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IDEAL INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA-QATAR

Practice Paper – 1 (Diff)

2017-18

History, Economics and Politics

Class : X Max Marks : 60

1. Which Congress changed the map of Europe in the 1st quarter of the 19th

century? 1

• Congress of Vienna

2. Mention one strategy adopted by the press and the publishers to sell their

books. 1

• They hired out the books and novels were also serialised so that the suspense was maintained.

3. With which countries does Belgium share its border? (Any two) 1

• Netherlands, France, Germany and Luxembourg.

4. Abdul wants to sell his sugar and get rice from Qadir. But Qadir has only wheat

and wants barley. What problem is seen here? 1

• Double coincidence of wants

5. How would flexibility in labour laws help companies? 1

• By easing of labour laws, the company heads can negotiate wages and terminate employment depending on the market conditions.

• This would increase the competitiveness of the company

6. What was the act passed in 1986 regarding consumers? 1

Consumer Protection Act

7. How did Napoleonic trade benefit the businessmen and small scale producers? 3

• Businessmen realised that uniform laws, weights and measures and a common currency would facilitate the movement and exchange of goods and capital from one place to another.

8. How did the characters of Pariksha Guru attempt to bridge the two different

worlds? 3

• In the novel the characters attempt to bridge two different worlds through their actions: take to new agricultural technology, modernise trading practices, change the use of Indian languages capable of transmitting western sciences and Indian wisdom.

9. The Constitution did not use the word federation but the Indian Union is

based on the principles of Federalism. Explain. 3

• It does not use the word Federation but has the division of powers into a three tier system viz. Central, State and Local governments

• The constitution has also mentioned the three lists viz. Union list, state list and concurrent list.

• Union govt has less in the list but has items of national importance.

• Each level of the govt has its own jurisdiction and does not interfere with the other

• But the Union govt can and has power to legislate on the residuary powers.

10. ‘A positive attitude towards diversity and the willingness to accommodate

it doesn’t come about easily’. Elucidate. 3

• People who feel marginalised, deprived and discriminated have to fight against the injustices done to them.

• Such a fight often takes a democratic path voicing their demands in a peaceful and constitutional manner through elections

• Sometimes these social differences can take the form of unacceptable level of social inequality and injustice.

• The struggle against such inequalities sometimes take the path of violence and defiance of state power.

11. What are the prudential reasons to support democracy? 3

• Over a 100 countries of the world today claim and practice some kind of democratic politics.

• They have a formal constitution, hold elections, they have parties and they guarantee rights to their citizens.

• But these democracies are very much different from one another in terms of their social situations their economic achievements and their cultures.

12. Kerala with a low PCI has a better Human Development ranking than Punjab. Hence PCI is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to compare states. Do you agree? Discuss. 3

• I do agree that money or PCI is not the only factor

• Factors like IMR, NAR also play a very crucial role in the overall human devp.

• When compared with these factors Kerala is considered to be better than Punjab.

• IMR rate is 11 in Kerala compared to Punjab which is 49.

• Literacy rate was 91 in Kerala as compared to Punjab which was 70%

• The NAR from class 1 to 5 was 91 in Kerala compared to Punjab which was 81.

• Due to these Kerala has a better HD ranking.

13. Observe Rs.100/- currency note. What is written on top? Explain the statement and bring out the relationship between the RBI and the Central Government? 3

• Reserve Bank of India and Guaranteed by the Government.

• The RBI issues currency on behalf of the Central government of India.

• The statement explains that the currency is authorised by the Central govt of India.

• Law legalised the Rupee as a medium of payment that cannot be refused.

14. Define the term Tourism. Why is tourism known as a trade? Explain. 3

• It is the cultural, recreational and commercial visit to internal places

• It is known as trade as: Foreign tourists arrival contributes 1000s of crores of foreign exchange.

• More than 15 million people are directly engaged in the tourism industry

• Tourism provides support to local handicrafts

• Helps in the growth of national income and integrity

15. How has the Right to Information been expanded to cover services provided by the government? Substantiate. 3

• In October 2005 the government of India enacted a law popularly called as RTI or Right to Information act.

• This ensures all its citizens all the information about the functions of the govt departments.

• The effect of the RTI can be seen from the foll eg.

• An engineering student applied for a govt job and submitted all his certificates. But the officials did not inform him about the status of his job. He therefore filed an application using the RTI saying that he has the right to know so that he can plan his future. He soon got the offer letter for his appointment.

16. Briefly explain the two key lessons which economists and politicians draw out from the inter-war economic experience. 5

• Firstly an industrial society based on mass production cannot be sustained without mass consumption

• To ensure mass consumption there need to be high and stable incomes

• Income could not be stable if employment is unstable. Thus stable income required sustained employment.

• Markets alone cannot guarantee full employment. So the govt has to step in to minimise fluctuations of price, output and employment.

• Secondly it is related to a country’s economic links with the outside world.

• The goal of full employment can be achieved if governments had the power to control flow of goods capital and labour.

17. Differentiate between the reasons for the part of the rich peasants and the poor

Peasants in the CDM. 5

• Rich peasants were hard hit by the trade depression and falling price, whereas the poor peasants’ cash income fell down and they could not pay their rents.

• Refusal of the government to reduce the revenue demand led to widespread resentment among the rich peasants whereas the poor wanted the unpaid rent to the landlords to be remitted.

• For rich peasants Swaraj was struggle against high revenues and for the poor their no rent campaign.

• Rich peasants were disappointed since revenue was not reduced and poor were disappointed as the Congress was unwilling to support them.

18. Mention the different aspects of life where women are discriminated in India. 5

• Sex selective abortions are done as the family prefers a male child

• Literacy rate of women is 54% as compared to 76% of men

• Many girls tend to drop out of education as economically weak parents are not willing to spend on the girls’ education. They want to spend for the boy

• Money saved from the girl education is spend on their marriage and dowry

• Women form a small portion among the highly paid and valued jobs. Many girls don’t pursue higher education. Lack of higher education means they are not qualified for higher jobs

• Sexual harassment and domestic violence against women

• These conditions are created due to the assumption that women are physically weak.

19. The first challenge faced by political parties is the lack of internal democracy within

Parties. Explain the statement. 5

• All over the world there is a tendency for political parties to concentrate power to one or few leaders at the top

• Parties do not keep membership registers, do not hold organisational meetings and do not conduct internal elections regularly

• Ordinary member of the party do not get information as to what is happening inside the party

• The members do not have the connection needed to influence the decisions

• As a result the leaders assume greater powers. Since one or two leaders have a great power those who disagree find it difficult to continue with the party

20. Why are quality measurements used? 5

• They are mainly used to ensure the quality of the product the consumer buys from the market place

• While buying many commodities there are logos with letters like ISI, AGMARK, HALLMARK etc.

• These logos and codifications help the consumer to be assured of the quality while purchasing goods or services

• The organisations that monitor and issue these certificates allow producers to use these logos provided the follow certain quality standards

• Though these organisations develop quality standards for many products it is not compulsory for all the producers to follow these standards

• However for some products that affect the health and safety of consumers or of products of mass consumption like LPG cylinders, food colours, additives, cement, packaged drinking water it is mandatory on the part of the producers to get their products certified by these organisations.

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