Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 27 March 2018

Q1. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about RCEP?

i) Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)and the six states with which ASEAN has existing free trade agreements.
ii) RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.
iii) The free trade agreement is scheduled and expected to be signed in November 2018 during the ASEAN Summit and Related Summit in Singapore.

a) Only i
b) Only ii
c) Only ii,iii
d) All of the above

Q2. Practice of having more than one wife or husband at same time Is called?

a) Polygamy
b) Exogamy
c) Plastogamy
d) None of the above

Q3. Consider the following statements about the Act of 1909 which is also known as MorleyMinto Reforms.

i) It introduced a system of communal representation.
ii) It provided for the association of Indians with the executive Councils of the Viceroy and Governors.
iii) It curtailed the deliberative functions of the legislative councils at the provincial level but increased the same at Central level.
iv) It relaxed the central control over the provinces by separating the central and provincial subjects.

Select the correct answer using the codes below.

a) Only i and ii
b) Ii and iv only
c) I, ii, iv only
d) All of the above