall in to three general patterns. Most commonly, men do the clearing and men and women plant and tend the staple crops that are the basis of the peoples’ everyday diets. This pattern exists in i) Trobriand Islanders li) Papua New Guinea iii) Samoan Islanders iv) Gusii of Kenya Choose the correct answer from the following :
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A. Only ii is correct
31
In India the dimensions of civilization are tribal, rural and urban. Anthropologist Robert Redfield is of the opinion that both folk and urban civilizations are not in isolation, rather they are interdependent and interactive. It is on this idea that he developed the concept of i) Culture and Personality li) Structure and Functionality iii) Folk Urban Continuum iv) Urban Continuity Choose the correct answer from the following :
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C. Only ili correct
32
The term refers to groups of people who are the original inhabitants of a particular territory Often; these people now take the name of First peoples as a way of self-definition as original claimants to a place. i) Indigenous People li) Industrial People iii) Post Industrial People iv) Pre Industrial People Choose the correct answer from the following :
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A. Only i correct
33
Which is not the limitation of Case Study ? i) Case history records could be open to errors due to faulty selection of case and inaccurate observation. li) It is very difficult to draw generalizations on the basis of a few cases. iii) A Case Study helps to probe the in-depth analysis of a social unit. iv) Case Study is time-consuming and costly in certain cases. Choose the correct answer from the following :
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C. Only ili correct
34
The genealogical method was used, along with observation method census and settlement pattern, first by W H R Rivers in field research and produced his classical monograph on the i) Todas li) Khasi ili) Garo iv) Angami Choose the correct answer from the following :
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A. Only i correct
35
There is a local belief that the nails and hair removed from the body are not to be thrown in the open space, because there is a chance of the same being used for black magic causing harm to the person concerned 1) Etic view li) Emic view iii) Outsider view iv) Psychic view Choose the correct answer from the following :
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D. Only ii correct
36
The important features of ethnology can be listed as below : i) Ethnology is narrative li) Ethnology is historical lili) Ethnology is comparative iv) It can be based on ethnographies Choose the correct answer from the following :
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D. i, li, ili and iv are true
37
Asystem practiced in North Malabar, to collect a considerable amount of money when the members are in dire need of it i) Panappayattu li) Kurikalyanam ili) Talikatukalyanam iv) Malabar Kalyanam Choose the correct answer from the following :
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D. Only i and ii are true
38
The Anthropological fieldwork has four types of field notes in practice. Human memory is a very poor recording device, especially for the kind of details that make the difference between good and so-so ethnographic research. Keep a note pad with you at all times and make field jottings on the spot. This applies to both formal and informal interviews in bars and cafe’s, in homes and on the street. Which of the following are the types of field notes practiced by anthropologists in field studies ? i) Jottings li) A diary ili) A log iv) Field notes Choose the correct answer from the following :
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D. All the above are correct
39
In new ethnography we have different types of Ethnography which are |) Reflexivity li) Auto Ethnography ili) Team Ethnography iv) Dialogical Ethnography Choose the correct answer from the following :
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D. All the above are correct
40
The unique contribution to the study of anthropology was the theory that culture is “personality writ large’. Is given by i) Ruth Fulton Benedict li) Margaret Mead iii) John Derek Freeman iv) Bronislaw Malinowski Choose the correct answer from the following :
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A. Only i correct
41
Who distinguished three main modes of claiming legitimacy ?
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B. Max Weber
42
Who among the following discussed about dyadic relationship and ‘Triad’ ?
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C. G. Simmel
43
Which does not belong to superstructure in Marxian analysis ?
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D. Capital
44
Who was of the view that “Religion is an eminently collective thing” ?
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C. E. Durkheim
45
Who among the following also wrote on class and caste, legal system and music ?
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B. Max Weber
46
Who stated in writing on the legal system of continental Europe that, “the modern judge is a vending machine into which the pleadings are inserted together with the fee and which then disgorges the judgement together with the reasons mechanically derived from the code” ?
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A. Max Weber
47
Who talked about the ‘bracketing of knowledge’ and ‘Intentionality of consciousness’ in the context of theory of Phenomenology ?
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A. Edmund Husserl
48
During the 1930s, Harvard became an important center of sociological thinking. Who among the following taught there and introduced from Europe an approach called ‘Structural-functionalism’ ?
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B. Pitirim Sorokin and Talcott Parsons
49
Who among the following believed that “Religion, Social status and property are all sources of power and authority” ?
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D. B.R. Ambedkar
50
Which of the following Indologist was of the opinion that, “Sociology of India lies at the confluence of sociology and Indology” ?
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A. Louis Dumont
51
Which of the following thinkers opined that there are ‘necessary conditions of existence’ for human societies which are discoverable for scientific study ?
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A. Radcliffe-Brown
52
Which ‘Marxologist’ believed that the ‘unhistorically minded’ young Marxist ran the risk of ending up as a ‘fascist’ ?
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D. D.P. Mukherjee
53
Who among the following describes the concept of functional unity by analyzing the interaction in ritual context of different caste of the Coorgs ?
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C. M.N. Srinivas
54
Which of the following Indian Sociologist has consistently advocated and applied dialectical historical model in his sociological studies ?
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A. A.R. Desai
55
Which among the following scholars propounded the hypothesis that industrialization and urbanization will lead to the development of a nuclear or a conjugal family system ?
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A. W.J. Goode
56
Who among the following hypothesises that change first occurs within the family (latent, emotional ties) and then of the family (manifest, structural ties) ?
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B. R.D. Naik
57
Who among the following formulated in a neo-Marxian framework the global economic interconnections in terms of relationship among the core (world of imperial markets), the periphery (economically dependent economies) and the semi-periphery ?
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D. . Wallerstein
58
Which of the following project is an example where environmental and religious organizations came together to argue for the preservation of a sacred geography ?
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A. The Vrindavan Conservation Project
59
Who among the following contributed in establishing the field of ‘Social Ecology’ ?
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D. Both A) and B)
60
Since the passing of , the major change that took place in context of women functionaries of Panchayati Raj Institutions was political representation of women through reservation.
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A. The 73 Constitutional Amendment Act
61
According to whom the environmental struggles in India have largely been characterized as the ‘environmentalism of the poor’.
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C. Ramachandra Guha
62
The adult members of every household must fulfill which of the following condition(s) for guaranteed rural employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 ?
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C. Both A) and B)
63
“‘Tharavad’ in kinship is associated with which society ?
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B. Nairs of Kerala
64
Who among the following conducted his field study in Shamirpet ?
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C. S.C. Dube
65
Which of the following year is called as demographic divide ?
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C. 1921
66
Which of the following State is regarded as DEMARU State ?
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A. Gujarat
67
Who preferred to call Tribals as backward Hindus ?
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D. G.S. Ghurye
68
“Development is ultimate a matter of human freedom, expansion of freedom is both the primary end and principle means of development. Perusing development means attempting to remove un-freedom such as tyranny, famine and poverty”. This understanding of development is related to whom ?
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A. Amartya Sen
69
Match the following: 1) Article 17 — i) Prohibition of Discrimination; 2) Article 23 — ii) Abolition of Untouchability; 3) Article 15 — iii) Prohibition of Traffic in human beings; 4) Article 16 — iv) Equality of Opportunity
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B. 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-i, 4-iv
70
Which toxic gas has killed the people of Bhopal in Union Carbide Company tragedy ?
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D. Methyl lsocynate
71
Which of the following is not a lifestyle disease ?
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D. Poverty
72
Which of the following is not a cause for the declining the child sex ratio of India ?
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B. Poverty
73
A survey taking place at interval over a long period is called
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B. Longitudinal survey
74
Match the following: 1) Gang leader for a day — i) John Goldthrope; 2) The affluent worker — ii) Sudhir Venkatesh; 3) Hard Labour — iii) Rosenthal and Jacobson; 4) Field Experiment — iv) Coroline Gartell
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A. 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-iii
75
The finding one respondent and getting the researcher in touch with one or more other is called
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D. Snowball sampling
76
A common set of possible responses Is : agree strongly/agree/neither agree nor disagree/disagree/strongly disagree is called
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C. scaled question
77
Which of the following method involves gathering information through different strategies such as collecting data at different times in different context and from different people ?
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C. Data triangulation
78
Mini version of full scale study design to test its feasibility is
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A. Pilot study
79
Who argues that data can never speak for itself, it has to be analysed, by bringing together and categorising related ideas and interpreted ?
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D. Micheal Foucault
80
Match the following: 1) Code of ethics — i) Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher; 2) Content analysis — ii) The unidentified influence that observer or experiments can have on their subjects; 3) Experimental group — iii) The systematic coding and objective recording of data guided by some rationale; 4) Hathorne effect — iv) Maintain objectivity, integrity, respect the subject's right to privacy in research
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C. 1-iv, 2-iii, 3-i, 4-ii
81
Name the organisation to which the following passage is related with? Its pioneers were Kesari Balakrishna Pillai, P. Kesavadev, P.C. Kuttikrishnan, S.K. Pottekkat etc. It is closely related with an idea called ‘Jeeval Sahithyam’. It was founded around in 1937 in Kerala. 1) Nadaka Prasthanam 2) Purogamana Sahitya Prasthanam 3) Kalasamskarika Prasthanam 4) Kathakali Prasthanam
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B. 2
82
Which one of the following pairs is correct? 1) Kallumala agitation — Sahodaran Ayyappan 2) Savarna Jatha — Guruvayur Satyagraha 3) Pattinijatha — K. Kelappan 4) Shannar agitation — Melmundu Kalappam
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D. 4
83
Identify the person who is mentioned in the following hints. 1) One of the founding members of the All Kerala Women’s League. 2) She had served as a member of Madras Legislative Assembly in 1936 and 1946. 3) She took part in Civil Disobedience Movement and was put in jail for two years. 1) A.V. Kuttimalu Amma 2) Accama Cheriyan 3) Anna Chandi 4) Lalitha Prabhu
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A. 1
84
Match List 1 with List 2: 1) Ikkanda Warrier; 2) Vagbhadanandan; 3) A.K. Gopalan; 4) Accama Cheriyan. List 2: A) Guruvayur Satyagraha; B) Travancore; C) Atma Vidya Kahalam; D) Kochi
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C. 1-D, 2-C, 3-A, 4-B
85
Fill in the blanks: Al-Ameen — ______. 1) Ali brothers 2) Muhammad Abdur Rahiman 3) Vakkam Abdul Khader Maulavi 4) None of these
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B. 2
86
‘Enlighten through education and strengthen by Union.’ Whose observation is this? 1) Vagbhadanandan 2) Ayyankali 3) Sreenarayana Guru 4) Sahodaran Ayyappan
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C. 3
87
Read the following statements and state which are incorrect? 1) The Nivarthana agitation (Abstention Movement) was launched by Christian, Muslim and Ezhava communities in 1932. 2) The agitation was to seek reservation in government jobs on the basis of property rights. 3) The leaders of the movement were P.K. Kunchu, N.V. Joseph and C. Kesavan. 4) The major centre of the agitation was at Malabar.
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A. 2, 4
88
Wagon Tragedy was an unfortunate incident in history related to: 1) Punnapra Vayalar Upheaval 2) Malabar Riots 3) Civil Disobedience Movement 4) None of these
Answer
B. 2
89
The first English School was started in Kerala: 1) Saktan Thampuran at Thrissur 2) Zamorin at Kozhikode 3) Swathithirunal at Ernakulam 4) Sree Chithirathirunal at Travancore
Answer
C. 3
90
Find the odd one. 1) Kerala Kalidasan — Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran 2) Kerala Valmiki — Ullor S. Parameswar Iyer 3) Kerala Panini — A.R. Raja Raja Varma 4) Kerala Vyasan — Kunchi Kuttan Thampuran
Answer
B. 2
91
Find out the Schedule which was inserted in the Indian Constitution as a result of the 73rd Amendment. 1) 11th Schedule 2) 12th Schedule 3) 10th Schedule 4) None of the above
Answer
A. 1
92
The subject in which list both Central and State Government can make laws. 1) Union List 2) State List 3) Residuary Powers 4) Concurrent List
Answer
D. 4
93
Article 356 of the Constitution deals with: 1) National Emergency 2) State Emergency 3) Law Making Procedure 4) Financial Emergency
Answer
B. 2
94
1) For establishing a welfare state in India the makers of our Constitution inducted Directive Principles. 2) The provisions included in the Directive Principles are non-justiciable. 3) Part III of the Indian Constitution contains Directive Principle of State Policy. From the above statements choose the correct answer. 1) 1 and 2 are correct but 3 is incorrect. 2) 1, 2 and 3 are correct. 3) 1, 2 and 3 are incorrect. 4) Only 1 is correct and 2, 3 are incorrect.
Answer
A. 1
95
1) The Vice President of India is elected by proportional representation. 2) The Vice President is elected for the tenure of 6 years. 3) The Vice President is the Chairman of Rajya Sabha. Choose the correct answer. 1) All the three statements are correct. 2) All the above statements are incorrect. 3) Statements 1 and 2 are correct and 3 is incorrect. 4) Statements 1 and 3 are correct and 2 is incorrect.
Answer
D. 4
96
1) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar considered Article 32 the heart and soul of the Constitution. 2) Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed the Preamble is the soul of our Constitution. Which one of the statements is correct? 1) 1 and 2 are correct. 2) 1 correct, 2 incorrect. 3) 1 not correct, 2 correct. 4) 1 and 2 are incorrect.
Answer
B. 2
97
By which Amendment was voting age reduced from 21 to 18? 1) 52nd 2) 86th 3) 61st 4) 74th
Answer
C. 3
98
Identify the agency which conducts election to Local Self Government in India. 1) Election Commission of India 2) State Election Commission 3) Local Self Government Department 4) None of the above
Answer
B. 2
99
Which Constitutional Amendment implemented the EWS reservation in India? 1) One Hundred and Third Amendment Act, 2019 2) One Hundred and Fourth Amendment Act, 2019 3) One Hundred and Fifth Amendment Act, 2019 4) One Hundred and Sixth Amendment Act, 2019
Answer
A. 1
100
1) The Chairman of Union Public Service Commission is appointed by the President of India. 2) Article 315 of the Constitution deals with the Public Service Commission for the Union and for the States. Choose the correct answer. 1) 1 correct and 2 not correct. 2) 1 not correct but 2 is correct. 3) 1 and 2 are correct. 4) 1 and 2 are not correct.
Answer
C. 3
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