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Course Final Quiz

outline Assignment not submitted Due date: 2025-05-15, 23:59 IST.
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Welcome and
1) According to .............................................,“Ethics refer to a set of moral principles 0.5 points
About the
Course () which should play a very significant role in guiding the conduct of managers and employees in the
operation of any enterprise.”
Research
Thomas Garret
Ethics and
Scientific Manuel G. Velasquez
Conduct () Dale S. Beach
Rogene A. Buchollz
Understandin
g Plagiarism () 2) Which among the following statement is always not true about ethics? 0.5 points

Types of Ethics is a set of contextual moral standards and values acceptable in society.
Plagiarism () Ethics is normative or prescriptive.
All the ethical principles are universal.
Plagiarism
Detection Ethics are an expression of a society’s attitudes and beliefs.
Software(s) ()
3) .............................helps to use knowledge of moral principles to present dilemmas. 0.5 points
Publication
Meta-Ethics
Misconduct
and Normative Ethics
Publication Applied Ethics
Ethics ()
Descriptive Ethics

Ways to avoid
4) Which ethical theory previlages morality over rules or law? 0.5 points
Plagiarism ()
Consequentialism
Regulations
Deontology
on Plagiarism
in India () Virtue Ethics
Value Ethics
Course End
Activity and 5) Researchers should take all responsibility for their contributions to all publications. 0.5 points
Terminal
Assignment () Integrity
Authorship
Final Quiz ()
Conflict of Interest
Quiz: Final
Public Communication
Quiz
(assessment? 6) Confidentiality/anonymity/privacy is an ethical principle belongs to which stage of 0.5 points
name=37) research?

Planning Research
Literature Review
Developing Research Tool
Data gathering and analysis

7) According to which Indigenous ethical principle, one should acknowledge and attend 0.5 points
to the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of being and experience?

Holism
Reciprocity
Relational Accountability
Community of Knowledge

8) Plagiarism is a form of: 0.5 points

Academic Writing
Research Ethics
Publication Conduct
Academic Dishonesty

9) The act of plagiarism can be avoided – (more than one options may be correct) 0.5 points

By giving proper citation

By crediting only main author
By paraphrasing and giving citation
By replacing name of original author

10) If a researcher has published few papers during the research work. After the award of 0.5 points
doctoral degree, the researcher transformed and published the thesis as a book, in which a
substantial amount of text from the published papers has been used, and the researcher has not
given any in-text or endnote citation, will it come under plagiarism?

Yes
No
Can't Say

11) Is this necessary to cite the knowledge which is widely acceptable? e.g. the earth 0.5 points
revolved arround the sun.

Yes
No
Can't say

12) Which among the following is plagiarism? (More then one option may be correct) 0.5 points

Using a quote of a famous person in quoatation marks with citation.

Mixing information from more than two sources and presenting a new sentance as your own.
Paraphrasing the text from a sources in your own words and presenting as yours.
Copying others work with their permission and presenting as your own.
13) The act of assembling information from different sources representing one’s own 0.5 points
work without citation is called:

Clone
Ctrl+C
Remix
Find and Replace

14) _____________plagiarism is the act of replacing phrases of the original content, 0.5 points
keeping main parts of the original source.

Find and Replace

Direct Plagiarism
Purchasing
Ghost Citation

15) The act of copying from one’s own previously submitted work without giving proper 0.5 points
citation is called:

Mosaic Plagiarism
Direct Plagiarism
Self Plagiarism
Accidental Plagiarism

16) When a researcher is providing non-existent source information in a research paper 0.5 points
to pretend that the information is real and true is called 404 error.

True
False

17) When a research article contains proper citation to the sources without having very 0.5 points
little or no original work is called:

404 error
Aggregator
Remix
Replace

18) _____________is copying passage from multiple sources and mixing them up within 0.5 points
the new work without citation.

Remix
Recycle
Mashup
Re-tweet

19) Paid version of this software is not available, registered users can check more than 0.5 points
10 plagiarism scan per day.

Dupli checker
Copyleaks
PaperRater
Plgiarisma

20) The software which can be used freely with certain restrictions to check 0.5 points
plagiarism is called:
freeware software
open access software
open source software
shareware

21) This cloud-based authentication platform supports various file formats and all 0.5 points
Unicode languages with the restriction of first 10 pages free to check plagiarism.

Turnitin
Urkund
Copyleaks
PaperRater

22) iThanticate is the anti-plagiarism software, which is paid and being used by 0.5 points
corporates at large level.

True
False

23) Urkund not only record the degree of the matches but take into account any usages 0.5 points
of paraphrasing and synonyms as well as other form of substitutions and able to detect similarities
across a growing number of languages.

True
False

24) Which among the following supports only chrome or explorer browser to check the 0.5 points
similarity of the written work and does not provide option to download the plagiarism report?

PlagScan
Urkund
Plagiarism Checker
Plagium

25) i10 index refers to: 0.5 points

the number of paper with 05 or more citations in the last 10 years.

the most popular 10 papers with highest citations in the last 5 years.
the most popular 10 papers with highest citations in the last 10 years.
the number of paper with 10 or more citations in the last 5 years.

26) "Filling up many fake data collection forms by a single person" will fall under: 0.5 points

Falsification
Fabrication
Plagiarism
Conflict of Interest

27) FFP stands for: 0.5 points

False, Forged and Plagiarized data

Falsification, Fabrication and Plagiarism
Favorism, Fabrication and Plagiarism
Favorism, Falsification and Plagiarism
28) If any Journal found qualified through UGC-CARE protocols, It will appear under 0.5 points
which of the UGC-CARE list?

UGC-CARE List Group I

UGC-CARE List Group II

29) A conflict of interest in research exists where an individual may preference, or be 0.5 points
perceived to preference, their own interests or obligations over their duties and responsibilities as a
researcher.

True
False

30) Can you set an e-mail alert with Scopus search, so that when any important 0.5 points
publication in your area appear there, you get the alert?

Yes
No

31) "Stand on the shoulders of giants" is a punch line of which of the following 0.5 points
database/service?

Scopus Index
Web of Science
UGC-CARE list
Google Scholar

32) While collecting data, Mohit noticed that a few response sets are at extremes. In 0.5 points
order to bring uniformity in data and interpretation, Mohit removed a data set ( generally at extremes)
from a series of measurements, under which publication misconduct (if it is), it will fall?

It is not a Publication Misconduct

It will known as Plagiarism
It will known as falsification
It will known as conflict of Interest

33) What are the two gender neutral pronouns suggested in APA 7th edition: 0.5 points

Me and My
They and Their
My and Their
Me and They

34) Whatis the most effective technique to avoid plagiarism in your 0.5 points
academic writing:
To write your original ideas with in-text citation
To use paraphrasing
To use other’s work by copying and pasting
To write references of other author’s work

35) Asper APA 7th edition which one should be preferred for 0.5 points
referencing:
URL
DOI
36) Starting first sentence at a different point, using synonyms, changing word forms and 0.5 points
changing the structure of the sentence are the techniques used while paraphrasing.

True
False

37) Which of the following is the correct statement about referencing 0.5 points
and bibliography?
Both are same, can be used interchangeably.
Both are different, bibliography is most accepted style.
Bibliography includes cited work and background readings.
Bibliography includes references of only in-text cited work

38) Using this technique in your written work will help readers to find out more about the 0.5 points
details of the origin of your work.

Rewording
Rewriting
Paraphrasing
Citation

39) At the end of assignment, students should give full references of all in-text citations. 0.5 points

True
False

40) This is the responsibility of higher education institutions to include the 0.5 points
______________of academic integrity in the curriculum at UG/PG degree

Case studies
Personalities involved
Cardinal Principles
Theories

41) Academic integrity is a form of intellectual honesty in performing 0.5 points

academic activity.

True
False

42) In your classroom, you caught a student committed plagiarism while submitting term 0.5 points
paper or assignment, what will be your action:

You will avoid it

You will take the student to the principal for complaining
You will give the student extra time to improve his work again using citation and paraphrasing
You will dismiss the student from your class for whole academic session

43) As per UGC Regulation, 2018, At the level 2 of plagiarism, penalty for teachers/ 0.5 points
supervisors is:

to withdraw manuscript and not allowed to publish any research work for minimum 1 year.
to withdraw manuscript, denied a right to one annual increment and shall not be allowed to
be a supervisor to any new Master’s, M.Phil., Ph.D. Student/scholar for a period of two years.
to withdraw manuscript and, not allowed to publish any research work for 3 years, denied two
annual increment and not allowed to be supervisor for 3 years
Can be dismissed from the job

44) For curbing plagiarism, this is the duty of HEIs to implement technology-based 0.5 points
mechanism to ensure the submission of plagiarism free work.

True
False

45) Raspriya wants to sensitize her students towards plagiarism through classroom 0.5 points
activities. To achieve this objective:

She will teach the students daily in the classroom

While teaching she will use attribution and referencing to get sensitize her students
Will tell the students to understand about plagiarism their own.

46) Citation is not necessary for which of the following? 0.5 points

Wikipedia Information
Repetition of self-published work
Common Knowledge
Quote from a known person

47) .............................seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties and 0.5 points
evaluations.

Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Applied Ethics
Descriptive Ethics

48) If an author has mentioned any article from the Constitution of India and has not 0.5 points
given citation of year of publication, publisher, page no. etc. of the copy of Indian Constitution, will it
come under plagiarism?

Yes
No
Can't say

49) Which ethical principle asks to share data, results, ideas, tools, resources, etc.? 0.5 points

Objectivity
Integrity
Legality
Openness

50) A student in your class borrows phrases from a source without quotation marks and 0.5 points
changes some key words with its synonyms keeping same general structure, such plagiarism is
called_________.

Mosaic
Self
Global
Patchwork

51) A teacher properly cited all the sources in his work, but depended majorly on the 0.5 points
original work without having his own original idea or thought or argument is called:
Aggregator
Hybrid
Mashup
Re-tweet

52) Which among the following plagiarism checker does not have a paid version? 0.5 points

Copyleaks
Turnitin
Quetext
PlagScan

53) ___________ is the organization, which provides access to URKUND software to 0.5 points
universities/ government organizations to check the similarity of work in India.

IGNSA
INFLIBNET
BISAG
CEC

54) This web based anti-plagiarism software provides a similarity index which indicates 0.5 points
the percentage of matched work with other sources and an originality report which shows these
matches in detail, can you name it?

Turnitin
Urkund
Palgscan
Plagachecker

55) "Manipulation of images or representations in a manner that distorts the 0.5 points
data" is known as:

Falsification
Fabrication
Plagiarism
Conflict of Interest

56) In the in-text citation, minimum how many authors can be cited with et. al.: 0.5 points

10 authors
07 authors
03 authors
20

57) If any person paraphrasing one's own previously published work without due and full 0.5 points
citation of the original, will not be counted under self-plagiarism:

True
False

58) Which important word has been removed from referencing of any online resources: 0.5 points

URL
DOI
Retrieved From
URL and DOI Both
59) In-text citation of a block quotation, must include: 0.5 points

name of the author, year, title of the source

last name of the author, page no., title of the source
last name of the author, year of publication
last name of the author, year of publication, page no. or paragraph no.

60) Citation gives the information to the readers about the original 0.5 points
author, title of the work, date of publication of the work, page number and year
of publication.
True
False

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