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Sample Paper
Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
SECTION -A
MCQs(1x20=20)
a. Strasbourg
b. Shanghai
c. Mexico
d. Tokyo
3.Assertion (A): When Manchester industrialists began selling cloth in India, they put
labels on the cloth bundles.
Reason (R): The label was a mark of Quality. When buyers saw MADE IN
MANCHESTER written in bold on the label, they were expected to feel confident
about buying the cloth.
4. The resources are not the free gifts of nature. Which of the following is incorrect?
5. What is JFM?
a. IT specialists-Quaternary sector
b. Money lender-Tertiary sector
c. Potter-Primary Sector
d. Call centre employee-Secondary sector
Single Party
A: (?)
system
a. It is undemocratic
b. It allows universal adult franchise
c. All of these
d. It allows a variety of opinions to enjoy political representation
a. Under this, the lower organs work under the higher organs.
b. Under this, each organ checks the other.
c. Under this, power is shared among different levels of government.
d. all of these
12.
Which of the following option best describes the above picture?
13. Assertion (A): Foreign trade creates an opportunity for the producers to reach
beyond the domestic markets.
Reason (R): Foreign trade expands the choice of goods beyond what is domestically
produced.
15. Which of the following is the main factor responsible for the overuse of groundwater in
western UP?
a. Overgrazing
b. Poor irrigation facilities
c. Excessive Mining
d. Excessive cultivation
a) Investment
b) Disinvestment
c) Trade barrier
d) Privatisation
19. Which one of the following industries uses silica as a raw material?
a. Aluminium
b. Coal
c. Steel
d. Cement
SECTION -B
23. What is trade barrier? How governments can use trade barriers?
OR
SECTION -C
26. What are the Special Economic Zones (SEZs)? Why is the government setting up
SEZs?
29. Mention the features of the flag which was designed by Gandhiji?
OR
What were the methods used by peasants of Awadh to achieve their goal?
Explain.
SECTION -D
30. How did the Journalist Wilhelm Wolff describe the revolt led by the Silesia
weavers against contractors in 1845?
OR
31. Why are industries located in or near the cities? What were its results in
preindependence period?
OR
OR
OR
Which type of deposits with the banks are called demand deposits? State some
important
SECTION -E
b.Option (i)
c.Option (ii)
d.Option (iii)
2. Which one of the following statements is not true about Giuseppe Mazzini?
i. Visualising the Liberals.
ii. The Revolutionaries.
iii. The Romantic Imagination and National Feeling.
iv. Visualising the Nation.
a. Option (iii)
b.Option (i)
c Option (ii)
d.Option (iv)
35.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The Belgian leaders recognised the existence of regional differences and cultural
diversities. Between 1970 and 1993, they amended their constitution four times so as to
work out an arrangement that would enable everyone to live together within the same
country. The arrangement they worked out is different from any other country and is very
innovative. Here are some of the elements of the Belgian model:
iii. "Apart from the Central and the State Government, there is a third kind of
government". Which of the following is incorrect with respect to this?
36.Read the text given below and answer the questions that follow:
Primitive Subsistence Farming: This type of farming is still practised in a few pockets of
India. Primitive subsistence agriculture is practised on small patches of land with the help
of primitive tools like a hoe and digging sticks, and family/community labour. This type of
farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other
environmental conditions to the crops grown.
Intensive Subsistence Farming: This type of farming is practised in areas of high
population pressure on land. It is labour intensive farming, where high doses of
biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production. Though the
‘right of inheritance’ leading to the division of land among successive generations has
rendered land-holding size uneconomical, the farmers continue to take the maximum
output from the limited land in the absence of an alternative source of livelihood. Thus,
there is enormous pressure on agricultural land.
Commercial Farming: The main characteristic of this type of farming is the use of higher
doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers,
insecticides and pesticides in order to obtain higher productivity. The degree of
commercialisation of agriculture varies from one region to another. For example, rice is a
commercial crop in Haryana and Punjab, but in Odisha, it is a subsistence crop.
Plantation: Plantation is also a type of commercial farming. In this type of farming, a
single crop is grown on a large area. The plantation has an interface of agriculture and
industry. Plantations cover large tracts of land, using capital intensive inputs, with the help
of migrant labourers. All the produce is used as a raw material in the respective industries.
Tea in Assam and North Bengal coffee in Karnataka are some of the important plantation
crops grown in these states.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
iii. ________ is done in a mechanized way using capital intensive inputs and
particularly timely irrigation making maximum use of large tracts of land.
Subsistence
Commercial Farming Farming
SECTION -F
37. (a) Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of India.
Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them.
(b) On the same outline map of India locate and label any four of the following with
suitable Symbols. (any three)
e) (d) where people develop a sense of identity and share a common history
f) (a) Strasbourg
e. (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Explanation: When Manchester industrialists began selling cloth in India, they put
labels on the cloth bundles. The label was needed to make the place of
manufacture and the name of the company familiar to the buyer. The label was
also to be a mark of quality. When buyers saw ‘MADE IN MANCHESTER’ written
in bold on the label, they were expected to feel confident about buying the cloth.
Thus, both the assertion and reason are correct statements and justified.
4.
7.
(b) A party that gets the privilege and some other special facilities by the Election
(ii) National Party
Commission.
(c) If several parties compete for power, and more than two parties have a reasonable
(iii) Multi-Party
chance of coming to power either on their own strength or in alliance with others.
(d) A party that secures at least six percent of total votes in an election to the Legislative (iv)
Assembly of a State and wins at least two seats. Recognized Party
2. 14.
3.
Which of the following option best describes the above picture?
a. Loan Activities of Bank
b. Barter System provided by Bank
c. Activities of Self Help Groups
d. Demand Draft facilities extended by Bank.
15. (b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
Explanation: Foreign trade creates an opportunity for the producers to reach
beyond the domestic markets, i.e., markets of their own countries. Producers can
sell their products not only in markets located within the country but can also
compete in markets located in other countries of the world. Similarly, for the buyers,
the import of goods produced in another country is one way of expanding the choice
of goods beyond what is domestically produced. Both are two aspects of foreign
trade but the assertion does not justify the reason
16. True
19.(d) Cement
Explanation: The cement industry requires bulky and heavy raw materials like
limestone, silica, alumina, and gypsum
21. . The name of silk routes points to the importance of west-bound Chinese silk cargoes
along this route.
2. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together
vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
3. Early Christian missionaries travelled through this route to Asia, as did early Muslims
preachers a few centuries later.
22. Federal system has dual objectives to safeguard and promote unity of the country and
accommodate
23.
Governments can use trade barriers to increase or decrease (regulate) foreign trade and
to decide what kinds of goods and how much of each, should come into the country.
25. This Act had been hurriedly passed through the Imperial Legislative Council despite
the united opposition of Indian Members.
2. It gave the government enormous power to repress political activities, and allowed
detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
3. The Rowlett Act acted as an instrument of suppression of civil rights of the Indians
hence produced widespread discontent among masses.
OR
1. It was a tricolor flag and had a spinning wheel in the centre representing the Gandhian
ideal of self-help.
3. Carrying the flag, holding it aloft, during marches became a symbol of defiance.
26.
2. They can be pressed in to wires or sheets. 2. They cannot be pressed in to wires or sheets.
3. Iron, gold, silver, etc are metallic minerals. 3. Clay, Sulphur, coal, potash are all non-metallic minerals.
27. SEZs or Special Economic Zones are industrial areas where world-class facilities like
water, electricity, roads and transport, recreation, education are available. Companies
who set-up units in SEZs are exempted from tax for 5 years. The government is setting up
SEZs due to the following reasons:
1. It was a tricolor flag and had a spinning wheel in the centre representing the Gandhian
ideal of self-help.
3. Carrying the flag, holding it aloft, during marches became a symbol of defiance.
OR
2. The peasant movement demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of beggar and social
boycott of oppressive landlords.
3. Some peasants denied doing beggar-work without at landlords’ farms without any
payment.
4. As the movement spread in 1921, the houses of talukdars and merchants were
attacked, bazaars were looted.
30. Ans. In 1845, weavers of Silesia had led a revolt against contractors who supplied
them raw materials. They gave them order for finished textiles but drastically reduced their
payments.
2. The desperate need for has been taken advantage of by the contractors to reduce the
prices of the goods they order.
3. On 4 June at 2 P.M. a large crowd of weavers emerged from their homes and marched
in pairs up to the mansion of their contractor demanding higher wages.
4. They were treated with scorn and threats alternately.
6. The contractor fled away with his family to a neighboring village and came back after 24
hours with army.
OR
during 1830s. G. Mazzini decided to make a programme to unite Italy and formed a
society young Italy After earlier failures king victory Emmanuel II took to unify the Italian
status through war and he got the whole hearted support of minister Cavour made a
tactful alliancem with France and defeated Austrians forces in 1859. Now he was able to
secure the support of Garibaldi. In 1860 Garibaldi led the famous expedition to south Italy
and freed the states from Bourbon rulers in 1861 before the completion of unification
victor Emanuel II was proclaimed the king of united Italy.
OR
2. Parties’ forward different policies and programs and voters choose them from. Each of
us may have different opinions and views on what policies are suitable for society. A
government is expected to base its policies on the line taken by the Ruling Party.
3. Parties play a decisive role in making laws foe a country. Laws are debated and passed
in the legislature. But most of the members of legislature are the members of political
parties.
4. Parties form and run the Governments. As we noted last year, the big policy decision
are taken by political executive that comes from the political parties.
5. Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition of the parties in
power, by voicing different views and criticizing government for its failure or wrong
policies.
OR
Ans.:- 1. Congress party was founded in 1885 and has experiences many splits.
2. It was ruling party at the centre till 1977 and then in 1880-89, 2000 to till date
3. This party supports secularism and welfare of weaker sections and minorities.
4. It supports new economic reforms but with a human face.
5. It emerged as the largest party with 145 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 2004.
6. It currently leads the ruling united progressive alliance (UPA) coalition govt. at the
centre.6. Extra constitutional organization
1. 33. Terms of credit are the requirements need to be satisfied for any credit
arrangements. However, the terms of credit vary depending upon the nature of
the lender, borrower and loan.
Terms of credit include the following:
i. Interest rate: Formal sector demands less rate of interest compared to
the informal sector. At present, they demand 8 to 12% interest rate.
ii. Collateral and documentation requirement: It refers to the security against the
loan
demanded and kept by the lender until the loan is paid back. It can be gold or
documents of properties or other certificates attached with the application.
iii. The mode of repayment: The borrower should pay back the interest and
the principal amount weekly or monthly by cash or cheques as decided at the time
of making agreements.
OR
Demand Deposits can be said to be those amounts of money which are deposited in a
bank and can be withdrawn from the same on demand.
Some important features of demand deposits are given below:
Case
1. 37.
a.
A. Nagpur
B. Kheda
b.