Class 10 Social Science MCQs Chapter 1 Development
part 1
1. What will be the top priority in the
developmental goal of a landless labourer?
(a) Expansion of rural banking
(b) More days of work and better wages
(c) Metal roads for transportation
(d) Establishment of a high school
Answer
Answer: b
2. What will be the aspiration of an educated urban
unemployed youth?
(a) An educated urban unemployed youth will aspire
for better opportunities in agriculture.
(b) Support from government at every step in life
for his upward movement.
(c) An urban educated unemployed will aspire for
good job opportunities where his education can be made use of.
(d)
Better facilities of recreation for his leisure time.
Answer
Answer: c
3. Pick
out the correct meaning listed below to define ‘average income’.
(a) Average income of the country means the total income of the country.
(b) The average income in a country is the income of only employed people.
(c) The average income is the same as per capita income.
(d) The average income includes the value of property held.
Answer
Answer: c
4.
Which country can be considered as a developed country in the modern world?
Select your answer from the following statements.
(a) Countries which have accumulated huge amount of wealth and always secures
the future of their citizens. These countries are considered to be developed.
(b) Countries which are among the highest in the ‘Human Development
Index’ are considered to be the developed countries.
(c) Only rich countries are considered to be
developed because people have money to buy everything needed for human
beings—both material and non-material.
(d) Iran is a rich
country and therefore it is a developed country.
Answer
Answer: b
5. Money cannot buy all
the goods and services that we may need to have a good life. A list of things
required for a good life is given below. Which among the following are things
money cannot buy?
(i) Full protection from infectious diseases
(ii) High quality education
(in) A luxury home
(iv) A pollution-free atmosphere in every part of the country
(a) (i) and(ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (i), (ii) and (in)
(d) (i) and (iv)
Answer
Answer: d
6. HDI stands for ‘Human
Development Index’ that focuses on Fill in the blanks with one of the following
options:
(a) life expectancy
(b) gross enrolment ratio for three levels of schooling
(c) national income
(d) All the above
Answer
Answer: d
7. Kerala has a low
infant mortality rate. What could be the reason? Find the correct answer from
the following:
(a) Kerala has a low infant mortality rate because all the girls are trained at
the primary level schooling to look after a newborn child.
(b) Because most of the girls are nurses in Kerala.
(c) Because Kerala has very high female literacy rate and adequate health
facilities are available for both mothers and children.
(d) Kerala’s good climatic condition helps infants to survive.
Answer
Answer: b
8. What would be the most
promising source of energy fifty years from now and why?
(a) Petroleum energy, because it is obtained from fossil fuels.
(b) Solar energy, because it is not exhaustible.
(c) Coal based energy, because it is pollution- free.
(d) Forest product based energy, because India has abundant forests.
Answer
Answer: b
9. Pick out the cause
(from below) that enhances environmental degradation
(a) Planting of trees.
(b) Prevention of factory wastes getting mixed up with river water.
(c) Ban on use of plastic bags.
(d) Allowing increase in the level of exhaust fumes emitted by cars, buses,
trucks, etc.
Answer
Answer: d
Part 2 (self test answers given below)
QI. Which is the most common method of
measuring economic development?
A.
Profit loss
B. Income
C. Sales
D. Import-export
Q2.
What are the developmental goals of landless rural labourers?
A.
More days of work and better wages
B. Acquirement of land for self tilling
C. More hours of work
D. Self-reliance
Q3.What
brings about stable income?
A.
Better wages
B. Work opportunities
C. Regular work
D. decent price for their crops or other products
Q4.
Besides seeking more income, there is something people resent, what is it?
A.
Getting fewer wages for more work
B. Discrimination
C. No work
D. Poverty
Q5.
What is the one factor on which our life depends?
A.
employment
B. Security of work
C. Money, or material things that one can buy with it
D. Freedom
Q6.
If women are engaged in paid work, what difference does it make?
A.
Their dignity in the household and society decreases
B. No difference
C. No dignity
D. their dignity in the household and society increases
Q7.
Different persons could have ……….notions of a country’s development.
A.
different as well as conflicting
B. Same
C. Indifferent
D. No
Q8.
What is considered to be one of the most important attributes when we compare
countries at the level of development?
A.
Industrial development
B. Resources of the country
C. Income
D. Import-export
Q9.
More income means …………..
A.
Average out of needs of people
B. more of all things that human beings need.
C. No effect on the common man
D. More business
Q10.
…………….. is the total income of the country divided by its total population?
A.
per capita income
B. Gross income
C. Net income
D. Total income
Q11.
In World Development Reports, brought out by the World Bank, which criterion is
used in classifying countries?
A.
Total income
B. Gross income
C. per capita income
D. Net income
Q12.
Which of the following neighbouring countries has better performance in terms
of human development than India?
A.
Bangladesh
B. Sri Lanka
C. Nepal
D. Pakistan
Q13.
Countries with per capita income of US$ ………… per annum and above in 2017, are
called rich countries?
A.
12,126
B. 11246
C. 12056
D. 10056
Q14.
Countries with per capita income of US$ ____ or less are called low-income
countries.
A.
995
B. 885
C. 955
D. 855
Q15.
Which category does India come under?
A.
High-income countries
B. Low middle-income countries
C. Low-income countries
D. High middle-income countries
Q16.
What was India’s per capita income in 2017?
A.
US$ 1950 per annum
B. US$ 1880 per annum
C. US$ 1930 per annum
D. US$ 1820 per annum.
Q17.
What can money not buy you?
A.
Unadulterated medicines
B. Water
C. Pollution-free environment
D. Organic food
Q18.
Why does Kerala have a low Infant Mortality Rate?
A.
adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities
B. Suitable climate
C. Pollution Free environment
D. Good water
Q19.
Over the past decade or so, ……………indicators have come to be widely used along
with income as a measure of development?
A.
Health and nutrition
B. health and education
C. Child development
D. Human development
Q20.
According to the Human Development Report, 2018, United Nations Development
Programme which two countries have a higher Life expectancy at Birth rate than
India?
A.
Srilanka and Myanmar
B. Pakistan and Nepal
C. Pakistan and Bangladesh
D. Nepal and Bangladesh
Q21.
Per Capita Income is calculated in ………. for all countries?
A.
Pounds
B. Euros
C. Dollars
D. Rupees
Q22.
About ……….. districts have reported a water level decline of over 4 meters
during the past 20 years?
A.
300
B. 500
C. 450
D. 350
Q23.
Nearly ………..of the country is overusing their groundwater reserves?
A.
Two-third
B. One-third
C. Half
D. One fourth
Q24.
Where is groundwater overuse particularly found?
A.
Assam
B. Shillong
C. Punjab
D. Karnataka
Q25.
Groundwater is an example of …………..resources?
A.
Renewable
B. Non-renewable
C. Protected
DA. Reserve
Q26.
Since the second half of the twentieth century, a number of scientists have
been warning that…………
A.
Health and nutrition is declining
B. per capita income is unstable
C. Levels of resources are not sustainable
D. levels of development are not sustainable.
Q27.
How can we find out if we are properly nourished?
A.
Through good weight and scale
B. Body Mass Index
C. Nutrient table
D. Height and weight table
Q28.
The literacy rate for the rural population of males in Uttar Pradesh is………
A.
73%
B. 70%
C. 76%
D. 78%
Q29.
In the comparative data on Haryana, Kerala, and Uttar Pradesh which state has
the highest literacy rate?
A.
Haryana
B. Kerala
C. UP
D. All are equal
Q30.
In the data for the Per capita income of Haryana, Kerala, Bihar-which state has
the lowest per capita income?
A.
Haryana
B. Kerala
C. Bihar
D. All equal
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