MCQ Bank
Different worlds that mass media creates or builds whether it’s about family, politics, culture or any other aspect of life are called as _________________.
- A) Constructed world
- B) Relative worlds
- C) Absolute worlds
- D) Superior worlds
The traditional cultural values of Western society are degenerating under the influences of following options except:
- A) Commercialization of culture
- B) Impact of mass media
- C) Impact of politics
- D) Corporate politics
Income inequality is a ________________ measure of poverty.
- A) Extreme
- B) Relative
- C) Moderate
- D) Absolute
_________________ is the myth that the individual will be gratified and integrated by consuming.
- A) Fundamentalism
- B) Terrorism
- C) Extremism
- D) Consumerism
EU stands for:
- A) European Unification
- B) European Unit
- C) European University
- D) European Union
In international development and public policy literature, poverty is _________________.
- A) Economic deprivation
- B) Economic development
- C) Social development
- D) Social deprivation
In many developed countries the official definition of poverty used for statistical purposes is based on:
- A) Absolute income
- B) Relative income
- C) National income
- D) Minimum income
Even in the richest country of the world i.e. USA, the poorest are _______ caring for children.
- A) Old people
- B) Men
- C) Both men and old people
- D) Women
“FAIR” stands for in which of the following?
- A) Fearless allocation in reporting
- B) Facts and actuality in reporting
- C) Fairness and accuracy in reporting
- D) Fuss and adequacy in reporting
Canadians are also heavily influenced by:
- A) Italian programming
- B) French programming
- C) Russian programming
- D) American programming
Somalia and USA are the only two countries in the world that have not ratified the Convention on the ------------------------.
- A) Rights of the People
- B) Rights of the Labour
- C) Rights of the Women
- D) Rights of the Child
The illicit trafficking in small arms is a ------------------ phenomenon.
- A) Regional
- B) National
- C) Local
- D) Trans-national
_____________ offers only short term ego-gratification to those who can afford the luxury and frustration to those who cannot.
- A) Consumerism
- B) Extremism
- C) Radicalism
- D) Communication
Which of the following is the main international body dedicated to the rights of every child?
- A) United Nations Children's Fund
- B) United Nations Child Fund
- C) United Nations Children's Financer
- D) United Nations Children's Foundation
In 2001, the International Federation of Journalists reported that around the world, 38 per cent of all working journalists are:
- A) Political workers
- B) Women
- C) Men
- D) Social workers
______________ boosts ecosystem productivity, where every species no matter how small has an important role to play.
- A) Biodiversity
- B) Greenhouse effect
- C) Natural disasters
- D) Global warming
In the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the value of the global illicit drug market for the year 2003 was estimated at -------------------- at the production level.
- A) US$17 billion
- B) US$12 billion
- C) US$10 billion
- D) US$13 billion
In Asia, women account for around _________ of food production.
- A) 40 percent
- B) 50 percent
- C) 30 percent
- D) 51 percent
Which of the following are the two key periods in many women’s lives in which the harmful effects of both poverty and inequality can combine?
- A) Motherhood and Old Age
- B) Motherhood and Young Age
- C) Motherhood and Teen Age
- D) Motherhood and Middle Age
By the middle of 2000, over ______________ had signed and ratified UNFCCC.
- A) 195 countries
- B) 179 countries
- C) 180 countries
- D) 200 countries