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CBSE Sample Paper for Class 10 Social Science Term 1 Set F
SECTION-A
1. When was a tactful diplomatic alliance with France engineered by Cavour that succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces?
(a) 1815
(b) 1830
(c) 1848
(d) 1859
Answer
A
2. How many wars were fought between Prussian and other European countries in seven years?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Answer
B
3. Under which of the following sectors does TISCO come?
(a) Private
(b) Public
(c) Semi-government
(d) Private ownership
Answer
A
4. Which of the following is the impact of the kankar layer?
(a) Restrict the infiltration of water
(b) Smoothens the infiltration of water
(c) Soil erosion
(d) Land degradation
Answer
B
5. Which of the following is not the south German state joining with Prussia to form the German Empire?
(a) Baden
(b) Bavaria
(c) Wurttemberg
(d) Rhineland
Answer
D
6. In which of the following years was the MGNREGA passed?
(a) 2002
(b) 2003
(c) 2004
(d) 2005
Answer
D
7. Which of the following cities in Brazil experiments combining decentralisation with participative democracy?
(a) Porto Alegre
(b) Curitiba
(c) Manaus
(d) Recife
Answer
A
8. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is termed as ______________.
(a) Gross development
(b) Sustainable development
(c) Agriculture development
(d) Social development
Answer
B
9. Which of the following is not an ecological crisis?
(a) global warming
(b) ozone layer depletion
(c) environmental pollution
(d) population growthAnswer :
Answer
D
10. Which of the following states has the largest consumption of rice?
(a) West Bengal
(b) Punjab
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer
A
11. Which of the following states produce the highest amount of salt in the country?
(a) Bihar
(b) Gujarat
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra
Answer
B
12. Which soil is rich in calcium carbonate, magnesium, potash and lime?
(a) Red soil
(b) Black soil
(c) Alluvial soil
(d) Yellow soil
Answer
B
13. Which of the following soils is developed on crystalline rocks where rainfall is very low?
(a) Red soil
(b) Black soil
(c) Alluvial soil
(d) Laterite soil
Answer
A
14. Which type of resource is iron ore?
(a) Renewable
(b) Non-renewable
(c) International
(d) Abiotic
Answer
B
15. Friedrich List was the professor of _________ subject at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
(a) History
(b) Geography
(c) Economics
(d) Political science
Answer
C
16. Which of the following is known as Khil in the Himalayan belt?
(a) Primitive Subsistence Farming
(b) Intensive Subsistence Farming
(c) Dry farming
(d) Plantation
Answer
A
17. In which of the following sectors is employment regular and people having assured work?
(a) Organised sector
(b) Private sector
(c) Public sector
(d) Unorganised sector
Answer
A
18. Which of the following has the second-highest literacy rate in India?
(a) Kerala
(b) Lakshadweep
(c) Mizoram
(d) Goa
Answer
B
19. A piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms for agriculture iskno wn as _________.
(a) Terrace cultivation
(b) Slope cultivation
(c) Hill cultivation
(d) None of the above
Answer
A
20. What kind of social groups are there in community government?
(a) Religious
(b) Linguistic
(c) (a) and (b) both
(d) Communism
Answer
C
21. How much percentage of the total power supply is produced by natural gas, oil, and nuclear power together?
(a) Nuclear power
(b) Oil
(c) Coal
(d) All of the above
Answer
D
22. If a job pays you more but does it leave time for you and also does not have any job security. This will reduce ______________.
(a) Sense of security
(b) Sense of freedom
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Sense of growth
Answer
A
23. Measure of the amount of money earned per person in a nation or geographic region is known as ________________.
(a) Per capita income
(b) Regional income
(c) Individual income
(d) Public expense
Answer
A
24. What is the full form of UNDP?
(a) United Nations Development Programme
(b) Union Nations Development Programme
(c) United National Development Programme
(d) United Net Development Programme
Answer
A
SECTION-B
25. In which of the following months is Kharif crops harvested?
(a) September-October
(b) January-March
(c) June-August
(d) May-October
Answer
A
26. What is the system of ideas reflecting a particular social and political vision known as?
(a) Ideology
(b) Sociology
(c) Psychology
(d) Vision science
Answer
A
27. I. Power-sharing arrangements can also be seen in the way political parties, pressure groups and movements control or
influence those in power.
II. In contemporary democracies, this takes the form of competition among different parties. Such competition ensures
that power does not remain in one hand.
Which of the above-mentioned statements is/are correct?
(a) I is correct.
(b) II is correct.
(c) Both I and II are correct.
(d) Both I and II are incorrect.
Answer
C
28. In which of the following sectors does a majority of workers from scheduled castes, tribes and backward communities find themselves?
(a) Public sector
(b) Unorganised sector
(c) Primary sector
(d) All of the above
Answer
B
29. Match the following on the basis of their ownership.
(A) Individual Resources (i) Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
(B) Community Owned Resources (ii) Roads
(C) National Resources (iii) Village Ponds
(D) International Resources (iv) Houses
(a) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(ii), D-(i)
(b) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(i), D-(ii)
(c) A-(iv), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(i)
(d) A-(ii), B-(iii), C-(iv), D-(i)
Answer
A
30. Which of the following powers colonised many countries in the world by the end of the 19th century?
(a) European powers
(b) Russian powers
(c) Asian powers
(d) Australian powers
Answer
A
31. (i) In 1867, Garibaldi led an army of volunteers to Rome to fight the last obstacle to the unification of Italy, the Papal States where a French garrison was stationed.
(ii) The Red Shirts proved to be no match for the combined French and Papal troops.
(iii) It was only in 1870 when, during the war with Prussia, France withdrew its troops from Rome that the Papal States were finally joined to Italy.
Which of the following is correct?
(a) (i)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer
D
32. Which of the following middle East Countries produces 15% of the global output amount of crude oil?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Kuwait
(c) Qatar
(d) UAE
Answer
A
33. Which of the following criterion was tried to consolidate by conservative regimes during the age of revolution?
(a) Power
(b) Nationalism
(c) Liberalism
(d) All of the above
Answer
D
34. Which of the following countries were against wars fought by the Prussian army and bureaucracy?
(a) Austria, Denmark and France
(b) Denmark, Italy and Poland
(c) Austria and Denmark
(d) Poland and France
Answer
A
35. Assertion (A): Matters were further complicated among the Balkan states.
Reason (R): The Balkans also became the scene of big power rivalry.
(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) If A is true but R is false.
(d) If A is false but R is true.
Answer
A
36. Which of the following does not affect the price of crude oil?
(a) Growing economies increase demand for energy in general
(b) Economic growth
(c) Current supply
(d) Information technology
Answer
D
37. As per Ernst Renan:
I. A nation is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion.
II. A heroic past, great men, glory, that is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea.
Which of the above statement (s) is/ are correct?
(a) Statement I is correct.
(b) Statement II is correct.
(c) Both I and II are correct.
(d) Both I and II are incorrect.
Answer
C
38. (i) The peasant masses who had supported Garibaldi in southern Italy had never heard of Italia, and believed that ‘La Talia’ was Victor Emmanuel’s wife.
(ii) Much of the Italian population, among whom rates of illiteracy were very high, remained blissfully unaware of liberalnationalist ideology.
(iii) In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy.
Which of the following is correct?
(a) (i)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer
D
39. By the 1980s several political organisations were formed demanding an independent Tamil Eelam (state) in ___________ and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.
(a) Northern
(b) Southern
(c) Western
(d) Central
Answer
A
40. Which of the following is the correct meaning of the symbol, broken chains?
(a) Being free
(b) Heroism
(c) Ready to fight
(d) Being helpless
Answer
A
41. Which of the following is associated with Count Camillo de Cavour?
(a) Italian unification
(b) Russian unification
(c) Creation of secret societies
(d) Abolishment of trade barriers
Answer
B
42. Which of the following is known as the central government in India?
(a) Federal government
(b) State government
(c) Local government
(d) Coalition government
Answer
A
43. (i) The system of ‘reserved constituencies’ in assemblies and the parliament of our country existed.
(ii) The system of ‘reserved constituencies’ in assemblies and the parliament of our country would feel alienated from the government.
(iii) This method is used to give minority communities a fair share of power.
(a) (i)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer
D
44. Graph 2 : Share of Sectors in GDP (%)
Which of the following sectors has the maximum share of GDP in 1973–74?
(a) Primary
(b) Secondary
(c) Tertiary
(d) Both primary and secondary are equal.
Answer
C
45. In which of the following states has paddy become an important crop?
(a) Punjab
(b) West Bengal
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Kerala
Answer
A
46. Which of the following is not responsible for the formation of soil?
(a) Activities of decomposers
(b) Actions of running water
(c) Wind and glaciers
(d) Human activities
Answer
D
SECTION-C
PASSAGE-1
During the years following 1815, the fear of repression drove many liberal-nationalists undergrounds. Secret societies sprang up in many European states to train revolutionaries and spread their ideas. To be revolutionary at this time meant a commitment to oppose monarchical forms that had been established after the Vienna Congress, and to fight for liberty and freedom. Most of these revolutionaries also saw the creation of nation-states as a necessary part of this struggle for freedom. One such individual was the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini. Born in Genoa in 1807, he became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari. As a young man of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting a revolution in Liguria. He subsequently founded two more underground societies, first, Young Italy in Marseilles, and then, Young Europe in Berne, whose members were like-minded young men from Poland, France, Italy and the German states. Mazzini believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind. So, Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms. It had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations. This unification alone could be the basis of Italian liberty. Following his model, secret societies were set up in Germany, France, Switzerland and Poland. Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics frightened the conservatives. Metternich described him as ‘the most dangerous enemy of our social order’.
47. During the year 1815, secret societies sprang up to several ________________.
(a) American states
(b) European states
(c) Asian states
(d) Eastern states
Answer
B
48. Which of the following countries did the revolutionary, Giuseppe Mazzini belonged to?
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) Germany
(d) Greece
Answer
B
49. Which of the following is the basis of Italian liberty?
(a) Unification of Italy
(b) Creation of nation-states
(c) Creation of secret societies
(d) Cultural reforms in Italy
Answer
A
50. When was Mazzini sent into exile?
(a) 1831
(b) 1824
(c) 1835
(d) 1822
Answer
A
51. Which of the following was/were the aims of the revolution that took place in European countries?
(a) Freedom
(b) Liberty
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
Answer
C
52. Which of the following was favoured by Mazzini during the revolution in Italy?
(a) To become a member of the secret society
(b) Opposition to monarchy
(c) He believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind
(d) All of the above
Answer
D
PASSAGE-2
Mahatma Gandhi declared Vinoba Bhave as his spiritual heir. He also participated in Satyagraha as one of the foremost satyagrahis. He was one of the votaries of Gandhi’s concept of Gram Swarajya. After Gandhiji’s martyrdom, Vinoba Bhave undertook padayatra to spread Gandhiji’s message covered almost the entire country. Once, when he was delivering a lecture at Pochampalli in Andhra Pradesh, some poor landless villagers demanded some land for their economic well-being. Vinoba Bhave could not promise it to them immediately but assured them to talk to the Government of India regarding the provision of land for them if they undertook cooperative farming. Suddenly, Shri Ram Chandra Reddy stood up and offered 80 acres of land to be distributed among 80 landless villagers. This act was known as ‘Bhoodan’. Later he travelled and introduced his ideas widely all over India. Some zamindars, owners of many villages offered to distribute some villages among the landless. It was known as Gramdan. However, many landowners chose to provide some part of their land to the poor farmers due to the fear of the land ceiling act. This Bhoodan- Gramdan movement initiated by Vinoba Bhave is also known as the Bloodless Revolution.
53. Who declared Vinoba Bhave as his spiritual heir?
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Plato
Answer
B
54. Vinoba Bhave was one of the votaries of Gandhi’s concept of _____________.
(a) Gram Sabha
(b) Gram panchayat
(c) Gram Pradhan
(d) Gram Swarajya
Answer
D
55. Which of the following were promised by Vinoda Bhave?
(a) Cooperative society
(b) Land ceiling
(c) Did not promise anything
(d) None of the above
Answer
C
56. Which of the following is another name of the Bhoodan-Gramdan movement?
(a) Bloodless Revolution.
(b) Water-less Revolution.
(c) Land-less Revolution.
(d) Roof-less Revolution.
Answer
A
57. How many acres of land was offered by Shri Ram Chandra to offer 80 land-less villagers?
(a) 50 acres
(b) 60 acres
(c) 70 acres
(d) 80 acres
Answer
D
58. Which of the following started the padayatra to spread Gandhiji’s message?
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Vinoda Bhave
Answer
D
59. Jhumming is known as Dipa in the state marked A on the given map.Find the name do the state.
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Chhattisgarh
(c) Assam
(d) Meghalaya
Answer
B
60. Which of the following soils is found in the areas marked B?
(a) Red soil
(b) Laterite soil
(c) Arid soil
(d) Black soil
Answer
B
