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Which Indian won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace?

A) Kailash Satyarthi B) Malala Yousufzai
C) Sanjiv Chaturvedi D) Anshu Gupta
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Kailash Satyarthi

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Family is important to the socialization process because:

A) parents greatly affect a child's self-concept. B) families give children social identity in terms of class, ethnicity, and religion.
C) family members are often what Mead called "significant others." D) All of the above are correct.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) families give children social identity in terms of class, ethnicity, and religion.

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Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow is called

A) Drizzle B) Hail
C) Sleet D) Snow
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sleet

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Which of the following are constitutional provisions and laws for the protection of the rights of the Scheduled Castes in India?

1.Article 17 of the Constitution of India

2.The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955

3.The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

 

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

 

A) 1 and 3 only B) 1 and 2 only
C) 1, 2 and 3  D) 2 and 3 only
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1, 2 and 3 

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Protective arrangements: Such measures as are required to enforce equality, to provide punitive measures for transgressions, to eliminate established practices that perpetuate inequities, etc.A number of laws were enacted to implement the provisions in the Constitution. Examples of such laws include The Untouchability Practices Act, 1955, Scheduled Casteand Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, etc. Despite legislation, social discrimination and atrocities against the backward castes continued topersist

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us

 

 

A) infinite B) innumerable
C) incalculable D) multiple
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) innumerable

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Trickle down theory ignores the impact of economic growth on

A) Investment B) Savings
C) Income distribution D) consumption
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Income distribution

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Which of the following organs produces the enzyme lipase?

A) Pancreas B) Large Intestine
C) Liver D) Small Intestine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Pancreas

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A section of DNA that provides information for one protein is called the ___.

A) lysosome B) gene
C) chromosome D) nucleus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) gene

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