Unit 5: Extension Administration - Practice Quiz

1 What is extension administration mainly concerned with?

2 What is the main purpose of extension administration?

3 Which administrative function involves deciding in advance what should be done?

4 Which function involves arranging activities and assigning responsibilities?

5 Delegation in extension administration means:

6 Which function compares actual performance with planned standards?

7 What is an extension teaching method?

8 Extension teaching methods are commonly classified according to:

9 Which of the following is an individual contact method?

10 When a farmer visits an extension office for personal advice, the method is called:

11 What is a major advantage of individual contact methods?

12 Which extension method teaches a skill by showing how to perform it?

13 Which method encourages members to exchange ideas about a common issue?

14 A field day is mainly organized to:

15 Which of the following is a mass contact method?

16 Which printed medium can carry extension messages to a large audience?

17 What is the main advantage of mass contact methods?

18 Which of the following is an ICT tool used for agricultural extension?

19 Which platform is an example of social media used in extension communication?

20 What does a media mix strategy mean in extension education?

21 A district extension officer coordinates personnel, funds, transport, and field activities to achieve a programme's objectives. Which concept does this best illustrate?

22 Village priorities differ considerably across a district. Which administrative approach would make the extension programme most responsive?

23 An extension worker receives conflicting instructions from both the crop officer and the block extension officer. Which administrative principle is being violated?

24 A programme leader assigns village meeting arrangements to a field assistant but still monitors the outcome. Which principle is correctly applied?

25 Before launching a soil-health campaign, an officer identifies farmers' needs, sets targets, selects activities, and estimates resources. Which function is primarily involved?

26 At the end of a training programme, the officer compares actual adoption rates with the target and recommends changes. Which administrative function is this?

27 A farm visit, a method demonstration, and a radio talk are classified respectively as which types of extension teaching methods?

28 Farmers are aware of vermicomposting but lack the practical skill to prepare a compost bed. Which teaching approach is most suitable?

29 A farmer reports a crop disorder that may depend on drainage, soil condition, and field layout. Which individual contact method is most appropriate?

30 A farmer voluntarily visits an extension centre to seek clarification about a subsidy application. How should this contact be classified?

31 An extension worker wants farmers to learn the correct procedure for calibrating a knapsack sprayer. Which group method should be selected?

32 Two plots are maintained under similar conditions to compare a recommended seed variety with the local variety. Which extension method is being used?

33 Members of a dairy group have different opinions about milk collection times. Which method would best support shared analysis and a group decision?

34 A pest outbreak threatens several villages where many farmers have limited reading ability. Which mass contact method can provide the fastest broad warning?

35 An extension agency uses posters across a district to announce a vaccination campaign. What is the main limitation of relying only on this method?

36 An extension officer creates a moderated messaging group where farmers post crop photographs and receive timely advice. Which ICT advantage is most directly used?

37 Most farmers in a remote area use basic mobile phones and have limited literacy. Which ICT service is most suitable for regular weather advisories?

38 An unverified pesticide recommendation is spreading through social media. What should the extension agency do first?

39 An agency first announces drip irrigation by radio, then conducts village demonstrations, and finally provides farm-specific advice. Why is this media mix effective?

40 A campaign broadcasts market information by radio and sends the same basic message through mobile alerts. What is the main strategic benefit?

41 A district extension office achieves all annual activity targets, but most activities address crops already well served by private advisers while resource-poor farmers' priority problems remain unattended. Which assessment is most defensible?

42 A state directorate prescribes broad programme outcomes, districts choose locally appropriate interventions, and village committees help rank needs. Which administrative concept best describes this arrangement?

43 An extension manager discovers that two specialists separately instruct the same field agents, issue conflicting schedules, and evaluate them using different criteria. Which principle is most directly violated?

44 A programme review shows that outputs were delivered on schedule, yet adoption remained low because farmers could not obtain the recommended input. Which management response best integrates planning and control?

45 A supervisor can closely coach 6 inexperienced field workers or loosely oversee 18 experienced workers supported by standardized dashboards. What does this illustrate about span of control?

46 Which indicator pair best distinguishes monitoring from evaluation in an extension programme?

47 A field day includes a scientist's talk, a live machinery demonstration, farmer discussion, and take-home leaflets. Under the conventional classification by number of people contacted, how should the field day itself be classified?

48 Which sequence best follows the logic of moving farmers from awareness to informed trial when a practice is complex and locally unfamiliar?

49 During a farm visit, an adviser immediately prescribes a pesticide after seeing leaf damage. Later, laboratory results show nutrient toxicity. Which omitted feature most undermined the method's quality?

50 An agent has time for one intensive contact. Farmer P has a unique drainage failure requiring site inspection; 40 farmers share a general question about seed treatment. Which allocation is most appropriate?

51 Which situation most strongly favors an office call over a farm and home visit?

52 A method demonstration on grafting ends with participants correctly describing every step, but none can perform the graft. Which redesign best addresses the learning gap?

53 An extension team wants to prove under local conditions that an already validated drought-tolerant variety outperforms the prevailing variety. Which method is most appropriate?

54 In a village meeting, influential landowners dominate discussion and tenant farmers remain silent. Which facilitation change best preserves the group method while reducing participation bias?

55 A cyclone warning must reach dispersed farmers within two hours, but network data are unreliable and literacy varies. Which primary mass-contact choice is most robust?

56 A radio campaign reports a large audience and high message recall, yet adoption remains unchanged. Which conclusion is most valid?

57 A messaging-group advisory spreads rapidly, but a false dosage recommendation is repeatedly forwarded. Which governance design best reduces harm without eliminating peer exchange?

58 An app's dashboard shows 80,000 downloads, 12,000 monthly active users, and 900 users applying recommendations correctly. Which metric most directly represents effective technology use?

59 A predictive advisory system performs well overall but systematically gives poorer sowing advice to rainfed farms because their local weather data are sparse. What is the priority corrective action?

60 A campaign combines radio for awareness, village demonstrations for skill development, messaging groups for reminders, and farm visits for difficult cases. Which design principle primarily explains the mix?