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
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