PSC MODEL QUESTIONS-63

Q 1- Permanent hardness of water may be removed by the addition of:

1.Alum

2.Sodium Carbonate

3.Lime

4.Potassium Permanganate

 Answer:-2

Q 2 -The ratio of pure gold in 18 carat gold is:

1.60%

2.75%

3.80%

4.85%

 Answer:-2

Q 3 -Television was invented by:

1.Faraday

2. L. Baird

3.Edison

4.Marconi

Answer:-2

Q 4 – The electric filament of the bulbs is made up of:

1.Copper

2.Iron

3.Aluminium

4.Tungsten

 Answer:-4

Q 5- The most commonly used bleaching agent is:

1.Alcohol

2.Calcium Chloride

3.Chlorine

4.Sodium chloride

 Answer:-3

Q 6 -Newton is the unit of:

1.Work

2.Energy

3.Force

4.Acceleration

 Answer:-3

Q 7 -The ‘solder’ used in connecting electronic circuits consists of;

1.Lead and tin

2.Tin and iron

3.Copper and lead

4.Lead and aluminium

Answer:-1

Q 8 -The mammal capable of flying is:

1.Jaguar

2.Ostrich

3.Pelican

4.Bat

 Answer:-4

Q 9 -When milk is churned, the cream separates from it due to the:

1.cohesive force

2.frictional force

3.centrifugal force

4.gravitational force

 Answer:-3

Q 10 -A body in circular motion requires:

1.centrifugal force

2.centripetal force

3.inertial force

4.gravitational force

Answer:-2

Q 11 -The rising of ink to the point of nib in a fountain pen is due to:

1.surface tension

2.capillary action

3.gravitational attraction

4.None of the above

Answer:-2

Q 12 -As one goes up the mountain one suffers from nose bleeding sometimes. The reason is that

1.blood pressure decreases at high altitudes

2.blood pressure increases at high altitudes

3.as one starts going up, the pressure of the blood capillaries becomes higher than the outside pressure

4.None of the above

 Answer:-3

Q 13 -The inner lining of stomach is protected by one of the following from the harmful effect of hydrochloric acid. This is:

1.pepsin

2.mucus

3.saliva

4.bile

Answer:-2

Q 14-In coming years skin related disorders will become more common due to :

1.Excessive use of detergents

2.Water pollution

3.Air pollution

4.Depletion of ozone layer

 Answer:-4

Q 15 -The study of Earthquakes is known as:

1.Ecology

2.Titanology

3.Seismology

4.None of these

Answer:-3

PSC MODEL QUESTIONS-61

ROMEO AND JULIET

1.What is the name of the woman Romeo is infatuated with before he meets Juliet?

Answer: Rosaline

When the play begins, Romeo is devastated by his unrequited love for Rosaline, who never appears onstage. Then Romeo meets Juliet and forgets all about Rosaline.

2.Which play is Shakespeare generally believed to have written simultaneously (or nearly simultaneously) with Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Both plays were written around 1595, and, despite the fact that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy, scholars have noted similarities in the structure and themes of the two plays.

3.Fill in the blank: “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like _____________, / Which as they kiss consume.”

A.Fire and power

B.Salt and Pepper

C.Good and evil

D.Fire and Water

Answer: Fire and powder

Friar Laurence: “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness / And in the taste confounds the appetite: / Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” (Act II, Scene VI)

4.Which character gives a famous speech about a fairy named Queen Mab?

Answer: Mercutio

Queen Mab, Mercutio says, drives a tiny wagon over sleeping people, causing them to have dreams.

5.To which city does Romeo flee after he is banished for killing Tybalt?

Answer: Mantua

Friar Laurence and Juliet come up with a plan to stage Juliet’s death so that she can escape from marrying Paris and live with Romeo in Mantua.

6.Which of the following composers did not write music based on Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tchaikovsky wrote an orchestral overture, Prokofiev wrote a ballet, and Bernstein wrote West Side Story.

7.How old is Juliet when the action of the play takes place?

Answer: 13

The Nurse says in Act I, Scene III, that Juliet will turn 14 on Lammas-eve, which is July 31.

8.Why is Friar John unable to deliver a letter to Romeo informing him of Friar Laurence and Juliet’s plan to simulate Juliet’s death?

Answer: He is quarantined for the plague

By the time Friar John returns to tell Friar Laurence that he couldn’t deliver the letter, Romeo has already been told that Juliet is dead.

9.In which of the following works of literature is the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues briefly mentioned?

Answer: The Divine Comedy

The sixth canto of the Purgatorio mentions a conflict between the Montecchi, a Ghibelline family from Verona, and the Cappelletti, a Guelf family from Cremona.

PSC MODEL QUESTIONS-60

RUSSIAN LITERATURE

1.Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?

Answer: Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Goncharov is best known for Oblomov, a novel that was so influential it spawned the term oblomovshchina, which epitomizes the backwardness and futility of 19th-century Russian society.

2.What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?

Answer: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy’s iconic novel opens with the line “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” which sets up the themes of the two marital narratives in the work.

3.What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?

Answer: Dead Souls

One of the most significant works in the history of Russian literature, Dead Souls was one of the foundational texts of 19th-century Russian realism.

4.Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?

Answer: Invitation to a Beheading

While his most famous novels, such as Lolita and Pale Fire, were written in English, Vladimir Nabokov composed a number of works in Russian before he relocated to the United States in 1941, including this piece concerning the surreal final days of the prisoner Cincinnatus C.

5.What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?

Answer: Rodion Raskolnikov

One of the classics of Russian literature, Crime and Punishment follows the evolution of guilt within Raskolnikov, a poor student who kills two elderly women at the outset of the novel.

6.Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?

Answer: The Lower Depths

Chekhov wrote a number of classic plays but not The Lower Depths, which was written by Maxim Gorky.

7.One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?

Answer: Anna Akhmatova

While she did manage to survive the many purges of intellectuals that Stalin undertook, political pressure still kept Akhmatova from publishing any of her work for 17 years.

8.Which philosophy does Bazarov, the central character of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, subscribe to?

Answer: Nihilism

Bazarov is one of the first and best-known literary characters who is a nihilist, denying the validity of all laws save those of the natural sciences.

9.Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?

Answer: Aleksandr Pushkin

Behind the diverse landmark works such as the poem Ruslan and Ludmila, the play Boris Godunov, and the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin, Pushkin launched Russian literature into its golden era during the 1800s.

10.Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?

Answer: Pontius Pilate and Jesus

The main plot of The Master and Margarita concerns the devil showing up in the atheistic Soviet Union, but a parallel plot is found in the novel that the Master (himself a Christ symbol) is writing during that action, which follows Pontius Pilate and Jesus.

PSC MODEL QUESTIONS-59

1.What is the most notable feature of a pelican?

Answer: bill

The most notable part of a pelican is its bill, which is so long that the bird sometimes rests it upon its breast or curved neck.

2.What do flamingos eat?

Answer: seafood

The flamingo feeds on mollusks (snails, clams, and squid) and crustaceans (lobster, shrimp, crabs, and water fleas). It strains the food from muddy water by using its beak, which acts as a filter.

3.A quetzal is a kind of:

Answer: bird

A quetzal is a kind of bird that lives in Central America. Its brilliantly colored tail feathers can reach 60 centimeters in length.

4.Which of these animals swims in an upright position?

Answer: sea horse

The sea horse has a head and neck shaped like a horse’s, and it swims in an upright position.

5.Which of these is found in carnivorous animals?

Answer: carnassial

The carnassial is a sharp premolar tooth found in carnivorous animals.

6.Which of these is not a kind of fish tail?

Answer: hypercritical

Fish tails are heterocercal (two uneven lobes), homocercal (even lobes), or diphycercal (ending in a point).

7.How many times is the largest fish larger than the smallest fish?

Answer: 1,800 times

The smallest fish is the goby, usually less than 10 millimeters long. The whale shark is the largest of all fish. It can grow as large as 18 meters long.

8.Which of the following is not a marsupial?

Answer: badger

Marsupials are mammals that carry their young in a pouch. Kangaroos, koalas, and wombats are Australian marsupials.

9.In some parts of the world, mysterious deaths of which creatures threaten agriculture?

Answer: bees

Little-understood conditions have killed off vast numbers of bee hives in North America, threatening, for example, some nut and melon crops.

10.Which group includes the proboscideans, metatherians, chiropterans, and cetaceans?

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Mammals

These four groups are examples of some of the several prominent subcategories of mammals. Proboscidea is made up of living elephants and their ancestors. Metatheria contains the marsupials. Chiroptera is the name of the group that encompasses all of the world’s bats. Cetacea comprises the aquatic group of mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

11.In geologic time, the Devonian Period is also known as the age of which group?”

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Fishes

The Devonian Period is sometimes called the “Age of Fishes” because of the diverse, abundant, and, in some cases, bizarre types of these creatures that swam Devonian seas.

12.Which group is made up of chondrichthians, agnathans, and osteichthyians?

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Fishes

Chondrichthyes, Agnatha, and Osteichthyes are the names of the prominent subcategories of fishes. The chondrichthians are the cartilaginous fishes (the sharks, skates, and rays), the agnathans are the jawless fishes (the hagfishes and lampreys), and the osteichthyians are the bony fishes.

13.In which group does the quadrate bone separate the lower jaw from the skull?

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Fishes

The mammalian lower jaw is hinged directly to the skull, instead of through a separate bone (the quadrate) as in all other vertebrates. A chain of three tiny bones transmits sound waves across the middle ear.

14.The smallest living members of which group weigh under 1 gram (0.04 ounce) whereas the largest can weigh about 180 metric tons (about 200 short tons)?

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Mammals

Living mammals range in size from a bat weighing less than a gram and tiny shrews weighing but a few grams to the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which reaches a length of more than 30 meters (100 feet) and a weight of about 180 metric tons (about 200 short [U.S.] tons).

15.Which are warm-blooded, have hair, and have young that are nourished with milk from their mother’s mammary glands?

A. Mammals

B. Fishes

Answer: Mammals

Probably the most-significant defining mammal characteristic is the ability of mothers to nurse their young with milk from their mammary glands.