Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Answer Key for Assignment 06 ‐ Week 06

MCQs

1. Identify the healthy form of humour:

a. Using witty jokes to make others laugh uncontrollably
b. Poking fun at others
c. Laughing at other’s disability
d. Teasing others

2. The study of laughter and its physiological and psychological effects is called ______.
a. gerontology
b. glottology
c. gelotology
d. None of these

3. According to M. R. Kopmeyer: “Your only job security is your__________.”

a. dependability
b. inter-dependability
c. indispensability
d. dispensability

4. In a workplace, humor—
a. Minimises stress
b. Increases productivity
c. Connects people
d. All of these

5. Humor can be used in stressful situations in order to—

a. Humiliate others
b. Tell the truth, while influential people are suppressing it
c. Ease tension, when all other options have not worked
d. Both (b) & (c)

6. While using humour in communication, one needs to be sensitive towards the

receptor’s body language as it:
a. Shows whether someone is responsive to the humor
b. Enables us to read the signs of unhappiness
c. Indicates the signs of offended feelings
 d. All of these

7. Avoiding people who have lower income than oneself is an indication of _________.
a. lack of emotional intelligence
b. emotionally balanced personality
c. growth mindset
d. None of these

8. Someone borrowing money from you and not returning it indicates that you
are______________.
a. not assertive
b. assertive
c. rich
d. aggressive

9. According to Dalai Lama: “Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he

sacrifices his ______ in order to make _____. Then he sacrifices ____ to recuperate
his ____.”
a. money, health, health, money
b. health, money, money, health
c. health, health, money, money
d. money, money, health, health

10. ______ is something that can be satisfied, but ________ is something that can never
be satisfied.
a. Desire; need
b. Hunger; thirst
c. Greed; need
d. Need; greed

11. According to Langston Hughes, “Like a welcome summer rain, ______ may suddenly
cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
a. humour
b. anger
c. pity
d. drinking alcohol

12. The quote by Michael Pritchard implies:

a. When you become old you stop laughing
b. Only children have the ability to laugh
c. Only children can laugh better than adults
 d. You start growing old the moment you stop laughing

13. Identify the appropriate function of humour in workplace:

a. Secretly ridiculing your boss
b. Giving funny nicknames to your colleagues
c. Expressing yourself in a creative manner
d. Postponing work

14. Which of the following is not recommended for adding humour to the workplace:
a. Inviting comedians
b. Forming a humour committee
c. Having a hall for humour
d. Circulating handbook of nasty jokes

15. Which of the following is absent from Roy T. Bennett’s list of things that money
cannot buy:
a. Inner peace
b. Common sense
c. Integrity
d. Labour

16. Identify the example of a crude sense of humor:

a. Laughing at oneself
b. Laughing at unforeseen circumstances
c. Laughing at others’ disabilityxx
d. All of these

17. Taste for humor in humans:

a. Is innate
b. Begins in adulthood
c. Begins after they are sixty-year-old
d. None of these

18. Identify the use of humor in the workplace:

a. Humor can sort out conflicts
b. Humor helps cope with stress
c. Humor increases productivity
d. All of these

19. Maintaining genuinely good relationship with both poor and rich people is a sign of:
a. Ulterior political motives
 b. Undesirable amount of social and political ambition
c. High level of emotional and spiritual instability
d. High emotional and spiritual intelligence

20. When a person with good money-personality loses money in a foreign country s/he:
a. Will fail to survive
b. Will feel insecure and tensed
c. Will feel confident and rely on her/his hard and soft skills
d. Will be afraid and pray to God for help

True / False

1. When humour is mixed at horrifying and tragic moments, it makes the pain
bearable.True
2. We will happily remember those people who made us laugh. True
3. Laughter enhances respiration. True
4. Suitable forms of humour tend to be contagious and spread healthy effect on others.
True
5. Spendthrift people always manage to save money and can also afford to give away
to needy people. False