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First Term Exam (2021-22)

CBSE Class 10 Social Science
Sample Paper - 01 (MCQ Based)

Maximum Marks: 40 Marks

Time Allowed: 90 Minutes

General Instructions:

i. This question paper is prepared by the team of teachers at myCBSEguide.

ii. It contains 40 questions including MCQ, Case Study, Map and Assertion & Reasoning.
iii. myCBSEguide questions 1-28 are based on Multiple Choice Questions.
iv. myCBSEguide questions 29-33 are based on Assertion & Reasoning Questions.
v. myCBSEguide questions 34 to 37 are based on Case Study Questions.
vi. myCBSEguide questions 38 to 40 are based on Maps.

1. Which years were of great economic hardship in Europe?

a. 1820s
b. 1850s
c. 1890s
d. 1830s
2. What do you mean by Cultruable wasteland?
a. Land left cultivated for more than ten agricultural years
b. Land left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years
c. Land left cultivated for more than five agricultural years
d. Land left uncultivated for more than ten agricultural years
3. A legitimate government is one where:
a. citizens, through participation, acquire a stake in the system
b. government does not interfere
c. conflicts are encouraged
d. citizens are ignored
4. The term absolutist is referred to:
a. A vision
b. None of these
c. Monarchical government
d. Abstract theory
5. ________ is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India.
a. maize
b. jowar
c. wheat
d. rice
6. Why Kerala has a low infant mortality rate?
a. It has proper infrastructure
b. It has adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities

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c. It has poor net attendance ratio

d. It has good climate condition
7. Which of the quote is said by Metternich?
a. Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces
might fall on him
b. When France sneezes, Metternich once remarked, ‘the rest of Europe catches a cold'
c. Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine
d. Giuseppe Mazzini is the most dangerous enemy of our social order
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8. With which of the following countries, Belgium does not share its borders?
a. Luxemburg
b. Italy
c. Netherlands
d. Germany
9. The image of - Germania guarding the Rhine was painted by which artist?
a. Pablo Picasso
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Lorenz Classmen
d. Frédéric Sorrieu
10. The _______ fruit of the Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal is
famous.
a. banana
b. orange
c. mango
d. apple
11. Government produces electricity because:
a. It is their duty to do so
b. No other institution can produce it
c. To generate profit
d. Electricity produced by private sector is expensive
12. The Estates-General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the National Assembly.
New hymns were composed, oaths taken and martyrs commemorated, all in the name of the nation. A
centralised administrative system was put in place and it formulated uniform laws for all citizens
within its territory. The above events took place during which revolution?
a. Industrial revolution
b. American Revolution
c. The Haitian Revolution
d. French revolution
13. Production of a commodity, mostly through the natural process, is an activity in ________ sector.
a. Tertiary
b. Primary
c. Information technology
d. Secondary
14. To get more income people need:
a. Better wages
b. Equal treatment

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c. Freedom
d. Security
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15. Who was frightened by the Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic
republics?
a. Aristocrats
b. Moderates
c. Liberals
d. Conservatives
16. Which relief feature of India constitutes 27% of the total surface area of country?
a. mountain
b. plain
c. desert
d. plateau
17. Which language is spoken by the majority of Belgians?
a. English
b. German
c. French
d. Dutch
18. Which part of the population has affected most by the development of the tertiary sector?
a. Small shopkeepers, repairpersons and transport persons, etc.
b. Skilled and educated workers
c. Farmers
d. Unskilled workers
19. The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in ________.
a. USA
b. India
c. Germany
d. Europe
20. Slash and burn, shifting farming is referred to as ________ in north-eastern states like Assam,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland.
a. primitive
b. tribal
c. jhumming
d. pamlou
21. The development goal of a girl in a rich urban family is:
a. freedom
b. going to school
c. get married
d. learning cooking
22. Which region was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801?
a. Sweden
b. Hungary
c. Austria
d. Ireland
23. How many scheduled languages are recognized by the Indian constitution?

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a. Besides Hindi, there are 22 scheduled, languages.

b. Besides Hindi, there are 19 scheduled, languages.
c. Besides Hindi, there are 21 scheduled, languages.
d. Besides Hindi, there are 18 scheduled, languages.
24. National Sample Survey Organisation conducts the surveys on employment and unemployment in
every:
a. Six years
b. Five years
c. Ten years
d. Seven years
25. When and who prepared a series of four prints visualising a world of democratic and social Republics?
a. None of these
b. 1815, Duke Metternich
c. 1848, Frederic Sorrieu
d. 1804, Napoleon
26. Find the odd one out:
A. Spice jet
B. All India radio
C. Indian Railways
D. MTNL
a. (B)
b. (D)
c. (A)
d. (C)
27. The idea of power-sharing has emerged in opposition to the notions of undivided ________.
a. political power
b. judiciary power
c. legislative power
d. executive power
28. What is the capital city of Belgium?
a. Brussels
b. Amsterdam
c. Vienna
d. Antwerp

For question numbers 29-33, two statements are given- one labeled Assertion (A) and the other labeled
Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given
below:

a. Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct explanation for assertion.
b. Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct explanation for assertion.
c. Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement.
d. Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement.

29. Assertion: Pulses are not considered a major source of protein in a vegetarian diet.
Reason: Rice is a kharif crop and requires a lot of rain to grow.
30. Assertion (A): Kerala a low Infant Mortality Rate.
Reason (R): Kerala lacks the provision of basic health and educational facilities.

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31. Assertion: Terrace cultivation does not restrict erosion.

Reason: Running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels as gullies.
32. Assertion: Mohan is a shopkeeper who pays his taxes on time. He has employed two workers Rakesh and
Raghu in his shop. He pays them well, however, none of the workers get any paid leaves in the year.
Reason: Rakesh and Raghu are employed in the unorganized sector.
33. Assertion: Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation.
Reason: Weavers in Silesia had led a revolt against contractors who supplied raw material and gave them
orders for finished textiles but drastically reduced their payments.

Answer questions 34-37 based on the following case study:

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The exact balance of power between the central and the state government varies from one federation to
another. This balance depends mainly on the historical context in which the federation was formed. There are
two kinds of routes through which federations have been formed. The first route involves independent States
coming together on their own to form a bigger unit so that by pooling sovereignty and retaining identity they
can increase their security. This type of ‘coming together’ federations include the USA, Switzerland, and
Australia. In this first category of federations, all the constituent States usually have equal power and are strong
vis-a-vis the federal government. The second route is where a large country decides to divide its power between
the constituent States and the national government. India, Spain, and Belgium are examples of this kind of
‘holding together’ federations. In this second category, the central government tends to be more powerful vis-a-
vis the States. Very often different constituent units of the federation have unequal powers. Some units are
granted special powers.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:

34. Since the United States is a ________ type of federation, all the constituent States have equal powers and
States are ________ compare to the federal government.
a. coming together, weak
b. holding together, strong
c. coming together, strong
d. holding together, strong
35. Which of the given statements is incorrect regarding ‘Holding together federation’?
a. A large country divides its power between constituent states and the national government.
b. The Central government tends to be more powerful vis-a-vis the States.
c. All the constituent states usually have equal powers.
d. Constituent states have unequal powers.
36. India is a type of ________ federation and some states have more power than others. In India, the ________
government has more powers.
a. holding together, state
b. holding together, central
c. coming together, central
d. coming together, state
37. What are the kinds of routes through which federations have been formed?
a. Independent states coming together on their own to form a bigger unit
b. Large country decides to divide its powers between the states and the national government
c. Both a and b
d. None of these

Answer questions 38-40 based on the following Maps

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On the map of India, some places are labelled as A, B and C. Answer the questions below based on these labels.

38. In this map, label A represents:

a. Sardar Sarovar Dam
b. Hirakud Dam
c. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
d. Tungabhadra Dam
39. In this map, label B represents:
a. Bihar – Major Rice Producer
b. Odisha - Major Rice Producer
c. Jharkhand - Major Rice Producer
d. West Bengal - Major Rice Producer
40. In this map, label C represents:
a. Alluvial Soil - Haryana
b. Alluvial Soil - Punjab
c. Alluvial Soil - Uttar Pradesh
d. Alluvial Soil – Bihar

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Sample Paper - 01 (MCQ Based)

Class 10 - Social Science

Solution

1. (d) 1830s
Explanation: The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe. The first half of the
nineteenth century saw an enormous increase in population all over Europe.
2. (b) Land left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years
Explanation: The arable land that is not taken up for cultivation is called culturable wasteland. The
land once used for cultivation but was unploughed for five years also fell in this same classification.
Such land may either follow or overturned with shrubs and weeds.
3. (a) citizens, through participation, acquire a stake in the system
Explanation: Power-sharing is good for democracies. Power-sharing is the very spirit of democracy. A
legitimate government is one where citizens, through participation, acquire a stake in the system.
4. (c) Monarchical government
Explanation: Absolutist literally means a government or system of rule that has no restraints on the
power exercised. In history, the term refers to a form of monarchical government that was centralised,
militarized, and repressive.
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5. (d) rice
Explanation: Rice is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India. Our country is the second
largest producer of rice in the world after China.
6. (b) It has adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities
Explanation: Kerala has low IMR because it has a very high literacy rate and literate people take care
of their children better as compared to illiterate. Literate people also have high earning capacity so
they can afford basic necessities for their children. In short, we can say that Kerela has low IMR
because it mainly concentrates on human resource development.
7. (d) Giuseppe Mazzini is the most dangerous enemy of our social order
Explanation: Metternich described Giuseppe Mazzini as ‘the most dangerous enemy of our social
order’.
8. (b) Italy
Explanation: Belgium is a small country in Europe, smaller in area than the state of Haryana. It has
borders with France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg.
9. (c) Lorenz Classmen
Explanation: Germania guarding the Rhine. In 1860, the artist Lorenz Clasen was commissioned to
paint this image. The inscription on Germania’s sword reads: ‘The German sword protects the German
Rhine.’
10. (c) mango
Explanation: India is a producer of tropical as well as temperate fruits. Mangoes of Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, oranges of Nagpur and Cherrapunjee
(Meghalaya), bananas of Kerala, Mizoram, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, lichi and guava of Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar, pineapples of Meghalaya, grapes of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra,
apples, pears, apricots and walnuts of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh are in great demand
the world over.
11. (d) Electricity produced by private sector is expensive

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Explanation: Selling electricity at the cost of generation may push up the costs of production of goods
in many industries, this, in turn, will increase the prices of the goods. Further many units especially
small-scale units might have to shut down. The government here steps in by producing and supplying
electricity at rates which these industries can afford. Therefore electricity is produced by the govt.
12. (d) French revolution
Explanation: From the very beginning, the French revolutionaries introduced various measures and
practices that could create a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.
13. (b) Primary
Explanation: Production of a commodity, mostly through natural process is an activity in Primary
sector. We see agriculture products are produced through natural process and agriculture is known as
primary activity. So any production of a commodity through natural process is an activity in primary
sector.
14. (a) Better wages
Explanation: In order to get more income people to desire regular work, better wages, and decent
prices for crops and other products they produce. Better wages will improve the condition of labours.
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15. (d) Conservatives
Explanation: Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics
frightened the conservatives.
16. (d) plateau
Explanation: India has land under a variety of relief features, namely; mountains, plateaus, plains and
islands. About 27 per cent of the area of the country is the plateau region. It possesses rich reserves of
minerals, fossil fuels and Forests. Peninsular Plateau lies south of northern plain. The shape of this
plateau is similar to a triangle whose base lies on the southern edge of the northern plain and
Kanyakumari is the apex. Peninsular Plateau can be divided into two sections: (i) Central Highland: It is
situated to the north of Narmada river. The plateau consists of Malwa Plateau, Chotanagpur Plateau,
Meghalaya Plateau, Vidhya Range, Satpura Range and the Aravali Range. The highest peak here is Guru
Shikhar and (ii) Deccan Plateau: It is bounded by the Satpura Range in the north, the Eastern Ghats in
the east and the Western Ghats in the west. Rivers of Deccan Plateau (Kaveri, Godavari, Krishna) flows
from West to East. Deccan Plateau consists of Andhra Plateau, Karnataka Plateau and Maharashtra
Plateau.
17. (d) Dutch
Explanation: Of the country’s total population, 59 percent live in the Flemish region and speaks the
Dutch language. Another 40 percent people live in the Wallonia region and speak French.
18. (a) Small shopkeepers, repairpersons and transport persons, etc.
Explanation: Small shopkeepers, repairpersons, and transport persons barely manage to earn a living,
and yet they perform these services because no alternative opportunities for work are available to
them. Therefore these groups are affected most by the development of the tertiary sector.
19. (d) Europe
Explanation: The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe. The first half of the
nineteenth century saw an enormous increase in population all over Europe.
20. (c) jhumming
Explanation: It is Jhumming in north-eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland;
Pamlou in Manipur, Dipa in Bastar district of Chhattishgarh, and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
21. (a) freedom
Explanation: She wants to get as much freedom as her brother and is able to decide what she wants to

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do in her life. She also wants to pursue her studies abroad.

22. (d) Ireland
Explanation: Catholic revolts against British dominance were suppressed. After a failed revolt led by
Wolfe Tone and his United Irishmen (1798), Ireland was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom
in 1801.
23. (c) Besides Hindi, there are 21 scheduled, languages.
Explanation: The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, which have
been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status, and official encouragement.
They are:
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi,
Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili, and Dogri.
24. (b) Five years
Explanation: The National Sample Survey Organisation(NSSO), now known as National Sample Survey
Office an organization under the Ministry of Statistics of the Govt. of India was established in 1950.
National Sample Survey Organization(NSSO)’ has been consistently conducting ‘Employment
Unemployment Surveys’ for an interval of every five years since 1973, which is considered to be the
most credible and reliable source of employment data in the country.
25. (c) 1848, Frederic Sorrieu
Explanation: In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his
dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’, as he called them.
26. (c) (A)
Explanation: The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector,
which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not
controlled by the State. Spice jet is an example of the private sector and therefore it belongs to the
private sector whereas the rest three belongs to the public sector.
27. (a) political power
Explanation: The idea of power-sharing has emerged in opposition to the notions of undivided
political power. For a long time, it was believed that all power of a government must reside in one
person or group of persons located at one place. It was felt that if the power to decide is dispersed, it
would not be possible to take quick decisions and to enforce them. But these notions have changed with
the emergence of democracy.
28. (a) Brussels
Explanation: The capital city of Belgium is Brussels.
29. (d) Assertion is a wrong statement but the reason is a correct statement.
Explanation: Rice is a Kharif crop and requires about 100 cm of rainfall or irrigation in case of low
rainfall. However, India is the largest producer as well as the consumer of pulses in the world. These
are the major source of protein in a vegetarian diet. The assertion is false but the reason is correct.
30. (c) A is correct but R is wrong
Explanation: Kerala has a low Infant Mortality Rate because it mainly concentrates on human
resource development. It has an adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities.
31. (d) Assertion is a wrong statement but the reason is a correct statement.
Explanation: Terrace cultivation restricts erosion because the cut out on the slopes in form of steps
breaks up the force of the wind. The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep
channels as gullies. As a result of gully erosion, the land becomes unfit for cultivation and is known as
bad land.
The assertion is false and the reason is correct.
32. (a) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and the reason is the correct explanation for

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assertion.
Explanation: If Rakesh and Raghu were employed in the organized sector, they would receive benefits
such as paid leaves, medical insurance, and pension schemes from the employer. Mohan is not
following labour laws as he does not provide any paid leave to his employees in the year. Both the
assertion and reason are correct.
33. (b) Assertion and reason both are correct statements but the reason is not the correct explanation for
assertion.
Explanation: Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation: art and poetry, stories
and music helped express and shape nationalist feelings. In 1845, weavers in Silesia had led a revolt
against contractors who supplied them the raw material and gave them orders for finished textiles but
drastically reduced their payments.
Therefore, both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation for the
assertion.
34. (c) coming together, strong
35. (c) All the constituent states usually have equal powers.
36. (b) holding together, central
37. (c) Both a and b
38. Tungabhadra Dam
39. Jharkhand - Major Rice Producer
40. Alluvial Soil - Haryana

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