CBSE Class 11 Economics Comparative development Experiences Of India and Its Neighbors MCQs Set C

Question: The Great Leap Forward campaign in China focused on___________.
a) widespread industrialization
b) new agricultural strategy
c) privatization
d) economic reforms
Answer: a

Question: Growth rate of population is highest in which of the following country?
a) India
b) China
c) Pakistan
d) None of these
Answer: c

Question: Reform process was started in China in .
a) 1968
b) 1978
c) 1988
d) 1991
Answer: b

Question: With which of the following concepts is commune system associated?
a) Industrialization
b) Human rights
c) SEZs
d) Equal distribution of land
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following is not an indicator of human development?
a) Density of population
b) GDP per capita
c) Literacy rate
d) Life expectancy at birth
Answer: a

Question: When did China announce its first five-year plan?
a) 1951
b) 1956
c) 1953
d) 1961
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following countries ranks first in the development experience?
a) India
b) China
c) Pakistan
d) None of these
Answer: b

Question: Which of the following countries has introduced one-child norm?
a) China
b) India
c) Pakistan
d) Bangladesh
Answer: a

Question: Pakistan became independent in
a) 1946
b) 1944
c) 1947
d) 1945
Answer: c

Question: Great leap forward campaign was initiated in China in_____
a) 1978
b) 1968
c) 1948
d) 1958
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following is a feature pertaining to the Indian economy?
a) One child norm
b) Growth due to manufacturing sector
c) High degree of urbanization
d) Life expectancy at birth
Answer: d

Question: What was the fertility rate in Pakistan as in 2015?
a) 1.6
b) 2.6
c) 3.7
d) 3.6
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following country was faster in shifting its workforce from agriculture to service sector?
a) India
b) Pakistan
c) China
d) Both India and Pakistan
Answer: b

Question: Which of the following is not an indicator of human development?
a) Density of population
b) GDP per capita
c) Life expectancy at birth
d) Literacy rate
Answer: a

Question: With which of the following concepts is commune system associated?
a) Industrialization
b) Human rights
c) Equal distribution of land
d) Special Economic Zones
Answer: c

Question: How many people died in the devastating earthquake that took place in Pakistan in 2005?
a) 45000
b) 55000
c) 65000
d) 75000
Answer: d

Question: First five- year plan of ____commenced in the year 1956.
a) Pakistan
b) India
c) China
d) None of these
Answer: a

Question: Reforms were introduced in 1978 in___.
a) China
b) Pakistan
c) India
d) All of these
Answer: a

Question: One child norm is featured of ______country.
a) France
b) India
c) Pakistan
d) China
Answer: d

Question: ________has the highest life expectancy.
a) India
b) China
c) Pakistan
d) both India and Pakistan
Answer: b

Question: Form the set of statements given in Column I and Column II, chose the correct pair of statements:

Answers: c) Availability of cheap labour force- (iii) Comparative cost advantage to China

Question: A campaign in China in 1958 where people were encouraged to set up industries in their backyard was named as:
a) Great leap forward
b) Great proletarian cultural revolution
c) Anti-rightist movement
d) Four pests campaign
Answer: a

Question: In which of the following areas, Pakistan has an edge over India?
a) Export of software after economic reforms
b) Number of Ph.D.’s produced in science and engineering every year
c) Reducing the proportion of population below poverty line
d) All the above
Answer: c

Question: According to demographic parameters, the density of population is lowest in:
a) China
b) India
c) Pakistan
d) BothIndia and Pakistan
Answer: a

Question: China moving ahead of India and Pakistan is true for which indicator?
a) GDP per capita
b) Proportion of population below poverty line
c) HDI ranking
d) All the above
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following observations highlight the common success story of India and Pakistan?
a) Both have succeeded in more than doubling their per capita incomes
b) Food production has failed to keep pace with the rise in population
c) Food sufficiency has been accompanied with improved nutritional status d) Both a) and c)
Answer: d

Question: To analyses a comparative performance of the economies of India, China and Pakistan, which of the following is the correct?
a) China achieved a breakthrough in GDP growth in early 1980s.
b) With New Economic Policy (NEP) in place, India experienced a rebound in its GDP growth.
c) Economic reforms in Pakistan were almost similar to that in India
d) All of these
Answer: d

Question: With respect to ‘Statism’ as a model of growth adopted by China, choose the correct statement.
a) Ownership of all resources vested with the state
b) The private sector was the deciding authority with respect to what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce
c) State was to maintain the population
d) None of these
Answer: a

Question: Public sector was assigned a key role in the process of growth in India and Pakistan because:
a) both the economies needed a big push of investment
b) partition of the country had rendered both of them as laggard economies
c) both a and b
d) none of these
Answer: c

Question: After independence, both India and Pakistan relied upon:
a) ‘mixed-economy’ as the strategy of growth
b) ‘capitalism’ as the strategy of growth
c) ‘socialism’ as the strategy of growth
d) ‘free economy’ as the strategy of growth
Answer: a ‘mixed-economy’ as the strategy of growth

Question: What is the infant mortality rate as per thousand in China compared with per thousand in India?
1) 30,60
2) 30,35
3) 35,65
4) 24,45
Answer: b

Question: What is the percentage of the workforce engaged in agriculture in China?
1) 55
2) 54
3) 60
4) 53
Answer: b

Question:  Per capita income is highest in
1) India
2) Pakistan
3) China
4) None
Answer: a

Question: In an economy, Human Development Index measures
1) Birth rate
2) Death rate
3) Quality of life
4) Quality of education
Answer: c

Question: Full form of UNDP
1) United Nation Development Policy 2) United Nation Development Programmer
3) Union Nation Development Programmer
4) None of the above
Answer: b

Question: UNDP prepares quality life index for how many countries
1) 186
2) 187
3) 188
4) 185
Answer: b

Chronological Arrangement

Question: Choose the correct alternative showing chronological order of the following events:
(i) One child policy in China
(ii) Economic reforms in Pakistan
(iii) New Economic Policy (NEP) in India
(iv)Commune system in agriculture in China
Alternatives: