MCQ on welfare administration 

Learn and test your knowledge of welfare administration with our comprehensive MCQ quiz. Cover essential topics and enhance your understanding of welfare programs and policies.

1. Social workers practice under all of the following auspices EXCEPT 

a. Public
b. Not-for-profit
c. For-profit
d. Media
Answer: d

2. Social welfare administration is coming under the 

a. Direct method of social work
b. Indirect method of social welfare
c. Not coming under any method
d. All the above
Answer: b

3. Welfare administration is referred to 

a. Translating social policies into a welfare program
b. Method of policies governance
c. System of administration for social welfare
d. All the option
Answer: d

4. The nature of social welfare administration are 

a. It can be acquired
b. It is objective in nature
c. Practical application of knowledge
d. All the option are correct
Answer: d

5. Which is not the category of administration according to Henry Fayol 

a. Organization
b. Command
c. Coordination
d. Supervision
Answer: a

6. Who advocated POSDCORB view? 

a. Henry Fayol
b. Luther Gulick
c. L. Urwick
d. M. Ovean
Answer: b

7. Who said study of administration deals with Men, Materials and Method? a. Luther Gulick
b. Henry Fayol
c. P. M. Queen
d. M. Ovean
Answer: b

8. What is not the steps of planning in welfare administration a. Formulate appropriate objective
b. Identify the problem
c. Collect and understand existing fact
d. Drafting the report
Answer: a

9. Organization is the part of a. Administration Process
b. Welfare administration Method
c. Integral View
d. POSDCORB View
Answer: d

10. When was the five-year plan initiated? 

a. 1949
b. 1951
c. 1990
d. 1950
Answer: b

11. Who was the first professor of social administration appointed in the London School of Economics? 

a. Richard Titmuss
b. Alcock
c. Miller
d. George
Answer: a

12. Who among the following has given the structural view of the society? 

a. Durkheim
b. Giddings
c. MacIver
d. Cooley
Answer: a

13. Who among the following said “Man is a social animal”? 

a. MacIver
b. Freud
c. Aristotle
d. Rousseau
Answer: c

14. Abbreviation of CAPART 

a. Council for Advance for People Actions and Rural Technology
b. Council for Advance for People Association and Rural Technology
c. Advancement of People Association and Rural Transformation
d. Council of Additional People Association and Rural Technology
Answer: a

15. Which of the following is not the component of agency administration 

a. The chief executive
b. The staff
c. The donor agencies
d. The beneficiaries
Answer: d

16. Distributive justice combination of __________ 

a. Right and duties
b. Constitutional remedies and social system
c. Social and community justice
d. Community and Society
Answer: a

17. The existence of opportunity for meaningful work and employment is called as 

a. Social security
b. Social equity
c. Economic and social equity
d. Economic Justice
Answer: c

18. In the abbreviation POSDCORB - CO stands for 

a. Communication
b. Coordination
c. Counselling
d. Corporation
Answer: b

19. Social work administration is coming under 

a. Primary method of social work
b. Secondary method of social work
c. Method of public administration
d. All the option
Answer: b

20. Individual abilities can be expanded by enrolling for: 

a. Training programmes
b. Acquiring additional degree
c. Seeking new work assignments
d. All of the above
Answer: d

21. The concept of “felt needs” is related to: 

a. Social group work
b. Social case work
c. Social action
d. Community organization
Answer: d

22. ‘Evaluation of self-based on reflection or social comparison’ is known as: 

a. Self-esteem
b. Self-awareness
c. Self-security
d. Self-confidence
Answer: a

23. The process of mutual influence between worker and client is called: 

a. Relationship
b. Understanding
c. Reflexiveness
d. Rapport
Answer: c

24. Which one of the following is a part of Human Development Index?

a. More gross national product
b. More industrialization
c. Life expectancy
d. Fighting against social exclusion
Answer: c

25. Which one of the following is the type of dream mechanism?

a. Sublimation
b. Symbolization
c. Rationalization
d. Repression
Answer: a

26. Schedules V and VI of the Indian Constitution are related to: 

a. Decides state boundaries between the states
b. Decides the powers and responsibilities of Panchayat Raj
c. Protection of rights of tribal
d. Protections of minorities in the country
Answer: c

27. The principle of specific objective is a principle of __ 

a. Social case work
b. Social group work
c. Community organization
d. Social Welfare Administration
Answer: b

28. Which of the following statements is incorrect with regard to social problems? 

a. All social problems are deviations from the ideal situation
b. Social problems are caused by many factors which are social in origin
c. Social problems do not affect all individuals of the society
d. Social problems affect different individuals differently
Answer: c

29. ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’ (SAGY) was launched in commemoration of the birth anniversary of: 

a. Sri Deendayal Upadhyaya
b. Sri Jayaprakash Narayan
c. Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: b

30. Which one of the following is not a part of the hierarchy of needs described by Abraham Maslow? 

a. Safety needs
b. Esteem needs
c. Cognitive needs
d. Normative needs
Answer: d

31. Which one of the following does not refer to digital convergence? 

a. Information technology
b. Consumer electronics
c. Telecommunications
d. Exposure to languages
Answer: d

32. Which one of the following rights was described by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the heart of the Indian Constitution? 

a. Rights to constitutional remedies
b. Right to property
c. Right to equality
d. Right to freedom of religion
Answer: a

33. Under whose prime ministership the Second National Labour Commission was constituted? 

a. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
b. Vishwanath Pratap Singh
c. P.V. Narasimha Rao
d. Rajiv Gandhi
Answer: a

34. Which of the following statements is incorrect with regard to social problems? 

a. All social problems are deviations from the ideal situation
b. Social problems are caused by many factors which are social in origin
c. Social problems do not affect all individuals of the society
d. Social problems affect different individuals differently
Answer: c

35. In the year 1915, the controversial speech titled ‘Is social work a profession’ at the National Conference on Charities and Correction was delivered by: 

a. Mary Richmond
b. Gisla Konopka
c. Abraham Flexner
d. Herbert Bisno
Answer: c

36. Feeling of extreme sadness and loneliness is a symptom of: 

a. Phobia
b. Hysteria
c. Manic depression
d. Paranoia
Answer: c

37. Institutional Redistribution Model of Social Policy is associated with: 

a. Welfare state
b. Capital state
c. Communist state
d. Police state
Answer: a

38. Which act requires employers in industrial establishments to define the conditions of employment? 

a. The Factories Act, 1948
b. The Industrial Dispute Act, 1947
c. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
d. The Trade Union Act, 1946
Answer: c

39. As per the global definition of 2014, social work is not concerned with the promotion of which one of the following? 

a. Social change
b. Social cohesion
c. Social choices
d. Liberation of people
Answer: c

40. As per the global definition of 2014, social work is not concerned with the promotion of which one of the following?

a. Social change
b. Social cohesion
c. Social choices
d. Liberation of people
Answer: c

41. Who among the following is associated with the concept of ‘Social Fact’?

a. Emile Durkheim
b. Karl Marx
c. M. Mauss
d. Max Weber
Answer: a

42. Locality Development Model of community development was propounded by whom? 

a. Saul David Alinsky
b. Gordon Hamilton
c. Jack Rothman
d. M.G. Ross
Answer: c

43. Asymmetrical distribution indicates: 

a. Range
b. Standard Deviation
c. Skewness
d. Kurtosis
Answer: c

44. Which among the following department was created under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in May 2012? 

a. Department of AYUSH
b. Department of Disability Affairs
c. Department of Youth Affairs
d. Department of Refugee Rehabilitation
Answer: b

45. Social Distance Scale was developed by: 

a. Likert
b. Thorndike
c. Bogardus
d. Thurston
Answer: c

46. Who is the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog? 

a. Narendra Modi
b. Bibek Debroy
c. Arvind Panagariya
d. Nitin Gadkari
Answer: c

47. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of collective bargaining? 

a. It is a collective process
b. It is a flexible process
c. It is not a bipartite process
d. It is interdisciplinary system
Answer: c

48. Belief in the worth of the individual is related to __ 

a. Social work values
b. Social work techniques
c. Social work principles
d. Social work methods
Answer: a

49. ‘Something given or demanded as repayment for wrongdoing’ refers to ___ 

a. Rehabilitation
b. Correction
c. Retribution
d. Reformation
Answer: c

50. The PC PNDT Act primarily addresses to 

a. Legal Abortion
b. Sex-selective abortion
c. Abortion care to unwed mothers
d. Abortion care to rape victims
Answer: b