PCR271 CBT EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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PCR271 CBT EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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1. _____, which is carried out by armed forces and involves violence of considerable magnitude.
a) Fight
b) War
c) Movement
d) Strategy
2. When the information system in a society is tampered with there is bound to be _____.
a) Fight
b) War
c) Peace
d) Conflict
3. _____ 1973 simply defines conflict as a relationship between two or more parties who believe they have incompatible goals”.
a) Kriesberg
b) Maslow
c) Gleason
d) Wright
4. According to Person, Novak, and Gleason in 1982, the word “ethnic” was derived via _____ from the Greek ethnos, which means nation or race.
a) Latin
b) Greek
c) Hebrew
d) French
5. Maslow proposes an interesting theory concerning _____ and their effect on human behavior.
Ans. human needs
6. An individual that constructs a message and then sends to intended receiver is referred to as _____
a) Mailer
b) Postman
c) Sender
d) All the above
7. As a basic social process, _____ is how people relate
to each other.
a) Talking
b) Inter-rating
c) Communication
d) Speech
8. Quincy Wright in _____ defines conflict as opposition among social
entities directed against one another
a) 1990
b) 1890
c) 1980
d) 1950
9. There are _____ key propelling variables in the conflict escalation cycle
a) Three
b) Two
c) Four
d) Many
10. The phase where violence breeds further violence, producing an escalator momentum, is known as _____
Ans. Escalation Phase
11. The method by which an individual, a state, or an international organ, acting as a third party, may assist in ensuring an amicable settlement of a dispute is known as
a) Settlement
b) Good Office
c) Parliament
d) Bad office
12. Mediation involves the use of or bringing a _____ party to intervene with
respect to a conflict.
a) Middle
b) Second
c) All
d) Third
13. The decision taken by an arbitrator is usually referred to as an/a _____
a) Award
b) Reward
c) Applaud
d) All the above
14. The word ‘Conflict’ is as _____ as a human being because it has been in existence in all spheres of human life since the inception of the whole world.
a) New
b) Old
c) Special
d) relevant
15. The word or concept reprisals was known as “ antisepsis” among the _____ and was called “reprisaglia” among the Romans.
a) White
b) Hebrew
c) Greeks
d) French
16. The breaking of some international code or gross violation of human rights may also lead to the application of force.
TRUE / FALSE
17. Ethnicity has been viewed since the earliest times in terms of a group setting associated with the idea of _____.
a) Nationhood
b) Nation
c) Country
d) State
18. _____ simply means the sum-total of all human existence, which comprises norms, values, traditions, beliefs, customs, languages, patterns of behaviors, art music, food, mode of dressing, and so on.
a) Culture
b) Role
c) Audience
d) Conflict
19. _____ is defined as that set of activities associated with any given
position in an organization
a) Culture
b) Role
c) Audience
d) Conflict
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20. A specific group of people with whom we wish to communicate with or pass information about something to is referred to _____
a) Audience
b) Culture
c) Role
d) Conflict
21. Conflict is not necessarily _____ in itself.
a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Equal
d) Absent
22. Glen Fisher, in an interesting book called mindsets and in his chapter in Weaver’s book, 1998 characterizes _____ kinds of societies
a) Three
b) Four
c) Two
d) Five
23. The following are the causes of conflict except
a) Conflicts over human
b) Conflicts over resources
c) Conflicts over psychological needs
d) Conflicts involving values
24. When charismatic _____ are successful in conflict, pressure mounts to routinize authority through new systems of rules and administration.
a) President
b) Chairman
c) Leaders
d) Excos
25. All societies are unequal, but some are more _____ than others.
a) Equal
b) Unequal
c) Ineffective
d) Effective
26. The signs and symbols of many kinds designed to stimulate a certain kind of response in a receiver is known as _____
Ans. Message
27. _____ Elements Required to Structure Analysis of Stakeholders’ Relationship
a) Ten
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five
28. What takes place when an individual is very assertive and not cooperative is known as _____
a) Dominating
b) Competing
c) All the above
d) None of the above
29. _____ has to do with the available resources at the disposal of a person, group or a country such as money, people, arms, land, minerals, good organization, and external support, and so on.
a) Opportunity
b) Conflict
c) Dominating
d) Competing
30. _____ is defined as those men and women, groups or parties who are directly or indirectly involved in the conflict and have a significant stake in the outcome.
Ans.A stakeholder
31. Social force means a psychic pressure of _____ facts that seem beyond the power of men or nations to modify or reverse constraints operating only in the region of motives.
a) Weekly
b) Monthly
c) Yearly
d) Daily
32. Economic Sanctions / Pacific Blockade may be employed to deter
military aggression or to force an aggressor to withdraw its armed forces
from a disputed territory.
TRUE / FALSE
33. Judicial or Legal Settlement of dispute is usually carried out by the ____ duly established and assigned in this manner both at the state (local)
level and international level.
a) State
b) Country
c) Court
d) Judiciary
34. _____ can simply be defined as the use and assistance of a neutral third party in the conflict, who listens to evidence, put forward by parties in conflict, and later takes a decision that is expected to be binding on
the parties.
a) Conflict
b) Arbitration
c) Opportunity
d) Theory
35. The Hague Conference of _____ on the Pacific settlement of international disputes led to the creation of an institution known as the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
a) 1990
b) 1899
c) 1890
d) 1980
36. Marx, the great social _____ opines that the degree of inequality in the distribution of resources generates inherent conflicts of interest.
a) Philosopher
b) Philanthropist
c) Scientist
d) Entertainer
37. Conflict also means contradiction arising from differences in interests, ideas, ideologies, orientations, beliefs, perceptions and tendencies
TRUE / FALSE
38. According to Weaver, who likens _____ to an iceberg, he says “internal culture”, is implicitly learned and difficult to change.
a) Art
b) Culture
c) Science
d) Nature
39. Conflict over Information is one factor causing conflict in any society is
manipulation of _____
a) Speech
b) Resources
c) Information
d) All the above
40. The _____ views conflict as having a constructive contribution towards what is defined as a healthy industrial order.
a) People
b) State
c) Philosophers
d) school
41. Dahrendorf attempted to determine a systematic locus and a specific framework for a theory of conflict in _____ analysis.
Ans. Sociological
42. A stage where parties in conflict now begin to use physical barricades to demarcate their territories is known as _____
a) Formation Stage
b) Escalation Stage
c) Crisis Stage
d) De-escalation stage
43. Abraham Mas low’s THEORY suggested that _____ needs may be classified into five different groups or classes:
a) Plant
b) Human
c) Animals
d) Society
44. Although conflict is a normal, natural, and inevitable phenomenon in any interactive situation of _____ life.
Ans. Human
45. All but one is not a type of conflict
a) Intra-Personal Conflicts
b) Inter-Personal Conflict
c) Intra-Group Conflicts
d) None of the above
46. Any change in the structure of the organization or institution causes _____ and it destabilizes the organization.
a) Deformation
b) Change
c) Conflict
d) Distraction
47. ______ Is a decoded message that helps the sender to know if the message had been received and how it has been understood.
a) Receiver
b) Sender
c) Feedback
d) None of the above
48. Most of the _____ used in traditional African societies by their armies
or warriors were made locally by skilled craftsmen.
a) Gun
b) Arrow
c) Tools
d) Weapons
49. The _____ Dictionary, define “war” as a hostile contention by means of armed forces, carried on between nations, states, or rulers or between citizens in the same nation or state.
a) Long-man
b) Oxford
c) Black’s Law
d) Western
50. The term ‘just war’ refers to the set of norms or criteria for assessing
whether _____ recourse to force is morally justified.
a) Government
b) Police
c) President
d) Court
