S.2 AGRICULTURE HOLIDAY WORK TERM 3, 2013
VEGETABLE GROWING
A: Legumes
1. Atypical leaf arrangement of legumes is
A. trifoliate and net veinated.
B. trifoliate and parallel veinated.
C. simple leaves that are net veinated.
D. compound leaves that are parallel veinated.
2. Legumes are always included in crop rotations because
A. they grow very fast.
B. they are not easily attacked by pests and diseases.
C. they have low nutritional requirements.
D. they develop nodules on their roots that have nitrogen fixing bacterial.
3. Seeds of legumes
A. are born in hard shells.
B. easily shatter in hot weather.
C. are born in pods where they are in a linear arrangement.
D. have an oval shape and are all maroon.
4. Legumes can recycle leached nutrients since
A. they have nitrogen fixing bacteria
B. they have deep tap root system.
C. they are highly leafy so can provide a lot of green manure.
D. they grow close to the ground and control soil erosion.
5. Legumes are excellent human and animal foods since they contain
A. fats and fibre
B. all nutrient in quantities by the body
C. over 20%protaines,fats and vitamins
D. easily digestible nutrients
6. Both beans and groundnuts are not grown in nursery bed first because
A. they are first maturing
B. the development of their roots should not be disturbed
C. nursery beds require a lot of labour to prepare.
D. they have large seeds can be spaced out in main garden
7. The seed bed where both beans and groundnuts are to be sown should not be prepared to a fine tith
A. to minimize work done
B. to control soil erosion
C. to facilitate deep planting
D. to allow machine planting
8. Valencia varieties of groundnuts are characterized by
A. upright central stem and numerous lateral branches giving it a bushy appearance
B. long lateral branches that spread along the ground
C. maroon seed that are born in dark brown pods
D. small white or brown seeds are cylindrical
9. Beans grow best in fertile well drained soils and prone to
A. alkaline light soils
B. acidic heavy soils
C. soils of neutral and medium fertility
D. a wide range of soils
10. When growing beans, high environmental temperatures will cause
A. shattering of pods
B. drying of beans
C. poor fruit setting
D. slow growth
11. One reason that has made Mutike-4 variety of beans popular in central and western Uganda is:-
A. it is easily to cook
B. it is the most early maturing variety
C. it can be grown in heavy clay soils
D. it resistant anthracnose disease.
12. In places with a bimodal rain fall pattern been are grown in the short rains because
A. they have less market
B. to escape pests and diseases
C. they have a short growth cycle and they require a relative dry season when podding
D. the onset of flowering is after two months and rains should have stopped by then.
13. Early plating ground nuts has many advantages like
A. reduces diseases incidence e.g. leaf spots
B. pre emergency herbicides do not have to be used
C. it does not interfer with pod development
D. it shortens the period to maturity
14. Close spacing groundnuts has the following advantages except ones, which one is not an advantage.
A. reduces incidence of ground nut rosette
B. reduces total size of the plant
C. reduces number of undeveloped pegs
D. reduces used competition
15. Groundnuts for sowing should be stored in shells
A. to reduce rodent damage
B. to maintain viability
C. to prevent incidence of aflatoxin
D. to control nematodes
16. Ground nuts are usually sown by dibbling so that
A. they can easily germinate
B. they get access to enough water
C. seeds are not wasted
D. seeds are not unearthed and eaten by rodents
17. Weeding beans is done before flowering and they hand hoe since
A. their roots can easily get damaged
B. after flowering, wedding may cause flowers to dry
C. wedding later may spread disease
D. they are susceptible to most herbicides
18. Trash should not be heaped around ground nuts when weeding as this
A. interfers with peg formation
B. encourages diseases like ground nut blight
C. reduces incidence of unearthing by rodents
D. increases attack by aphids
19. Soil fertilizer before growing legumes is usually done by applying
A. farm yard manure and agriculture lime
B. agriculture lie and CAU
C. CAN and urea
D. urea and compost manure
20. The bean fly can cause one of the damages below
A. eat leaves and the crop dies
B. damage flowers
C. causes base of stem to split and the plant dies
D. bores into pods and causes them to rot
21. The bean fly can be controlled by
A. removing and burning all crop residues
B. spraying mature crops with recommended insecticides
C. dry planting
D. intercropping with cereals
22. The pest of beans that eats young leaves and flowers, brakes into pods and eats most off the contents is
A. Bean bruched
B. Bean fly
C. American ball worm
D. Leaf eating beetle
23. Aphids are the most serious pest of ground nuts since they
A. eat leaves causing wilting of the plant
B. suck sap causing stunted growth and are vectors of ground nut rosette
C. creates dark brow patches on leaves reducing photosynthesis
D. causes white growth at stem base that eventually rots
24. Afflation growth in ground nuts can be controlled by three of the following. Which is the exception?
A. through drying in sunshine immediately after harvesting
B. making sure harvested pods are not made wet by rain
C. planting so that harvesting will occur at the end of the rainy season
D. spraying plants using recommended chemicals
25. When ground nuts leave develop dark brown or black spot and there is premature defoliation the plant is likely to be suffering from
A. Ground nut rosette
B. Cercospora leaf spot
C. Ground nut blight
D. Bacterial wilt
26. Which disease is a bean plant with the following symptoms likely to be suffering from? Brown water soaked sunken lesions on pods stems and petioles, Rotting seeds.
A. Anthracnose
B. Bean rust
C. Angular leaf spot
D. Bacterial blight
27. Bean rust can be controlled by
A. crop rotation
B. planting varieties with known resistance to the disease
C. planting seeds with no symptom of the disease
D. avoid excessively humid conditions
28. Harvested beans should be protected against storage pest by
A. threshing them in a dust free place
B. removing damaged/broken seeds
C. through drying and seed dressing with recommended chemicals
D. maintaining filed hygiene
29. When groundnuts are harvested prematually
A. the pods will be hard to shell
B. seeds will easily be attacked by aflatoxin
C. she seeds will be soft but tasty and will dry easily
D. seeds will shrink while drying and will be of law oil content
30. Delayed harvesting of ground nuts will result in
A. big seeds but of low oil content
B. reduced number of pods on each plant
C. higher proportions of pods breaking off during harvesting
D. seeds that will not germinate when sown
ANSWERS TO VEGETABLE GROWING –LEGUMES
S.2 AGRICULTURE HOLIDAY WORK TERM 3, 2013
1. / A2. / D
3. / C
4. / B
5. / C
6. / D
7. / B
8. / A
9. / B
10. / C
11. / D
12. / C
13. / A
14. / B
15. / B
16. / D
17. / D
18. / B
19. / A
20. / C
21. / A
22. / C
23. / B
24. / D
25. / B
26. / A
27. / B
28. / C
29. / D
30. / C