Chapter 13
Why do we fall ill ?
MCQs
Q 1.: This has a long term effect on the health
(A) Chewing tobacco
(B) Common cold
(C) Typhoid
(D) Chicken pox
Option – A
Q 2.: An acute disease is the one that
(A) Lasts for short duration
(B) Lasts for long duration
(C) Spread by contact
(D) Heritable disease
Option – A
Q 3.: Disease-causing factors existing within the body itself are called
(A) Heredity factor
(B) Extrinsic factor
(C) Congenital factor
(D) Intrinsic factor
Option – D
Q 4.: Clean drinking water is related to
(A) Personal hygiene
(B) Community health
(C) Social status
(D) Personal preference
Option – B
Q 5.: This is not a congenital disease
(A) Haemophilia
(B) Tuberculosis
(C) Colour blindless
(D) Thalassemia
Option – B
Q 6.: Ill health is due to
(A) Environmental pollution
(B) Lack of personal hygiene
(C) Dirty drinking water
(D) All of these
Option – D
Q 7.: Kwashiorkor is caused due to deficiency of
(A) Iodine
(B) Vitamins
(C) Carbohydrate
(D) Protein
Option – D
Q 8.: If you live in a overcrowded and poorly ventilated house, it is possible that you may suffer from
(A) Cancer
(B) AIDS
(C) Air-borne diseases
(D) Cholera
Option – C
Q 9.: You may fall ill if you come in contact with a patient suffering from
(A) Typhoid
(B) High blood pressure
(C) Diabetes
(D) Tuberculosis
Option – D
Q 10.: A patient was advised to take aspirin and bed rest by her doctor. She must be suffering from
(A) Beri-Beri
(B) Hepatitis
(C) Influenza
(D) Tuberculosis
Option – C
Q 11.: AIDS can’t be transmitted by
(A) Sexual contact
(B) Hugs
(C) Breast feeding
(D) Blood transfusion
Option – B
Q 12.: The disease not transmitted by mosquitoes is
(A) Dengue
(B) Malaria
(C) Brain fever or Encephalitis
(D) Pneumonia
Option – D
Q 13.: We should not allow mosquitoes to breed in our surroundings because they
(A) Multiply very fast and cause pollution
(B) Are vectors of many diseases
(C) Bite and cause skin diseases
(D) Are not important insects
Option – B
Q 14.: This is not important for individual health
(A) Living in clean space
(B) Good economic condition
(C) Social equality and harmony
(D) Living in a large and well-furnished house
Option – D
Q 15.: Breathing contaminated air causes disease related to
(A) Digestive system
(B) Respiratory system
(C) Circulatory system
(D) None of these
Option – B
Q 16.: The infectious agents of which of the following diseases will spread when a patient of this disease coughs
(A) T.B. and Hepatitis
(B) T.B., Influenza and Cholera
(C) AIDS, T.B. and Hepatitis
(D) T.B. and Influenza
Option – D
Q 17.: Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because
(A) Viruses make use of host machinery
(B) Viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
(C) Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
(D) Viruses have a protein coat
Option – C
Q 18.: Which one of the following is not a bacterial disease?
(A) Cholera
(B) Tuberculosis
(C) Anthrax
(D) Influenza
Option – D
Q 19.: Which of the following disease is not transmitted by mosquito?
(A) Brain fever
(B) Malaria
(C) Typhoid
(D) Dengue
Option – C
Q 20.: Which one of the following disease is not caused by bacteria?
(A) Typhoid
(B) Malaria
(C) Tuberculosis
(D) Anthrax
Option – B
Q 21.: Which one of the diseases is caused by protozoans?
(A) Malaria
(B) Influenza
(C) AIDS
(D) Cholera
Option – A
Q 22.: Which one of the following has a long term effect on the health of an individual?
(A) Common cold
(B) Chicken pox
(C) Chewing tobacco
(D) Stress
Option – C
Q 23.: Which of the following can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person?
(A) High blood pressure
(B) Genetic abnormalities
(C) Sneezing
(D) Blood cancer
Option – C
Q 24.: Which one of the following causes Kala-azar?
(A) Leishmania
(B) Trypanosoma
(C) Ascaris
(D) Bacteria
Option – A
Q 25.: You are aware of Polio Eradication Programme in your city. Children vaccinated because
(A) Vaccinated kills the polio causing micro-organisms
(B) Prevent the entry of polio causing organism
(C) It creates immunity in the body
(D) All of the above
Option – C
Q 26.: Viruses, which cause hepatitis, are transmitted through
(A) Air
(B) Water
(C) Food
(D) Personal contact
Option – B
Q 27.: The pathogens of diseases are
(A) Protozoa
(B) Bacteria
(C) Virus
(D) All of the above
Option – D
Q 28.: The bacteria among the following is
(A) Salmonella typhi
(B) Plasmodium
(C) Rabies virus
(D) Trypanosome
Option – A
Q 29.: HIV virus attacks one of the following cells in our body
(A) White Blood Cells
(B) Red Blood Cells
(C) Long cell
(D) Liver cell
Option – C
Q 30.: The BCG vaccine is given for the immunity against
(A) Jaundice
(B) Hepatitis
(C) Malaria
(D) Tuberculosis
Option – D
Q 31.: The disease that affects our lungs is
(A) Rabies
(B) AIDS
(C) Polio
(D) Tuberculosis
Option – D
Q 32.: Larynx is called
(A) Voice box
(B) Respiratory organ
(C) Music box
(D) None of the above
Option – A
Q 33.: Which one of the following is not a viral disease?
(A) Dengue
(B) AIDS
(C) Typhoid
(D) Influenza
Option – C
Q 34.: Example of communicable diseases are
(A) Diabetes
(B) Arthritis
(C) Cancer
(D) Tuberculosis
Option – D
Q 35.: Sleeping sickness is caused by ___________, a protozoan.
(A) Trypanosoma
(B) Euglena
(C) Plasmodium
(D) Amoeba
Option – A
Q 36.: Pathogens immediately causes __________ disease.
(A) Infectious
(B) Non-infectious
(C) Acute
(D) Chronic
Option – A
Q 37.: Which of the following diseases is caused by worm?
(A) Measles
(B) Poliomyelitis
(C) Tuberculosis
(D) Elephantiasis
Option – D
Q 38.: Malarial parasite after entering the human body reaches the
(A) Liver and then RBCs
(B) Stomach and then RBCs
(C) Liver and the WBCs
(D) Stomach and then salivary glands
Option – A