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END TERM EXAMINATION
EIGHTH SEMESTER
HUL2101 – DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Time allowed: 03 Hours Max. Marks: 100

General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory
2. Each question carries one mark
3. There is no negative marking

Q1 Hazards can be classified into a) soil liquefaction b) landslides

a) Geological Hazard b) Environmental Hazard c) tsunami d) all of these
c) Climatic Hazards d) All of these Q14 Which of the following is not a type of complex
Q2 Evacuation is a -------------- measure emergency?
a) rehabilitation b) mitigation a) civil b) chronic
c) response d) none of above c) acute d) protracted
Q3 Which part of India is more vulnerable to coastal Q15 The capacity to prevent, mitigate, prepare for,
hazards? respond to, and recover from the impacts of
a) The Himalayan region b) Peninsular region disaster is called
c) Extra-Peninsular region d) Andaman-Region a) Vulnerability b) Disaster Resilience
Q4 The probability of the occurence of a hazard is c) Risk d) Hazard
referred as Q16 An inventory of people or things which are
a) Risk b) Vulnerability exposed to the hazard is ------------------.
c) Resilience d) Hazard a) Hazard occurrence probability
Q5 Landslides occur due to b) Elements at risk
a) erosion b) geological weak material c) Vulnerability
c) intense rainfall and human excavation d) None of these
d) All of these Q17 A hazard becomes disaster only due to
Q6 River like speedy flow snow is called a) Greater vulnerability
a) Landslide b) Avalanche b) lesser vulnerability
c) Cyclone d) Flood c) Combination of greater vulnerability and lesser
Q7 Oceanographic event includes which of the vulnerability
following? d) None of above
a) Tsunami b) Cholera Q18 Anthropogenic events are
c) War d) Structural Collapse a) Terrorism b) Political Conflict
Q8 Which statement is false c) War d) All of these
a) More the capacity more the damage Q19 Which of the following is not an element of people
b) More the capacity minimal the damage centered mitigation system?
c) Less the capacity more the damage a) Early warning System
d) both b) and c) b) Previleges to the upper class only during the
Q9 Cyclones, Lightening and fire are categorized as emergencies
a) Geological Events b) Oceanographic event c) Technical monitoring
c) Meteorological Event d) None of these d) Public awareness and preparedness to act
Q10 Group of people more vulnerable towards a Q20 The following are the types of dams
disaster are a) Productive dams b) Flood-control dams
a) Children c) Water-storage dams d) All of above
b) Elderly people Q21 Disaster Management Act of India has initially
c) Racial and Ethnic Minorities been adopted by Government of India in the
d) All of these year
Q11 The ways for presenting risk are ------------------. a) 2001 b)2006
a) F:N curves c) 2005 d) 1995
b) Potential Loss Mapping Q22 Psychosocial impacts of disaster are:
c) Scenario Mapping d) All of these a) Fatigue b) Gastrointestinal upset
Q12 Indigenous knowledge helps in c) Impaired concentration d) All of these
a)judging the problem b) creating the problem
c) Finding the solution d) None of above Q23 SDMA is carried by
Q13 Which of the following is a secondary hazard? a) Prime Minister b) Army Chief
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c) Chief Minister d) President c) Drainage Channels d) All of these
Q24 Active measures to reduce vulnerabilities are Q39 The coastal belt plantation is a possible risk
those where----------------- reduction measure in case of
a) Authorities promote desired action by offering a) earthquakes b) cyclones
incentives c) landslides d) volcanic eruption
b) Authorities prevent undesired actions by Q40 Influenza is contagious respiratory illness caused
penalties by
c) Both a) and b) d) None of these a) Rota viruses b) Reo viruses
Q25 Earthquakes are described by use of scales of c) Bacteria d) Flu viruses
measurement demonstrating: Q41 CARE stands for
a) Magnitude b) Intensity a) Center for all Relief everywhere
c) Both a) and b) d) None of these b) Central Aid Relief everywhere
Q26 Biological disaster can be exemplified as: c) Cooperative for assistance and Relief
a) Epidemics b) Ibola Everywhere
c) Pandemic d) All of these d) None of these
Q27 Which of the following indian states are most Q42 Which of the following event has a very slow
prone to floods? onset?
a) Punjab b) Bihar a) Landslides b) Earthquakes
c) Rajasthan d) Himchal Pradesh c) Tornadoes d) Eutrophication
Q28 A restoration, rehabilitation activities come under: Q43 The drought due to simple absence/deficit of
a) Recovery b) Preparedness rainfall is termed as ----------- drought
c) Response d) None of above a) hydrological b) meterological
Q29 Which of the following hazard has a very large c) agricultural d) metaphysical
warning time? Q44 Which of the following is a technological event?
a) Tropical cyclones b) Earthquakes a) Fires b) Epidemic
c) Volcanic eruption d) Floods c) Tsunami d) Explosion
Q30 The risks which are not willingly undertaken are Q45 NDMRC stands for
known as a) National Disaster Management Resources
sks Centres
c) Extreme risks d) Involuntary risks b) National Disaster Management Resources Circle
Q31 Tactile surfaces are used in the emergencies for c) National Disaster Mitigation Resource Centres
the evacuation of d) National Disaster Management Research
a) Old aged people b) Visually impared Centres
c) Children d) Patients in hospitals Q46 Which of the following is not a water and climatic
Q32 Methods of Adaptation are hazard?
a) Adaptation through local planning a) Earthquake b) Drought
b) Agricultural production c) Snow Avalanche d) Floods
c) Rain water storage Q47 A successful post disaster should be based on
d) All of these a) only modern technologies
Q33 Earthquake is classified as b) only indenous knowledge
a)Hazard b) Disaster c) amalgamation of modern technology and
c) Resilience d) Vulnerability indigenous knowledge
Q34 Wide spread of an epidemic across a large area is d) None of these
a) epidemic b) pandemic Q48 Mitigation must be planned keeping in mind
c) mitigation d) resilience a) Community’s long term goals
Q35 Which of the following has watery diaarrhea as b) Available budgets
one of its symptoms? c) The equitability of benefits
a) Influenza b) Cholera d) All of these
c) Typhus d) Small Pox Q49 Social vulnerability means
Q36 Flood forecasting and warnings are issued by a) Measurement of individual , societal, political
a) central water comission and cultural factors
b) meteorological department b) Measurement of earthquake prone area
c) state irrigation department c) Measurement of flood prone area
d) All of these d) none of these
Q37 Increase in temperature and decrease in mean Q50 The overall risk is sum total of
precipitation leads to increase in frequency of a) Resistance and vulnerability
a) Droughts b) land slides b) Resistance and Probability
c) Epidemic d) none of these c) Hazard and vulnerability
Q38 Structural measures for flood management in India d) Probability and vulnerability
are Q51 Who is the chairman of State Disaster
a) Storage Reservoirs b) Flood Embankments Management Authority in India
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a) Minister of Road and Transport a) NDMA b) EDMA
b) Deputy Chief Minister c) IPCC d) CCA
c) Chief Minister Q65 Which of the following is expressed in percentage
d) The Governer of the State loss?
Q52 Who is the chairman of NDMA in india? a) Risk b) Vulnerability
a) President b) Prime Minister c) Disaster d) None is correct
c) Home Minister d) Defense Minister Q66 What is/are the element(s) of mitigation strategy?
Q53 The techniques known as TAQ and DHAJJI a)Land use planning b) Risk assessment
-DEWARI systems in India are c) Public awareness d) All of above
a) Earth quake resistant Q67 Watershed management includes
b) Flood resistant a) Timely cleaning of water reservoir
c) Drought resistant b) Desilting of water reservoirs
d) Avalanche resistant c) Deeping of wter reservoirs
Q54 Major causes of Floods are d) All of these
a) Blocking of river channels by Land slides Q68 Populations and their movements through time
b) Narrowness of rivers are the component of
c) Inefficient Engineering a) Physical vulnerability
d) All of these b) Environmental vulnerability
Q55 Which of the following is not a phase of disaster? c) Social Vulnerability
a) Warning b) Emergency d) Economic Vulnerability
c) Leaving d) Rehabilitation Q69 Which of the following is caused by Aedes Aegypti
Q56 Reducing the threats to life and property posed by mosquito?
known hazards through mitigation i called as a) Malaria b) Tuberculosis
a) Risk assessment b) Risk c) Yellow fever d) Cholera
perception Q70 Which statement is true for the success of
c) Risk management d) Risk monitoring Mitigation planning?
Q57 The component(s) of recovery is /are a) Increase public and political support for
a) Prevention b) Transfer and mitigation programs
financing b) Results in actions that also support other
c) Rehabilitation d) All of these important local or tribal goals and objectives
Q58 Master Plans Zoning, training Capacity Building c) Prompts leaders to include considerations for
and Good governance are part of reducing risk when making decisions for the
a) Vulnerability entire community
b) Structural mitigation d) All of above .
c) Non structural mitigation Q71 A body of knowledge built by a group of people
d) Social Impacts of disaster through generations of living in close contact with
Q59 Around 68% of India's total area is prone to nature in known as
a) Drought b) Cyclones a) Resource Knowledge
c) Earthquakes d) None of these b) Modern Skilled Knowledge
Q60 NDRF stands for c) Indigenous Knowledge
a) National Disaster Resource Force d) Ancestoral Knowledge
b) National Disaster Response Force Q72 Composite risk is defined as
c) National Disaster Relief Force a) Element at risk (E) X Specific risk (RS)
d) National Disaster Research Forest b) Element at risk (E)+ Specific risk (RS)
Q61 Which of the following affects the probability that c) Element at risk (E)- Specific risk (RS)
a risk mitigation option will be implemented? d) Element at risk (E) / Specific risk (RS)
a) Political and public Transport Q73 Preparedness measures are ------------
b) Financial cost a) Providing warning systems
c) Long and short term benefits b) Emergency communications
d) All of these c) Public Education / Awareness
Q62 The speedy flow of …………….. is Avalanche d) All of these
a) Snow b) water Q74 Who among the examples of indigenous people on
c) Air d) None of these earth?
Q63 Which event produces the biggest tsunami? a) Massai of kenya
a) Earthquake b) Aboriginals of Australia
b) Impacts of asteriods and comets c) Jawaras of Andaman and Nicobar islands
c) Underwater Landslides d) Snowman's of Arctic Region
d) Volcanoes Q75 A check dams composed of
a) A spillway,embankment and the outlet
Q64 The agency that handles the mechanisms of b) embankment and the outlet
different aspects of disaster in india is c) A spillway,tiers the outlet
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d) None of above d) None of these
Q76 Which of the following is not a possible future Q91 Vulnerability profile of india is
Pandemic? a) Dependent up on geotectonic set ups of the
a) Antibiotic resistance b) Seasonal Flu region
c) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome b) dependent upon social structure and
d)Biological warfar demography of the region
Q77 Which one is man-made disaster? c)dependent up on the physical conditions of the
a) Mine fire b) Electric fire infrastructures and dwellings
c) Nuclear Fire d) All of these d) All of these
Q78 The role of a PTWC system is Q92 Hansen’s disease is also called as ----------
a) epidemic hazard alert a) Leprosy b) Cholera
b) Volcanic hazard alert c) Typhoid d) none of these
c) In telecommunication systems for Tsunami alert Q93 Sins of dam building includes
d) None of these a) Following downstream flows
Q79 Mitigation activities are categorized as b) Neglecting biodiversity
a) Structural b) Non Structural c) Acquiring social license
c) Both a) and b) d) None of these d) None of these
Q80 Decreased revenue due to loss or deferral of taxes Q94 Traditional knowledge for disaster management
is --------------- impact of disaster. should not be
a) Social b) economic a) static b) dynamic
c) Psychosocial d) All of these c) experimental d) Applied
Q81 Primary sectors vulnerable towards disaster are Q95 The number of seismic zones in India
a) Agriculture b) Manufacturing a) 2 b) 3
c) Trade d) Services c) 4 d) 5
Q82 The individual, societal, political and other cultural Q96 Which of the following is not a component of
factors which effect a particular population's disaster relief?
ability to cope with hazards is related to a) Health and sanitation b) food supply
a)physical vulnerability c) Medical attention d) none of these
b) social vulnerability Q97 Sustainable development includes which of the
c) environment vulnerability following parameter?
d) economic vulnerability a) Social b) Environmental
Q83 Identify which one is a constituent of anti-disaster c) Economical d) All of these
phase of disaster management cycle Q98 National Policy on Disaster Management has been
a) relief b) recovery formulated and approved in
c) preparedness d) prevention a) 2009 b) 2010
Q84 New Delhi, the capital of India lies in c) 2008 d) 2007
a) zone II b) zone III Q99 A transferable indigenous knowledge should be
c) zone IV d) zone V a) implementable b) need based
Q85 National policy on disaster management has been c) time tested and useful d) All of these
formulated and approved in the following year Q100 Nuclear Disasters come under
a) 2009 b) 2010 a) Ministry of Environment and forest
c) 2008 d) None of these b) Ministry of Agriculture
Q86 In India, the cyclonic activities are more severe in c) Ministry of Atomic Energy
the d) Ministry of railways
a) west coast b) east coast
c) southern coast d) none of these
Q87 Most of india lies in seismic zone
a) II b) III
c) IV d) V
Q88 Economic groups vulnerable to disasters are
a) Non workers b) Small farmers
c) Both a) and b) d) None of these
Q89 Central Relief commissioner in the MHA is head of
a) CMG b) NCMC
c) both a) and b) d) None of these
Q90 Hazard profile of India is
a)Independent up on geotectonic conditions of the
region
b) dependent up on the social strata of the region
c) dependent up on the geotectonic set ups of the
region