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• What are three kinds of anti poverty programmes?
  ক

  Social, cultural and economic reform schemes

  খ

  Nutrition, housing, job schemes

  গ

  Land reform, asset provision and income and consumption support

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  Community, state and national schemes
• What are the three main variables in socio-psychological model of child abuse?
  ক

  Stress, aggressive parent, a special child

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  A special parent, stress, a special child

  গ

  Parent, stress, child

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  Realistic parent, physical disabled child, stress
• What are three types of stigma?
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  Tribal, abominations of body, known deviation in personal traits

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  Tribal, personal, bodily

  গ

  Physical, social, tribal

  ঘ

  Stereotype, tribal, personal
• What is the estimated number of poor people according to World Bank?
  ক

  296 millions

  খ

  300 millions

  গ

  292 millions

  ঘ

  276 millions
• Which of these is not the direct effect of stigma?
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  Attributional ambiguity

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  Social rejection

  গ

  Exclusion

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  Identity threat
• Most dominating type of migration among the following is
  ক

  village to village

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  cities to villages

  গ

  village to cities

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  cities to cites
• Poverty is defined in terms of
  ক

  lack of money and standard of living

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  lack of house and education

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  lack of food and shelter

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  lack of money to afford basic needs
• What is the main characteristic of a society?<br>1. People have shared customs<br>2. An orgainsation<br>3. People have different cultures<br>4. Company of other people
  ক

  1 and 2

  খ

  3 and 4

  গ

  1 and 4

  ঘ

  1, 2 and 4
• What are the three types of speech disorder?
  ক

  Observable, natural, frequent

  খ

  Articulation, voice, frequency

  গ

  Pitch, loudness, resonance

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  Mild, moderate and profound
• What is Feminism?
  ক

  An ideology to study women related issues

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  A women related power

  গ

  A concept concerning a role and position of female in society

  ঘ

  Philosophy that holds that men and women are equal
• What are the elements surrounding gender roles?<br>1. Clothing<br>2. Speech Patterns<br>3. Occupations<br>4. Physiology
  ক

  1 and 2

  খ

  2 and 3

  গ

  3 and 4

  ঘ

  1, 2 and 3
• Who gave basic explanation to the concept of gender?
  ক

  John Money

  খ

  Henry Watson Fowler

  গ

  Tania Ehrhardt

  ঘ

  Antonin Scalia
• Inter-state Migrant Workmen Act was enacted in which year?
  ক

  1978

  খ

  1979

  গ

  1980

  ঘ

  1981
• What strategies government can use to decrease poverty?
  ক

  Tax avoidence

  খ

  Debt

  গ

  Loan

  ঘ

  Wages
• Who proposed a psychological analysis of poverty in Indian context?
  ক

  Pareek

  খ

  Ajit K Dalal

  গ

  Anand Lakshmi

  ঘ

  Dr. Girishwar Mishra
• What is the main characteristic of a social issue?
  ক

  It affects an individual

  খ

  It affects considerable number of individuals in a society

  গ

  It affects a particular group of people

  ঘ

  It affects people of a particular religion
• What is the main characteristic of cerebral palsy?
  ক

  Difficulty in motor movement

  খ

  Social deficits

  গ

  Motor deficits, rigidity, spasticity, tremors

  ঘ

  Sensory deficits
• What is Emotional Child Abuse?
  ক

  Abusing a child by pushing

  খ

  Abusing a child by discriminating

  গ

  Abusing a child by neglect

  ঘ

  Abusing a child by making him/her work
• Which of the following group fall in the category of marginalised group?
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  Scheduled caste and scheduled tribe

  খ

  Womens

  গ

  Minorities

  ঘ

  All of the above
• What are the secondary problems related to poverty?
  ক

  Slums and malnutrition

  খ

  Crime and drug addiction

  গ

  Illness and apathy

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  Urbanisation and population explosion
• According to 2012 survey, what percentage of population lives below poverty line in India?
  ক

  14%

  খ

  15%

  গ

  12%

  ঘ

  10%
• What among the following is the dimension of poverty?<br>1. Low income<br>2. Family income cannot support housing facilities for its family members<br>3. Inability to acquire basic goods and services necessary for survival with dignity<br>4. No job for family members
  ক

  1 and 2

  খ

  2 and 3

  গ

  1 and 3

  ঘ

  1, 2 and 4
• Marginalised group is denied from
  ক

  Participation

  খ

  Privilege

  গ

  Both A and B

  ঘ

  None of these
• How does relative poverty change?
  ক

  It varies from individual to individual

  খ

  It varies with the change in governance or system

  গ

  It varies from the country to country or society to society

  ঘ

  It varies according to your expenses
• What is the major occupation of city dwellers?
  ক

  Technocrats and service

  খ

  Industrial and service sector

  গ

  Traders and businessman

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  Industrial and traders
• What is a 'Stereotype'?
  ক

  Ideology

  খ

  Widely adopted thought about specific type of individuals

  গ

  Original thought

  ঘ

  Unimaginative
• What are the social consequences of gender discrimination?<br>1. Impact sex ratio<br>2. Impact health of over their lifetimes (mostly women)<br>3. Impacts social status of women<br>4. Impacts women participation at work
  ক

  1 and 2

  খ

  2 and 3

  গ

  3 and 4

  ঘ

  All of these
• Gender of a person differentiates between
  ক

  a boy and a girl

  খ

  a male and female

  গ

  masculinity and femininity

  ঘ

  man and woman
• What are two major types of ambulation disabilities?
  ক

  Origin in cerebral, origin in upper body

  খ

  Birth defect, physical defect

  গ

  Origin from brain, origin from birth

  ঘ

  Origin in cerebral, non-cerebral origin
• Who proposed Human Ecological Model of child abuse?
  ক

  Skinner

  খ

  Bandura

  গ

  Finkelhor

  ঘ

  Garbarino