Test Yourself For Class X Board 2024: Solve Class X Social Science Questions From Previous SQPs

The CBSE class X examination is around the corner. Now is not the time to panic, but to focus. Concentrate on your studies, and you will definitely achieve your goal.?

At this time, constant revision of what you have studied is crucial.?

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The questions below will test your preparedness, and also give an idea of the kind of questions that may be asked.?The following Social science questions have been taken from past sample questions papers of CBSE so, rest assured about the authenticity. The answers have been provided at the end.?

Q1. Mention the provisions that constitute India into a secular country.
(2 marks)

Q2. Provide evidence to support the claim that print culture had a significant impact on the social lives of women in India?
(3 marks)?

Q3. Why are maximum Jute textile mills located in the Hugli Basin?
(5 marks)?

Q4. Analyse the role of a multiparty system in a democratic country like India.
(5 marks)?

Q5. Suggest any two ways to improve the usage of Solar energy.(2 marks)?

Q6. Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of India.?

CBSE Class 10 Social Science SQP 2023-24

a) Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them.(2 marks)

i. Indian National congress session at this place in 1920.
ii. The place where Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law.?

b) On the same outline map of India locate and label any 3 of the following with suitable symbols. (3 marks)
i. A Coal mine in Tamil Nādu
ii. A dam built on river Chenab in India.
iii. A largest natural major seaport located at Andhra Pradesh
iv. Noida software technology park?

Q7. Mention any three forms in which communalism is expressed in politics. Describe the solution provided by the Constitution framers of India to meet this challenge?
(5 marks)?

Q8. How was the social and political situation of India affected by the First World War? Explain.
(3 marks)?

Q9. “The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conqueror was not aconventional military weapon at all”. Justify the above statement by giving tworeasons.
(2 marks)?

Q10. Describe the ideology of liberalism during early 19th century.
(3 marks)?

ANSWERS

Ans 1. (Mention any 3)
i. There is no official religion for the Indian state. Our Constitution does not give a special status to any religion.
ii. The Constitution provides to all individuals and communities freedom to profess, practice and propagate any religion, or not to follow any.
iii. The Constitution prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion.
iv. Secularism is an idea constitutes one of the foundations of our country.
v. At the same time the Constitution allows the state to intervene in the matters of religion in order to ensure equality within religious communities.?

Ans 2.?

• The rise of print culture in India during the 19th century played a crucial role inawakening the social life of women. The printing press allowed women to accessinformation, knowledge and ideas that were previously inaccessible to them.Women's magazines, newspapers and books provided a platform for women toexpress their views, ideas and opinions on various social issues such aseducation, gender equality, women's rights, and social reform.
• Liberal husbands and fathers began educating their womenfolk at home and sentthem to schools.
• In East Bengal, Rashsundari Debi, a young married girl in a very orthodoxhousehold, learnt to read in the secrecy of her kitchen and wrote herautobiography Amar Jiban (1876). It was the first full-length autobiographypublished in the Bengali language.The Bengali women like Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting theexperiences of women – about how women were imprisoned at home, kept inignorance, forced to do hard domestic labor and treated unjustly by their families.?
• In Maharashtra, Tarabai Shinde & and; Pandita Ramabai wrote with passionateanger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows.?
• A woman in a Tamil novel expressed what reading meant to women who wereconfined by social regulations:’ For various reasons, my world is small … Morethan half my life’s happiness has come from books …’?
• Therefore, print culture helped awaken social consciousness and contributed tothe progress of women's rights and empowerment in India.

Ans 3.?

Jute industries are located in Hugli basin because:?

i. Proximity of jute producing areas.?
ii. Inexpensive water transport.
iii. Good network of roadways, railways and waterways
iv. Abundant water for processing raw jute
v. Cheap labour from West Bengal and adjoining statesvi. Good banking, insurance and poor facilities in Kolkata.?

Ans 4.

In a democratic system like India, multiparty politics plays a crucial role inrepresenting the diverse interests and aspirations of the citizens.?

• The multiparty system allows for a competitive and dynamic political environment,where parties with different ideologies and agendas can participate and competefor the support of the electorate.?
• The presence of multiple parties also provides a check and balance against anyone party becoming too powerful and dominant.?
• This system allows a variety of interests and opinions to enjoy politicalrepresentation. People can make a choice between several candidates.?
• Through this system different and diverse parties could represent the sections ofsociety and power does not absorb in the hands of one single party. India adoptedthis system because of the vast diversity and plurality in the nation.?

Ans 5.

i. Reducing the cost of solar panels?
ii. Use of efficient solar panel models.?
iii. Rising awareness about the importance of renewable energy?
iv. Easy installation process?
v. Buy panels with High Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Cells
vi. Avoid installing solar panels in shaded areas

Ans 6.?

CBSE Class 10 Social Science SQP 2023-24

Ans 7.

Communalism can take various forms in politics:?

i. The routinely beliefs involve religious prejudices, stereotypes of religious communitiesand belief in the superiority of one’s religion over other religions.
ii. A communal mind often leads to a quest for political dominance of one’s own religiouscommunity.
iii. For those belonging to majority community, this takes the form of majoritariandominance. For those belonging to the minority community, it can take the form of a desireto form a separate political unit.
iv. Political mobilisation on religious lines is another frequent form of communalism. Thisinvolves the use of sacred symbols, religious leaders, emotional appeal and plain fear inorder to bring the followers of one religion together in the political arena.
v. Sometimes communalism takes its most ugly form of communal violence, riots andmassacre.?

Ans 8. (any 3)

i. The war created a new economic and political situation.
ii. It led to a huge increase in defence expenditure which was financed by war loans andincreasing taxes: customs duties were raised and income tax introduced.
iii. Through the war years prices increased – doubling between 1913 and 1918 –leading toextreme hardship for the common people.
iv. Villages were called upon to supply soldiers, and the forced recruitment in rural areascaused widespread anger.
v. Crops failed in many parts of India, resulting in acute shortages of food.
vi. This was accompanied by an influenza epidemic. Million people perished as a result offamines and the epidemic.?

Ans 9.

The Spanish conqueror’s most powerful weapon was not a conventionalmilitary weapon because,?

• They used germs like smallpox which spread deep into the continent before anyEuropean could reach there
• America's original inhabitants had no immunity against these diseases that camefrom Europe. This disease erased the whole community, leading to conquest. Thisbiological warfare in the mid sixteenth century made it easy for Spanish tooverpower the Americans.?

Ans 10. (any 3)

i. Liberalism in the early 19th century stood for freedom for the individual and equalityto all before law for the new middle classes.
ii. Politically, it emphasised the concept of government by consent.
iii. It stood for the end of autocracy and clerical privileges.?

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