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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT –I, 2012

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Class IX

Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 90

Instructions:

1. The question paper has 31 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

2. Marks are indicated against each question.

3. Questions from serial number 1 to 10 are Multiple Choice Questions. Each question

carries one mark.

4. Questions from 11 to 22 are 3 mark questions. Answer of these questions should not

exceed 80 words each.

5. Questions from 23 to 30 are 5 mark questions. Answer of these questions should not

exceed 120 words each.

6. Question No.31 is a map question of 4 marks from Geography only.

1 An agitated crown stormed and destroyed Bastille in :

a) 14th March 1789

b) 14th April 1789

c) 14th June 1789

d) 14th July 1789

1

2 In the contest of France the volunteers from Marseilles sang the Marseillaise,

patriotic song, when they marched into Paris. Who composed this song?

a) Maximilan Robespierre

b) Marie Antoinette

c) Roget de L’Isle

d) Mirabeau

1

3 Which one of the following is the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland?

a) Indira point

b) Kanya Kumari

c) Palk Strait

d) Kavaratti

1

4 Which of the following describes drainage patterns resembling branches of a tree?

a) Radial

b) Centrifugal

c) Dendritic

d) Trellis

1

5 What is the term used for sudden illegal overthrowing of Government called?

a) Coup

b) Referendum

c) Censorship

d) Veto

1

6 Which one of the following is a main organ of the United Nations?

a) Security Council

b) UNESCO

c) International Labour Organization

d) UNICEF

1 

7 There are no unreasonable restrictions on the citizens in India, in what way they

think, how they wish to express their thoughts. This means they enjoy to Right to:

a) Equality

b) Liberty

c) Justice

d) Cultural Freedom

1

8 Bigha and Guintha are:

a) The types of village house

b) The type of hybrid seeds

c) The measuring units of grain

d) The measuring units of land area in village

1

9 Which of the following is not an economic activity?

a) Banking

b) Teaching

c) Dairy farming

d) Farming for self-consumption

1

10 Investment in which of the following will not change population into human capital?

a) Bank

b) Education

c) Training

d) Medical care

1

11 How the Weimar Republic was formed? What were its two main drawbacks ?

OR

What were the three major demands of the Bolsheviks ?

3

12 Examine any three features of racial superiority that was promoted by Hitler in

Germany under his Nazi ideology.

OR

What were the social, economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905?

3

13 Why is India called a subcontinent ? Explain. 3

14 How was the Himalayas formed ? Explain. 3

15 Explain three main characteristics of the Northern Plains of India? 3

16 Why are the rivers of the western coastal plains short ? Mention any four such

rivers.

3

17 “International organizations are undemocratic ? Justify the statement. 3

18 How does a democratic government rules whihin limits set by constitutional laws? 3

19 Explain the meaning of the words “Secular” and “Sovereign” in the contest of Indian

Constitution.

3

20 Explain any three features of labour as a factor of production. 3

21 Explain human resource or human capital. Mention two example to show that there

has been formation of human capital in India.

3

22 “Population is an asset for the economy rather that a liability”. Support the

statement with examples.

3

23 Who was Robespierre ? Why was the period from 1793 to 1794 referred to as the

“Reign of Terror”?

5

24 Explain the role played by political clubs of the French women in voicing their

demands. Mention any three of the demands.

5

25 Describe the event which led to the great Economic Depression of 1929.

Or

Explain the changes brought by the industrialization in Europe.

5

26 Distinguish Western coastal plain and Eastern coastal plain in India. 5

27 Why s democracy considered better those other forms of governments? Explain. 5

28 Why was the making of Indian Constitution a difficult task? Give five reasons. 5 

29 Name any four non – farming production activities in villages. Give any three

features of such non – farming activities.

5

30 Explain two types of unemployment in rural areas. Illustrate your answer by giving

examples.

5

31 Two features (A) and (B) are marked on the given political outline map of India.

Identify these features with the help of following information and write their correct

names on the lines marked in the map :

A mountain range

An important river

AND

Locate and label the following on the same political outline map of India :

Mount Kanchenjunga

Lake Vembanad

4

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