HSA Mixed Practice Test #94

Question 1

Longest river in Europe:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Volga — Volga.‌​‍

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Seine

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Rhine

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Danube

Question 2

Kerala Lottery first:

Accepted Answer

1967 — State lottery started 1967.

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1970

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1957

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1980

Question 3

One word: Life story by someone else:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Biography — Biography.‌​‍

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Memoir

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Autobiography

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Diary

Question 4

The Harappan port city with a dockyard was:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Lothal (Gujarat) — Lothal had the world's earliest known dockyard (~2400 BCE).‌​‍

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Harappa

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Mohenjo-Daro

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Dholavira

Question 5

The appendix is a small, finger-shaped organ projecting from the large intestine. Its typical anatomical location is most commonly found in which abdominal region?

Accepted Answer

D. Right lower quadrant — The appendix is a vestigial organ attached to the cecum, the beginning of the large intestine, which is typically located in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. Inflammation of the appendix (appendicitis) often presents with pain in this region.

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A. Left upper quadrant

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B. Right upper quadrant

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C. Left lower quadrant

Question 6

Tuberculosis bacillus discovered by:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch — Robert Koch (1882).‌​‍

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Pasteur

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Jenner

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Fleming

Question 7

'Each of the boys (A) have (B) completed (C) their work (D).' Error is in:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

B — 'Each' is singular → 'has' not 'have'. ‌​‍Correct: 'Each of the boys has completed his work.'

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A

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C

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D

Question 8

Repetition of the initial consonant sound in neighbouring words is:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Alliteration — Alliteration: 'Peter Piper picked...', 'wild and windy'.‌​‍

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Rhyme

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Personification

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Metaphor

Question 9

The District Collector is appointed by:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Central Government — The District Collector is an IAS officer appointed by the Central Government (through UPSC selection) and posted by the State Government.‌​‍

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State Government

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Governor directly

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District Panchayat

Question 10

Who implemented the Permanent Land Revenue Settlement (1793) in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa?‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Lord Cornwallis — The Permanent Settlement of 1793 under Cornwallis fixed zamindars as tax collectors in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa.‌​‍

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Holt Mackenzie

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Lord Dalhousie

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Thomas Munro

HSA Mixed Practice Test #94