Ethics Integrity and Aptitude Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

The correct answer is data, facts and logic. The peripheral route uses indirect cues like a celebrity or positive feelings. It needs much less thought from the listener.

The correct answer is what you believe or know about it. Affect is feeling and behaviour is action. The three parts can disagree, as when a person knows smoking is harmful yet still smokes.

The correct answer is value-expressive. Katz’s four functions are knowledge, utilitarian, ego-defensive and value-expressive. A value-expressive attitude shows our core values and identity to others.

The correct answer is through education and also through family and society. Values are learned from many agents, not only from schools. Memory hook: values are taught at home as well as in class.

Premji set up the Foundation in 2001 as an operating organisation to improve public schools.

The correct answer is Social deregulation. Anomie is a condition in which social rules stop working. Memory hook: a-nomos, no norms.

The correct answer is A social fact. He said each society has a definite aptitude for suicide, shown by its rate. Memory hook: rates belong to societies.

The correct answer is Zhuangzi. He lived in the late fourth century BC and is the pivotal figure of classical philosophical Daoism. Laozi is linked with the Daodejing. Memory hook: Zhuangzi and the butterfly.

The correct answer is Nonaction. The Daodejing pairs wuwei (nonaction) with ziran (naturalness). It says the sage manages affairs without doing anything. Memory hook: wuwei means do not force.

The correct answer is Laozi. The tradition says he wrote the book at the request of the border official Yin Xi. It has some five thousand characters in two parts. Some scholars treat Laozi as legendary. Memory hook: Laozi wrote the Way.

The correct answer is The Order of the Star in the East. It was formed to prepare the world for a coming world teacher. In 1929 he dissolved it and returned the money and property. Memory hook: 1929, the Order ends.

The answer is Not Me But You. The scheme was launched on 24 September 1969. Memory hook: service turns values into habits.

The answer is the bomber who aims at military targets and merely foresees civilian deaths. The Stanford Encyclopedia calls this the tactical bomber. The civilian deaths it causes are foreseen but unintended. Why the others fail: the terror bomber intends the deaths, so terror bombing is impermissible. Small numbers do not change that. Double effect also does not ban all civilian harm. Memory hook: tactical bomber, unintended side effect.

The answer is 141 votes in favour and 5 against. The five against were Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria. The resolution demanded that Russia immediately withdraw its forces and abide by international law. Why the others fail: 96 is the number of co-sponsors, not the vote. The vote was not reversed. It was not unanimous. Memory hook: 141 yes, 5 no.

The answer is Responsibility to Protect. Paragraph 138 of the 2005 text says each State has that responsibility. Paragraph 139 puts peaceful means first for the international community and allows timely, decisive action in line with the UN Charter. Why the others fail: right intention is a test for going to war. Double effect is about unintended harm. Supreme emergency is about rare threats. Memory hook: R2P was accepted in 2005.

The answer is No action is taken on it. The Act says no action is taken on a public interest disclosure if it does not indicate the identity of the complainant. PRS notes that every complaint has to include the complainant’s identity. Why the others fail: the Act gives no secret inquiry, no Supreme Court referral and no public-complaint route. Memory hook: no name, no action.

The answer is Section 215 did not authorise it. The court held that the bulk telephone metadata programme was not authorised by Section 215. It declined to read the relevance standard as allowing broad, nationwide collection. Why the others fail: the court did not find Section 215 enough. The ruling does not turn on Section 702. It also declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the programme. Memory hook: ruling first, FREEDOM Act a month later.

The answer is Central Vigilance Commission. The PIDPI Resolution was notified on 21 April 2004, after a Supreme Court writ petition filed following the murder of Satyendra Dubey. It gave the CVC power to act on complaints from whistle-blowers. Why the others fail: the Election Commission, the CAG and the UPSC are not named in the resolution. Memory hook: PIDPI, 2004, vigilance.

The answer is that it damages public trust and the standing of institutions. Public office carries power over other people’s lives and money, so a failure there costs more than a private one. Why the others fail: A public failure does not affect only the official’s family. Public officials are bound by law. Private failures can also be ethical failures. Memory hook: public office, public trust.

The answer is Eudaimonia. Aristotle’s ethics turns to eudaimonia, usually translated happiness or flourishing, and to the virtues that support it. Why the others fail: Ethos means character. Ataraxia means calm of mind. Hedone means pleasure, the hedonist’s good. Memory hook: eudaimonia means flourishing.

Courts enforce law. They do not always enforce ethics, so an act can be legal yet unethical.

The answer is Normative ethics. It sets standards of right conduct, and utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics are its main families. Why the others fail: Meta-ethics asks what moral words mean. Descriptive ethics records beliefs. Applied ethics uses the standards on real problems. Memory hook: normative means ‘ought’.

The answer is Social skills. Goleman describes it as proficiency in managing relationships and building networks, and the ability to find common ground and build rapport. Why the others fail: Self-regulation and self-awareness are about your own emotions. Motivation is about drive. Memory hook: social skills reach outward to people.

The answer is Self-awareness. Goleman defines it as recognising and understanding your moods, emotions and drives, and their effect on others. In 2001 he called it the first component. Why the others fail: Motivation is drive, empathy is about others, and social skills is about relationships. Memory hook: know your own feelings first.

The EU AI Act’s four tiers run from unacceptable risk (banned outright) through high-risk (heavily regulated) and limited-risk (transparency duties only) to minimal-risk (largely unregulated). This risk-tiered model is one influential point of comparison for India’s own lighter-touch, principle-based guidelines.