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Quiz -2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the capital city of Belgium?

a)

Brussels

b)

Amsterdam

c)

Antwerp

d)

Vienna

2.

What do you mean by the French word La Patria?

a)

Motherland

b)

Community land

c)

Reserved land

d)

Fatherland

3.

The principle of majoritarianism led to a civil war in:

a)

Britain

b)

Belgium

c)

Sri Lanka

d)

Tamil Nadu

4.

The main characteristic of commercial farming is the use of ________ seeds.

a)

tissue cultured

b)

high yielding variety (HYV)

c)

organic

d)

traditional seeds

5.

Resource planning is a complex process which involves:

a)

Evolving a planning structure endowed with appropriate technology, skill and institutional set up for implementing resource development plans

b)

Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans.

c)

identification and inventory of resources across the regions of the country

d)

all of these

6.

In revolutionary France, who were granted exclusive rights to vote?

a)

All men

b)

Property-owning men

c)

All women

d)

Property-owning women

7.

What kind of societies sprang up in many European states to train revolutionaries and spread their ideas?

a)

Noble

b)

Linguistic

c)

Ethnic

d)

Secret

8.

Modern democracies maintain a check and balance system. Identify the correct option based on the horizontal power-sharing arrangement

a)

Legislature, executive, judiciary

b)

Among different pressure groups

c)

The central government, state government, local bodies

d)

Among different social groups

9.

Which of these is a feature of the organised sector?

a)

Job insecurity

b)

No provision for paid leave

c)

Jobs are low paid and often not regular

d)

Fixed number of working hours

10.

Which unit was used to measure the cloth in Germany?

a)

Pound

b)

Elle

c)

Livre

d)

Meters

11.

The term absolutist is referred to

a)

A vision

b)

Monarchical government

c)

Abstract theory

d)

None of these

12.

________ is also a type of commercial farming. In this type of farming, a single crop is grown on a large area

a)

Plantation

b)

Irrigated cultivation

c)

Beverage crops

d)

Food grains cultivation

13.

The oceanic resources beyond ________ of the Exclusive Economic Zone belong to open ocean.

a)

200 miles

b)

200 meters

c)

200 km

d)

20 nautical miles

14.

The distinguishing feature of a federal government is:

a)

National government gives some powers to the provincial governments

b)

Governmental power is divided between different levels of government.

c)

Elected officials exercise supreme power in the government.

d)

Power is distributed among the legislature, executive and judiciary

15.

Equal treatment, freedom, security, and respect for others are the examples of:

a)

Income

b)

Growth

c)

Material things

d)

Non material things

16.

Which one of the following is a major caste/social group of Sri Lanka?

a)

Christian and Tamil

b)

Buddhist and Hindu

c)

Sinhala and Christian

d)

Sinhala and Tamil

17.

Which sector has grown the most between 1973-74 and 2013-14?

a)

Secondary sector

b)

Primary sector

c)

Agriculture

d)

Tertiary sector

18.

Which of the following state in India has the lowest infant mortality rate?

a)

Andhra Pradesh

b)

Tamil Nadu

c)

Kerala

d)

Karnataka

19.

Name the region that was ruled by the Habsburg Empire.

a)

Russia - Prussia

b)

Austria - Hungary

c)

Belgium - Holland

d)

Belgium - Brussels

20.

Which one of the following is not the benefit of power-sharing?

a)

Ensures political stability in the long run

b)

It upholds the spirit of democracy

c)

All political parties get their expected share

d)

Reduces the possibility of conflicts between social group

21.

________ is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India

a)

maize

b)

jowar

c)

wheat

d)

rice

22.

Identify the personality from the given information.

i. He led the movement to unify the regions of Italy was neither a revolutionary nor a democrat.

ii. Through his tactful diplomatic alliance with France, Sardinia-Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces in 1859.

a)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

b)

Victor Emmanuel II

c)

Cavour

d)

Otto von Bismarck

23.

While calculating GDP, we do not add the value of

a)

Final goods

b)

Final services

c)

Final goods and services

d)

Intermediate goods

24.

Which of the following is a private enterprise?

a)

Indian Postal department

b)

Indian Railways

c)

MTNL

d)

WIPRO

25.

It is the law-making organ of the government.

a)

Defence

b)

Legislature

c)

Executive

d)

Judiciary

26.

Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as:

a)

Services

b)

Commodities

c)

Resource

d)

Goods

27.

Identify this famous personality from the information given below.

i. He became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari.

ii. As a young man of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting

a revolution in Liguria.

a)

Friedrich Wilhelm IV

b)

Karol Kurpinski

c)

Louis Philippe

d)

Giuseppe Mazzini

28.

Which one of the following terms is used to identify the old and new alluvial respectively?

a)

Tarai and Bangar

b)

Tarai and Dvars

c)

Bangar and Khadar

d)

Khadar and Tarai

29.

What is a coalition government?

a)

Alliance of two or more parties

b)

Alliance of different social groups

c)

Power shared among different organs of government

d)

Power shared among different levels of government

30.

________ ensured that the spirit of federalism, respect for diversity, and desire for living together became shared ideals in our country

a)

Judiciary

b)

Democratic politics

c)

Constitutional provisions

d)

Federal nature

31.

Which language is spoken by 80 percent people of Brussels?

a)

Latin

b)

German

c)

Dutch

d)

French

32.

When and who prepared a series of four prints visualising a world of democratic and social Republics?

a)

None of these

b)

1815, Duke Metternich

c)

1848, Frederic Sorrieu

d)

1804, Napoleon

33.

Public facility includes:

a)

Tourist places

b)

Air

c)

Hill stations

d)

Public toilet

34.

The Constitution declared India as a ________ of States

a)

federation

b)

union

c)

community

d)

departments

35.

Assertion: Different persons have different notions of development.

Reason: Each person seeks similar things. All persons seek things that are least important for them.

a)

Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct explanation for assertion

b)

Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct explanation for assertion

c)

Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement

d)

Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement

36.

Which of the following activity is of the secondary sector?

a)

Providing loans to the farmer

b)

Manufacturing clothes

c)

Cultivating cotton

d)

Providing a storage facility for the cultivated cotton

37.

What concept of Mahatma Gandhi did Vinobha Bhave spread?

a)

Gram swarajya

b)

Nagara swarajya

c)

Bhoomi swarajya

d)

Sacrifice land

38.

Which of these sectors are classified on the basis of ownership of enterprises?

a)

Primary and secondary sectors

b)

Public and Private sectors

c)

Organized and unorganized sectors

d)

Primary and tertiary sectors

39.

Which community had the feeling of alienation in Sri Lanka?

a)

Indian Tamils

b)

Sri Lankan Tamils

c)

Sinhalas

d)

Christians

40.

Which of the following activity is not from the primary sector?

a)

Fishing

b)

Animal husbandry

c)

Making sugar from sugarcane

d)

Bee-keeping

41.

Panch, a president or sarpanch are ________ elected by all the adult population living in that ward.

a)

indirectly

b)

hierarchy

c)

directly

d)

forcefully

42.

Which one of the following is not a measure of development in the Human Development Report of the UNDP?

a)

Body mass index

b)

Per capita income in US$

c)

Life expectancy at birth

d)

Education Levels of the people

43.

Who said, "When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold"?

a)

Metternich

b)

Giuseppe

c)

Lord Byron

d)

T S Eliot

44.

Choose the correct example from the following for Biotic Resource:

a)

Human beings

b)

Iron ore

c)

Book

d)

Table

45.

Who criticised the glorification of reason and science and focused instead on emotions, intuition, and mystical feelings?

a)

Romantic artists and poets

b)

The Liberals

c)

The Political Radicals

d)

The Large Landowners

46.

India has got the right to mine _____ from the bed of the Indian Ocean from that area which lies beyond the exclusive economic zone.

a)

manganese nodules

b)

mineral salts

c)

pearls

d)

fish remains

47.

Name the religious composition of Ireland.

a)

Catholics and Protestants

b)

Buddhists and French

c)

Protestants and Buddhists

d)

Catholics and French

48.

Identify the schemes introduced by the government for the benefit of the farmers:

a)

Kissan Credit Card (KCC), Personal Accident Insurance Scheme (PAIS)

b)

kisan arogya card , kisan identity card

c)

kisan arogya card , kisan identity card

d)

IAYP, JGSY

49.

Which of the following statements is true regarding ‘Zollverein’

a)

It was created to restore democracy.

b)

It was created to unify Germany

c)

It was created to abolish tariff barriers

d)

It was created to abolish autocracy

50.

Which of the following aspect best signifies this image of The courier of Rhineland’?

a)

Victories of Napolean

b)

Difficulties faced by Napolean

c)

Loses of Napolean

d)

Journey of Napolean