KUNDAN GREEN VALLEY SCHOOL

Kundan colony (Ballabgarh)

Multiple choice questions (B)
Class : 10th Subject : Social Scien

1.Which of the following were parts of Hapsburg Empire?

(a) Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy, Venetia
(b) Galicia, Carniola, Bohemia, Lombardy, Venetia
(c) Sudetenland, Austria-Hungary, Lombardy, Venetia
(d) Croatia, Sardinia, Greece, Poland, Austria-Hungary
2.Liberal nationalism, which dominated Europe in early nineteenth century supported
(a) Personal freedom
(b) Abolishing privileges of aristocracy and clergy
(c) Demand for constitution
(d) All of these
3.Frederic Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia rejected the terms of the Frankfurt Parliament
because
(a) The constitution made by the parliament wanted the monarch to become a subject to a
parliament
(b) The parliament did not have the support of the aristocracy and military heads
(c) The members of the parliament were not elected representatives of German people
(d) The parliament did not have women representatives
4.What did Mahatma Gandhi in his book, Hind Swaraj, declare?
(a) British ruled India because the latter was militarily weak
(b) British ruled India because Indians cooperated with them
(c) British ruled India because they got international support
(d) None of these
5.What did the term 'begar' mean?
(a) Payment of wages (b) High rents demanded by landlords
(c) Labour without payment (d) None of these
6.Who wrote the 'Vande Matram'?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Abanindranath Tagore (d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
7.Who wrote ‘My childhood My university’.
(a)Thomas wood (b) Maxim Gorky (c)George Eliot (d)Jane Austen
8.Name the paper started by Bal Gangashar Tilak
(a)The Kesari (b)The Young India (c)The Statesman (d)Amrita Bazar Patrika
9.The oldest Japanese book Diamond Sutra was printed in
(a)AD 686 (b)AD 868 (c)AD 668. (d)AD 866
10.The newspaper Shamsul Akhbar was published in
(a)Hindi (b)Persian (c)Arabic (d)Urdu
11.Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of ______.
(a) Silver. (b) Emerald. (c) Diamonds. (d) Gold
12.What is meant by the ‘Silk Routes” ?
(a). points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes travelling on the various
routes
(b). import – export of silk
(c). Asian routes used
(d). routes used in and out of Asia
13.Which foods were introduced in Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus
discovered America?
(a). potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes
(b). meats. (c). wheat and rice. (d). seafood
14.Which of the following community is in majority in Sri Lanka?
(a) Tamil (b) Sinhala (c) Buddhist (d) Hindu
15.Federalism is:
(a) a form of unitary government
(b) a government with two or multi levels of government
(c) a form of autocratic government
(d) a & c.
16.How many subjects are enlisted in the Concurrent List?
(a) 66 (b) 62. (c) 47. (d) 66
17.How many people speak French and Dutch in the capital city of Brussels?
(a) 60 percent French 40 percent Dutch. (b) 50% Dutch 50% French
(c) 80% French 20% Dutch (d) 80% Dutch 20% French
18.What is the result of political expression of gender division?
(a). Has helped to improve women’s role in public life
(b). Has provided a superior status to women
(c). The position remains the same, as it was
(d). None of the above
19.Which one of the following social reformers fought against caste inequalities?
(a) Periyar Ramaswami Naiker. (b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
20.Which one of the following is a form of communalism?
(a) Communal Unity and integrity. (b) Communal fraternity.
(c) Communal violence, riots and massacre. (d) Communal harmony.
21.Which of these is not a National Party?
(a) INC. (b) SAD (c) BJP (d) CPI (M)
22.Which of these is the function of political party?
(a) To contest election (b) To form and run government
(c) To form public opinion. (d) All of these
23.How many parties are registered with the Election Commission of India?
(a) 500 (b) 650 (c) 700. (d) 750
24.What is the main outcome of democracy?
(a) Economic development. (b) Social equality
(c) Political freedom. (d) Technological advancement
25.In a democratic country, political leaders are accountable to:
(a) Corporations and businesses. (b) The judiciary and armed forces
(c) The media and international organizations. (d) People of the country
26.Soil is a:-
(a) Renewable Resource (b) Potential Resource
(c) Non- Resource (d) None of them
27.Which one of the following term is used to identify the old and new alluvial
respectively?
(a) Khadas & Tarai (b) Tarai & Bangar (c) Bangar & Khadar. (d) Tarai & Dvars
28.Which one of the following is responsible for sheet erosion?
(a) Underground water. (b) Wind (c) Glacier (d) Water
29.Rain water is referred as
(a) Palar pani (b) Potable water (c) Underground water (d) None of these
30.In which of the following areas are ‘guts’ and ‘kuls’ used to channel water for
agriculture?
(a) Deccan Plateau (b) Deserts of Rajasthan. (c) Western Himalayas (d) Ganga Plains
31.Which of the following crops is produced during zaid cropping season?
(a) Sugarcane (b) Muskmelon (c) Groundnut (d) Moong
32.The Bhoodan-Gramdaan movement was initiated by:
(a) Vinoba Bhave (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Pandit Nehru (d) R. C. Reddy
33.Koderma , in Jharkhand is the leading producer of which of the following minerals
(a) Bauxite. (b) Mica. (c) Iron ore. (d) Copper
34.Sandstone and mica are example of .
(a) Non -metallic minerals. (b) Wasteful minerals
(c) Ferrous minerals. (d) Precious minerals
35._________pollution of water occurs when hot water from factories and thermal plants
is drained into rivers and ponds before cooling.
(a) Thermal. (b) Industrial. (c) Noise. (d) Air
36.Oil India Ltd is a ________ type of industry on the basis of ownership?
(a) Public sector. (b) Private sector.
(c) Joint sector Industry. (d) Cooperative sector Industry
37.Which out of the following is a mineral based industry?
(a) Sugar. (b) Tea. (c) Cotton. (d) Petrochemicals
38.Development goal for landless agricultural labour is
(a) high prices for crops. (b) more days of work
(c) cheap labour. (d) pollution free environment
39.Dividing the total income of country with its population, we get
(a) Per-Capita income. (b) National income. (c) Average Income. (d) Total Income
40.Among Haryana, Kerala and Bihar, the lowest per- capita income state is Bihar. It
shows that
(a) Bihar has high standard of living.
(b) People are earning less in Kerala
(c) Maharashtra has more number of rich people.
(d) On an average, people in Bihar have low income
41.Which of the following occupations cannot be included in tertiary sector?
(a) Courier. (b) Basket weaver. (c) Call center employee. (d) Transporter
42.Choose one correct statement from the following:
Underemployment occurs —
(a) when people are not willing to work.
(b) when people are working slowly.
(c) when people are working less than what they are capable of doing.
(d) when people are not paid for their jobs.
43.____________ refers to the activities which are undertaken by people with the object
of earning money.
(a) Organised activities. (b) Unorganised activities
(c) Economic activities. (d) Noneconomic activities
44.Who among the following fall under the organized sector?
(a) Raghu, a daily wage labourer working in a dam site under a contractor.
(b) Nafeesa, a doctor getting all employment benefits.
(c) Purushothaman, a cleaning staff in a private bank.
(d) Ammini, a tailor stitching clothes at his home
45.Which one of the following is a formal source of credit?
(a) Traders. (b) Cooperative societies. (c) Moneylenders. (d) Friends and relatives
46.Organised credit is also called
(a) informal credit. (b) formal credit. (c) cooperative credit. (d) none of these
47.Which one of the following is the appropriate meaning of collateral?
(a) It is the sum total of money borrowed from banks.
(b) The amount borrowed from friends.
(c) It is an asset of the borrower used as guarantee to a lender.
(d) The amount invested in a business.
48.Name the system in which the double coincidence of wants is an essential feature.
(a) Barter system. (b) Money economy. (c) Global economy. (d) None of these
49.Which of the following is not a feature of a Multi-National Company?
(a) It owns/controls production in more than one nation.
(b) It sets up factories where it is close to the markets.
(c) It organises production in complex ways.
(d) It employs labour only from its own country.
50.What was the main channel connecting country in the past?
(a) Labour. (b) Religion. (c) Technology. (d) Trade