FIRST PRE BOARD EXAMINATION (2020-2021)

CLASS: X
Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE Date: 17.01.2021
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80
General instructions:

1) All questions are compulsory.

2) Marks are indicated against each question.

3) Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages only.
4) Please check that this question paper contains 33 questions.

5) Attempt all parts of a question together.

6) Questions from serial number 1 to 16 carries 1 mark.

7) Questions from serial number 17 to 22 carries 3 marks. Answer of

these questions should not exceed 80 words.

8) Questions from serial number 23to 26 carries 4 marks.

9) Questions from serial number 27 to 31 carries 5 marks. Answer of

these questions should not exceed 120 words each.

10) Question number 32 is a Map question of 2marks from History.

11) Question number 33 is a map question of 3marks from Geography.

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 SECTION A

1 Choose the most suitable option: The conservative regime set up in 1

1815 were autocratic because ______________________.

a) They did not tolerate criticism and dissent.

b) They espoused ideas of liberty and fraternity.

c) They believed in the traditional institutions of the state.

d) They proposed a return to pre-revolutionary society.

2. Name the two revolutionaries who played an important role in 1

Italian unification.

3. Who were the two leaders who formed the Khilafat Committee in 1
1919?
4 _________revolution includes generic engineering 1

5. Choose the correctly matched pair about the Primitive Cultivation 1

from the following options:
a. Ray Vietnam
b. Milpa Indonesia
c. Bewar Mexico
d. Ladang Madhya Pradesh
6. Rearing of silk worms for the production of silk fibre is _____. 1
7. Which agency markets steel for the public sector plants? 1

8. Golden Quadrilateral connects : 1

a.New Delhi-Kolkata-Chennai-Mumbai-NewDelhi
b.New Delhi – Mumbai- Chennai- Kolkata –New Delhi
c.Mumbai- Chennai- Kolkata- New Delhi
d.Mumbai- New Delhi- Chennai- Kolkata

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9 Why was there a conflict between the Dutch-speaking and French- 1
speaking communities in Belgium?
10. Define vertical division of power sharing. 1

11. What is the function performed by the Gram Sabha? 1

12. Under NREGA government guarantees work for: 1
a)100 days
b)120 days
c)90 days
d)95 days
13. Read the information given below and select the correct option 1
As consumers in today’s world, some of us have a wide choice of
goods and services before us Such wide-ranging choice of goods in
our markets is a relatively recent phenomenon. You wouldn’t have
found such a wide variety of goods in Indian markets even two
decades back. In a matter of years, our markets have been
transformed! .
What transform the market
a)Markets have been transformed due to increase in population
b)It is transformed due to large scale immigration
c)It is transformed due to rapid globalization.
d)All of the above
14. Average income of a person is otherwise called as_________ 1
15. For calculating BMI weight of the person is divided by: 1
a)Square of the height
b)Square of the weight
c)Sum of the weight and height
d)Square root of the weight

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16. In the question given below, there are two statements marked as 1
Assertion (A) and Reason
Read the statements and chose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Money in your pocket cannot buy all the goods and
services that you may need to live well.
Reason : People want freedom, equality, security and respect
Options: ) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of
A.
b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c)A is true but R is false.
d)A is false but R is true.

SECTION B
17 Recount the role of romanticism as a cultural movement in 3
development of nationalist sentiments in Europe.
18 Describe in detail the new economic and political situation created 3
by World War I in India.
19. Explain how road transport has an edge over rail transport. 3
20. “The Constitution clearly provided a three-fold distribution of 3
legislative powers between the Union Government and the State
Governments” – Elaborate on the statement.
21. What do you understand by disguised unemployment? Explain 3
with an example each from the urban and rural areas.

22. How public sector contributes to the economic development of a 3

nation?

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 SECTION C
23 “While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a 4
statue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by
personifying a nation. In other words they represented a country as
if it were a person. Nations were then portrayed as female
figures.The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did
not stand for any particular woman in real life; rather it sought to
give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. That is, the
female figure became an allegory of the nation. You will recall that
during the French Revolution artists used the female allegory to
portray ideas such as Liberty, Justice and the Republic. These ideals
were represented through specific objects or symbols. As you
would remember, the attributes of Liberty are the red cap, or the
broken chain, while Justice is generally a blind folded woman
carrying a pair of weighing scale.”
Answer the following questions
a)Define allegory.
b) Name the allegories of France and Germany
c) What does the following depict on the allegory of Germany i)
Crown of oak leaves
ii) Breastplate with eagle?
24. Cargill Foods, a very large American MNC , has bought over smaller 4
Indian companies such as Parakh Foods. Parakh Foods had built a
large marketing network in various parts of India, where its brand
was well-reputed. Also, Parakh Foods had four oil refineries, whose
control has now shifted to Cargill. Cargill is now the largest producer
of edible oil in India, with a capacity to make 5 million pouches daily
Answer the following questions
a)Why do you say Cargill Food is a MNC?
b) What is foreign investment?
c) By setting up their production plants in India, Cargill tap the
advantage of what?
d) In what way is Cargill different from Parakh Foods?

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25 There are some things that democracy must provide. In a 4
democracy, we are most concerned with ensuring that people will
have the right to choose their rulers and people will have control
over the rulers. Whenever possible and necessary, citizens should
be able to participate in decision making that affects them all.
Therefore, the most basic outcome of democracy should be that it
produces a government that is accountable to the citizens, and
responsive to the needs and expectations of the citizens.”
Answer the following questions
a)What is a responsive government?
b)Define transparency.
c) List any two features of a democratic government.
d)Choose the correct option: There is one respect in which
democratic government is certainly better than its alternative –
i) In democracies there is no economic disparity
ii) Democratic government is legitimate government
iii) Democracies have better economic growth than other
forms of governments
iv) Democracies are mostly free of corruption
26 Overdrawing of ground water reserves by industry where there is a 4
threat to ground water resources also needs to be
regulated legally. Particulate matter in the air can be reduced by
fitting smoke stacks to factories with electrostatic precipitators, fabric
filters, scrubbers and inertial
separators. Smoke can be reduced by using oil or gas instead of coal
in factories.Machinery and equipment can be used and
generators should be fitted with silencers. Almost all machinery can
be redesigned to increase energy efficiency and reduce noise.

Answer the following questions

a)Why ground water use to be regulated?
b)How particulate matter in the air can be reduced,
c)What is correct about the reduction of sound pollution?
d)What is the technique to reduce smoke

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 SECTION D
27 Why did Mahatma Gandhi decide to call off the Civil Disobedience 5
Movement in March 1931?
28 What is the importance of soil?Explain any three features of Black 5
soil.
29 How did the Belgian leaders recognize and accommodate the 5
regional differences and cultural diversities in the country?
30 List four problems faced by political parties during their working. 5
Give any three suggestions for reforming the political parties.
31. Cheap and affordable credit is crucial for country’s development. 5
Discuss at least five valid points.
SECTION E
MAP SKILL BASED QUESTION
32 Identify and label the following on the given map: 2
a) The place where a large crowd gathered in an enclosed area was
fired upon by General Dyre on 13th April.
bThe place where peasants struggled against the oppressive
plantation system.
33. On an outline map of India label and locate the following: 3
a)Nagarjunsagar dam
b)Namrup thermal plant
c)Shade the largest Sugarcane producing state

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