MCQ Bank
Which of the following social practice is an example of system of hierarchy?
- A) Racism
- B) Impartiality
- C) Equality
- D) Egalitarianism
Which of the following refers to the undesirable and unintended contamination of the environment by the manufacture or use of commodities?
- A) Aeration
- B) Green house effect
- C) Pollution
- D) Airborne toxics
Which of the following is TRUE regarding acid rain?
- A) It is beneficial for the environment
- B) Acid rain that falls on one country often has its origins in sulfur and nitrogen oxides produced in same country
- C) None of the given options
- D) Acid rain that falls on one country often has its origins in sulfur and nitrogen oxides produced in another country
EPA stands for?
- A) Energy Protection Agency
- B) Environmental Protection Agency
- C) Energy Protection Agreement
- D) Environmental Protection Agreement
Internalizing external costs consistent with all except?
- A) Retributive justice
- B) Compensatory justice
- C) Social justice
- D) None of the above
For internalization of the cost of pollution,a firm has to pay?
- A) None of the above
- B) Do not pay all those harmed by pollution
- C) Pay half of all those harmed by pollution
- D) Pay all those harmed by pollution
Which principles explain the movement towards the equilibrium point?
- A) None of the above
- B) Principle of diminishing marginal utility
- C) Both of the above
- D) Principle of increasing marginal costs
Which of the following are caused by air pollution?
- A) Decrease in agriculture yields
- B) Global damage in the form of global warning
- C) Destruction of ozone layer
- D) All of the given options
The destruction of nature that has accompanied male
domination must be replaced with caring and nurturing of relationships with nature is known as?
- A) Ethics of utility
- B) Ethics of justice
- C) None of the above
- D) Ethics of caring
Which of following thinkers believe that there are important connections between the domination of women and the domination of nature–patterns of thinking, which justify and perpetuate the subordination?
- A) Socialist
- B) Eco-feminist
- C) Ecologist
- D) Capitalist
Substances that can increase mortality rates are known as?
- A) None of the above
- B) Agri substances
- C) Toxic substances
- D) Intoxic substances
Which of the following views claims that the power of oligopolies is not as large as it appears?
- A) Regulation view
- B) Business view
- C) Do-Nothing view
- D) Antitrust view
When there are numerous buyers and sellers, none of whom has a substantial share of the market,then such system is known as?
- A) Perfect competition
- B) Oligopoly
- C) None of the above
- D) Monopoly
Which of the following causes the acid rain and global warming?
- A) Pollution
- B) Toxic substance
- C) Airborne toxic
- D) Burning fossil fuels
How much pounds of plutonium waste has been produced by each nuclear reactor every year?
- A) 275
- B) 260
- C) 255
- D) 265
Conservation refers to:
- A) Allocation of resources according to contribution
- B) Rationing of natural resources for later use
- C) Domination of women by men
- D) None of the given options
Which of the following is the practice of “adopting resource-conserving and environmentally-friendly strategies in all stages of the value chain”?
- A) Red marketing
- B) Industrial marketing
- C) FMCG marketing
- D) Green marketing
How many million tons of toxic waste is produced in the U.S. each year estimated by EPA?
- A) 12
- B) 15
- C) 14
- D) 13
Who should receive the benefits of pollution control?
- A) Who bear the external cost
- B) Who bear the internal cost
- C) Firm
- D) Who bear the product cost
Which of the following view can be seen as a middle ground between the other two? Those who advocate this view do not wish to lose the economies of scale offered by large corporations, but they also wish to ensure that large firms do not harm the consumers.
- A) Normative View
- B) Regulation view
- C) Business View
- D) Antitrust View