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UNIT 5: DISEASE CAUSES & PREVENTION
Multiple Choice Questions
Encircle the appropriate answer:1. Malaria is caused by:
a) Virus
b) Bacteria
c) Fungi
d) Protozoan ✓
2. Goitre is caused by:
a) Endocrine malfunction ✓
b) Viral infection
c) Bacterial infection
d) Nutritional deficiency
3. Which one is viral disease:
a) Small Pox ✓
b) Tetanus
c) Typhoid
d) Cholera
4. BCG vaccine is used for treatment of:
a) Influenza
b) Tetanus
c) Tuberculosis ✓
d) Hepatitis
5. Influenza is caused by:
a) Air ✓
b) Drinking water
c) Mosquito
d) Shake hand
6. Body fluid containing the enzyme lysosome:
a) Saliva
b) Gastric Juice
c) Pancreatic Juice
d) Tears ✓
7. Heroin is a:
a) Stimulant
b) Hallucinogen
c) Narcotic ✓
d) Causative drug
8. A type of psychosis:
a) Schizophrenia ✓
b) Anxiety
c) Hysteria
d) Depression
9. Which of the disease is not caused by viruses?
a) Polio
b) Typhoid ✓
c) Flue
d) Measles
10. Amoebic dysentery is caused by:
a) Parasites ✓
b) Viruses
c) Bacteria
d) Fungus
11) MMR is the Vaccine against:
a) HIV/AIDs
b) Hepatitis
c) Measles ✓
d) Small pox
12) Jaw-lock or lock-jaw is caused by:
a) Cholera
b) Typhoid
c) Tetanus ✓
d) Diphtheria
13. Malaria is caused by:
a) Vibrio cholerae
b) Variola
c) Mycobacterium
d) Plasmodium ✓
14. Which disease is caused by blood transfusion?
a) Tuberculosis
b) Diphtheria
c) AIDS ✓
d) Typhoid
15. Caffeine in tea and cocaine that comes from cocoa plant are:
a) Stimulant ✓
b) depressant
c) Narcotics
d) None of these
16. Hepatitis ___ virus called delta antigen:
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D ✓
17. AIDS is caused by ___ virus.
a) HIV ✓
b) HAV
c) Vibrio Coma
d) Salmonella Typhae
18. Small pox is a disease caused by a virus called:
a) Mycobacterium
b) Delta antigen
c) Variola ✓
d) Plasmodium
19. Small Pox has been eradicated by:
a) Medicines
b) Sanitation ✓
c) Vaccination
d) Immunity
20. _______is a disease caused by Virus.
a) T.B.
b) Whooping Cough
c) Measles ✓
d) Ring Worm
21. _____ is a disease of Inflammation of Liver.
a) Pneumonia
b) AIDS
c) T.B.
d) Hepatitis ✓
22. ______ is a disease of alimentary canal caused by bacteria.
a) Cholera
b) Whooping Cough
c) Diphtheria
d) Typhoid ✓
23. ______ results into dehydration of body.
a) AIDS
b) T.B.
c) Cholera ✓
d) Diphtheria
24. _________ is caused by a protozoan called Plasmodium.
a) Cholera
b) Malaria ✓
c) Athlete's Foot
d) Tetanus
25. _______ is treated by Quinine and Chloro Quinine.
a) Malaria ✓
b) T.B.
c) Typhoid
d) AIDS
26. Living beings spreading or carrying germs are called:
a) Antibodies
b) Lysozyme
c) Vectors ✓
d) Fungi
27. The Germicide enzyme is called:
a) Pepsin
b) Amylopsin
c) Lysozyme ✓
d) Lipase
28. _______ is a poisonous compound found in the tobacco smoke.
a) Caffeine
b) Nicotine ✓
c) Morphine
d) Heroin
29. ______ is a mental disease of Psychosis.
a) Pneumonia
b) Schizophrenia ✓
c) Amphetamine
d) Bronchitis
30. ______ is an internal parasite.
a) Ascaris ✓
b) Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
c) Vibrio Coma
d) Anopheles
31. _______ creates paralysis effects and the patient becomes lame.
a) Influenza
b) Poliomyelitis ✓
c) Small Pox
d) Diphtheria
32. _____ do not have root, stem and leaves.
a) Algae
b) Fungi ✓
c) Virus
d) Bacteria
33. _______ is caused by the virus Variola.
a) AIDS
b) Influenza
c) Small Pox ✓
d) Typhoid
34. BCG vaccine is inoculated in the disease of ________.
a) Hepatitis
b) T.B. ✓
c) Cholera
d) Malaria
35. Hepatitis is the swelling of:
a) Stomach
b) Liver ✓
c) Intestine
d) Throat
36. The Haemophilia is a disease of:
a) Blood ✓
b) Body
c) Brain
d) Nervous
Fill In The Blanks with appropriate terms:
- The condition which disturbs the normal functioning of body is called disease.
- Haemophilia is a/an hereditary disease.
- Disease causing agents are called pathogens.
- Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium mycobacterium.
- Nicotine enters your body by cigarette smoking.
- Dependence on a drug is called drug addiction.
- Depressant drugs slow down the functioning nervous system.
- Stimulant drugs speed up or increase the functioning of the nervous system.
- A disease is an abnormal functioning of the body.
- Disease may be the result of diet deficiency , heredity factor, endocrine gland malfunction, aging or infection of a pathogen.
- Pathogens are disease causing organism.
- Pathogens may be viruses, bacteria fungi, protozoans or worms.
- Polio, small pox, influenza, measles, AIDS and hepatitis are the common viral diseases.
- Ring worm and athlete's foot are common fungal diseases.
- Antibiotic and vaccines kill the pathogen and thus cure the diseases.
- Germs are spread by air, through contaminated edibles, by vector, by direct contact or by body fluids.
- Sterilization, good hygiene, vaccination, killing of vectors and proper treatment of patient and the germ carriers can eliminate the diseases.
- Smoking may cause a number of diseases to smokers and to the people around them.
- Drugs are cure but their abuse is always injurious.
- Drug makes you drug addict and by affecting your nervous system makes you sick.
- Narcotics like heroin make the life of the addict and his family miserable.
- Most of the disease agents are microscopic so they are also called microbes.
- Influenza is commonly or generally called flu.
- Widal test is performed for the diagnosis of typhoid.
- Fungal infection is called mycosis.
- Disease is a condition which develops when the body becomes imbalanced.
- In aging, Heart diseases and joint pain is experienced.
- The organisms which cause the diseases are called Pathogens.
- Small microscopic germs causing diseases are called Microbes.
- Bacteria are the common kind of living organisms on earth.
- Protozoans are unicellular microscopic living beings.
- Ascaris is a Parasitic Worm.
- The virus polio grows in throats and Intestine.
- The small pox is caused by a virus called Variola.
- The virus of AIDS is called HIV.
- Hepatitis A is generally called Jaundice.
- The bacterium causing Tuberculosis is called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.
- Tetanus is caused by the Spores of a bacterium.
- In Tetanus the muscles of jaws are infected and a condition is developed which is called Locked Jaws.
- Typhoid is a bacterial disease which develops in the Alimentary Canal.
- The contagious disease caused by Fungus is called Athlete's Foot.
- Malaria spreading by a unicellular germ namely Plasmodium.
- Malaria is a common protozoan disease caused by the bite of female Anopheles mosquito.
- Immunity means resistance against the attack of the germs.
- The smoke of Tobacco has 1000 harmful chemical compounds.
- Tar is a brown sticking substance which deposits in the lungs of smokers.
- Legally Narcotics are used as painkillers and for checking cough.
- Nervous break down is a non technical term which is used for many mental diseases.
- Schizophrenia is a kind of Psychosis.
Write whether the following statements are true or false:
- Diabetes is a viral disease. False
- HIV virus is responsible of hepatitis. False
- Influenza is caused by drinking contaminated water. False
- DPT is an effective vaccine against tetanus. True
- Malaria can be controlled if Anopheles mosquitoes are killed. True
- AIDS and hepatitis can spread by using old needles or syringes. True
- W.B.Cs are important germ killer in blood. True
- Heroin is obtained from opium. True
- MMR vaccine is given to children at the age of 15 months. True
- Whooping cough is the disease of aged people. False
- The sputum of cough contains blood emitted by a T.B. patient. True
- Hepatitis is also called Jaundice. True
- Polio virus attacks on Nervous System. True
- AIDS is caused by HIV virus. True
- Robiola virus causes German Measles. False
- Ring worm infection is caused by a fungus called Tinea. False
- Typhoid disease is caused by a virus. False
- Athlete's foot is a contagious disease. True
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