Development MCQ Quiz

30 questions

1. What is development?

   1. Fair access to opportunities
   2. Improvement in quality of life and opportunities
   3. Life expectancy
   4. Food, health, shelter, education and security

2. Why do people have different development goals?

   1. Expected average lifespan
   2. Future well-being depends on resource sustainability
   3. Years of schooling
   4. Their needs and priorities differ

3. What is per capita income?

   1. UNDP
   2. Fair access to opportunities
   3. Average income per person
   4. It accounts for population size

4. Why use per capita income?

   1. It accounts for population size
   2. Health, education and income
   3. Expanding people's choices and capabilities
   4. Expected average lifespan

5. Who publishes Human Development Report?

   1. UNDP
   2. Share of people meeting literacy criteria
   3. Service for collective use
   4. Health, education and income

6. What does HDI measure?

   1. Health, education and income
   2. Different groups may gain or lose differently
   3. Share of people meeting literacy criteria
   4. Food, health, shelter, education and security

7. Which HDI indicator measures health?

   1. It expands skills and opportunities
   2. Development has non-income dimensions
   3. Life expectancy
   4. Expected average lifespan

8. Which dimension measures education?

   1. Share of people meeting literacy criteria
   2. Years of schooling
   3. They improve health and education
   4. It improves well-being and capabilities

9. Why is income alone insufficient?

   1. Development has non-income dimensions
   2. Stable employment and fair wages
   3. Share of people meeting literacy criteria
   4. They improve health and education

10. What is infant mortality rate?

    1. Life expectancy
    2. Expanding people's choices and capabilities
    3. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    4. Yes

11. What is literacy rate?

    1. Development has non-income dimensions
    2. Service for collective use
    3. Health, education and income
    4. Share of people meeting literacy criteria

12. What is a public facility?

    1. Health, education and income
    2. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    3. Service for collective use
    4. Years of schooling

13. Why are public facilities important?

    1. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    2. Improvement in quality of life and opportunities
    3. They improve health and education
    4. Fair access to opportunities

14. What is sustainable development?

    1. Development that can continue without resource destruction
    2. Their needs and priorities differ
    3. It accounts for population size
    4. Yes

15. Why conserve groundwater?

    1. Years of schooling
    2. Their needs and priorities differ
    3. Overuse can exceed recharge
    4. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births

16. What is national income?

    1. Total income generated by an economy
    2. They improve health and education
    3. Future well-being depends on resource sustainability
    4. Development has non-income dimensions

17. What is average income?

    1. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    2. Total income divided by population
    3. They improve health and education
    4. They capture different aspects of well-being

18. Why can high income fail to help everyone?

    1. Total income generated by an economy
    2. Development that can continue without resource destruction
    3. It accounts for population size
    4. Income may be unequally distributed

19. What is equality of opportunity?

    1. Service for collective use
    2. Income may be unequally distributed
    3. Yes
    4. Fair access to opportunities

20. Why compare multiple indicators?

    1. Different groups may gain or lose differently
    2. Years of schooling
    3. They capture different aspects of well-being
    4. Expected average lifespan

21. What is life expectancy?

    1. Share of people meeting literacy criteria
    2. Long-term resource and environmental security
    3. Life expectancy
    4. Expected average lifespan

22. What might a landless rural worker prioritise?

    1. Total income generated by an economy
    2. Stable employment and fair wages
    3. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    4. Service for collective use

23. Why can development goals conflict?

    1. Long-term resource and environmental security
    2. Service for collective use
    3. Average income per person
    4. Different groups may gain or lose differently

24. What is sustainability concerned with?

    1. Improvement in quality of life and opportunities
    2. Overuse can exceed recharge
    3. Long-term resource and environmental security
    4. Different groups may gain or lose differently

25. Can renewable resources be overused?

    1. Average income per person
    2. Health, education and income
    3. Yes
    4. Their needs and priorities differ

26. What is a basic human need?

    1. Food, health, shelter, education and security
    2. Life expectancy
    3. Service for collective use
    4. It expands skills and opportunities

27. Why is education important?

    1. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    2. Yes
    3. It expands skills and opportunities
    4. Health, education and income

28. Why is health important?

    1. It improves well-being and capabilities
    2. Long-term resource and environmental security
    3. Development that can continue without resource destruction
    4. Yes

29. What is human development about?

    1. Service for collective use
    2. Expanding people's choices and capabilities
    3. It accounts for population size
    4. Expected average lifespan

30. Why include environment in development?

    1. Years of schooling
    2. Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
    3. Development that can continue without resource destruction
    4. Future well-being depends on resource sustainability

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