CHAPTER-1: ON EQUALITY
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Which of the following is a necessary aspect of all the democracies?
a) Universal Adult Franchise c) Universal Child Franchise
b) Inequality d) Coalition
2. _____ is a written or unwritten document in which rulers of running the government are given.
a) Law b) Constitution c) Government d) Code of conduct
3. Person who has attained the age of _____ or more has the right to vote in India?
a) 20 years b) 21 years c) 18 years d) 24 years
4. _____ is the base of our democracy.
a) Parliament b) Government c) President d) Election Commission
5. The _____ considers all Indians as equal.
b) Election Commission b) Code of conduct c) Constitution d) State
6. Which articles of India has banned all kinds of discrimination among the people?
a) Article 17 b) Article 15 c) Article 21 d) Article 28
7. India is a ______ country.
a) Democratic b) Non-Democratic c) Monarchic d) Dictator
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. Name the key elements of a democratic government.
2. What is one of the most common forms of inequality in India?
3. What does OmmPraksh Valmiki’s book ‘Joothan’ talk about?
4. On what grounds are some people often treated unequally?
5. On what basis were OmmPraksh Valmiki and the Ansarie’s treated unequally?
6. Which was the first state in India to introduce the Mid-Day Meal scheme?
7. When did the Supreme Court ask all state governments to begin the MDM in their schools?
8. When was the Ansarie’s dignity hurt?
9. Who are the African- American?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2. The Indian Constitution recognizes every person as equal. What does this mean?
3. What is Universal Adult Franchise?
4. Which is necessary condition for the success of all democracies?
5. What is the main idea behind the concept of Universal Adult Franchise?
6. Who was Rosa Parks? What role did she play in changing the
Course of American history?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. What is written in Article 15 of Indian Constitution?
2. How is equality recognized in the Indian Constitution?
E. Hots Corner
1. What is the position of equality in our country?
2. How was the dignity of OmmPraksh Valmiki violated?
F. Value Based Questions
1. How were the African-Americans treated prior to 1950s?
2. What are the basis of inequalities in our country?
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CHAPTER-02: ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN HEALTH
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Who in a democracy is expected to work for the welfare of the public?
a) Government b) Law c) Constitution d) President
2. Health facilities run by the government are known as ______ health facilities.
a) Personal b) Public c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of these
3. Which health facilities are more expensive?
a) Private health services c) Public health services
b) Both (a) and (b) d) None of these
4. In how many parts health services are divided?
a) Four b) Three c) Two d) Six
5. The diseases that spread from one place to another in many ways are called ______ diseases.
a) Communicable c) Non- Communicable
b) Touchable d) Untouchable
6. Which of these is required to run the public health centres?
a) Doctor b)
Nurse c)
Medicine d)
All of these
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What is a Public Healthcare System?
2. According to UNICEF, how many children die every year in India from preventable infections?
3. What is needed in order to prevent and treat illnesses?
4. From where are the resources needed to run public health services obtained?
5. Why has the government established hospitals and health centres?
6. What is the primary duty of the government according to the Indian Constitution?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. How are public health facilities provided at the village level?
2. What is health? State its dimensions.
3. What are the two types of health care available in India. Explain?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. What are the features of public and private health services? Writes any three features of each.
2. What are the steps taken by the government to eradicate polio?
E. Hots Corner
1. What is Coasta Rica’s approach towards health services?
F. Value Based Questions
1. How inequality in health services could be removed?
2. Explain the three-tier medical care system available in India.
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CHAPTER-03: HOW THE STATE GOVERNMENT WORKS
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Member of Legislative Assembly is known as-
a) MLA b) Chief Minister c) Prime Minister d) Advocate General
2. Who is the leader of majority party in Legislative Assembly?
a) Chief Minister b) Prime Minister c) President d) MLA
3. ____ works as the representative of President in the state.
a) Chief Minister b) Speaker c) Governor d) MLA
4. Which of these is the level of government?
b) Local Level b) State Level c) Central Level d) All of these
5. Who runs the state government?
a) Chief Minister b) Speaker c) Governor d) Legislative Assembly
6. Who asks questions to ministers in Legislative Assembly?
b) Chief Minister b) Speaker c) MLA d) None of these
7. Who is the head of the state?
a) Chief Minister b) Speaker c) Governor d) President
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What are the three levels of government?
2. What is the press conference?
3. What is State Legislature?
4. Who represent the people in the State Legislative Assembly and in the Parliament?
5. Who has the responsibility of running various government departments or ministries?
6. Who is an MLA?
7. What is a Constituency?
8. How is the Council of Ministers formed?
9. What is the State Executive?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. Who takes decisions to run the State Government?
2. Who appoints Governor of a state and why?
3. How debate is held in the State Legislative Assembly?
4. How do the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers run the government?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. How Legislative Assembly of a state works?
2. How does a bill become a law?
3. How is the governor appointed?
E. Hots Corner
1. How do MLAs in a democracy have the main authority?
2. What is the Session and Quorum of the state government?
F. Value Based Questions
1. Explain the functions of the State Legislature?
2. What are the qualifications to become a governor?
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CHAPTER-04: GROWING UP AS BOYS AND GIRLS
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Which toy is generally given to boys?
a) Car b) Doll c) Implements of house d) Kitchen implements
2. What is the initial base of natural difference among people in society?
a) Wealth b) Gender c) Status d) Age
3. Who has stopped discrimination in country on gender bases?
a) Government b) State c) Constitution d) Court
4. Whose responsibility is to take care of house and to do house holds?
a) Males b) Females c) Children d) Elders
5. How much reservation is given to women in local self-institution?
a) 50% b) 30% c) 20% d) 33%
6. Which centres are established in villages by government to take care of children?
a) Anganwadi b) Health Centres c) Hospitals d) Nursing Homes
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What do care-giving tasks include?
2. Why are girls given dolls and boys are cars to play?
3. With whom does the main responsibility for housework and care-giving lie across the world?
4. What do we find if we add up the housework and the work women do outside the home?
5. Why is the work that women do at home not recognized as work?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. Which step is being taken by the government so that girls can attend the school and women can work out of their homes?
2. Why is work that women do called strenuous and physically demanding?
3. What has the government made mandatory for anganwadis to do, and why?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. What are gender inequalities? What is its position in India?
2. Explain gender inequality in the public spaces.
E. Hots Corner
1. How does the inequality creep up in various domains of life? Give two examples.
F. Value Based Questions
1. What is gender? Is gender inequality justified?
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CHAPTER-05: WOMEN CHANGE THE WORLD
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. How much Indian women are working in agricultural fields?
a) 83.6% b) 86.3% c) 76.3% d) 73.6%
2. Literacy rate among women in India is____ .
a) 50% b) 54% c) 65% d) 59%
3. Why did girls stop going to school?
a) Discrimination b) Poverty c) Lack of facilities d) All of these
4. In which year was a law made to stop domestic violence?
a) 2006 b) 1996 c) 2001 d) 2008
5. What is the percentage of children dropping out of schools at the primary level?
a) 60% b) 55% c) 52% d) 58%
6. Who opened a school for girls at Kolkata in 1910, which is still working?
a) Mahatma Gandhi c) Rabindranath Tagore
b) RokeyaSakhawat Hossain d) Ramabai
7. What is the main work of women in agricultural field?
a) Planting b) Harvesting c) Weeding d) All of these
8. 27 year old Laxmi Lakra is the first women engine driver for ___ railways.
a) Northern b) Southern c) Western d) Eastern
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What happens if some boys do not behave like other boys?
2. Why was Ramabai given the title ‘Pandita’?
3. Name the factors that compel girls to leave school.
4. Name a very powerful way of drawing attention to injustice done to women?
5. When is International Women’s day celebrated every year?
6. Name the strategies used for spreading awareness, fighting discrimination and seeking injustice by the Women’s Movement?
C.
Short
Answer Type Questions
1. What information is gathered in a census? How is this information used?
2. What is the Women’s Movement?
3. Why do people gather at Wagah border of India and Pakistan every year on 14th August?
4. What new ideas about education and learning emerged in the 19th century?
5. Name the social reformers who worked for the cause of women.
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. Write a brief note on RokeyaSakhawat Hossain.
2. Write down a few efforts made by the Government of India to fight against discrimination and violence against women?
3. What do you know about Rashsundari Devi?
4. What are the measures taken for the emancipation of women?
E.
Hots
Corner
1. Why was the skill of reading and writing known only to a few in the past?
2. What continues to be challenge in India in the field of education?
F.
Value
Based Questions
1. Why were woman in the pottery trade not seen as potters?
2. What methods are adopted to raise public awareness on issues of women’s right?
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CHAPTER-06: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Which of these is a means of Mass Media?
a) Newspaper b) Television c) Radio d) All of these
2. Which of these is the most modern means of Mass Media?
a) Internet b) Newspaper c) Television d) Radio
3. Which of these means of Mass Media could also be used even by illiterate?
a) Newspaper b) Magazine c) Radio d) Internet
4. Which of these is an electronic means of Mass Media?
b) Internet b) Television c) Computer d) All of these
5. The ______ used in means of Mass Media kepps on changing all the times.
a) Technology b) Language c) Form d) None of these
6. Who invented the printing press?
a) John L Baird b) Gutenberg c) Graham Bell d) Henry Ford
7. Who invented the printing press?
b) John LogieBaird b) Gutenberg c) Graham Bell d) Henry Ford
8. Different technologies used in Mass Media are quite-
b) Cheap b) Expensive c) Ancient d) None of these
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What does an independent media mean?
2. Define signature campaign.
3. What is also known as the ‘Lighthouse of democracy?
4. Which was the worst emergency faced by the Indian people?
5. Who invented the television?
6. What was the first television called?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. What is media?
2. What is meant by mass media?
3. What is meant by censorship?
4. How mass media is important for democracy?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. Explain the principles of media ethics.
2. What are the different forms of media?
3. What are the Functions of media?
E. Hots Corner
1. What helps media to reach more people?
2. How technology brings change in our lives?
F. Value Based Questions
1. What is the relation between media and technology?
2. Why is it commonly said that the media ‘sets the agenda’?
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CHAPTER-07: UNDERSTANDING ADVERTISING
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. At the very basic level, _____ means stamping a product with a particular name or sign.
a) Branding b) Advertisement c) Advertising d) None of these
2. Giving name to product is known as _____.
a) Giving Advertisement b) Branding c) Speciality d) None of these
3. ________ is a public promotion of some product or services.
a) Advertisement b) T.V c) Radio d) None of these
4. Commodity or service which is made to sell in the market is known as-
a) Advertisement b) Product c) Brand d) Consumer
5. Commodities are produced for use by the-
a) Brand b) Product c) Life Style d) Consumer
6. When values are encouraged by advertisements?
a) To respect the guests c) To provide better products to people
b) To give healthy food to children d) All of these
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What does ‘branding’ mean?
2. Why is ‘branding’ done?
3. What do advertisements do?
4. When was the Consumer Protection Act passed?
5. What is the full form of COPRA?
6. What is consumerism?
7. What is Social Advertising?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. When the need of advertising arises?
2. What is the aim of advertisement?
3. What is RTI?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. What are the ill effects or disadvantages of advertising?
2. What are the advantages of advertising?
3. Mention the duties of a consumer.
E. Hots Corner
1. Illustrate the factors responsible for the exploitation of consumers?
2. Why is there a need to give specific name to pulses packed by any company?
F. Value Based Questions
1. What crucial role does advertising play?
2. Mention the rights available to the consumers.
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CHAPTER-08: MARKETS AROUND US
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Name the place from where we purchase things of our use.
a) Market b) Chain of Market c) Haat d) All of these
2. Which of these is a type of market?
a) Hawker’s stall b) Weekly Markets c) Mall d) All of these
3. What can we buy from weekly markets?
a) Vegetables b) Clothes c) Utensils d) All of these
4. _____ is an enclosed shopping space which is usually a large building.
a) Chain of Market b) Hawker’s stall c) Weekly Markets d) Mall
5. _____ is that series of markets that are connected like links in a chain.
a) Chain of Market b) Hawker’s stall c) Weekly Markets d) Mall
6. Name the people who are between the producers of things and users of things.
a) Producer b) Trader c) Consumer d) No one
7. _____ produces the things.
a) Manufacturer b) Consumer c) Retailer d) Wholesaler
8. From where can we buy branded products?
a) Market b) Weekly Markets c) Mall d) Hawker’s stall
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. What is meant by chain of market?
2. Why is a weekly market so called?
3. How many types of markets are there?
4. Who is a retailer?
5. State one feature of weekly markets.
6. Who is between the producer and the consumer?
7. What are the recent developments in the urban areas?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. How weekly markets is helpful to us?
2. What is wholesale trade?
3. Why are branding goods expensive?
4. What is meant by Mall?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. What are the two main types of markets?
2. Mention the functions of retailers.
E. Hots Corner
1. What are the locational advantages to the customers?
2. In what ways are shops in the neighborhood useful?
F. Value Based Questions
1. Write an advantage of weekly markets.
2. Why are shops in the neighborhood prepared by some people?
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CHAPTER-09: A SHIRT IN THE MARKET
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. ____ is an arrangement between the merchant and the weaver, whereby the merchant supplies the raw material and receives the finished product.
a) Ginning Mill c) Weaver’s Co-operative
b) Putting Out System d) Weekly Market
2. _____ is an institution in which the weavers form a group and take up certain activities together.
a) Ginning Mill c) Weaver’s Co-operative
b) Putting Out System d) Weekly Market
3. ____ is a factory where seeds are remounted from cotton bales, the cotton is pressed into bales to be sent for spinning into thread.
a) Ginning Mill c) Weaver’s Co-operative
b) Putting Out System d) None of these
4. _____ is a person who sells goods abroad.
a) Exporter b) Importer c) Producer d) Consumer
5. One who procure goods from abroad is known as-
a) Exporter b) Importer c) Producer d) Consumer
6. Which of these is a condition of worker working in an export oriented cloth factory?
a) Less Wages b) Temporary Employment
b) Pay according to ability d) All of these
7. Which of these is helpful in the trade of sugar?
a) Sugarcane producer c) Owner of Sugar factory
b) Wholesale Merchant d) All of these
8. Which of these works in the Erod’s cloth market?
a) Merchant b) Exporter c) Weaver d) All of these
9. Why a small producer farmer has to take loan?
a) To buy Urea b) To buy pesticides c) To buy seeds d) All of these
10. Cloth Market of Erod takes place ____ in a week.
a) Twice b) Once c) Thrice d) Four times
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. Who is a retailer?
2. Who is a producer?
3. Explain the work of a wholesaler?
4. What is a Ginning Mill?
5. Who acts as an intermediary between a producer and consumer?
6. What is the putting-out system?
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. What are two advantages of putting-out system?
2. Are the weavers dependent on cloth merchants? If so, how?
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. Explain the role played by merchant in making of cloth.
2. Describe the method of processing raw cotton to shirt making.
3. Explain the concept of market and equality.
E. Hots Corner
1. In what way does the market works more in favour of the merchants?
F. Value Based Questions
1. Why do the small cotton producing farmers most often need to borrow money?
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CHAPTER-10: STRUGGLES FOR
EQUALITY
A. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. What is the key reason of high inequality in India?
a) Poverty b) Lack of resources c) Caste system d) All of these
2. The Tawa Matsya Sangh is a federation of _______ Co-operatives in Madhya Pradesh.
a) Fish- workers b) Weavers c) Wholesalers d) Retailers
3. Which of these is the basic element of democracy?
a) Equality b) Justice c) Freedom d) All of these
4. Which of these is not the basic element of democracy?
a) Equality b) Justice c) Freedom d) Dictatorship
5. Which of these pose a challenge to the idea of equality in democracy?
a) Very less income of small farmers c) Less wages to women
b) Privatisation& inequality of medical facilities d) All of these
6. The Tawa Matsya Sangh is fighting for the rights of the displaced forest dwellers of the ______ forest in M.P.
a) Satpura b) Jharkhand c) Uttarakhand d) Saurashtra
B. Very Short Answer Type Questions
1. Which communities do the poor in India consist of?
2. What do people do when they face inequalities/
3. Why do some of the persons become more widely recognized?
4. What is the main reason for inequality among people?
5. Give an example of people coming together to fight for an issue.
C. Short Answer Type Questions
1. According to the 2001 census data, what percent of the Indian population do women, Muslims, Scheduled Caste and Adivasis form?
2. Describe creative expression against inequality.
D. Long Answer Type Questions
1. How has the Tawa Matsya Sangh shown that when people’s organizations get their rights to livelihood, they can be good managers?
E. Hots Corner
1. What have made it difficult for most poor people to get good quality healthcare?
F. Value Based Questions
1. When can the dignity and self-respect of each person and their community be realized?
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