MCQ Bank
The result of an empirical research project is its heart but it takes up very ___________ portion of the whole report.
- A) Small
- B) Large
- C)
- D)
Which of the following parts of a report includes letters of transmittal and authorization?
- A) Supplementary
- B) Body
- C) Prefatory
- D) Terminal
Fill in the blank by selecting correct subordinate conjunction.
____________ he left, he made sure he had his keys with him.
- A) As far as
- B) As soon as
- C) Before
- D) For
Which of the following suggests a plan of action based on findings and conclusions?
- A) Discussions
- B) None of the above
- C) Results
- D) Recommendations
How do readers want to use the information in general reports?
- A) Through social, personal and organizational problem
- B) None of the above
- C) Through social, economic and psychological problem
- D) Through official, legal and interpersonal problem
Choose the correct option from the following:
In report writing the summaries are often called executive summaries because they are usually addressed to……….
- A) Advisors
- B) Decision-makers
- C) Implementers
- D) All of above
Making a strong statement at the beginning of a report may be misconstrued as arrogance.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
Supplementary part of a report include _________________.
- A) All of the above
- B) Bibliography
- C) Glossary and Index
- D) Appendix
Which method is a bottom-up or generative approach to research?
- A) Deductive method
- B) Hypothesis method
- C) Inductive method
- D) Pattern method
In the ----- of a report, present the main pieces of knowledge communicated in the literature and identify some significant gap in this knowledge.
- A) topic
- B) literature review
- C) all of the above
- D) introduction
Conclusion of the investigation should be unbiased and free of personal likes and dislikes.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
When you are working on …………, you will be writing to people who will make decisions, based on the results of your reports.
- A) empirical research
- B) general research
- C) none of the above
- D) academic research
Conducting a survey and application of snowball technique are the procedures that can be used to collect data.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
Which types of reports are used to assess opportunities, to solve problems, and to support decisions?
- A) Information Reports
- B) Feasibility Reports
- C) Progress Reports
- D) Analytical Reports
Choose the best option.
If he ___________ about their financial situation, he would have helped them out.
- A) Have known
- B) Knew
- C) Had known
- D) Had been knowing
Choose the correct transitional marker from the given options.
_______ Sarah was extremely tired, she washed the dishes.
- A) Therefore
- B) Eventually
- C) Although
- D) Moreover
In the introduction section of an empirical report, the writer answers the reader’s question ‘Why is the research important to us?’
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Writers almost always include literature reviews in the empirical research reports they write for __________.
- A) personal knowledge
- B) all of the above
- C) their organization
- D) professional journals
Choose the correct option from the following:
In report writing the conclusions grow out of interpretations of the facts and recommendations grow out of ………………….
- A) Interpretations
- B) Conclusions
- C) Recommendations
- D) Facts
In report writing, just as conclusions grow out of interpretations of the facts, ----- grow out of conclusions.
- A) recommendations
- B) summaries
- C) all of the above
- D) facts