Practice Test

Consider the following
The matters to be covered by Administrative Tribunals are as follows:
1. Levy, assessment, collection and enforcement of any tax;
2. Foreign exchange, import and export across customs frontiers;
3. Industrial and labour disputes;
4. Matters connected with land reforms covered by Article 31-A;
5. Ceiling on urban property;
6. Elections to either House of Parliament or Legislatures of the States and
7. Production, procurement, supply and distribution of food-stuffs or other essential goods.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements-

It shall be the duty of every citizen of India—


1. to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women;

2. to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture;
3. to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life, and to have compassion for living creatures;

4. to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform;
5. to safeguard public property and to abjure violence;

6. to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievement;

7. who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child or, as the case may be, ward between the age of six and fourteen years.

Consider the following statements-
1. The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa.

2. Harappa was the first of the Indus Valley Civilization sites to be excavated in the 1920s, in what was then the Punjab province of British India, and now is Pakistan.
3. The discovery of Harappa, and soon afterwards, Mohenjo-Daro, was the culmination of work beginning in 1861 with the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj.
4. Excavation of Harappan sites has been ongoing since 1920, with important breakthroughs occurring as recently as 1999.
5. There were earlier and later cultures, often called Early Harappan and Late Harappan, in the same area of the Harappan Civilization.
6. Until 1999, over 1,056 cities and settlements had been found, of which 96 have been excavated, mainly in the general region of the Indus and Ghaggar-Hakra Rivers and their tributaries.
7. Among the settlements were the major urban centres of Harappa, Mohenjo-daro (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Dholavira, Ganeriwala in Cholistan and Rakhigarhi.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.