Reproductive Health MCQs with Answers

Question-1. What is the most important factor for the success of animal population ?

1. Natality
2. Unlimited food
3. Adaptability
4. Inter-species activity

Question-2. Which Artificial Reproductive Technique can help a lady conceive a child if both her fallopian tubes are blocked?

1. IVF
2. ZIFT
3. GIFT
4. None of these

Question-3. Which of the following cannot be detected in a developing foetus by amniocentesis ?

1. Jaundice
2. Down syndrome
3. Sex of the foetus
4. Klinefelter syndrome

Question-4. Which of the following contraceptive also provides protection from contacting STDs and AIDS ?

1. Diaphragms
2. Spermicidal foams
3. Condoms
4. Lactational amenorrhoea

Question-5. Which of the following contraceptives is one of the most widely accepted method of contraception in India?

1. Sterilization
2. Intra Uterine device
3. Withdrawal or coitus interruption
4. Medical termination of pregnancy

Question-6. Which of the following groups of contraceptives are included under barrier methods?

1. Condom, Vaults, IUDs, Cervical caps
2. IUDs, Diaphragm, Abstinence, Injections
3. Condom, Diaphragm, Cervical caps, Vaults
4. Surgical methods, Oral contraceptives, Cervical caps, vaults

Question-7. Which of the following ions plays an effective role in the activity of IUDs?

1. Iron
2. Zinc
3. Copper
4. Ammonium

Question-8. Which of the following is not a copper releasing IUD?

1. LNG 20
2. Lippes Loop
3. Both
4. None of these

Question-9. Which of the following is traditional method of contraception?

1. Implantation
2. Lactational amenorrhoea
3. Condoms
4. Sterilization

Question-10. Which one amongst the following is the first country in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total reproductive health as social goal?

1. China
2. India
3. Japan
4. USA

Question-11. Which one is correct for mammalian testis

1. Sertoli cells, seminiferous tubules, Leydig's cells
2. Graafian follicles, Leydig's cells and seminiferous tubules
3. Graafian follicles, Sertoli cells and seminiferous tubules
4. All of these

Question-12. Which one of the following is not the function of placenta? It

1. Secretes oxytocin during parturition
2. Facilitates removal of carbon dioxide and waste material from embryo
3. Secretes estrogen
4. None of these

Question-13. Which one of the following is the correct statement regarding the particular psychotropic drug specified?

1. Hashish causes alter thought perceptions and hallucinations
2. Opium stimulates nervous system and causes hallucinations
3. Morphine leads to delusions and disturbed emotions
4. Barbiturates cause relaxation and temporary Euphoria

Question-14. A method of birth control is

1. GIFT
2. HJF
3. IVF-ET
4. lUDs

Question-15. Amniocentesis is a technique to

1. Estimate essential animo acids in the body.
2. Detect chromosomal anomalies in the foetus.
3. Reverse sex of the foetus.
4. Correct genetic disorders of the foetus.

Question-16. Central Drug Research Institute. Lucknow has developed a contraceptive named

1. Mala D
2. Combined pills
3. Saheli
4. Condoms

Question-17. Copper-T prevents

1. Ovulation
2. Fertilization of egg
3. Implantation of embryo
4. Both (b) and (c)

Question-18. Drug RU-486 is used as

1. Contraceptive
2. Abartive agent
3. Used for amniocentesis
4. Mutagen

Question-19. Lactational Amenorrhea is related to

1. Temporary method of contraception
2. Absence of mensturation
3. Permanent method of contraception
4. A STD name

Question-20. Progesterone in the contraceptive pill

1. Prevents ovulation
2. Inhibits estrogen
3. Checks attachment of zygote to endometrium
4. All the above

Question-21. Test tube baby is a technique where

1. Zygote is taken from the oviduct cultured and then implanted.
2. Ovum is taken out, then fertilized and implanted.
3. Sperms and ovum are fused and zygote grown in a test tube.
4. None of the above.

Question-22. The birth control device not used by women is

1. Diaphragm
2. Oral pill
3. Nirodh
4. Copper T

Question-23. The most effective method for birth controi is

1. Abortion
2. Oral pills
3. Abstinence
4. Sterilization

Question-24. The prenatal technique to determine the genetic disorders in a foetus is called

1. Laproscopy
2. Amniocentesis
3. Abstinence
4. Coitus interrupts

Question-25. What is correct about a test tube baby?

1. Fertilization in femaleÂ’s genital tract and growth in test tube.
2. Rearing of premature born baby in an incubator.
3. Fertilization outside and gestation inside motherÂ’s womb.
4. Both fertilization and development are done outside the female genital tract.

Question-26. Which among these is not a natural method of birth controi

1. Coitus interruptus
2. Periodic abstinence
3. Vasectomy
4. Lactational Amenorrhea

Question-27. Which is related to males?

1. Oral pill
2. Tubecjomy
3. Vasectomy
4. None of these

Question-28. Which of these is caused by a retrovirus?

1. Gonorrhoea
2. AIDS
3. Trichomoniasis
4. Syphillis

Question-29. Amniocentesis is a process of

1. Determine disease of the embryo
2. Know about brain disease
3. Determine disease of the embryo
4. Growing cells on culture media

Question-30. Frequency of an allele in an isolated population may change due to

1. genetic drift
2. gene flow
3. mutation
4. natural selection

Question-31. Genetic drift operates only in

1. island populations
2. smaller populations
3. larger populations
4. Mendelian populations

Question-32. Human population growth in India

1. tends to follow a sigmoid curve as in case of many other animal species
2. tends to reach zero population growth as in case of some animal species
3. can be reduced by permitting natural calamities and enforcing birth control measures
4. can be regulated by following the National programme of family planning

Question-33. Probability of four sons to a couple is

1. 1/4
2. 1/8
3. 1/16
4. 1/32

Question-34. Progesterone, which is the most important component of oral contraceptive pills, prevents pregnancy by

1. preventing the formation of egg
2. preventing the cleavage of the fertilized egg
3. creating unfavourable chemical environment for the sperms to survive in the female reproductive tract
4. blocking ovulation

Question-35. Tablets to prevent contraception contain

1. progesterone
2. FSH
3. LH
4. Both b) and c)

Question-36. Test-tube baby is one who

1. is born out of artificial insemination
2. has undergone development in a test tube
3. is born out of the technique of fertilization in vitro
4. has been developed without fertilization

Question-37. The concept that population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically was put forward by

1. Stuart Mill
2. Adam Smith
3. Charles Darwin
4. Thomas Malthus

Question-38. The function of copper-T is to prevent

1. fertilization
2. egg maturation
3. ovulation
4. implantation of blastocyst

Question-39. Two opposite forces operate in the growth and development of every population. One of them is related to the ability to reproduce at a given rate. The force opposing to it is called

1. biotic control
2. mortality
3. fecundity
4. environmental resistance

Question-40. A childless couple can be assisted to have a child through a technique called GIFT. The full form of this technique is :

1. Germ cell internal fallopian transfer
2. Gamete inseminated fallopian transfer
3. Gamete intra fallopian transfer
4. Gamete internal fertilization and transfer

Question-41. A national level approach to build up a reproductively healthy society was taken up in our country in

1. 1950s
2. 1960s
3. 1980s
4. 1990s

Question-42. Saheli a new oral contraceptive developed by

1. All Indian Institute of Medical Science
2. Central Drug Research Institute
3. Health Care Pvt. Ltd.
4. Bharat Immunologicals & Biologicals corp. Ltd.

Question-43. According to which of the following organization "reproductive health means a total well-being in all aspects of reproduction"?

1. WHL
2. UNESCO
3. WHO
4. WWW

Question-44. Artificial insemination means

1. Artificial introduction of sperms of a healthy donor into the vagina
2. Introduction of sperms of healthy donor directly into the ovary
3. Transfer of sperms of husband to a test tube containing ova
4. None of these

Question-45. Assisted reproductive technology, IVF involves transfer of

1. Ovum into the fallopian tube
2. Zygote into the fallopian tube
3. Zygote into the uterus
4. Embryo with 16 blastomeres into the fallopian tube

Question-46. Certain characteristic demographic features of developing countries are

1. high fertility, low or rapidly falling mortality rate, rapid population growth and a very young age distribution
2. high fertility, high density, rapidly rising mortality rate and a very young age distribution
3. high infant mortality, low fertility, uneven population growth and a very young age distribution
4. high mortality, high density, uneven population growth and a very old age distribution

Question-47. Choose the correct statement regarding the ZIFT procedure

1. Zygote is collected from a female donour and transferred to the fallopian tube
2. Zygote is collected from a female donour and transferred to the uterus
3. Ova collected from a female donour and transferrerd to the uterus
4. Ova collected from a female donour are transferred to the fallopian tube to facilitate zygote formation

Question-48. Choose the right one among the statements given below

1. IUDs increase phagocytosis reaction in the uterus
2. IUDs are generally inserted by the user herself
3. IUDs suppress gametogenesis
4. IUDs once inserted need not be replaced

Question-49. Condoms are one of the most popular contraceptives becuase of the following reasons

1. All of the above
2. These help in reducing the risk of STDs
3. They do not interfere with coital act
4. These are effective barriers for insemination

Question-50. Emergency contraceptives are effective if used within

1. 72 hrs of coitus
2. 72 hrs of ovulation
3. 72 hrs of menstruation
4. 72 hrs of implantation

Question-51. Emergency contraceptives may prevent pregnancy if used within 72 hrs of

1. Coitus
2. Ovulation
3. Menstruation
4. None of these

Question-52. First or free milk is called

1. Colostrum
2. baby's milk
3. rostrum
4. cholesterol

Question-53. Fixing up of blastocyst in the wall of uterus is

1. Implantation
2. Fertilisation
3. Placentation
4. Impregnation

Question-54. From the sexually transmitted diseases mentioned below, identify the one which does not specifically affect the sex organs

1. AIDS
2. Syphilis
3. Gonorrhea
4. Genital warts

Question-55. Geometric representation of age structure is a characteristic of

1. biotic community
2. population
3. landscape
4. ecosystem

Question-56. Heart is

1. Mesodermal
2. Endodermal
3. Ectodermal
4. None of these

Question-57. If the mean and the median pertaining to a certain character of a population are of the same value, the following is most likely to occur

1. normal distribution
2. bi-modal distribution
3. T-shaped curve
4. skewed curve

Question-58. In ______ the egg is first fertilized outside the body and then it is inserted into the oviduct.

1. ZIFT
2. ICSI
3. IVF
4. GIFT

Question-59. In a population, unrestricted reproductive capacity is called

1. biotic potential
2. fertility
3. carrying capacity
4. birth rate

Question-60. In a random mating population in equilibrium, which of the following brings about a change in gene frequency in non-directional manner ?

1. Selection
2. Migration
3. Mutation
4. Random drift

Question-61. In case of a couple where the male is having a very low sperm count, which technique will be suitable for fertilisation?

1. Artificial Insemination
2. Artificial Insemination
3. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
4. Intrauterine transfer

Question-62. In India, human population is heavily weighed towards the younger age groups as a result of

1. short life span of many individuals and low birth rate
2. long life span of many individuals and low birth rate
3. short life span of many individuals and high birth rate
4. long life span of many individuals and high birth rate

Question-63. In which year, MTP was legalised in India?

1. 1971
2. 1951
3. 1981
4. 1923

Question-64. Increased IMR and decreased MMR in a population will

1. Not cause significant change in growth rate
2. Result in an explosive population/exp
3. Result in decline in growth rate
4. Cause rapid increase in growth rate

Question-65. Infertility cases due to inability of the male partner to inseminate the female or due to very low sperm count in the ejaculates, could be corrected by artificial insemination (AI).

1. Female Reproductive tract
2. Epididymis
3. Rete testis
4. None of these

Question-66. Intensely lactating mothers do not generally conceive due to the

1. Suppression of gonadotropins
2. Hyper secretion of gonadotropins
3. Suppression of gametic transport
4. Suppression of fertilisation

Question-67. IUDs stands for

1. Intra Uterine Devices
2. Internal Uterine Devices
3. Inseminated Uterine Devices
4. Injected Uterine Devices

Question-68. MTPs are considered relatively safe during the ______ weeks of pregnancy.

1. 12
2. 15
3. 18
4. 20

Question-69. Progestasert and LNG-20 are

1. implants
2. copper releasing IUDs
3. non-medicated IUDs
4. hormone releasing IUDs

Question-70. Random genetic drift in a population probably results from

1. constant low mutation rate
2. large population size
3. highly genetically variable individuals
4. interbreeding within this population

Question-71. RCH stands for

1. Routine Check-up of Health
2. Reproduction Cum Hygiene
3. Reversible Contraceptive Hazards
4. Reproductive and Child Health Care

Question-72. Seminal vesicles are located in

1. Above Coeper's glands
2. Glane penis
3. Uterus
4. Caput epididymis

Question-73. STD/VD/UTI are

1. devices which are used to delay the pregnancy.
2. infections which are caused by food contamination.
3. diseases which are transmitted through sexual intercourse.
4. action plans and programmes to create awareness about various reproductive related health and problems.

Question-74. The correct surgical procedure as a contraceptive method is

1. Hysterectomy
2. Castration
3. Vasectomy
4. Ovarieetomy

Question-75. The diaphragm, cervical cap and vaults are

1. disposable contraceptive devices
2. Reusable contraceptives
3. Non-medicated IUDs
4. Cu-releasing IUDs

Question-76. The family planning programmes in India were initiated in

1. 1951
2. 1961
3. 1971
4. 1981

Question-77. The formula for exponential population growth is

1. dt/dN = rN
2. dN/rN = dt
3. rN/dN = dt
4. dN/dt = rN

Question-78. The highly sophisticated procedure of directly injecting a sperm into an egg is called

1. ICSI
2. ZIFT
3. GIFT
4. AID

Question-79. The most important component of the oral contraceptive pills is

1. progesterone
2. growth hormone
3. thyroxine
4. luteinizing hormone

Question-80. The population of an insect species shows an explosive increase in numbers during rainy season followed by its disappearance at the end of the season. What does this show?

1. S-shaped or sigmoid growth of this insect
2. The food plants mature and die at the end of the rainy season
3. Its population growth curve is of J-type
4. The population of its predators increases enormously

Question-81. The technique which makes use of amniotic fluid for the detection of prenatal disorder is called as

1. leproscopy
2. amniocentesis
3. endoscopy
4. ultrasound

Question-82. Tying up or removing a small part of fallopian duct is called

1. vasectomy
2. ductus arteriosus
3. archidectomy
4. tubectomy

Question-83. What is the expansion for MTP?

1. Medical Termination of Pregnancy
2. Maternally Transmitted Pathogens
3. Mechanical Transfer of Pollen
4. Medical Termination of Parturition

Question-84. What is the marriageable age for the females and males respectively in India?

1. 18, 18
2. 18, 25
3. 21, 18
4. 18, 21