CUET Sociology MCQs Unit X Social Movements

Question. Who led the 'Santhal Rebellion'?
a) Kariya Munda
b) Sidho Kanho
c) Birsa Munda
d) Jatra Bhag

Answer : B

Question. When did the Naxalite movement in India started?
a) 1967
b) 1948
c) 1970
d) 1962

Answer : A

Question. A Social Change and Development in India’s _______ requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice.
a) Political movement
b) Cultural movement
c) Social moment
d) Economic movement

Answer : C

Question. The socialist movements world over, the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s that fought for ____, the ______ struggle in South Africa have all changed the world in fundamental ways.
a) Illicit human trafficking, Women independence
b) Removal Of slavery, freedom
c) Civil war crimes, Cuba missile crises
d) Equal rights for Blacks, the anti-apartheid

Answer : D

Question. Chipko moment was started to protect the ________
a) Palm tree use for oil
b) Neem Tree cutting for medicinal use
c) Banana tree plantation for mass production
d) To save the oak and rhododendron forests

Answer : D

Question. What is the feature of Reformative movement?
a) All of these
b) To bring reform in ancient social system.
c) Speed of reformative movement is very slow.
d) Peaceful methods are always used in it.

Answer : A

Question. The Adi Dharma Movement was visible in the state of
a) Delhi
b) Punjab
c) Chhattisgarh
d) Maharashtra

Answer : B

Question. In which period there was growth of autonomous women's movement?
a) 1970's
b) 1950's
c) 1960's
d) 1980's

Answer : A

Question. When Raja Rammohun Roy campaigned against sati and established the Brahmo Samaj, sati supporters formed the _____ against it and petitioned the British not to legislate
a) None of these
b) Dharma Sabha
c) Swatantra Sabha
d) Arya samaj

Answer : B

Question. Name the movement which aims to bring about a change in the personal consciousness and actions of its individual members.
a) Redemptive Social Movement
b) Social Movement
c) Reformist Social Movement
d) Revolutionary Social Movement

Answer : A

Question. Who wrote the book "The Logic of Collective Action"?
a) James Scott
b) Mc Carthy
c) Mancur Olson
d) Zaid

Answer : C

Question. From where in India the Naxalite moment was first started?
a) Mizoram
b) Chhattisgarh
c) Bengal
d) Jharkhand

Answer : C

Question. What is the main objective of socio reform movement?
a) None of these
b) To change system of the country
c) To throw existing system out of power
d) To remove social evils from the society

Answer : D

Question. By whom the first Trade Union was established in 1918 in Madras?
a) Narayan Guru
b) SA Dange
c) M Joshi
d) BP Wadia

Answer : D

Question. Who played an important role in Chipko Movement?
a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
b) Sunder Lal Bahuguna
c) Medha Patekar
d) Arundhati Roy

Answer : B

Question. Chipko movement is example of ________
a) Political movement
b) Social movement
c) Ecological movement
d) None of the above

Answer : A

Question. In which year, the government passed the Fourth Factories Act which reduced the working day to 10 hours?
a) 1923
b) 1922
c) 1920
d) 1921

Answer : B

Question. Which was the first peasant organization to be formed?
a) Akhil Bhartiya kisan Sabha
b) All India kisan union
c) Bharat kisan morcha
d) Bihar kisan Provisional Sabha

Answer : D

Question. The guerrilla movement is related to
a) Demand for higher wage in Factories
b) Pretext of Chipko moment
c) Forcible cutting of crops from the land of rich landlord
d) Forced Labour

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following statement regarding “New farmer’s movements began in the 1970s in Punjab and Tamil Nadu” is/are correct?
a) Basic ideology of the movement was strongly anti-state and anti-urban
b) Movements were regionally organised
c) All of the above
d) Price and related issues

Answer : C