SAT (Stage-2) Mock Test - 53

Project Tiger was launched in 1973; to protect tigers from becoming extinct. At the turn of the 20^th century, the tiger population was around 55,000 which had dwindled to 1,827 by 1973. Threats for Tiger Population: Poaching for trade, shrinking habitat, depletion of base prey species, growing human population, etc. Since India and Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds of the surviving tiger population in the world, these two nations became prime targets for poaching and illegal trading.

Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a national park, UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger reserve, an elephant reserve and a biosphere reserve in Assam, India. Located in the Himalayan foothills, it is contiguous with the Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan.

This is the correct answer as both high birth rate and increased life expectancy increase the population growth rate.

The 1878 Act divided forests into three categories : reserved, protected and village forests. The best forests were called 'reserved forests'. Villagers could not take anything from these forests, even for their own use. For house building or fuel, they could take wood from protected or village forests.

In some areas, cultivators use a practice of slash-and-burn as one element of their farming cycle. Others employ land clearing without any burning, and some cultivators are purely migratory and do not use any cyclical method on a given plot. The forest department wanted trees which were suitable for building ships or railways. They needed trees that could provide hardwood and were tall and straight. So particular species, like teak and sal, were promoted and others were cut.

On the afternoon of 14 July 1789, the agitated crowd stormed the Bastille fort and destroyed it because it was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy. And the revolutionist wanted the ammunition for the revolution which was kept in the fort.

This is the correct answer as handmade and hand-crafted goods came to represent refinement and class.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products.

The Asiatic Society was founded by Sir William Jones on 15^th January, 1784.

Simon Commission (1928)
Dandi March (1930)
Gandhi – Irwin Pact (1931) Poona Pact 1932
Chronogical order would be: II, I, IV, III

This is the correct answer as this statement is incorrect about Huynh Phu So. He established the Vietnamese Communist Party.

The Weimar Republic crushed the Spartacist League uprising with the help of an organisation called Free Corps. The government accused the opposition of planning a general strike and communist revolution in Berlin. With the aid of the Freikorps (Free corps), Ebert's administration quickly suppressed the uprising. The Spartacist uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising concluded that their goals could be met only in a party of their own, and they founded the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) at the end of 1918. In January 1923, the French and Belgian armies sent 60,000 soldiers into the Ruhr region of Germany. The French aimed to extract the unpaid reparations and took control of key industries and natural resources. The Weimar Government instructed the Ruhr workers to go on strike, instead of helping the French.

This statement is correct as woodblocks were being widely used in Europe by early fifteenth century to print textiles, playing cards and religious pictures with simple, brief texts.

One of the groups which looked to change society were the liberals. Liberals wanted a nation which tolerated all religions. At this time European states usually discriminated infavour of one religion or another (Britain favoured the Church of England, Austria and Spain favoured the Catholic Church). Liberals also opposed the uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers. They wanted to safeguard the rights of individuals against governments.

The 'junkers' were the large landowners. They supported the combined forces of the monarchy and the military in repressing the liberal movement of having an elected parliament of the German confederation.