Match the States and their Ethnic groups :StatesEthnic Groups(i) Afghanistan(a) Kurds(ii) Turkey(b) Quebecois(iii) Canada(c) Pashtuns(iv) Nigeria(d) YorubasCodes :

The correct code is i-c, ii-a, iii-b, iv-d.Afghanistan: the Pashtuns, its largest ethnic group.Turkey: the Kurds, concentrated in the south-east.Canada: the Québécois, the French-speaking people of Quebec.Nigeria: the Yoruba, one of its three largest groups, in the south-west.The other codes put the Kurds in Nigeria, the Québécois in Turkey or the Yoruba in Afghanistan, which do not match.

Global Security Concerns Questions and Answers

Q: The role of Britain has declined in South Asia ever since it moved from the east of Suez in :

The keyed year is 1971.In January 1968 the British government, under economic pressure after the devaluation of sterling, announced that it would withdraw its forces from bases east of Suez, in the Persian Gulf, Malaysia and Singapore. The withdrawal was completed by the end of 1971, which is the date usually given for Britain's departure east of Suez and the decline of its military role in the Indian Ocean and South Asia.1970, 1972 and 1973 do not mark the completion of the withdrawal.

Q: The first woman who presided over the UN General Assembly Session was :

The first woman to preside over the General Assembly was Smt. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru's sister and head of India's delegation to the UN, was elected President of the eighth session of the General Assembly in 1953.Angie Brooks of Liberia (the paper's 'Angle E. Brooks') was the second woman to hold the office, in 1969. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights but never presided over the Assembly, and Margaret Alva is an Indian politician who held no UN office of this kind.

Q: The origins of detente can be traced to the lessons of :

The origins of détente lie in the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.The October 1962 crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war. Both sides drew the lesson that they needed to manage their rivalry: the Moscow-Washington hotline (1963), the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) and, later, the arms control talks were the first steps towards the détente of the late 1960s and 1970s.Hiroshima and Nagasaki began the nuclear age but not détente, Nixon's visit to China in 1972 came during détente, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 ended it.

Q: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights implies to which one of the following ?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the authoritative statement of the basic rights to which all are entitled.Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the Declaration sets out civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights belonging to every human being 'without distinction of any kind'. It was proclaimed as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations.It is not specifically about prisoners of war (covered by the Geneva Conventions), the duties of indigenous peoples, or colonial peoples (the subject of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples).

Q: NATO stands for :

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.It was founded by the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve states, including the USA, Canada, Britain and France. Its core is Article 5, under which an armed attack on one member is considered an attack on all.The other expansions are invented: there is no 'North Armament', 'North American Territorial' or 'Northern Alliance Terrorist' organisation behind the acronym.

Q: Arrange the following organization in ascending chronological order of their establishment with the help of the codes given below :(a) General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT)(b) International Monetary Fund (IMF)(c) World Trade Organization (WTO)(d) International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)Codes :

The keyed order is (d), (b), (a), (c): IBRD, IMF, GATT, WTO.The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund were both created at the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 and came into existence in December 1945. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was signed in 1947 and took effect in 1948. The World Trade Organization replaced it on 1 January 1995.So the two Bretton Woods institutions come first, then GATT, then the WTO. Every other code puts the WTO or GATT before the Bretton Woods bodies.

Q: The concept of self-determination was conceived as :

Self-determination was conceived as the political independence of ethnic or national communities.The principle, championed by Woodrow Wilson and Lenin around the First World War, holds that a people or nation has the right to determine its own political status, typically by forming its own state. It guided the redrawing of European borders after 1918 and was later written into the UN Charter.It was later applied to colonies in the era of decolonisation, but it was conceived for nations and peoples generally, not only colonies. It is about political status, not economic policy, and it is the opposite of a defence of colonialism.

Q: Who among the following opined that "Climate change will be a bigger threat than International Terrorism in the years to come" ?

The statement was made by David King.Sir David King, then the British government's Chief Scientific Adviser, wrote in the journal Science in January 2004 that climate change is the most severe problem the world faces, more serious even than the threat of terrorism. The remark drew wide attention.Colin Gray is a strategic theorist, Rajendra Pachauri chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist; none of them is the source of this remark.

Q: Who among the following stated that "religion is vitamin for the masses" ?

The phrase is Régis Debray's.The French writer Régis Debray, once a companion of Che Guevara, inverted Marx's famous description of religion as 'the opium of the people', calling religion instead a vitamin for the weak: a source of strength for people under pressure, not merely a sedative.Marx's own phrase was 'opium', not 'vitamin'. Nasution was an Indonesian general and writer on guerrilla warfare, and Ho Chi Minh a Vietnamese revolutionary leader.

11.

The role of Britain has declined in South Asia ever since it moved from the east of Suez in :

A.1970
B.1971
C.1972
D.1973

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The keyed year is 1971.

In January 1968 the British government, under economic pressure after the devaluation of sterling, announced that it would withdraw its forces from bases east of Suez, in the Persian Gulf, Malaysia and Singapore. The withdrawal was completed by the end of 1971, which is the date usually given for Britain's departure east of Suez and the decline of its military role in the Indian Ocean and South Asia.

1970, 1972 and 1973 do not mark the completion of the withdrawal.

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12.

The first woman who presided over the UN General Assembly Session was :

A.Ellonor Roosevelt
B.Ms. Angle E. Brooks
C.Smt. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
D.Margaret Alwa

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The first woman to preside over the General Assembly was Smt. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru's sister and head of India's delegation to the UN, was elected President of the eighth session of the General Assembly in 1953.

Angie Brooks of Liberia (the paper's 'Angle E. Brooks') was the second woman to hold the office, in 1969. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights but never presided over the Assembly, and Margaret Alva is an Indian politician who held no UN office of this kind.

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13.

The origins of detente can be traced to the lessons of :

A.Use of atomic weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
B.The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
C.Nixon's Visit to China in 1972
D.Soviet Intervention in 1979

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The origins of détente lie in the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

The October 1962 crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war. Both sides drew the lesson that they needed to manage their rivalry: the Moscow-Washington hotline (1963), the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) and, later, the arms control talks were the first steps towards the détente of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki began the nuclear age but not détente, Nixon's visit to China in 1972 came during détente, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 ended it.

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14.

Match the States and their Ethnic groups :

States	Ethnic Groups
(i) Afghanistan	(a) Kurds
(ii) Turkey	(b) Quebecois
(iii) Canada	(c) Pashtuns
(iv) Nigeria	(d) Yorubas

Codes :

A.i-c, ii-b, iii-d, iv-a
B.i-c, ii-a, iii-b, iv-d
C.i-a, ii-c, iii-d, iv-b
D.i-d, ii-a, iii-c, iv-b

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The correct code is i-c, ii-a, iii-b, iv-d.

Afghanistan: the Pashtuns, its largest ethnic group.
Turkey: the Kurds, concentrated in the south-east.
Canada: the Québécois, the French-speaking people of Quebec.
Nigeria: the Yoruba, one of its three largest groups, in the south-west.

The other codes put the Kurds in Nigeria, the Québécois in Turkey or the Yoruba in Afghanistan, which do not match.

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15.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights implies to which one of the following ?

A.Responsibility of prisoners of war
B.Charter of the duties of indigenous people
C.Charter of the declaration of colonial people
D.The authoritative statement of those basic rights to what all are entitled

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the authoritative statement of the basic rights to which all are entitled.

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the Declaration sets out civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights belonging to every human being 'without distinction of any kind'. It was proclaimed as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations.

It is not specifically about prisoners of war (covered by the Geneva Conventions), the duties of indigenous peoples, or colonial peoples (the subject of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples).

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16.

NATO stands for :

A.North Armament Treaty Organisation
B.Noth American Territorial Organisation
C.North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
D.Northern Alliance Terrorist Organisation

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

It was founded by the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve states, including the USA, Canada, Britain and France. Its core is Article 5, under which an armed attack on one member is considered an attack on all.

The other expansions are invented: there is no 'North Armament', 'North American Territorial' or 'Northern Alliance Terrorist' organisation behind the acronym.

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17.

Arrange the following organization in ascending chronological order of their establishment with the help of the codes given below :

(a) General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT)
(b) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
(c) World Trade Organization (WTO)
(d) International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

Codes :

A.(d) (b) (a) (c)
B.(b) (c) (d) (a)
C.(a) (d) (c) (b)
D.(c) (a) (b) (d)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The keyed order is (d), (b), (a), (c): IBRD, IMF, GATT, WTO.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund were both created at the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 and came into existence in December 1945. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was signed in 1947 and took effect in 1948. The World Trade Organization replaced it on 1 January 1995.

So the two Bretton Woods institutions come first, then GATT, then the WTO. Every other code puts the WTO or GATT before the Bretton Woods bodies.

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18.

The concept of self-determination was conceived as :

A.Political independence of colonies
B.The right of ethnic groups to formulate the economic policies
C.Defence of colonialism
D.Political independence of ethnic or National Communities

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

Self-determination was conceived as the political independence of ethnic or national communities.

The principle, championed by Woodrow Wilson and Lenin around the First World War, holds that a people or nation has the right to determine its own political status, typically by forming its own state. It guided the redrawing of European borders after 1918 and was later written into the UN Charter.

It was later applied to colonies in the era of decolonisation, but it was conceived for nations and peoples generally, not only colonies. It is about political status, not economic policy, and it is the opposite of a defence of colonialism.

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19.

Who among the following opined that "Climate change will be a bigger threat than International Terrorism in the years to come" ?

A.David King
B.Colin Gray
C.Rajendra Pachaury
D.Sunita Narain

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The statement was made by David King.

Sir David King, then the British government's Chief Scientific Adviser, wrote in the journal Science in January 2004 that climate change is the most severe problem the world faces, more serious even than the threat of terrorism. The remark drew wide attention.

Colin Gray is a strategic theorist, Rajendra Pachauri chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist; none of them is the source of this remark.

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20.

Who among the following stated that "religion is vitamin for the masses" ?

A.Karl Marx
B.Regis Debray
C.A. H. Nasutian
D.Ho Chi Minh

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The phrase is Régis Debray's.

The French writer Régis Debray, once a companion of Che Guevara, inverted Marx's famous description of religion as 'the opium of the people', calling religion instead a vitamin for the weak: a source of strength for people under pressure, not merely a sedative.

Marx's own phrase was 'opium', not 'vitamin'. Nasution was an Indonesian general and writer on guerrilla warfare, and Ho Chi Minh a Vietnamese revolutionary leader.

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