1. According to virtue ethics, being virtue is a habit.

(a) Correct statement,

(b) Incorrect statement
Answer:

2. Is subjective relativism part of rule utilitarianism?

(a) Yes
(b) No
Answer:

3. Deep ecology is anti-holistic and pro-reductionistic.

(a) Correct statement,
(b) Incorrect statement.
Answer:

4. The technology, which is good for the environment is known as ……………..

Answer:

5. Deep ecology is anti-holistic and pro-reductionistic.

(a) Correct statement,
(b) Incorrect statement.
Answer:

1) What is a Balanced Growth strategy?

a) Specific sectors are made to grow at a targeted rate
b) All sectors grow at the same rate
c) The development strategy is targeted towards the agriculture (primary) sector

2) Due to commercial considerations, farmers are incentivized to adopt monoculture practices.

This leads to
a) A decrease in soil fertility
b) An increase on soil fertility
c) Soil fertility level remains the same

3) The process of export promotion is an outward looking growth strategy. True or False?

4) National Defence is an example of a ______________ good.

 5) Smoking publicly in a crowded place with non-smokers creates ___________________
externality.

1. According to Elinor Ostrom, ________________________ refer to an “element or condition that helps

to account for the success of institutions in sustaining the common-pool resource and gaining the
compliance of generation after generation of appropriators to the rules in use”.

A. Governance Principles

B. Design Principles

C. Resource Principles

D. Environmental Principles

2. In India, since the hydrology of most rivers are monsoon dependent, in the case of multi-purpose
dams like the Sardar Sarovar, their 'purposes' (irrigation, power production and flood-control) conflict
with each other. Assuming this to be true, which one of the following statements is wrong.

A. During the post-monsoon season, if water from a dam is made available for irrigation, it is not
possible to maintain water levels to produce power.

B. Flood control requires the reservoir to be empty in case there is a surfeit during the monsoon. If the
monsoon fails, the reservoir will remain empty and will not fill up.

C. If reservoir levels are maintained for generation of hydro-electric power, less water is available for
irrigation.

D. Flooding can be prevented by maintaining reservoir levels during the post-monsoon period when the
possibility of flooding is greater.

3. To ensure the effective protection to and equitable distribution of forest produce, Guha and Gadgil
suggest that the organizational unit for the management of common lands should be the:

A. Village

B. District

C. Taluq

D. Mandal
4. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, in their book “Ecology and Equity”, state that the principal
conflict around environmental issues is between:

A. Ecosystem People and Ecological Refugees

B. Ecosystem People and Ecosystem Refugees

C. Ecological Refugees and Omnivores

D. Ecosystem People and Omnivores

5. In the 1600s in Japan, the Tokugawa shoguns responded to the crisis of deforestation through several
measures. Which of these was NOT one of the measures?

A. Fuel efficient stoves and heaters

B. Turning to coal as a source of energy

C. Developing and managing plantation forests

D. Imposing a tax on wood based construction material