4SEC Objective Type Question (MCQs)

Bachelor of Arts (English) Semester – 4

Course Category: SEC 

Paper Title - Leadership Skills 

Unit 1 

1. Leadership is mainly about:
   a) Doing all work alone
   b) Guiding and influencing others
   c) Ignoring team members
   d) Following rules blindly
   Answer: b) Guiding and influencing others
   
   

2. A good leader can:
   a) Motivate and inspire others
   b) Avoid responsibility
   c) Only control people
   d) Work without planning
   Answer: a) Motivate and inspire others
   
   

3. Leadership is different from management because it focuses on:
   a) Guiding people
   b) Only planning tasks
   c) Controlling budgets
   d) Writing reports
   Answer: a) Guiding people
   
   

4. Effective leadership can improve:
   a) Employee morale
   b) Office decoration
   c) Break times
   d) Only profits
   Answer: a) Employee morale
   
   

5. A leader is expected to:
   a) Support and guide the team
   b) Ignore employees
   c) Avoid decisions
   d) Work alone
   Answer: a) Support and guide the team
   
   

6. A key quality of a leader is:
   a) Honesty
   b) Laziness
   c) Fearfulness
   d) Selfishness
   Answer: a) Honesty
   
   

7. Leaders should be:
   a) Flexible and adaptable
   b) Pessimistic
   c) Inflexible
   d) Avoidant
   Answer: a) Flexible and adaptable
   
   

8. Empathy in a leader means:
   a) Understanding others’ feelings
   b) Ignoring the team
   c) Being strict only
   d) Avoiding communication
   Answer: a) Understanding others’ feelings
   
   

9. Vision is important for a leader because it:
   a) Gives direction
   b) Reduces work
   c) Replaces skills
   d) Helps decorate office
   Answer: a) Gives direction
   
   

10. Confidence in a leader helps to:
    a) Take decisions
    b) Avoid responsibility
    c) Delegate everything
    d) Ignore employees
    Answer: a) Take decisions

11. An autocratic leader:
    a) Makes decisions alone
    b) Involves the team in decisions
    c) Gives full freedom
    d) Avoids responsibility
    Answer: a) Makes decisions alone
    
    

12. A democratic leader:
    a) Involves the team in decisions
    b) Makes all decisions alone
    c) Avoids involvement
    d) Works silently
    Answer: a) Involves the team in decisions
    
    

13. Laissez-faire leadership is useful when:
    a) Team needs freedom
    b) Strict control is needed
    c) Immediate supervision is required
    d) Rules must be strictly followed
    Answer: a) Team needs freedom
    
    

14. Transformational leaders mainly:
    a) Inspire and motivate change
    b) Punish mistakes
    c) Avoid interaction
    d) Follow strict rules
    Answer: a) Inspire and motivate change
    
    

15. Autocratic leadership is not suitable for:
    a) Creative projects
    b) Emergency situations
    c) Quick decisions
    d) Small tasks
    Answer: a) Creative projects
    
    

16. Communication skills help a leader to:
    a) Share ideas clearly
    b) Work alone
    c) Avoid the team
    d) Ignore feedback
    Answer: a) Share ideas clearly
    
    

17. Problem-solving skills help leaders:
    a) Find solutions to challenges
    b) Avoid responsibility
    c) Delay decisions
    d) Only follow rules
    Answer: a) Find solutions to challenges
    
    

18. Time management helps a leader to:
    a) Complete tasks on time
    b) Delay work
    c) Avoid supervision
    d) Reduce productivity
    Answer: a) Complete tasks on time
    
    

19. Decision-making skills help a leader:
    a) Choose the best action
    b) Avoid responsibility
    c) Delay work
    d) Ignore the team
    Answer: a) Choose the best action
    
    

20. Emotional intelligence allows a leader to:
    a) Understand and manage emotions
    b) Avoid feelings
    c) Be strict only
    d) Ignore feedback
    Answer: a) Understand and manage emotions
    
    

21. Female leaders often face:
    a) Gender biases
    b) No challenges
    c) Less responsibility
    d) Equal treatment always
    Answer: a) Gender biases
    
    

22. Work-life balance is a challenge for:
    a) Female leaders
    b) Only male leaders
    c) Interns
    d) Employees only
    Answer: a) Female leaders
    
    

23. Female leaders contribute by:
    a) Encouraging teamwork
    b) Reducing productivity
    c) Avoiding innovation
    d) Ignoring team needs
    Answer: a) Encouraging teamwork
    
    

24. Mentoring programs help female leaders by:
    a) Providing guidance
    b) Increasing workload
    c) Limiting promotions
    d) Reducing opportunities
    Answer: a) Providing guidance
    
    

25. Promoting female leadership benefits organizations by:
    a) Increasing diversity and innovation
    b) Reducing teamwork
    c) Limiting decision-making
    d) Creating unfair advantage
    Answer: a) Increasing diversity and innovation

Unit 2

1. One common challenge before a leader is:
   a) Motivating the team
   b) Ignoring the team
   c) Avoiding work
   d) Delegating everything
   Answer: a) Motivating the team
   
   

2. Leaders often face difficulties in:
   a) Making decisions
   b) Sleeping
   c) Reading reports only
   d) Avoiding meetings
   Answer: a) Making decisions
   
   

3. Handling conflicts within a team is:
   a) A challenge for leaders
   b) Not a leader’s job
   c) Only for HR
   d) Easy and automatic
   Answer: a) A challenge for leaders
   
   

4. Leaders must adapt to:
   a) Change and uncertainty
   b) Doing the same routine always
   c) Ignoring employees
   d) Avoiding responsibility
   Answer: a) Change and uncertainty
   
   

5. One challenge is maintaining:
   a) Team morale
   b) Desk cleanliness
   c) Break schedules
   d) Office decoration
   Answer: a) Team morale
   
   

6. Constructive criticism is given to:
   a) Help someone improve
   b) Hurt someone
   c) Ignore mistakes
   d) Praise everything
   Answer: a) Help someone improve
   
   

7. A good leader gives feedback that is:
   a) Clear and helpful
   b) Confusing
   c) Harsh and personal
   d) Ignored
   Answer: a) Clear and helpful
   
   

8. Constructive criticism focuses on:
   a) Behavior or performance
   b) Personal traits
   c) Ignoring errors
   d) Complaining only
   Answer: a) Behavior or performance
   
   

9. When giving constructive criticism, a leader should:
   a) Be specific
   b) Be vague
   c) Avoid details
   d) Be angry
   Answer: a) Be specific
   
   

10. Constructive criticism encourages:
    a) Improvement and learning
    b) Fear and mistakes
    c) Avoiding tasks
    d) Gossiping
    Answer: a) Improvement and learning
    
    

11. Criticism from a superior should be:
    a) Taken positively
    b) Ignored
    c) Retaliated
    d) Shared with everyone
    Answer: a) Taken positively
    
    

12. If a superior gives feedback, a leader should:
    a) Listen carefully
    b) Interrupt them
    c) Ignore it
    d) Complain immediately
    Answer: a) Listen carefully
    
    

13. Criticism from a superior helps in:
    a) Professional growth
    b) Losing motivation
    c) Avoiding work
    d) Delaying tasks
    Answer: a) Professional growth
    
    

14. Responding to criticism politely shows:
    a) Maturity and professionalism
    b) Weakness
    c) Anger
    d) Disinterest
    Answer: a) Maturity and professionalism
    
    

15. Constructive feedback from a superior should be:
    a) Accepted and applied
    b) Ignored
    c) Complained about
    d) Forgotten
    Answer: a) Accepted and applied
    
    

16. Performance reviews are conducted to:
    a) Assess employee performance
    b) Decorate offices
    c) Assign random tasks
    d) Reduce work hours
    Answer: a) Assess employee performance
    
    

17. A good performance review is:
    a) Fair and honest
    b) Random
    c) Harsh and personal
    d) Ignored by employees
    Answer: a) Fair and honest
    
    

18. During a performance review, leaders should:
    a) Give feedback politely
    b) Avoid discussion
    c) Criticize publicly
    d) Ignore employees’ questions
    Answer: a) Give feedback politely
    
    

19. Performance reviews help in:
    a) Identifying strengths and weaknesses
    b) Avoiding work
    c) Reducing salaries randomly
    d) Gossiping about employees
    Answer: a) Identifying strengths and weaknesses
    
    

20. Constructive feedback in reviews encourages:
    a) Improvement
    b) Complaints
    c) Laziness
    d) Ignoring tasks
    Answer: a) Improvement
    
    

21. A leader supervises others to:
    a) Ensure work is done correctly
    b) Avoid responsibility
    c) Relax completely
    d) Skip tasks
    Answer: a) Ensure work is done correctly
    
    

22. Training new employees is important to:
    a) Build skills and knowledge
    b) Waste time
    c) Avoid work
    d) Punish them
    Answer: a) Build skills and knowledge
    
    

23. A leader should supervise:
    a) Regularly and fairly
    b) Rarely
    c) Harshly
    d) Only when asked
    Answer: a) Regularly and fairly
    
    

24. Training helps employees to:
    a) Perform better
    b) Ignore responsibilities
    c) Complain more
    d) Avoid teamwork
    Answer: a) Perform better
    
    

25. Supervising and training improve:
    a) Team productivity
    b) Office decoration
    c) Break time
    d) Gossip in office
    Answer: a) Team productivity