Wooden Sleepers -2 MCQs : This section focuses on the "Wooden Sleepers -2". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Wooden Sleepers -2 skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
Empty cell (Rueping) process is used for treating which type of timber?
A. Hard timber
B. Porous timber
C. Soft wood
D. Deodar timber
Question 2
In which process maximum retention of hot creosote oil is practiced?
A. Full cell process
B. Empty cell process
C. Seasoning of sleepers
D. Prophylactic treatment of sleepers
Question 3
In which type of sleepers the heartwood side is kept upwards and the sapwood side downwards?
A. Treated sleepers
B. Untreated sleepers
C. Both treated and untreated sleepers
D. Neither treated nor untreated sleepers
Question 4
Seasoning of sleepers is done to remove the excess preservative from the wood?
A. True
B. False
Question 5
This process of cutting the wooden sleeper at a slope of 1 in 20 is known as ________
A. adzing of wooden sleepers
B. laying of wooden sleepers
C. seasoning of sleepers
D. prophylactic treatment of sleepers
Question 6
What is another name of Full cell method?
A. Bethell process
B. Rueping process
C. Lowry process
D. Andrew process
Question 7
What is the order for recovery of preservatives in these processes?
A. Rueping process < Lowry process < Bethell process
B. Rueping process > Lowry process > Bethell process
C. Rueping process < Lowry process < Bethell process
D. Rueping process = Lowry process = Bethell process
Question 8
What is used for removing the moisture content in Boulton process?
A. Water (cold)
B. Hot preservative
C. Natural air
D. Prophylactic treatment
Question 9
Where are Fir sleepers used?
A. Lines with traffic density less than 10GMT
B. Lines with traffic density less than 30GMT
C. All main lines
D. All trunk routes
Question 10
Which is the most used method for seasoning of wooden sleepers in India?
A. Air seasoning
B. Artificial seasoning
C. Boulton seasoning
D. Kiln seasoning
Question 11
Which of the following is not a way of stacking of sleepers?
A. One and nine method
B. Close crib method
C. Open crib method
D. Nine and one method
Question 12
Why a final vacuum is applied in the Full cell process?
A. To free the timber of excessive preservative
B. To add extra preservative
C. To maintain equilibrium
D. To drain the creosote oil
Question 13
Why is prophylactic treatment of sleepers done?
A. To prevent infection at the treatment plant
B. To make it stronger
C. To remove excess preservative
D. To remove creosote oil