Sub: Scientific Foundation Health

Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

Module 1:
1. Arrange in order step by step

a. Wash your hands with water

b. Wet your hands
c. Dry hands with towel
d. Use soap on hands and make foam
e. Rub hands properly for 20 sec
Ans. b,d,e,a,c

2. When should one wash hands?

a. Before and after having meal

b. After using toilet
c. Before preparing food
d. After playing with a pet
e. All the above
Ans. (e)

3. How long should you wash your hands?

a. 20 sec
b. 5 sec
c. 1 min
Ans. (a)

4. What is the single most effective way to prevent the transmission of disease?

a. Antibiotics
b. Hand washing with water only
c. Hand washing with soap and water
d. No way
Ans. (c)

5. How many times one should wash teeth?

a. once a day
b. Twice a day
c. Thrice a day
d. Four times
Ans. (b)
6. What is reason for drying your hands after washing them?

a. So that you don’t drip water everywhere.

b. Because germs and bacteria are more easily spread with wet hands.
c. Your hands are slippery when wet, and you will not be able to hold kitchen utensils
properly.
d. All the above.
Ans. (b)

7. Which of the following is true about bacteria?

a. Bacteria multiplies and grows faster in warm environments.

b. Bacteria needs air to survive.
c. Every type of bacteria can give people food poisoning.
d. By freezing food you can kill bacteria.
Ans. (a)

8. Which of the following does bacteria need to assist it to grow and multiply?

a. Water.
b. Food.
c. Warm temperatures.
d. All the above.
Ans. (d)

9. Viruses are:
a. Complete saprophytes
b. Partial parasites
c. Partial saprophytes
d. Total Parasites
Ans. (d)

10. Smallest form of bacteria is called:

a. Vibrio
b. Cocci
c. Bacilli
d. Spirilla
Ans. (b)

11. Which one of the following disease caused by bacteria:

a. Tuber culosis
b. Mumps
c. Small Pox
d. Rabies
Ans. (a)
 12. Expanded form of HIV is:

a. Human immune virus

b. Human immunity deficiency virus
c. Human Immuno deficiency virus
d. None of these
Ans. (c)

13. Normal temperature of human body is:

a. 40.5 degree Fahrenheit

b. 36.9 degree Fahrenheit
c. 98.4 degree Fahrenheit
d. 82.4 degree Fahrenheit
Ans. (c)

14. Strongest muscles of man found in:

a. Wrist
b. Finger
c. Jaw
d. Leg
Ans. (c)

15. Which one of the following is a water borne disease?

a. Influenza
b. Small pox
c. Malaria
d. Cholera
Ans. (d)

16. Which ministry initiated the Swachch Bharat Mission?

a. Ministry of Environment and forest

b. Ministry of Urban Development Housing
c. Ministry of Urban development
d. Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation
Ans.(d)

17. The World Health Day is celebrated on ________.

a. 1st March
b. 7th April
c. 6th October
d. 10th December.
18. WHO Means.
a. World House Organization.
b. World Hunting Organization.
c. World Health Organization.
d. None of the above.

19. Which of the following is a hereditary disease?

a. Rabies
b. Colour blindness
c. Polio
d. Small pox.

20. The breathing rate in human beings is

a. 36 per minute
b. 12 to 20 per minute
c. 72 per minute
d. 20 to 30 per minute.

21. Cleanliness, physical exercise, rest and sleep are a part of ________.
a. Hygiene
b. Social hygiene
c. Personal hygiene
d. None of the above.

22. Which one of the following is an unhealthy habit?

a. Sharing food
b. Bathing twice a day
c. Drinking boiled water
d. Eating without washing one’s hand.

23. Which of the following factors is necessary for a healthy person?

a. Vaccination
b. Balanced diet
c. Personal hygiene
d. All of the above.

24. Which of the following statements is correct?

 a. Health promotion can refer to any event, process or activity that facilitates the
protection or improvement of the health status of individuals, groups, communities or
populations.
b. The objective of health promotion is to prolong life and to improve quality of life.
c. Health promotion practice is often shaped by how health is conceptualized.
d. All of these.

25. This approach to health promotion is based on the assumption that humans are
rational decision-makers, this approach relies heavily upon the provision of information
about risks and benefits of certain behaviors.

a. Behavior change approach

b. Community development approach
c. Biomedical approach
d. None of these.

26. ______ refers to the application of consumer-oriented marketing techniques in the

design, implementation and evaluation of programmes aimed towards influencing
behavior change.

a. Health education
b. Social marketing
c. Consumer health
d. None of these.

27. Which of the following approaches to community psychology aim to connect intra-
community processes with the broader socio-political context?

a. Behaviourist approach
b. Accomodationist approach
c. Critical approach
d. None of these.

28. The challenges faced, and the long term advantages of change, influence which part
of the Health Belief model?

a. Perceived benefits
b. Perceived threats
c. Perceived efficacy
d. Perceived opportunity.

29. What is this the definition of: Belief in one’s own ability to organize and execute a
course of action, and the expectation that the action will result in, or lead to, a desired
outcome?

a. Self-efficacy
b. Self-belief
 c. Self-direction
d. Self-motivation.

30. When it comes to determining health behaviour, what are situational factors?

a. The context in which people live their life

b. Individual differences in personality and psychology that stay the same over time
c. Connections with others in the immediate environment
d. Appraisal of whether something is relevant to you at a moment in time.

31. A person with which emotional disposition is least likely to successfully make health
behaviour changes?

a. Openness to new experience

b. Conscientiousness
c. Agreeableness
d. Neuroticism.

32. Which are intimately related?

a. Disease and health

b. Body and health
c. Body and mind
d. Body and spiritual values.

33. Signs of mental illness are

a. Abnormal changes in thinking, perception and judgement

b. Abnormal changes in feeling and memory
c. Both A and B
d. Abnormal changes in behaviour towards others.

34. A person is mentally sick if one is

a. Worried
b. With moods fluctuating between depression and elation
c. Excessively happy
d. Extra talkative.

35. Which one is not involved in mental illness.

a. Hereditary factors
b. Childhood experiences
c. Changes in brain
d. Rheumatic fever.

36. Social therapy of mental illness is required for

 a. Treatment of psychosis
b. Maintenance of community health
c. Rehabilitation of mentally ill persons
d. Prevention of addiction.

37. Mental health is a state of development of one’s.

a. Personality
b. Emotional attitude
c. Both A and B
d. Intellect.

38. Headquarter of World Health Organisation (WHO) is located at

a. New York
b. Geneva
c. London
d. Paris.

39. A thrust area in community health is

a. Prevention and control of communicable diseases

b. Prevention of blindness
c. Maternal and child health
d. School health services.

40. Community health service includes.

a. School and health education

b. Hygienic environment
c. Control of communicable diseases
d. All the above.

41. Each study in health psychology uses a specific participant or patient population (P),
an intervention or issue of interest (I), a ______ (C) and an outcome of interest (O) or
‘PICO’.

a. Comparison of interest
b. Condition of interest
c. Consequence of interest
d. Correlation of interest.
 Module 2:
1. How can you tell if food has enough bacteria to cause food poisoning?

a. It will smell.
b. You can’t, it will appear normal.
c. It will have a different colour.
d. It will taste different.
Ans. (b)

2. Which of the following type of teeth is used for grinding food?

a. Molar
b. Incisor
c. Canine
d. Milk teeth
Ans. (a)

3. What element is added to water to prevent tooth decay?

a. Chlorine
b. Fluoride
c. Sugar
d. None of these
Ans. (b)

4. Which one of the following gases plays a decisive role in affecting the climate of
earth?

a. Oxygen
b. Nitrogen
c. Carbondioxide
d. Hydrogen
Ans. (c)

5. Which fruit is rich in potassium?

a. Banana
b. Orange
c. Pear
d. Mango
Ans. (a)

6. Which one of the following, acts like a fuel in driving the body?

a. Carbohydrates
b. Vitamin
c. Fats
d. Water
Ans. (a)

7. What is a balanced diet?

A diet with lots of fruit.
B. diet with lots of milk.
C. diet that contains a variety of foods in adequate amounts.
D. Not eating takeaways.

8. Some examples of calcium-rich foods are:

A. Apricots and plums.
B. Avocadoes.
C. Dairy foods.
D. Chicken and pork.

9. Which of the following is NOT a dairy product?

A. Milk.
B. Yoghurt.
C. Cream cheese.
D. Eggs.

10. Fruit and vegetables are important because:

A. They give you energy.
B. They provide you with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and nutrients.
C. They are colourful.
D. They are easily available.

11. Foods containing starch and carbohydrates are important because:

A. They help you grow.
B. They stop you getting overweight.
C. They are easy to cook.
D. They give you energy, fill you up and keep you regular.

12. Meat, fish and legumes such as chickpeas and kidney beans provide the following
important nutrient:
A. Carbohydrate.
B. Protein.
C. Sugar.
D. Fibre.

13. A good way to ensure vegetarians get enough iron is to:

A. Do more exercise.
B. Eat more bread.
C. Drink orange juice when they eat spinach.
D. Combine potatoes with nuts.