Bharat National Public School

Session-2023-24
Pre-Board Examination (Answer Key)
Class X
Social Science (087)

SECTION-A
(MCQ’s- 1X20=20)
1. Identify the correct option that describes the particular social class in Europe in mid-18 th
century.
i. Socially and politically the main dominant class.
ii. The members of the class were united by a common way of life that cut across
regional divisions.
iii. They owned states in the countryside and also townhouses.
Options:
a. The Liberals
b. The commercial class
c. The Aristocratic class
d. The middle Class
2. Identify the land which is put to other non-agricultural uses which include rocky, arid and
desert areas, roads, railways, industry etc.
a. Barren Land
b. Waste Land
c. Only a
d. Both a and b

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 3. Read the data given below and answer the question.
As per the data given above identify the Human Development Rank for India?
a. 146
b. 142
c. 73
d. 135
4. Which of the following options represent the features of wheat crop?
i. This is a rabi crop.
ii. Requires a cool growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
iii. Requires annual rainfall above 100 cm.
iv. Used both as food and fodder.
Options:
a. Statement i and ii are correct.
b. Statement ii, iii & iv are correct
c. Statement ii is correct.
d. Statement (i), (iii) & (iv) are correct.
5. Power shared among governments at different levels is also called:
a. horizontal distribution

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 b. vertical distribution
c. slant distribution
d. none of the above
6. Which of the following statements accurately describes Majoritarianism?
a. Majoritarianism emphasizes the dominance of the majority community
b. Majoritarianism emphasizes the need for consensus building.
c. Majoritarianism emphasizes the importance of accommodating minority interests.
d. Majoritarianism leads to peaceful resolution of conflicts.

7. There are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per
the codes provided below:
Assertion (A): A major step towards decentralization was taken in 1992 by amending the
constitution.
Reason(R): Constitution was amended to make the third tier of democracy more powerful
and effective.
a. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
b. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
c. (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
d. (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
8. Kanta works in an office. She attends her office from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. She gets her
salary regularly at the end of every month. In addition to the salary, she also gets provident
fund as per the rules laid down by the government. She also gets medical and other
allowances. Kanta does not go to office on Sundays. This is a paid holiday. When she joined
work, she was given an appointment letter stating all the terms and conditions of work.
From the above extract, in which formal sector of employment Kanta is working?
a. Organised Sector
b. Unorganised Sector
c. Private Sector
d. Public Sector
9. You are a citizen of a secular Country and you are participating in a debate where you have to
prove this feature. Which of the following featurewould be true forSecular country like India?
a. There is one official religion for the Indian state.
b. Constitution gives right to every person to practice profess and propagate any
religion.
c. Privileges on the ground of religion.
d. State can intervene in religious matters.
10. Identify the painting from the options given below:
a. Reichstag
b. The Unemployed
c. Slaves for sale
d. Merchants from Venice
11. The Alluvial soil consists of:
a. Sand
b. Silt
c. Clay
d. All of the above
12. Choose the correction option to complete the statement:
When many political parties compete for political power and more or less they are equally
influential the party system is called _______
a. Single party system
b. Dual party system
c. Two party system
d. Multi-party system
13. Arrange the following statements in sequential order based on the development of print in the
following countries/ Continents.

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 I. Buddhist missionaries introduced hand-printing technology into Japan around AD
768-770. The oldest Japanese book, printed in AD 868, is the e Buddhist Diamond
Sutra, containing six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.
II. Gutenberg adapted existing technology to design his innovation. Gutenberg perfected
the system. The first book he printed was the Bible.
III. Books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the
inked surface of woodblocks.
IV. Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route.
Options:
a. iv, iii, ii, i
b. iii, i, iv,ii
c. i, iv, iii, ii
d. i, ii, iii, iv
14. According to the picture given below, answer the given question:
Tick the correct answer.
After the transaction between Salim and Prem,
a. Salim’s balance in his bank account increases, and Prem’s balance increases.
b. Salim’s balance in his bank account decreases and Prem’s balance increases.
c. Salim’s balance in his bank account increases and Prem’s balance decreases.
d. There will be no change in the balance of Prem and Salim.
15. Identify the place where at the Congress session in December 1920, a compromise was
worked out, and the Non-Cooperation programme was adopted.
a. Allahabad
b. Bombay
c. Nagpur
d. Calcutta
16. Which of the following clues would be correct in identifying the Kharif sowing season.
Clues:
I. Sowing- Winter from October to December
II. Harvesting- September-October.
III. Important crops- Paddy, Maize, Jowar, Bajra, Tur (Arhar), Moong, Urad, Cotton,
IV. Sowing Season a short season during the summer months.
a. Clue i
b. Clue ii and iii
c. Clue i and ii
d. Clue iv
17. In the context of assessing democracy which among the following is odd one out.
Democracies need to ensure:
a. Free and fair elections
b. Dignity of the individual
c. Majority rule
d. Equal treatment before law
18. Formal sources of credit does not include
a. Banks.
b. Cooperatives
c. Employers.
d. None of the above

19. Formal sources of credit do not include:

a. Banks.
b. Cooperatives
c. Employers.
d. None of the above

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 20. There are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per
the codes provided below:
Assertion(A): Various restrictions are used by the government to increase or decrease Foreign
Trade.
Reason (R): Government uses trade barriers to increase or decrease Foreign Trade and to
decide what kinds of goods and how much of each, should come into the country.
a. 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 correct but (R) is wrong
d. (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
SECTION B
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION (24=8)
21. Print revolution was not just a development, a new way of producing books; it transformed
the lives of people, changing their relationship to information and knowledge, and with
institutions and authorities. Justify.
Answer- (Any 2 points)
The cost of books was reduced due to the print revolution. Markets were flooded with
books reaching out to an ever-growing readership.
It created a new culture of reading. Earlier, elites are only permitted to read books and
common people used to hear sacred texts readout.
Before the print revolution, books were expensive. But, the transition was not as simple
as books could only be read by the literate.
Printers started publishing popular ballads and folk tales illustrated with pictures for
those who did not read.
OR
The Roman Catholic Church began keeping an Index of Prohibited books from the mid-
sixteenth century. Give Reasons.
Answer- (Any 2 points)
In the sixteenth century, Menocchio began to read books available in his locality. He
reinterpreted the message of the Bible and formulated a view of God and Creation that
enraged the Roman Catholic Church. Menocchio was hauled up twice and ultimately
executed. From 1558, The Roman Church began to maintain an Index of Prohibited
Books.

22. How Reserved forests are different from protected forests.

Answer- Reserved Forests: More than half of the total forest land has been declared
reserved forests. Reserved forests are regarded as the most valuable as far as the
conservation of forest and wildlife resources are concerned.
Protected Forests: Almost one-third of the total forest area is protected forest, as
declared by the Forest Department. This forest lands are protected from any further
depletion.

23. With reference to the given image, comment about the discrimination that women face in our
country.
Answer- (Any 2 points)
o The literacy rate is 56% of women compare to 76% of men.
o The proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very
small.
o Wages are not given to the women as per the Equal wages Act.
o Parents still prefer son and find ways to abort girl child. Such sex-selective
abortion led to a decline in child sex ratio

24. Different categories of people have different developmental goals. Justify.

o Different people can have different developmental goals Examples need to be given.

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 o What may be development for one may not be development for the other person. It may
even be destructive for others.
o Different people could have different as well as conflicting notions of development.

SECTION C
SHORT ANSWER-BASED QUESTIONS (3x5-15)
25. Provide an evidence to support how Napoleon Code of Conduct had spread the idea of liberty
and unity in Europe.
Answer-(Any 3 points)
 Ended all the privileges based on the birth.
 Established equality before law.
 Abolished feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues.
 Guild restriction was removed.
 Established uniform laws, standard weights and measures and common national
currency.

26. In recent years, multi-purpose projects and large dams have come under great scrutiny and
opposition for a variety of reasons. Evaluate.
Answer- (any 3 points)
 Regulating and damming of rivers affect their natural flow.
 Poorer the habitats for the rivers’ aquatic life.
 Fragment rivers make it difficult for aquatic fauna to migrate.
 Dams created on the floodplains submerge the existing vegetation and soil leading to its
decomposition over a period of time.
 Creating of large dams has been the cause of many new environmental movements like
the ‘Narmada BachaoAndolan’ and the ‘Tehri Dam Andolan’ etc.
 Many times, local people had to give up their land, livelihood and their control over
resources for the construction of the dam.

27. Political parties fill political offices and exercise political authority by performing a series of
functions. Mention any three functions of political parties.
Answer-(Any 3 points)
 Parties contest elections.
 Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from
them.
 Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.
 Parties form and run governments.
 Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition to the parties in power,
by voicing different views and criticising the government for its failures or wrong
policies.
 Parties shape public opinion.
 Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes
implemented by governments.
OR
All over the World, people express strong dissatisfaction with the failure of political parties to
perform their functions well. In context of the given statement, identify three challenges faced
by political parties.
Answer- (Any 3 points)
 Lack of internal democracy within parties. Parties do not keep membership registers, do
not hold organisational meetings, and do not conduct internal elections regularly.
 Most political parties do not practice open and transparent procedures for their
functioning, so there are very few ways for an ordinary worker to rise to the top in a
party. In many parties, the top positions are always controlled by members of one
family.

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  The third challenge is about the growing role of money and muscle power in parties,
especially during elections. Since parties are focused only on winning elections, they tend
to use short-cuts to win elections. In some cases, parties support criminals who can win
elections.
 People do not find parties to be a meaningful choice for their votes. Sometimes people
cannot even elect very different leaders either, because the same set of leaders keep
shifting from one party to another.
28. ‘SHG’s are considered the building blocks of rural India.’ Explain citing advantages of SHG.
Answer- (Any 3 points)
 It helps borrowers to overcome the problem of lack of collateral.
 People can get timely loans for a variety of purposes and at a reasonable interest rate.
 SHGs are the building blocks of organisation of the rural poor.
 It helps women to become financially self-reliant.
 The regular meetings of the group provide a platform to discuss and act on a variety of
social issues such as health, nutrition, domestic violence, etc.

29. Mention any three advantages of foreign Trade.

Answer-( Any 3 points)
 ‘Foreign Trade’ has facilitated the travel of goods from one market to another.
 It provides a choice of goods to the buyers.
 Producers of different countries have to compete in different markets. Prices of similar
goods in two markets in two different countries become almost equal

SECTION D
LONG ANSWER BASED QUESTIONS (5x4=20)
30. Dalit participation was limited in the Civil Disobedience Movement”. In this context, explain
the limitations of Civil Disobedience Movement.

Answer- Dalits, addressed as untouchables were not moved by the concept of Swaraj. Mahatma
Gandhi used to call them harijans or the children of God, without whom swaraj could not be
achieved. He organised satyagraha for the untouchables.

The Dalit leaders were keen on a different political solution to the problems of the community.
They demanded reserved seats in educational institutions and a separate electorate that would
choose dalit members into the legislative councils.
Dr B.R. Ambedkar, who organised the Dalits into the Depressed Classes Association in 1930,
clashed with Mahatma Gandhi at the second Round Table Conference by demanding separate
electorates for Dalits. The Poona Pact of September 1932, gave the Depressed Classes reserved
seats in provincial and central legislative councils to be elected by the general electorate..

OR
“Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same nation.”
Justify the statement.

Answer- Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same
nation. History and fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols, all played a part in
the making of nationalism.

Finally, in the twentieth century, the identity of India came to be visually associated with the
image of Bharat Mata. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay created the image and in the 1870s he
wrote ‘VandeMataram’ as a hymn to the motherland. Abanindranath Tagore painted his

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famous image of Bharat Mata portrayed as an ascetic figure; she is calm, composed, divine and
spiritual.

In late-nineteenth-century India, nationalists began recording folk tales sung by bards and they
toured villages to gather folk songs and legends.

During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, a tricolour flag (red, green and yellow) was designed
which had eight lotuses representing eight provinces of British India, and a crescent moon,
representing Hindus and Muslims. By 1921, Gandhiji designed the Swaraj flag, a tricolour (red,
green and white) and had a spinning wheel in the centre, representing the Gandhian ideal of
self-help.

Indian history was interpretted differently beniffiting the growth of the Indian history and
culture. Glorious developments in art and architecture science mathematics religion crafts and
trade.

31.The Manufacturing Industry is considered the backbone to a country’s development. Explain

Production of goods in large quantities after processing from raw materials to more valuable
products is called manufacturing. Manufacturing belongs to the secondary sector in which the
primary materials are processed and converted into finished goods.
Significance of manufacturing industries
 Help in modernizing agriculture.
 Reduce heavy dependence of people on agriculture.
 Precondition to eradicate unemployment and poverty from the country.
 Export of manufacturing goods brings the much-needed foreign exchange.
 Contribution in the national income.
 Help in urbanisation and Globalisation.

OR
“Industrialization and Development go hand in hand, so does Agriculture and Industry” Validate the
statement.
Development of industries at a place leads to the accumulation of different services like banking
transport housing education. These services in turn help other industries to interract with
similar industries. Thus leading to Agglomeration Econonomies.
Agriculture and industry are interdependent on each other:
Agro-industries in India have boosted agriculture by raising its productivity.Industries depend
on agriculture for their raw materials, e.g. cotton textile industry. Industries provide many
agricultural inputs like irrigation pumps, fertilizers, insecticides, PVC pipes, machines and
tools, etc. to the farmers. Development of different modes of transport by industrial sector has
not only helped farmers to obtain agricultural inputs but has also helped them trade their
products

32. Describe all the three sectors of economic activities. How are they inter-dependent?

Answer-

 Primary-When we produce a good by extraction and collection of natural resources, it is

known as the primary sector. Eg: Farming, forestry, hunting, fishing and mining.
 The secondary sector covers activities in which natural products are changed into other
forms through ways of manufacturing. It is the next step after primary. Some
manufacturing processes are required here. It is also called the industrial sector. For
example, using cotton fibre from the plant, we spin yarn and weave cloth. Using
sugarcane as raw material, we make sugar or gur.
 Tertiary sector includes activities that help in the development of the primary and
secondary sectors. These activities, by themselves, do not produce a good but they are an

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 aid or support for the production process. It is also called the service sector. Example:
Teachers, doctors, washermen, barbers, cobblers, lawyers, call centres, software
companies, etc.
 Inter-dependence of 3 sectors: Primary sector provides raw material to the secondary
sector. The tertiary sector helps to connect the 2 sectors and provides services.
OR
How can we create more employment for the people in rural areas?
Answer- (any 5 points) Explain
 Improving irrigation
 Investing in transport
 Credit by local banks on low rate of interest.
 Locate industries in semi-rural areas like Opening cold storage
 Only 2/3rd children attend school – open schools – more staf f& Improve health care –
more doctors, nurses
 Improve tourism & cope for extra 35 lakh jobs
 Right to Work led to National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) -
guaranteed 100 days of employment per year

33. What are the types of Power sharing that take place in a democracy? Explain with examples
 Horizontal power sharing between organs like legislature, Executive and judiciary.This
is called horizontal distribution of power because it allows different organs of
government placed at the same level to exercise different powers. Such separation
ensures that none of the organs can exercise unlimited power. Each organ checks the
others. This arrangement is called a system of checks and balances.

 Vertical division of power between levels of Government like national, state and local.a
general government for the entire country and governments at the provincial or
regional level which is called federal government or Vertical distribution of power.

 Power sharing among social groups like on the basis of language as in Belgium
Community govt. ‘Community government’ in Belgium is a good example of this
arrangement. This method is used to give minority communities a fair share in power.

 Power sharing among political parties and pressure groups for example each political
party represents one or more than 1 section of society. When a coalition government is
formed it shows proper power sharing.

OR
What is the accommodation policy adopted by Belgium? Give any one positive impact.
 Equal representation of the Dutch and the French in the Central Government
 Many Powers of the Central govt. are given to the State govt.
 One separate government for both the communities.
 One Community Government for different linguistic people.

Positive Impact: No conflicts between Dutch and French

SECTION E
CASE BASED QUESTIONS (4X3=12)
34.
1. What was the significance of the name “Silk Routes”? 1
Ans- The name ‘silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes
along this route.
2. Name the goods which travelled from one place to another via silk route. 1
Ans. Chinese silk cargoes, pottery, Textile, Spices, Metals, Gold, Silver.

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 3. Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Justify the statement in context of
the given source.2
Ans. Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled this route to Asia, as did early
Muslim preachers a few centuries later. Much before all this, Buddhism emerged from eastern
India and spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk routes.

35..
1. How coal is formed? 1
Ans. coal is formed due compression of plant material over millions of years
2. Which type is coal is popularly used for commercial use? 1
Ans. bituminous coal.
3. Why do heavy industries and power stations locate near the coalfields? 2
Ans. coal is a bulky material, which loses weight on use as it is reduced to ash. Hence, heavy
industries and thermal stations are located on or near the coalfields.

36
1. Which is the most important attribute while comparing countries? 1
Per capita income
2. Why calculating total income of the country is not a useful criterion in assessing
country’s development? 1
Ans.The income of the country is the income of all the residents of the country. This gives
us the total income of the country. However, for comparison between countries, total
income is not such a useful measure. Since, countries have different populations, comparing
total income will not tell us what an average person is likely to earn.
3. Classify the countries as per its per capita income. 2
Ans. Countries with per capita income of US$ 12616 per annum and above in 2012, are called
rich countries and those with per capita income of US$ 1035 or less are called low-income
countries. India comes in the category of low middle-income countries because its per capita
income in 2012 was just US$ 1530 per annum. The rich countries, excluding countries of
Middle East and certain other small countries, are generally called developed countries.

SECTION F
MAP SKILL-BASED QUESTION (2+3=5)
1. 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.
i. The place where Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt Law. - Dandi
ii. The place where Jallianwala Bagh incident took place. - Amritsar

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 i. Bhakhra Nangal dam

ii. Namrup- Assam

iv. Bokaro iron and steel plant

A
iii. Tarapur (Mumbai)

2. On the same outline map of India locate and label any 3 of the following with suitable
symbols:
i. A dam built on river Beas in India.
ii. A thermal plant in Assam.
iii. A Nuclear plant in Mumbai.
iv. Bokaro Iron and steel plant.

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