MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: (MCQ’s)
1. ____ is therefore a state of being well enough to function well physically, mentally and socially.
(a) Health
(b) Energy
(c) Strength
(d) Ability
2. ____ in other words literally means being uncomfortable.
(a) Measles
(b) Disease
(c) Unhealthy
(d) All of these
3. ____ may mean just examination stress or very rarely it may mean meningitis, or any one of a dozen different diseases.
(a) Joint pain
(b) Vomiting
(c) Headache
(d) Bodyache
4. Ailments can last for a long time, even as much as a lifetime, and are called ____ diseases.
(a) Infectious
(b) Non infectious
(c) Chronic
(d) Contagious
5. ____ cause many familiar diseases such as malaria and kala-azar.
(a) Virus
(b) Bacteria
(c) Flies
(d) Protozoan microbes
6. Viruses, multiply very quickly, while ____ multiply very slowly in comparison.
(a) Bacteria
(b) Germs
(c) Worms
(d) All of these
7. The signs and symptoms of a diseases will thus depend on the ____ or ____ which the microbe targets.
(a) Body,tissue
(b) Tissue, organ
(c) Organ ,body
(d) Blood,organ
8. In ____ infection the virus goes to the immune system and damages its function.
(a) HIV
(b) Malaria
(c) Hypertension
(d) Cancer
9. The second basic principle of prevention of infection disease is the availability of proper and sufficient ____ for everyone.
(a) Food
(b) Clothes
(c) House
(d) None of these
10. There are vaccines against ____and many others.
(a) Malaria
(b) Cancer
(c) Measles
(d) Cholera
11. ____ cause jaundice are transmitted through water.
(a) Bacteria
(b) Germs
(c) Worms
(d) Hepatitis viruses
12. ____ are classified as acute or chronic depending on their duration.
(a) Organisms
(b) Viruses
(c) Bacteria
(d) Diseases
13. ____ diseases can be prevented by public health hygiene measures that reduce exposure to infectious agents.
(a) Non infectious
(b) Chronic
(c) Infectious
(d) All of these
14. Infectious diseases can also be prevented by using ____.
(a) Tablets
(b) Medicines
(c) Clean water
15. ____ is a state of physical, metal and social well-being.
(a) Health
(b) Wealth
(c) Social status
16. Diseases are classified as ____ or _____ depending on their duration.
(a) Contact,non contact
(b) Acute, chronic
(c) Infectious non infectious
17. ____ agents belong to different categories of organisms and may be unicellular and multicellular or microscopic.
(a) Microscopic
(b) Pollinating
(c) Infectious
18. ______ agents are spread through air, water, physical contact or vectors.
(a) Chronic
(b) Microscopic
(c) Bacterial
(d) Infectious
19. ______ of diseases is more desirable then its successful treatment.
(a) Prevention
(b) Avoidance
(c) Treatment
(d) Infection
20. Infectious diseases can be prevented by ____.
(a) Vaccination
(b) Immunisation
(c) Medicines
21. _____ are now available for preventing a whole range of infectious diseases.
(a) Water therapy
(b) Tablets
(c) Vaccines
22. The ____ system is a major factor that determines the number of microbes surviving in the body.
(a) Endrocrine
(b) Respiratory
(c) Excretory
(d) Immune
23. The commonest vectors we all know are ____.
(a) Mosquitoes
(b) Micro organisms
(c) Insects
(d) Flies
24. Examples of such diseases spread through the air are common cold, pneumonia and ____
(a) Cholera
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Dysentry
(d) AIDS
25. An active immune system recruits many cells to the affected tissue to kill off the diseases causing microbes. This recruitment process is called ____.
(a) Swelling
(b) Lump
(c) Inflammation
26. If the _____ are not filtering urine poisonous substances will accommodate.
(a) Kidneys
(b) Lungs
(c) Heart
(d) Ureter
27. Viruses, bacteria and fungi multiply very quickly while ______ multiply very slowly in comparison.
(a) Flies
(b) Worms
(c) Mosquitoes
(d) Insects
28. There are microbial infections such as syphilis or ____ that are transmitted by sexual contact from one partner to the another.
(a) Dysentry
(b) Measles
(c) AIDS
(d) Cholera
29. _____ diseases therefore have very drastic long term effects on people’s health as compared
(a) Acute
(b) Microscopic
(c) Bacterial
(d) Chronic
30. Some diseases last for only very short period of time and these are called ______ diseases.
(a) Microscopic
(b) Bacterial
(c) Chronic
(d) Acute
Answers:
1. (a) Health
2. (b) Disease
3(c) Headache
4. (c) Chronic
5. (d) Protozoan microbes
6. (b) Germs
7. (c) Organ ,body
8. (a) HIV
9. (a) Food
10.(c) Measles
11.(d) Hepatitis viruses
12.(d) Diseases
13.(c) Infectious
14. (d) Immunisation
15. (a) Health
16.(b) Acute, chronic
17.(c) Infectious
18.(d) Infectious
19.(a) Prevention
20.(b) Immunisation
21.(c) Vaccines
22.(d) Immune
23.(a) Mosquitoes
24. (b) Tuberculosis
25.(c) Inflammation
26.(a) Kidneys
27.(b) Worms
28.(c) AIDS
29.(d) Chronic
30.(d) Acute
