CBSE Class 9 Social Science MCQs Set A

Question: In the context of Russia what was 'Kullak'?

a) A collective farm

b) A Russian school

c) Well to do peasants

d) Landless labourers

Answer: Well to do peasants

Question: Which one of the following refers to the secret police of Russia?

a) Cheka

b) Gestapo

c) Security police

d) F.B.I.

Answer: Cheka

Question: In the context of Russia what was 'Kullak'?

a) A Collective form

b) A Russian school

c) Well-to-do peasants

d) Landless labourers

Answer: Well-to-do peasants

Question: By whom was 'social contract' written?

a) Volltaire

b) Rousseau

c) Adam Smith

d) Gorky

Answer: Rousseau

Question: On what charges was Louis XVI Guillotined?

a) Misgovernance

b) cruelty

c) treason

d) absolute rule

Answer: treason

Question: In which one of the following groups of Hemisphere India is located?

a) Eastern and Western Hemisphere

b) Northern and Southern Hemisphere

c) Eastern and Northern Hemisphere

d) Land and Water Hemisphere

Answer: Eastern and Northern Hemisphere

Question: By whom was the 'social contract' written?

a) Voltaire

b) Rousseau

c) Adam Smith

d) Gorky

Answer: Rousseau

Question: Strike the odd one out :

a) Poles

b) Gypsies

c) Jews

d) Germans

Answer: Germans

Question: In the context of Nazi Germany what was 'Jungvolk'?

a) A School for Jews

b) A School of German

c) A Nazi Youth group of 14 years old

d) Society of adults above 20 years old

Answer: A Nazi Youth group of 14 years old

Question: Which one of the following refers to the secret police of Russia?

a) Cheka

b) Gestapo

c) Security police

d) FBI

Answer: Cheka

Question: On what charges was Louis XVI Guillotined?

a) Misgovernance

b) Cruelty

c) Treason

d) Absolute rule

Answer: Treason

Question: By whom was 'social contract' written?

a) Voltaire

b) Rousseau

c) Adam Smith

d) Gorky

Answer: Rousseau

Question: In which one of the following groups of Hemispheres India is located?

a) Eastern and Western Hemisphere

b) Northern and Southern Hemisphere

c) Eastern and Northern Hemisphere

d) Land and Water Hemisphere

Answer: Eastern and Northern Hemisphere

Question: Which one of the following features is related to the lower course of the river?

a) Delta

b) Meander

c) Ox-bow Lake

d) Gorge

Answer: Delta

Question: Which one of the following is the best way to establish democracy in a country?

a) Foreign aggression by a democratic country.

b) People’s struggle within their own country.

c) Resolution by the U.N. General Assembly.

d) Voluntary support by the majority of the people.

Answer: Voluntary support by the majority of the people.

Question: Which one of the following international organizations is responsible for maintaining peace and security among countries of the world?

a) U.N. General Assembly

b) U.N. Security Council

c) International Court of Justice (d) International Monetary Fund

d) International Monetary Fund

Answer: U.N. Security Council

Question: Who one of the following was the chairman of the Drafting Committee for making the Constitution of India?

a) Rajendra Prasad

b) Baldev Singh

c) H.C. Mookerjee

d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Answer: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Question: Which among the following is not an item of fixed capital?

a) Tools

b) Raw Materials

c) Machines

d) Building

Answer: Raw Materials

Question: Which one of the following activities is associated with the primary sector?

a) Pottery

b) Basket weaving

c) Education

d) Mining

Answer: Mining

Question: Which one of the following is an activity of tertiary sector?

a) Agriculture

b) Forestery

c) Banking

d) Manufacturing

Answer: Banking

Question: Which one of the following categories of forests is considered as the best on the basis of their utility?

a) Reserved forests.

b) Protected forests.

c) Village forests.

d) Community forests.

Answer: Reserved forests.

Question: Which of the following trees were promoted for building ships or railways?

a) Firs & Pines.

b) Bushes & Creepers.

c) Teak & Sal.

d) Shisham & Acacia.

Answer: Teak & Sal.

Question: Which one of following communities is an African community?

a) Gollas.

b) Kurumas

c) Rai kas

d) Maasai

Answer: Maasai

Question: Gaddi Shephards (Pastoral nomads) belong to which one of the following state?

a) Jammu & Kashmir

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Uttrakhand

d) Rajasthan

Answer: Himachal Pradesh

Question: Which one of the following is related to the name of Captain Swing?

a) Invention of threshing machines.

b) Breaking of threshing machines.

c) A mythical name for threatening the Landowners.

d) Prosperity of farm labour.

Answer: A mythical name for threatening the Landowners.

Question: The Bhopal disaster of 1984 was the result of:

a) Nuclear accident.

b) Biological accident.

c) Chemical accident.

d) Railway accident.

Answer: Chemical accident.

Question: Which institution was set up by the Maharashtra Academy of Development Science (ADS) to facilitate a network of NGOs in different regions?

a) Gramin Bank.

b) Grain Bank.

c) Commercial Bank.

d) Food Corporation of India.

Answer: Grain Bank.

Question: Which one of the following does not ensure food security to the people?

a) Enough food is available for all the persons.

b) All persons have the capacity to buy food.

c) Extremely inadequate purchasing power.

d) There is no barrier on access to food.

Answer: Extremely inadequate purchasing power.

Question: Which one is a social group from amongst the following groups vulnerable to poverty?

a) Rural agricultural labour households.

b) Urban casual labour households.

c) Scheduled caste and schedule tribe households.

d) The female daily wagers.

Answer: Scheduled caste and schedule tribe households.

Question: Which one of the following is not considered as a social indicator of poverty?

a) Illiteracy level.

b) Lack of access to health care.

c) Inadeguate safe drinking water.

d) Ample job opportunities.

Answer: Lack of access to health care.