Inside the CTA: Department of Home
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Questions
- 1Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What is the main responsibility of the Department of Home?
- AForeign relations
- BWelfare and rehabilitation of Tibetans in exile
- CRunning universities
- DPrinting newspapers
- 2Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
In which three countries are these settlements?
- AIndia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
- BNepal, Bhutan and Myanmar
- CIndia, China and Nepal
- DIndia, Nepal and Bhutan
- 3Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
How many agriculture-based settlements are there in India?
- A15
- B30
- C50
- D5
- 4Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What kind of communities are all seven Tibetan communities in Bhutan?
- AMonastery towns
- BHandicraft-based
- CAgriculture-based
- DCity clusters
- 5Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
About how many Tibetans followed His Holiness into exile in 1959?

- AOver 80,000
- B800,000
- C18,000
- D8,000
- 6Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Why did His Holiness want Tibetans to live in settlements together?
- ATo build factories
- BTo pay less rent
- CTo preserve the Tibetan way of life and culture
- DTo avoid learning languages
- 7Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Which Swiss partner helped Tibetan farmers grow modern maize and rice?
- ASwiss Red Cross bank
- BSwiss technical cooperation
- CWorld Economic Forum
- DFIFA
- 8Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What kind of farming does the department now promote?

- AChemical farming
- BFactory farming
- COrganic and natural farming
- DNo farming at all
- 9Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Where does the department mainly build greenhouses?

- AGoa
- BLadakh
- CBylakuppe
- DKathmandu
- 10Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Settlement cooperatives were inspired by His Holiness and which other great leader?
- AAbraham Lincoln
- BNelson Mandela
- CMahatma Gandhi
- DMartin Luther King Jr.
- 11Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Who can choose the settlement officer?

- AOnly China
- BThe people can elect their own, or ask the Home Department to appoint one
- COnly the Indian government
- DNobody
- 12Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What is the name of the sponsorship programme for poor elderly Tibetans?

- AElders First
- BSenior Card
- CGolden Years Club
- DAdopt a Granny or Granddad
- 13Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
About how many elderly Tibetans are supported by this programme?
- AAbout 2,100
- B210
- C21,000
- D210,000
- 14Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
About how many Old People's Homes does the department look after?
- A40
- B2
- C14
- D140
- 15Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does YES stand for?
- AYouth Empowerment Support
- BYoung Exile Society
- CYouth Employment Service
- DYearly Education Scholarship
- 16Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
YES was previously known by which name?
- ATAWS
- BSARD
- CTIPA
- DPADME
- 17Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Young Tibetans learn skills like carpentry, tailoring and hairstyling for free at an institute near which city?

- ABengaluru
- BDelhi
- CShimla
- DKolkata
