Multiple Choice Question (B.
sc Sem 3- Sec-1, Sericulture) Model Test Paper
1. What is sericulture? 10. Silk is produced by
a) Rearing of fishes
(a) cocoon
b) Rearing of silkworm
c) Rearing of birds (b) adult moth
d) Rearing of cockroach
(c) larva
2. Which of the following varieties of silk
is not produced in India? (d) larva and adult moth
a) Muga Silk
b) Mulberry Silk 11. Insects not found in wild state is
c) Tassar Silk (a) cochineal insect
d) American Silki
3. Which of the following is not the (b) lac insect
characteristic feature of Tassar silk? (c) silk moth
a) Also known as Kosa silk
b) Obtained from Bombyx mori (d) honey bee
c) A native of India and China 12. Pick the set of beneficial insects to man
d) Larvae of the silkworm feed on oak
4. Which of the following silk is mainly (a) sandfly, honey bee, butterfly
produced in Assam? (b) honey bee, cockroach, silkworm
a) Arundi silk
b) Natural silk (c) silkworm, wasp, honey bee
c) Muga silk
(d) honey bee, cochineal insect, lac insect
d) Tassar silk
5. Which of the following is not a 13. Honey, silk and lac are
characteristic feature of Eri silk?
(a) artificial elements
a) Also known as Arundi silk
b) Produced in Bengal, Bihar and (b) secretory substance of plants
Assam
(c) secretory substance of insects
c) Cocoons are soft and white
d) Larva feeds on oak leaves (d) all of thes
6. How many stages are there in the life
cycle of a silkworm? 14.What is the life span of an adult ‘Bombyx
mori’?
a) 3
b) 4 (a) 2 days
c) 5
d) 6 (b) 3-4 days
7. Cocoon is formed by how many pairs (c) 6 days
of glands?
a) Two (d) 8 days
b) Three 15. Silk contains a protein known as
c) Four
d) One (a) casein
8. Which of the following state is not a (b) fibroin
mulberry silk manufacturer in India?
a) Assam (c) sericin
b) Karnataka (d) both (b) and (c)
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu 16. In which stage silk protein stored
9. Pick the correct statement
a. 1st instar
(a) larval form of moth produces silk b. 2nd instar
c. 4th instar
(b) salivary glands of the moth d. 5th instar
produce silk
(c) by boiling, silk is extracted from
cocoon of a moth 17. Which of the following gland secrete silk
Multiple Choice Question (B.sc Sem 3- Sec-1, Sericulture) Model Test Paper
a. Labial gland 24. In the late age rearing racks are made up
b. Sex gland of
c. A and b both
d. None of these a. iron, cupper, wood
18. Most common species of mulberry plants b. iron, wood, bamboo
A. Morus c. iron wood and aluminium
B. Orchidaceae d. none of these
C. A and B both
D. None of these 25. Which one of the following is the causative
agent of Grasserie disease.
19. What is the ideal range of ph of soil for
mulberry plants a. nuclear polyhedrosis virus
a. 6.2 to 6.8 b. flacherie virus
b. 7.4 to 7.8
c. 7.9 to 8.4 c. a and b both
d. None of these d. none of these
20. What is the process of cultivation mulberry 26. Uzi fly, what type of parasite is
plants called as
a. endoparasite
a. Seiculture
b. Mulberry cultivation b. exopararsite
c. A and b both
c. a and b both
d. None of these
d. none of these
21.From uzi flies, how rearing house is
protected 27. Where Uzi fly gives eggs in rearing house
a. closed windows and ventilation A. Silkworm larva
b. cover window and ventilation with nylon b. nylon net
net
c. bamboo racks
c. A and B both
d. none of these
d. none of these
28. Uzi fly infect in which of the following
22. What is the optimum room temperature of species
rearing house
a. Bombyx mori
a. 200C-220 C
b. Eri
b. 270C-280C
c. Muga
c .280C-290C
d. Tasar
d.290C-300C
23. Which one of the following is not the
rearing appliances: 29. Causative agent of flacherie disease
a. power spary a. flacherie virus
b. rearing tray b bacteria
c. nylon net c. a and b both
d. caste net d. none of these
Multiple Choice Question (B.sc Sem 3- Sec-1, Sericulture) Model Test Paper
30. What are the symptoms found when 36. Which pest give eggs on the floss of
cocoons are infected by Bacillus thuringenesis cocoons
a. paralysis and death a. uzi flies
b. turn black after death b. Dermestid Beetles
c. foul smell c. Apanteles
d. all of these d. none of these
31.Muscardine disease have causative agent 37. Which of the following is not considered as
is: a silk city of India?
a) Jaipur
a. Bombyx mori Densonucleosis b) Kanchipuram
b. Bacillus thrungenesis c) Bhagalpur
d) Pochampally
c. Beauveria bassiana
38.The silkworm larva ceases to eat and
d. none of these begins spinning silk all over its body
32. In Muscardine disease, how infection (a) from inside to outside
starts:
(b) from outside to inside
a. conidia comes in contact with body.
(c) in a random motion
b. contaminated mulberry leaf
(d) all of the above
c. a and b both
39 Queen of textiles
d. none of these A: -Kanchipuram Sarees
B:- Silk
33. Which of the following pest attack pierced C:-Cocoon
cocoons D:-Cotton
a. beetles 40. In tropical region the best orientation of
b. bacteria long axis of silkworm rearing house is
A:-East west
c. virus B:-North east and South west
C:-North South
d. none of the above D:-North west and South east
34. What is the pest of muga silk 41.Which rearing equipment is not used at the
a. flacherie virus time of spinning of silkworm larvae?
A:-Feeding stand
b. nosema species B:-Netrika
C:-Chandrika
c. a and b both
D:-Rotary mountage
d. none of these
42.Viral disease of silkworm is
A:-Tukra
B:-Grasserie
C:-Muscuardine
D:-Pebrine
35. disinfectants used in rearing house for
disinfection is 43.Which is not a part of silkworm egg?
A:-Chorion
a. 0.05% Asthra solution
B:-Yolk
b.2% bleaching powder C:-Filippi's gland
D:-Veitelline membrane
c.0.03%slaked lime solution
d. all of these
Multiple Choice Question (B.sc Sem 3- Sec-1, Sericulture) Model Test Paper
44. The process of shedding down of 51. Life span of adult bombyx mori
exoskeleton in silkworm is called
A:-Moulting a. 2 days
B:-Mounting b. 6 days.
C:-Mulching
D:-Brushing c. 8 days
45.Ahimsa silk is naturally obtained from d. 3-4 days
A:-Tasar silk
B:-Mulberry silk 52. Which of the following districts in Madhya
C:-Muga silk Pradesh is mainly silk producing
D:-Eri silk a. Indore
46. Which district the silkworm eggs are B. Bhopal
produced in Kerala?
A:-Kasargod C. Raipur
B:-Palakkad
D. Ujjain
C:-Kannur
D:-Wayanad 53. Total Silk Production In India In 1990-91
Was
47. Mother moth examination is conducted for
the detection of which disease a. 12665 tonnes
A:-Pebrine
B:-Grasserie b. 126650 tonnes
C:-Flacherie
c.12665 quintals
D:-Muscardine
d.126650 quintals
48. Sericulture is native of
54. Eggs of silk worm are kept in cold storage
a. Japan
at
B. India
a. 50C
C. China
b.20C
D. Korea
C. 250C
49. Mullbery, muga, oak,and tasar all the four
D. 30C
varieties of silk are present in single country,
the country is 55. Silk worm is
A. Japan a. fly
B. India b. worm
C. China c. moth
D. Korea d. beetle
56. The life cycle of mulberry silkworm is
50. The silk fibre are held together by completed
substance known as
a. 20 days
a. sericin
b.30 days
b. cement
c. 35 days
c. glue
d.45 days
d. none of these
Multiple Choice Question (B.sc Sem 3- Sec-1, Sericulture) Model Test Paper
57. Commercial silk is obtained from
a. cocoon
b. caterpillar
c. adult moth
d. both egg and adult month
58. Which of the following statements is true
a. salivary gland of moth secrete silk
b. larval form of moth secretes silk
c. silk is extracted from cocoons of moth by
boiling
d. both b and c
59. Bombyx mori belongs to the class
a. insecta
b. chilopoda
c. archinida
d. crustacea
60. The egg of silk moth are
a. homolecithal
b. telolecithal
c. mesolecithal
d.c entrolecithal
