Course Name: Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Course Instructor: Dr. T. Ravichandran

Institute Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Assignment 3 for Week 3 (6 March 2017 - 12 March 2017)

I MCQ’s

1. Passive kind of people can be subdivided into:

a. Active and assertive
b. Active and non-assertive
c. Inactive and non-assertive
d. Inactive and assertive

2. Assertiveness aims towards:

a. Humiliating others
b. Being domineering and forceful
c. Being emotionally blunt
d. None of the above

3. Real happiness depends upon:

a. Chances, dances, romances
b. Choices, chances, changes
c. Choices, charms, changes
d. Coins, chances, choices

4. Enduring happiness depends upon our being:

a. Passive
b. Assertive
c. Aggressive
d. Persuasive

5. Which of the following is a trait of assertive people:

a. Constant complaining
b. Constant praising
c. Active listening
 d. Showing antipathy

6. Aggressive people:
a. Force others to serve them
b. Always help others
c. Always feel helpless
d. Maintain good relationships

7. Complete the following quote by Warren Buffet: “The difference between successful
people and really successful people is that really successful people say __________ to
almost ____________.”:
a. Yes, everything
b. No, everything
c. Yes, nothing
d. No, nothing

8. Which of the following thoughts would you associate with assertive people:
a. I am helpless and alone
b. I am afraid of risk-taking
c. I am calm and confident
d. I am a good follower

9. Assertiveness is:
a. A polite form of aggression
b. A polite form of passivity
c. A sophisticated form of aggression
d. None of the above

10. According to Stanlee and Nancy, one must focus on:

a. Dominating
b. Having
c. Accumulating
d. Being

11. In the process of becoming assertive, one must:

a. Not seek approval
 b. Reverse sorry; say thanks
c. Accept genuine praise and criticism
d. All of the above

12. Being assertive essentially means saying “no” to:

a. Any and all requests
b. Reasonable requests
c. Unreasonable requests
d. None of the above

13. While being assertive, one should:

a. Say “yes” always
b. Say “no” and apologize profusely
c. Say “no” without saying sorry
d. None of the above

14. Which of the following would differentiate a human from a robot:

a. Ability to perform tasks successfully
b. Ability to experience and express emotions
c. Ability to compute accurately
d. All of the above

15. Among the following, who is the most likely to get excommunicated by society and
peers:
a. A person who is always happy and positive
b. A person who remains calm and collected
c. A person who expresses anger frequently
d. None of the above

16. Whose quote is the following: “All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up;
that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you”:
a. Guy de Maupassant
b. Rainer Maria Rilke
c. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
d. Anton Chekov

17. Negative emotions tend to:

 a. Elevate us
b. Distort us
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. Neither (a) nor (b)

18. While managing anger, one must focus on:

a. Outside triggers
b. Internal responses
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. Neither (a) nor (b)

19. Negative thinking tends to deprive you of self-development and keeps you in:
a. Perpetual peace
b. Perennial performance
c. Perennial vacuity
d. Performing position

20. Negative emotions must be avoided as:

a. There is an overload of negativity
b. They tend to affect others as well
c. They deprive one of vital energy
d. All of the above

II Mark as True or False:

a. The passive people are very vocal about their opinions. False
b. Subservience is a trait developed by passive people to avoid offending the loved ones.
True
c. Aggressive people are careful about not violating the rights of other people. False
d. One should never feel sad. False
e. One can never completely control anger. True