Deck 12: Education and Population: Programs, Policies, and Concerns

Question 1

Total literacy campaign, post literacy and continuing education programmes are the major programmes undertaken by

A)National Adult Education Programme
B)Central Advisory Board of Education
C)National Literacy Mission
D)Population education

Answer 1

National Literacy Mission

Question 2

Providing functional literacy training with life skills, orientation to self-employment and income generated skills to poor young people is a significant programme of

A)Non-formal education
B)Informal education
C)Basic education
D)Value-oriented education

Answer 2

Non-formal education

Question 3

In Russia, the concept of "adult education" initially was termed as

A)Social education
B)Fundamental education
C)People's education
D)Basic education

Answer 3

People's education

Question 4

A voluntary mode of education in which education is decentralized and students can take up their choice of interest is

A)Non-formal education
B)Informal education
C)Social education
D)Family education

Question 5

To enable illiterate women to acquire functional skills along with literacy, to promote better awareness of health, hygiene, child__________care practices and to bring out attitudinal changes is the scheme of

A)Functional Literacy for Adult Women (FLAW)
B)Jana Shikshan Nilayan (JSN)
C)Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
D)Indira Mahila Yojna (IMY)

Question 6

The main aim of population education is to make people aware of the importance of__________

A)Family planning
B)Population control
C)Preparing young people for adult life
D)All of the above

Question 7

________is a programme which studies the various situations that emerges everywhere in family, nation and in the world due to population growth.

A)Population Explosion
B)Population Education
C)Family Planning methods
D)All of the above

Question 8

Which among the following is called sex ratio?

A)Number of females per thousand male
B)Number of females per hundred male
C)The study of population growth
D)Difference between birth rate and death rates

Question 9

A large proportion of children in a population is a result of;

A)High birth rate
B)High death rate
C)High life expectancies
D)More married couples

Question 10

When did the National Population Policy come into effect?

A)2001
B)1947
C)1952
D)2000

Question 11

The main cause for the high growth of our population is

A)Rise in death rate
B)Decrease in birth rate
C)Decline of death rate
D)None of these

Question 12

Which of the following is a major concern of study about the population of a country?

A)Population size and distribution
B)Population growth and processes of population change
C)Characteristics or qualities of the population
D)All of the above

Question 13

Which is the most populous state of India?

A)Maharashtra
B)Uttar Pradesh
C)Madhya Pradesh
D)Rajasthan

Question 14

The number of people in different age groups is referred as

A)Sex ratio
B)Age composition
C)Adolescent population
D)Occupational structure

Question 15

Which of the following is the most significant features of the Indian population?

A)Declining birth rate
B)Improvement in the literacy level
C)The size of its adolescent population
D)Improvement in health conditions

Question 16

Sex Education must be given judiciously according to__________

A)The maturity level of the child
B)The age of the child
C)Both
D)None

Question 17

Sex education is also known as

A)Adolescence education
B)Sex-oriented education
C)Education for the youth
D)Gender-based education

Question 18

When should sex education start?

A)Before puberty
B)Before established patterns of behaviours
C)Both
D)None of these

Question 19

'Education without character, leads to criminality' who said this?

A)Ishwarbhai Patel
B)Gandhi
C)J. Dewey
D)Rousseau

Question 20

Educational actions aimed at the development of proper attitudes, emotions and behavior pattern of learner deal in

A)Sex education
B)SUPW
C)Value education
D)Population education

Question 21

According to census 2011, what was the population growth rate of India from 2001 to 2011?

A)7.28%
B)21.8%
C)11.25%
D)17.72%

Question 22

The number of people living in a particular area at a particular point in time is known as the _____ of that area

A)Population density
B)Population distribution
C)Population
D)Population growth

Question 23

The magnitude of population growth refers to

A)The total population of an area
B)The rate at which the population increase
C)The number of persons added each year
D)The number of females per thousand males

Question 24

Value based education tries to develop in students in the aspects of

A)Physique and mentality
B)Mentality and character
C)Physique, mentality and character
D)Mentality, character and emotion

Question 25

Value education should be introduced at the level of

A)Pre schooling stage
B)Middle school stage
C)Primary school stage
D)Secondary stage