Class-12- -English -MCQ on Ideas that have Helped Mankind-01-30

 

Question 1.
The world ‘development’ is related to –
(A) Caste
(B) Race
(C) Man
(D) Idea
Answer:
(C) Man

Question 2.
For homo sapiens, survival was-
(A) No problem
(B) Problem
(C) Very easy
(D) Most easy
Answer:
(B) Problem

Question 3.
Long infancy was a biological advantage to-
(A) Animals
(B) Birds
(C) Mankind
(D) Earth
Answer:
(C) Mankind

Question 4.

Utilization of what thing become a milestone in human progress ?
(A) Water
(B) Stone
(C) Fire
(D) Cereals
Answer:
(C) Fire

Question 5.
The word ‘pictorial’ was related to early man with-
(A) Reading
(B) Roaming
(C) Writing
(D) Hunting
Answer:
(C) Writing

Question 6.
Who progressed in course of time ?
(A) Animals
(B) Birds
(C) Humans
(D) Cereals
Answer:
(C) Humans

Question 7.
What taught us to be more friendly towards one another ?
(A) Idea
(B) Civilization
(C) Catastropte
(D) Progress
Answer:
(B) Civilization

Question 8.
Ideas pay the way for –
(A) Building
(B) Development
(C) Emotions
(D) Multiplicity
Answer:
(B) Development

Question 9.
The two broad categories of ideas that have helped manking-
(A) Imagination and knowledge
(B) Dream and skill
(C) Knowledge and teachnique
(D) Concern and humanity
Answer:
(C) Knowledge and teachnique

Question 10.

Who is the author of the prose piece, ‘Ideas That Have Helped Man-kind’ ?
(A) Brutal Bessull
(B) Bertrand Russell
(C) Britanica Russelli
(D) Burtrand Rasal
Answer:
(C) Britanica Russelli

Question 11.
When was Bertrand Russell bom ?
(A) 1862
(B) 1870
(C) 1875
(D) 1872
Answer:
(D) 1872

Question 12.
When did Russell die ?
(A) 1960
(B) 1968
(C) 1970
(D) 1980
Answer:
(C) 1970

Question 13.
Bertrand russell Belonged to-
(A) America
(B) Britain
(C) Germany
(D) Italy
Answer:
(B) Britain

Question 14.
When was Bertrand Russell awarded with Nobel Prize in literature ?
(A) 1940
(B) 1946
(C) 1950
(D) 1960
Answer:
(C) 1950

Question 15.
We are able to get variety of enjoyment due to –
(A) our intelligence
(B) our riches
(C) our physical strenght
(D) None of these
Answer:
(A) our intelligence

Question 16.
We are more friendly –
(A) within the herd
(B) outside the herd
(C) everywhere
(D) nowhere
Answer:
(A) within the herd

Question 17.

After language the second most important thing which helped mankind was –
(A) gold
(B) silver
(C) fire
(D) None of these
Answer:
(C) fire

Question 18.
The taming of domestic animals made life –
(A) pleasanter
(B) fearful
(C) harmful
(D) None of these
Answer:
(A) pleasanter

Question 19.
‘Ideas That Have Helped Mankind’ has been written by—
(A) G Greer
(B) D.L. Sayers
(C) H.E. Bates
(D) Bertrand Russell
Answer:
(D) Bertrand Russell

Question 20.
Bertrand Russell died in—
(A) 1940
(B) 1950
(C) 1960
(D) 1970
Answer:
(D) 1970

Question 21.
Russell was awarded Nobel Prize for—
(A) philosophy
(B) literature
(C) medicine
(D) economics
Answer:
(B) literature

Question 22.
The most indubitable respect in which ideas have helped mankind is—
(A) more knowledge
(B) numbers
(C) happiness
(D) less numbers
Answer:
(B) numbers

Question 23.

Survival for homosapiens primarily was—
(A) a problem
(B) never a problem
(C) both of them
(D) None of these
Answer:
(A) a problem

Question 24.
Birds die of hunger in large numbers—
(A) during summer
(B) during rainy season
(C) during winter
(D) None of these
Answer:
(C) during winter

Question 25.
During summer birds—
(A) remember this catastrophe
(B) forget this catastrophe
(C) fear from this
(D) None of these
Answer:
(B) forget this catastrophe

Question 26.
Every human death by starvation is preceded by a long period of—
(A) sorrow
(B) anxiety
(C) happiness
(D) None of these
Answer:
(B) anxiety

Question 27.

Human beings suffer more due to their—
(A) ignorance
(B) intelligence
(C) reluctance
(D) None of these
Answer:
(B) intelligence

Question 28.
Animals get pleasure from—
(A) music
(B) football
(C) science
(D) None of these
Answer:
(D) None of these

Question 29.
Bertrand Russell has written the lesson—
(A) The Artist
(B) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind
(C) I Have a Dream
(D) A Pinch of Snuff
Answer:
(B) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind

Question 30.
Bertrand Russell was a philosopher and a —
(A) historian
(B) scientist
(C) mathematician
(D) geologist
Answer:
(A & C)