Comprehension interview questions

Government contributed to the Consumer Protection Movement by

1. enactment of the Consumer Protection Act
2. setting by infrastructure
3. clearing the backlog cases in the consumer court
4. toning up a district level redressal machinery

Spreading Consumer Protection Movement to the rural areas needs

1. message to be conveyed by village bodies
2. consumer organization to canvass this
3. official patronage
4. a multi-media approach

Role of consumer bodies is

1. to exercise social control over the market
2. to make a plea of industry to exercise self control
3. to function as a watchdog
4. to maintain minimum standards of quality

What should be the ultimate objective of political education?

1. To prepare students with high intellectual acumen.
2. To create an egalitarian society.
3. To bring quantitative change in the entire education system.
4. To foster all round growth of elitism.

According to the passage, what is the main contribution of Mahatma Gandhi to the field of political education?

1. He made us believe that our political end should be compatible with the means.
2. He emphasized the need of keeping education free from political interference.
3. He taught us agitational and anarchic politics in a disciplined manner.
4. He spread ‘political literacy’ among the people through non formal political education.

What was the policy of the ruling party regarding political education immediately after independence?

1. Political education should not be devoid of socio-economic realities.
2. Press should take up the responsibility of imparting political education.
3. Political education should be imparted through formal means.
4. Education should keep itself clean of politics.

The leading industrialist attributes industrial sickness mainly to

1. lack of foresight among managers.
2. higher profits and larger dividends to shareholders.
3. preoccupations of managers with matters unrelated to business.
4. lacunae in five year plans.

According to the passage, growth and increasing productivity lead to

1. disproportionate surplus of commodities.
2. encouragement to export of excess consumer goods.
3. employment and thus provide an outlet to industrial and consumer products.
4. imposition of restrictions on imports.

Why did Henry Ford stress the need for a more stable middle class?

1. They are mostly service oriented.
2. They can afford to buy more and more expensive goods.
3. They are most unstable.
4. They do not have shopkeeper mentality.

The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years implies

1. Five year period is too short for successful implementation of plans.
2. Planning should take care of all probable ups and downs in the next five year period.
3. The planning process is very time consuming.
4. Planning should not be for a period of less than five years.

Consumer Protection Act proposes to give the consumer protection against

1. cheating by selling substandard goods
2. denial of relief if the product is not up to the mark
3. highly priced substandard goods
4. not getting his money’s worth

Which of the following statements is not true?

1. Political parties provide proper political education.
2. Freedoom struggle helped educate people politically.
3. The spirit of patriotism is on the verge of extinction.
4. We do not have courage to fight on basic issues.

How has politics been related to educational institutions after independence?

1. There was substantial interference without political support.
2. They got political support cost of political interference.
3. They got almost no political support as well as political interference.
4. They got political support devoid of political interference.

According to the passage, political education in the real sense should

1. strengthen the traditional and feudal elements of the society.
2. make political parties aware of the need of major educational reforms.
3. develop people who will be committed to bring social change.
4. impede the process of creating an ideal society.

Which of the following is true in the context of the passage?

1. The Indian press has been under the influence of privileged groups.
2. Real political education should aim at creating an elitist society.
3. British rulers wanted Indian education system to be influenced by politics.
4. Academic institutions receive genuine political support.

“To throw out of currency” means

1. put out of use
2. extinguish
3. forget
4. destroy

The world keeps its books with care because

1. they educate us
2. they bring great ideas to us
3. they help us in various spheres of life
4. they make us successful

The recent rapid growth of industry has, in some cases, been so excessive that too much manufacturing capacity has been developed in some fields of production, which forces companies to sell their surplus products in world markets at prices lower than normal. This will make it almost impossible to develop local industries producing the same items because consumers will prefer to buy the cheaper imported product.<br> Imported product as used in the last product refers to

1. surplus product manufactured by foreign country and sold at a normal price
2. product of a foreign country available at a below normal price
3. product sold to such other country which can’t locally manufacture it
4. product manufactured locally but of export quality

According to the passage, the situation resulting from the rapid industrial growth is

1. conducive to the growth of local industries
2. disastrous to the exporters
3. favourable to the manufactures
4. none of these

Why it is necessary for companies to sell products at cheaper prices?

1. the demand has been lowered significantly
2. the local industries also manufacture the same product
3. the cost of production has been considerably low
4. none of these

From the passage, Bansilal emerges as

1. a thrifty person
2. an extravagant spender
3. an adventure seeking person
4. a fun loving person

The night long in the open.

1. refreshed Bansilal
2. gave him aches all over his body
3. made his limbs stronger
4. did not affect him at all

The porter refused to help Bansilal because

1. he was rude to the porter
2. he had no previous acquaintance with the porter
3. he spoke a language which the porter could not understand
4. he refused to pay the porter any tips

According to the passage, education is

1. the development of moral standards
2. the substitution of old tradition with new ones
3. the sharpening of wits
4. tapping and encouraging the inherent values in man

The culture of a community is said to deteriorate when

1. it adopts the modern system of instruction
2. there is universal education
3. the family life fails to play its part
4. there is a fall in its educational standards

The passage suggest that universal education

1. would prevent us from transmitting culture to the future generation
2. would help retain the cultural values
3. is the solution to the problems in the modern world
4. is in fact, aggravating the existing problems of the modern world

The culture of a community is transmitted

1. by the peer group
2. equally by both
3. more by the family than school
4. more by school than the family

What does the passage say about successful journalists?

1. they present advance news
2. their news come from unexpected sources
3. they can use a relatively small portion of the news
4. they reject a major portion of the gathered news.

What, according to the passage, is the common characteristic of all journalists?

1. they all can forecast future news
2. they all make an adventure to find a worthy news
3. they all have to first probe into the news they gather
4. they all write for the newspapers

What is the basic requisite for exclusive and exhaustive coverage of newspapers?

1. effective style of writing
2. selection of a small portion of the gathered news
3. collecting the news of a ‘real scoop’
4. forecast of tomorrow’s news from today’s news