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Why Do We Fall Ill - 1 (Class IX)

Why Do We Fall Ill - 1

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an autoimmune disease?

  1. Cancer
  2. Asthma
  3. Typhoid
  4. Rheumatoid arthritis
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following pairs of diseases can spread through blood transfusion?

  1. Cholera and hepatitis
  2. Hepatitis and AIDS
  3. Diabetes mellitus and malaria
  4. Hay fever and AIDS
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hydrophobia occurs during

  1. tetanus
  2. rabies
  3. polio
  4. cholera
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

B.C.G. vaccine is used against

  1. T.B.
  2. leprosy
  3. food poisoning
  4. None of these
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements regarding vaccine is incorrect?

  1. A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease.
  2. Vaccine contains a substance called antigen, which is recognised by our body's immune system as foreign.
  3. The antigens in vaccines are weakened or killed versions of substances that cause diseases.
  4. Vaccines can be administered against all infectious diseases.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following conditions is/are essential for good health?

  1. Proper sanitation
  2. Availability of clean drinking water
  3. Social equality and harmony
  4. Availability of adequate and nutritious food
  5. All of the above
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a degenerative disease?

  1. Arthritis
  2. Poor sight
  3. Depression
  4. Hearing defects
  5. Osteoporosis
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following factors can cause diseases?

a. Environmental factors
b. Specific infective agents
c. Inherent defects of the organism

  1. Only a
  2. Only a and b
  3. Only b and c
  4. Only b
  5. All a, b and c
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a disease caused by extrinsic factors?

  1. Kidney failure
  2. Beri-Beri
  3. Osteoporosis
  4. Haemophillia
  5. Cataract
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a protein deficiency disease?

  1. Xeropthalmia
  2. Night blindness
  3. Beri-Beri
  4. Kwashiorkor
  5. Cheilosis
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a characteristic of communicable diseases?

  1. Community hygiene is ineffective in reducing the incidence of these diseases.
  2. They are caused by the attack of pathogens.
  3. These diseases are caused by internal factors.
  4. Transmission of these diseases does not occur.
  5. They occur due to the deficiency of nutrients in the diet.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following microorganisms cause 'elephantiasis'?

  1. Bacteria
  2. Parasites
  3. Protozoa
  4. Viruses
  5. Fungi
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following measures can be adopted to prevent an infectious disease?

a. We should adopt the living conditions that are not overcrowded to avoid exposure to air-borne microbes.
b. Safe drinking water should be provided to prevent exposure to water-borne microbes.
c. Clean environment should be provided that should not allow mosquito breeding to prevent vector-borne diseases.

  1. Only a
  2. Only a and b
  3. Only b and c
  4. Only b
  5. All a, b and c
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

All of the following are symptoms of AIDS, except

  1. swollen lymph nodes
  2. regular fever
  3. sweating at night
  4. malignant cancer of the liver cells
  5. weight loss
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a causative agent of diarrhoea?

  1. Escherichia coli
  2. Entamoeba
  3. Rotavirus
  4. Ascaris
  5. Salmonella
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