HIV and AIDS - Class VIII

Comprehensive quiz covering HIV transmission, prevention, symptoms, virus structure, immune system effects, and related sexually transmitted diseases for class VIII students.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the correct answer among the alternatives given :


The sexually transmitted disease, that can affect both the male and the female genitals and may damage the eyes of babies born of infected mothers is

  1. AIDS
  2. Syphilis
  3. Gonorrhoea
  4. Hepatitis
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following statements is correct with respect to AIDS?

  1. Drug addicts are least susceptible to HIV infection
  2. AIDS patients are being fully cured $100\%$ with proper care and nutrition
  3. The causative HIV retrovirus reduces the number of T-helper lymphocytes
  4. HIV can be transmitted through eating food together with an infected person
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the correct statement/s.
I. A person suffering from AIDS may die from any disease.
II. When a person suffers from AIDS, then his/her immune system becomes stronger.

  1. Only I
  2. Only II
  3. Both are correct
  4. Both are incorrect
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following diseases spreads through infected needles or blood transfusion?

  1. Jaundice
  2. AIDS
  3. Measles
  4. Polio
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The most mutable virus is

  1. Chicken Pox Virus
  2. $HIV$
  3. Influenza Virus
  4. Dengue Virus
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS does not spread through

  1. Common syringes and needles
  2. Blood transfusion
  3. Sexual contact
  4. Sharing meals
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS day

  1. 1$^{st}$ May
  2. 5$^{st}$ December
  3. 31$^{st}$ June
  4. 1$^{st}$ December
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the below given statements are true?

  1. A person can contract AIDS due to unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person.
  2. A person can contract AIDS while getting permanent tattooing with an infected needle.
  3. A person cannot contract AIDS by donating blood to a HIV infected person
  4. All the statements are true.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Read the following statements regarding the HIV virus.
A. It is a type of retrovirus which has an envelope enclosing the diploid RNA genome
B. It multiplies in helper $T$ cells and produces progeny virus.
C. In the macrophages of the host, RNA genome of the virus replicates to form viral DNA
D. Reverse transcriptase becomes inactive in the host cell.
How many of the above statements are correct?

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Four
  4. Three
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative HIV?

  1. HIV does not escape but attacks the acquired immune response
  2. HIV is enveloped virus containing one molecule of single stranded RNA and one molecule of reverse transcriptase
  3. HIV is envelope virus that contains two identical molecules of single stranded RNA and two molecules of reverse transcriptase
  4. HIV is unenveloped retrovirus
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not the mode of spread of AIDS?

  1. Contaminated blood transfusion
  2. Vertical transmission
  3. Contaminated water and food
  4. Both (b) and (c)
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Only one of the following four ways through which AIDS can spread

  1. Infected needles and syringes
  2. Through mosquito bites
  3. Looking after AIDS patient
  4. Shaking hands, coughing, sneezing, hugging
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is confirmed by:-

  1. ELISA
  2. Wester
  3. Ames test
  4. North
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV decreases natural immunity of the body by destroying 

  1. Erythrocytes
  2. Antibodies
  3. T-Lymphocytes
  4. B-Lymphocytes
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is not a disease that can be .......... through the air or by insects.

  1. Circulated
  2. Transferred
  3. Transmitted
  4. Conducted
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In AIDS, which kind of tumour is common?

  1. Lymphoma
  2. Sarcoma
  3. Adenocarcinoma
  4. Carcinoma
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In context of AIDS, which of the following statement is wrong?

  1. It is a viral disease.
  2. It is sexually transmitted disease.
  3. It can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
  4. It can be transmitted by shakehand and sharing food.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the 30 pregnant female A.I.D.S. patient are admitted in female ward in the hospital. Find out the probable number of neonates (Children) having the H.I.V. from these pregnant females.

  1. 30 children
  2. 20 children
  3. 10 children
  4. 3 children
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following is spread through sexual contact ?

  1. tuberculosis
  2. tetanus
  3. malaria
  4. AIDS.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider the following statements.
AIDS is transmitted
1. By sexual intercourse.
2. By blood transfusion.
3. By mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects.
4. Across placenta.

  1. 1, 2 and 3 are correct
  2. 1, 2 and 4 are correct
  3. 1, 3 and 4 are correct
  4. All of the above
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS spreads through

  1. Blood transfusion
  2. Placental tissue
  3. Sexual intercourse
  4. All of the above
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS virus cannot be transmitted by

  1. Sharing needles and syringes
  2. Hugs and hands shakes
  3. Sexual contact
  4. Blood tranfusion
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following causes AIDS?

  1. Sharing needles of the syringe
  2. Blood transfusion from infected person to healthy person
  3. Breast feeding to child
  4. All of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these diseases are transmitted through body fluids ?

  1. AIDS and hepatitis-B
  2. Malaria and typhoid
  3. Influenza and cholera
  4. Cholera and rabies
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV infection can be detected through 

  1. Electron microscopy
  2. Endoscopy
  3. ELISA test
  4. Litnotrophy
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS virus contains or Human immuno deficiency (HIV) virus has protein coat and genetic material which is





  1. Single stranded RNA with protein
  2. Double stranded RNA
  3. Single stranded DNA with protein
  4. Double stranded DNA
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV causes reduction of

  1. T-helper cells only
  2. All T-cells
  3. B-cells only
  4. Both B and T-cells
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At which stage, of HIV infection does one usually show symptoms of AIDS?

  1. Within 15 days of sexual contact with an infected person
  2. When the infecting retrovirus enters host cells
  3. When viral DNA is produced by reverse transcriptase
  4. When HIV replicates rapidly in helper T-lymphocytes and starts to reduce the number of T$ _H$ cells by destroying them.
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

People who are at high risk for HIV infection are 

  1. Individuals who have multiple sexual partners
  2. Drug addicts who take drugs intravenously
  3. Individuals who require repeated blood transfusions
  4. All of the above
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong statement.

  1. HIV virus has RNA as its genetic material.
  2. HIV virus replicates in TH lymphocytes.
  3. Anti-retroviral drugs are only partially effective for AIDS treatment.
  4. HIV spreads by sexual contact or sharing needle with the infected person and not by mere touch of physical contact.
  5. The time-lag between the infection and appearance of AIDS symptom may vary from few hours to a week.
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$HIV$ causes immunodeficiency in

  1. Multiplicative state
  2. Single strand $DNA$ state
  3. $RNA$ state
  4. Provirus state
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following does not follow the central dogma of molecular biology

  1. HIV
  2. Pea
  3. Mucor
  4. Chlamydomonas
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following does not follow central dogma of molecular biology

  1. Mucor
  2. Chlamydomonas
  3. HIV
  4. Pea
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS virus found in India is 

  1. HIV-1
  2. HIV-2
  3. HIV-3
  4. HIV-4
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is transmitted through

  1. Hand shake
  2. Courtship
  3. Blood transfusion
  4. All of the above
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV has a protein coat and a genetic material which is 

  1. ss DNA
  2. ds DNA
  3. ss RNA
  4. ds RNA
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A disease transferred from mother to child through placenta is 

  1. German measles
  2. Syphilis
  3. AIDS
  4. All of the above
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS does not spread

  1. By sexual intercoure
  2. By hand shake
  3. Through blood
  4. From mother to baby
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV decreases natural immunity by 

  1. Attacking B-lymphocytes
  2. Destroying antibodies
  3. Attacking T-lymphocytes
  4. Destroying erythrocytes
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is caused by HIV that principally infects 

  1. All lymphocytes
  2. Activator B-cells
  3. Cytotoxic T-cells
  4. T-4 helper lymphocytes
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After entering T-cell, HIV first forms

  1. m RNA
  2. ss DNA
  3. ds DNA
  4. ds RNA
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS does not spreads through 

  1. Using a syringe used by an AIDS patient
  2. Through contact with clothes of an AIDS patient
  3. Through mother with AIDS to the foetus during pregnancy
  4. Through the breast feeding by AIDS suffering mother to a child
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At which stage of HIV infection does the patient shows symptoms of AIDS

  1. HIV replicates repidly in helper T-lymphocytes and damages a large number of them
  2. within 15 days o sexual contact with an infected person
  3. When an infecting retrovirus enters host cells
  4. When viral DNA is produced by reverse transcriptase
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative HIV

  1. HIV does not escape but attacks the acquire immunity response
  2. HIV is enveloped virus containing one molecule of single RNA and one molecule of reverse transcriptase
  3. HIV is enveloped virus that contains two identical molecules of single stranded RNA and two molecules of reverse trancriptase
  4. HIV is uneneveloped retrovirus
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following belongs to retrovirus group?

  1. Dengue virus
  2. Hepetitis virus
  3. Influenza virus
  4. HIV
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS cannot be transmitted by

  1. Sexual contact
  2. Hugs
  3. Breast feeding
  4. Blood transfusion
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following diseases spread through infected needles or by blood transfusion?

  1. Measles
  2. Mumps
  3. AIDS
  4. Kalazar
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS by

  1. depleting $CD _{4}^{+}$ T-helper lymphocytes
  2. increasing $CD _{4}^{+}$ T-helper lymphocytes
  3. depleting $CD _{4}^{+}$ T- helper erythrocytes
  4. increasing $CD _{4}^{+}$ T- helper erythrocytes
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV selectively targets.

  1. B - memory cells
  2. B - effector cells
  3. T - cytotoxic cells
  4. T - helper cells
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following cells are infected in case of HIV infection?

  1. $T _H$-cells
  2. Macrophages
  3. $CD^+ _4$ cells
  4. All of the above
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider the following statements and select the option which correctly identifies true(T) and false(F).
AIDS virus kills WBC and reduces immunity of the body.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Identify the incorrect statement about the HIV virus.

  1. The viral nucleotides contain ribose.
  2. HIV contains uracil, not thymine.
  3. HIV infection begins with the entrance of the virus into the host when the gp 120 and gp 41 function to pull the virus across the plasma membrane.
  4. HIV makes the host cell produce reverse transcriptase.
  5. Immunization against HIV has proven difficult because the virus mutates so rapidly.
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The HIV virus compromises the immune system mainly by infecting:

  1. Cytotoxic 1-cells
  2. Helper T-cells
  3. Suppressor T-cells
  4. Plasma cells
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HIV infects all of the following except

  1. Monocytes
  2. T-cells
  3. Macrophages
  4. B-cells
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The human immuno deficiency virus (HIV) is a living entity because it can

  1. Undergoes reproduction in the host cell
  2. Disturb host cell respiration
  3. Excrete in human serum
  4. Move from one cell to another
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At which stage of HIV infection does on usually show symptoms of AIDS?

  1. When the infecting retrovirus enters host cells
  2. When vital DNA is produced by reverse transcriptase
  3. When HIV replicates rapidly in helper T-lymphocytes and damage large number of these
  4. Within $15$ days of sexual contact with an infected person
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is caused by

  1. Corynebacterium diphtheriae
  2. Human immuno deficiency virus
  3. Rubella virus
  4. Varicella virus
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS days is on?

  1. $1$st November
  2. $10$ December
  3. $1$st December
  4. $4$th June
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In India, AIDS was reported in

  1. 1932
  2. 1986
  3. 1990
  4. 1992
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

World AIDS Day is celebrated on

  1. 1 December
  2. 29 December
  3. 3 October
  4. 22 March
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS can be transmitted through

  1. Blood transfusion
  2. Hand shake
  3. Courtship
  4. All of the above
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who discovered ''reverse transcription''?

  1. Watson and Crick
  2. Beadle and Tatum
  3. Temin and Baltimore
  4. Khorana
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Number of AIDS patients believed to be present in India is currently

  1. 20,000
  2. 2,00,000
  3. 20,00,000
  4. 3,000,000
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS was first reported in U.S.A in

  1. 1981
  2. 1971
  3. 1984
  4. 1986
Question 65 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS is a

  1. Contagious
  2. Infectious
  3. Non-contagious
  4. Both B and C
Question 66 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Approximate number of AIDs patients worldwide is 

  1. 2 million
  2. 36.9 million
  3. 200 million
  4. 300 million
Question 67 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS virus enter the human body through

  1. Food
  2. Kissing
  3. Water
  4. Blood
Question 68 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong statement.

  1. Time lag between infection and appearance of AIDS is a few hours to a week.
  2. The genetic material of HIV is RNA.
  3. HIV replicates in T$ _4$ lymphocytes.
  4. ARV drugs are only partially effective in AIDS treatment.
  5. HIV spreads through sexual contact and sharing a needle and not by a mere touch or physical contact.
Question 69 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is correct with respect to AIDS ?

  1. Drug addicts are least susceptible to HIV infection.
  2. AIDS patients are being fully cured cent percent with proper care and nutrition.
  3. The causative HIV retroviruses enters helper T-lymphocytes thus reducing their number.
  4. HIV can be transmitted through eating food together with an infected person.
Question 70 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS virus has 

  1. Single strand DNA
  2. Double strand DNA
  3. Single strand RNA
  4. Double strand RNA
Question 71 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong statement regarding AIDS

  1. It is an immunodeficiency diease
  2. It is an caused by retrovirus HIV
  3. HIV selectively infects and kills B-lymphocytes
  4. Genome RNA replicates via DNA intermediate
  5. Viral RNA genome is converted into copy DNA by reserve transcriptasea
Question 72 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At which stage of HIV infection does one usually show symptoms of AIDS

  1. When infective retro-virus enters in host cells.
  2. When HIV damages large number of helper T-lymphocytes.
  3. When the viral DNA is produced by reverse transcription.
  4. Within 15 days of sexual contact with an infected person.
Question 73 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In AIDS patient, a reduction of 10% weight indicates

  1. ARC
  2. Acute infections stage
  3. Symptomatic stage
  4. Nonsymptomatic stage
Question 74 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative agent HIV?

  1. HIV is enveloped virus containing one molecule of single-stranded RNA and one molecule of reverse transcriptase
  2. HIV is enveloped virus that contains two identical molecules of single-stranded RNA and two molecules of reverse transcriptase
  3. HIV is unenveloped retrovirus
  4. HIV does not escape but attacks the acquired immune response
Question 75 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an example of acquired disease:

  1. Albinism
  2. AIDS
  3. Cat Eye syndrome
  4. Down syndrome
Question 76 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

AIDS related complex or ARC is 

  1. Initial form of AIDS
  2. Not linked to AIDS
  3. Severe form of AIDS
  4. Non of the above
Question 77 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Among the following, most dangerous STD is caused by

  1. Treponema pallidum
  2. Human immunodeficiency virus
  3. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  4. Hepatitis B virus
Question 78 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the columns

i) Yeast a) Causing AIDS
ii) Virus b) Baking of bread
iii) Rhizobium c) Fixing nitrogen
  1. I- c, II- b, III- a
  2. I- a, II- b, III- c
  3. I- b, II- a, III- c
  4. I- b, II- c, III- a
Question 79 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gonorrhoea is caused by

  1. Bacteria
  2. Virus
  3. Fungi
  4. Protozoa
Question 80 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Organ that can be affected by untreated syphilis is

  1. Heart
  2. Brain
  3. Liver
  4. Both A and B
Question 81 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is STD?

  1. Cancer
  2. Malaria
  3. Pneumonia
  4. Trichomoniasis
Question 82 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria is 

  1. Leprosy
  2. AIDS
  3. Syphilis
  4. Pertussis
Question 83 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following STDs are not completely curable?

  1. Chlamydiasis, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis
  2. Chancroid, syphilis, genital warts
  3. AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis B
  4. AIDS, genital herpes, hepatitis B
Question 84 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Confirmatory test for STDs is

  1. ELISA
  2. PCR
  3. DNA hybridisation
  4. all of these
Question 85 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

It is normally a rare cancer but became a marker of AIDS/ HIV patients.

  1. Squamous cell carcinoma
  2. Retinoblastoma
  3. Kaposi's sarcoma
  4. Lukaemia
Question 86 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following statements is correct regarding sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)?

  1. A person may contact syphilis by sharing milk with one already suffering from the disease.
  2. Haemophilia is one of the STDs.
  3. Genital herpes and sickle-cell anaemia are both STDs.
  4. The chances of a 5-years boy contracting a STD are very rare.
Question 87 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The smear of herpes virus is stained blue with

  1. 1% methylene blue
  2. 1% alcian blue
  3. 1% toluidine blue
  4. 1% coomassie blue
Question 88 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To avoid transmission of STDs we should
(i) Avoid sex with multiple partners
(ii) Always have unprotected sex
(iii) Use condoms during coitus
(iv) Avoid sex with unknown partners
(v) Avoid sharing of needles

  1. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)
  2. (i), (iii), (iv) and (v)
  3. (i), (ii) and (iii)
  4. (i), (ii) and (iv)