VFA Mixed Practice Test #832

Question 1

A fear of heights is called:

Accepted Answer

Acrophobia — Acrophobia = fear of heights; claustrophobia = enclosed spaces; agoraphobia = open spaces.

Answer

Claustrophobia

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Agoraphobia

Answer

Hydrophobia

Question 2

How many Fundamental Duties:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

11 — 11 (10 from 42nd Amendment + 1 from 86th).‌​‍

Answer

10

Answer

12

Answer

15

Question 3

Organisms that prepare their own food are called:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Autotrophs — Autotrophs (plants, algae, some bacteria) photo- or chemo-synthesise their food.‌​‍

Answer

Heterotrophs

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Parasites

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Saprotrophs

Question 4

Types of letters:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Formal, Informal — Formal: business, application, complaint. ‌​‍Informal: friend, family. Different tone, vocabulary, structure.

Answer

Only one

Answer

Only email

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Only formal

Question 5

Air Force Day:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

8 October — 8 October.‌​‍

Answer

15 Jan

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4 Dec

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15 Aug

Question 6

Mohs scale measures:‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Mineral hardness (1 talc to 10 diamond) — Developed by Friedrich Mohs (1812). ‌​‍Talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond.

Answer

Rock age

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Earthquake

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Density

Question 7

Longest river in Europe:

Accepted Answer

Volga — Volga.

Answer

Danube

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Rhine

Answer

Seine

Question 8

Kerala's unique physiography significantly influences its river systems. Which of the following geographical features is the primary reason for the short length, high velocity, and predominantly west-flowing nature of most rivers in the state?

Accepted Answer

B. The steep gradient of the Western Ghats on its western face, close to the Arabian Sea. — The Western Ghats rise abruptly and very close to the Arabian Sea on Kerala's western side. This steep and short slope causes rivers originating in the Ghats to flow rapidly over a short distance directly into the sea, thus making them short, swift, and predominantly west-flowing. While rainfall contributes to water volume and forests/soil influence runoff, the fundamental short and swift nature is due to the steep physiographic drop.

Answer

A. The extensive network of backwaters and estuaries along the coastal plains.

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C. The high annual rainfall concentrated during the southwest monsoon season.

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D. The prevalence of laterite soil and dense tropical evergreen forests in the midlands.

Question 9

Who is the Chairperson of Kerala State Vanitha Commission (then)?‌​‍

Accepted Answer

K.C. Rosakutty — K.C. Rosakutty was Chairperson of KSWC at the time.‌​‍

Answer

C.K. Janu

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Sugatha Kumari

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K. Ajitha

Question 10

American 'Nature' essayist (transcendentalist):‌​‍

Accepted Answer

Ralph Waldo Emerson + Thoreau ('Walden') — 19th-century. ‌​‍Self-reliance, civil disobedience (influenced Gandhi). Walden Pond simple living.

Answer

Twain

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Hemingway

Answer

Melville

VFA Mixed Practice Test #832