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Assistant Public Prosecutor Gr.II-Kerala State Assistant Date of Test : 22/01/2019

answer key

1.Ayyankali met Sreenarayana guru at __________.
(A) Eraviperoor
(B) Balaramapuram
(C) Thiruvalla
(D) Guruvayoor

2. Who translated the speeches of Kamaraj from Tamil to Malayalam whenever he visited Malabar ? (A) Arya Pallam 

(B) Lalitha Prabhu 

(C) Anna Chandi 

(D) A.V. Kuttimalu Amma 

3. Who founded ‘Kallyanadayini Sabha’ at Aanapuzha ? 

(A) Pandit K.P. Karuppan 

(B) Thycaud Ayya 

(C) V.T. Bhattathirippad 

(D) Vagbhadananda 

4. ‘Vicharaviplavam’ is the work of __________. 

(A) N. Krishnapillai 

(B) E.V. Krishnapillai 

(C) Kuttipuzha Krishnapillai 

(D) Changampuzha 

Krishnapillai 

5. William Tobias Ringeltaube is related to __________. 

(A) London Mission Society 

(B) Senana Missionary 

(C) Church Mission Society 

(D) Basel Evangalical Missionary 

6. The state bird of Rajasthan : 

(A) Peacock 

(B) Northern goshawk 

(C) The great Indian Bustard 

(D) Parrot 

7. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017 ? 

(A) Kazuo Ishiguro 

(B) Alice Munro 

(C) Patrick Modiano 

(D) Bob Dylan 

8. Saina Nehwal is related to : 

(A) Volleyball 

(B) Chess 

(C) Hockey 

(D) Badminton 

9. Who introduced the idea ‘Late Capitalism’ ? 

(A) Earnest Mandel 

(B) Marshall 

(C) Malthus 

(D) Keynes 

10. International Mother language day is on : 

(A) 23rd April 

(B) 1st July 

(C) 22nd April 

(D) 21st February

11. ‘Right to education’ was inserted in Part III of the constitution by :

(A) 86th Amendment Act 2002 

(B) 85th Amendment Act 2001 

(C) 82nd Amendment Act 2000 

(D) None of the above 

12. The right guaranteed under Article 32 can be suspended : 

(A) by the Parliament 

(B) by the State Legislature 

(C) by the Supreme Court of India 

(D) When the proclamation of emergency is in operation 

13. The feature ‘power of judicial review’ is borrowed from which of the following country ? 

(A) Canada 

(B) USA 

(C) UK 

(D) Ireland 

14. The term of President expires : 

(A) Five years from the date of entering to the office 

(B) Five years from the date of declaring the results 

(C) Four years from the date of entering the office 

(D) Till the life time 

15. The power to dissolve the Loksabha is vested with : 

(A) Speaker of Loksabha 

(B) Council of Ministers 

(C) President of India on the advise of Prime Minister 

(D) Governors of the union territories 

16. Article 361 of the constitution of India guarantees the privilege to the President of India that, he shall : 

(A) only be answerable to the Chief Justice of India 

(B) not participate in Parliamentary proceedings 

(C) not answerable to any court proceedings during the term of his office 

(D) address both the Houses of Parliament at the time of joint session 

17. Representation of House of people is based on : 

(A) population 

(B) area of state 

(C) community 

(D) literacy rate 

18. An Ordinary Bill becomes a law : 

(A) when it is passed by both the Houses and gets the assent of the President 

(B) as soon as it is passed by the House in which it originated 

(C) as soon as it is passed by the both the Houses 

(D) none of the above 

 19. The maximum interval between the two sessions of each House of the Parliament 

(A) Three months 

(B) Six months 

(C) 9 months 

(D) 1 year 

20. Minimum age of a person to become a member of a Legislative Council : 

(A) 40 yrs 

(B) 35 yrs 

(C) 30 yrs 

(D) 25 yrs 

21. While the proclamation of emergency is in operation the State Government : 

(A) cannot legislate 

(B) can legislate on the subject of state list 

(C) can legislate only on lists in concurrent list 

(D) is suspended 

22. Part XVIII of the Indian Constitution provides for the declaration of :

(A) National Emergency 

(B) State Emergency 

(C) Financial Emergency 

(D) All the above

 23. The First Constitutional Amendment was challenged in : 

(A) Sankari Prasad v. Union of India 

(B) Sajjan Singh v. State of Rajasthan 

(C) A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras 

(D) Golaknath v. State of Punjab 

24. The provision for amending the constitution is given in : 

(A) Part XIX Article 356 

(B) Part XX Article 356 

(C) Part XX Article 368 

(D) Part XIX Article 368