LDC Mixed Practice Test #261

Question 1

Synonym of EXONERATE:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Acquit — Exonerate = absolve from blame.‌​‍

Answer

Convict

Answer

Punish

Answer

Blame

Question 2

The Election Commission of India was established on:

Accepted Answer

25 January 1950 — ECI established on 25 January 1950; celebrated as National Voters' Day.

Answer

15 August 1947

Answer

26 January 1950

Answer

15 August 1950

Question 3

Modernist novelist — stream of consciousness:

Accepted Answer

James Joyce (Ulysses), Virginia Woolf — Interior monologue technique. Also Faulkner ('The Sound and the Fury'). Early 20th century modernism.

Answer

Dickens

Answer

Hemingway

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Shakespeare

Question 4

New Parliament inaugurated:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

28 May 2023 — 28 May 2023.‌​‍

Answer

15 Aug 2023

Answer

28 May 2022

Answer

28 May 2024

Question 5

A Headmaster of a government upper primary school needs guidance on implementing a new academic support program for students within their educational sub-district. Which education officer is primarily responsible for providing academic supervision and guidance to schools at the sub-district level in Kerala?

Accepted Answer

B. Assistant Educational Officer (AEO) — The Assistant Educational Officer (AEO) is the primary authority responsible for academic supervision and administration of lower primary and upper primary schools within a specific educational sub-district. The DEO/DDE operates at the district level, overseeing high schools and the AEOs. The State Project Director manages state-level programs, not sub-district academic guidance.

Answer

A. District Educational Officer (DEO)

Answer

C. Deputy Director of Education (DDE)

Answer

D. State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Kerala

Question 6

Synonym of 'vigorous':‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Energetic — Vigorous = strong, energetic, robust.‌​‍

Answer

Tired

Answer

Slow

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Weak

Question 7

Feminine of 'bachelor':

Accepted Answer

spinster — Spinster.

Answer

bachelorette

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maiden

Answer

widow

Question 8

Only PM from South:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Narasimha Rao — P.V. Narasimha Rao — Andhra Pradesh. Deve Gowda (Karnataka) also counted.‌​‍

Answer

Rajaji

Answer

Morarji

Answer

Deve Gowda

Question 9

A young woman presents with changeable symptoms: a cough that is dry at night and loose in the morning, shifting pains in joints, and a desire for open air. She is mild, gentle, weeps easily, and is thirstless. What is the most indicated remedy?

Accepted Answer

C. Pulsatilla — Pulsatilla is characterized by changeable symptoms, a mild, gentle, yielding disposition, weeping easily, a desire for open air, and thirstlessness. Sepia is indifferent and desires solitude. Ignatia has paradoxical symptoms and grief. Natrum muriaticum has grief but is reserved and worse from consolation.

Answer

A. Sepia

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B. Ignatia

Answer

D. Natrum muriaticum

Question 10

Value of sin 30°:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

1/2 — Common angles: sin 0=0, sin 30=1/2, sin 45=1/√2, sin 60=√3/2, sin 90=1. ‌​‍cos reverses.

Answer

√3/2

Answer

1

Answer

0

LDC Mixed Practice Test #261