Urban Administration

Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.

In which of the following are lives faster?

(a) In village

(b) In city

(c) In both (a) and (b)

(d) In none of these

Answer

Answer: (b) In city

Question 2.

Where is the relationship between the neighbours healthier?

(a) In villages

(b) In cities

(c) In hospitals

(d) In dispensaries

Answer

Answer: (a) In villages

Question 3.

What type of game were Mala and her friends playing in the street?
(a) Hockey

(b) Cricket

(c) Football

(d) Badminton

Answer

Answer: (b) Cricket

Question 4.

What was broken by the ball hit by Rehana?

(a) Window glass

(b) Street light

(c) Glass of a car

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (b) Street light

Question 5.

Which agency replaces the broken street lights, collects the garbage, provides water supply, keeps the
market clean?

(a) Municipal Corporation

(b) Hospital

(c) Police

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Municipal Corporation

Question 6.

Which are the other tasks of a municipal corporation?

(a) To run the schools

(b) To run hospitals

(c) To maintain parks

(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (d) All of these

Question 7.

Who takes the complicated decisions that affect the entire city?

(a) A group of councillors

(b) A group of teachers

(c) A group of doctors

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) A group of councillors

Question 8.

What are Panchayat members called?

(a) Sarpanch

(b) Panch

(c) Secretary

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (b) Panch

Question 9.

The big city like Delhi is divided into several

(a) Districts

(b) Janapads

(c) Samitis

(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Districts

Question 10.

Who prepares budget and spends the money according to this?

(a) Ward Councillors

(b) Ward boys

(c) Nurses

(d) Teachers
Answer

Answer: (a) Ward Councillors

Question 11.

The uncollected garbage attracts dogs, rats, mosquitoes and flies, so we should

(a) cover them

(b) keep them open

(c) throw them on to the roads

(d) throw them here and there

Answer

Answer: (a) cover them

Question 12.

The jobs of contract workers are

(a) temporary

(b) permanent

(c) both (a) and (b)

(d) none of these

Answer

Answer: (a) temporary

Question 13.

If any house keeping staff does not do his duty, whom should we contact?
(a) Sanitation engineer

(b) Local police station

(c) Councillor

(d) Chief Minister

Answer

Answer: (a) Sanitation engineer

Question 14.

What was Gangabai protesting about?

(a) The garbage was not removed for several days

(b) She wanted to open a hospital

(c) She wanted to open a school

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) The garbage was not removed for several days

Question 15.

Why was Gangabai loved and respected?

(a) For her being active citizen

(b) For her being lazy citizen

(e) For helping the poor

(d) For all of these

Answer

Answer: (a) For her being active citizen

Traders, Kings and Pilgrims

Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.

For what was the south India famous for?

(a) Gold

(b) Spices

(c) Stones

(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (d) All of these

Question 2.

Where did the Romans find Gold?

(a) South India

(b) East India

(c) West India

(d) North India

Answer

Answer: (a) South India

Question 3.

Which river valley is the most fertile?

(a) Kaveri River Valley

(b) Yamuna River Valley

(c) Brahmaputra River Valley

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Kaveri River Valley

Question 4.

Who controlled the river valleys?

(a) Chiefs and kings

(b) Poor men

(c) Ordinary people

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Chiefs and kings

Question 5.
What does muvendar mean?

(a) Three chiefs

(b) Three kings

(c) Three groups of people

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Three chiefs

Question 6.

When did Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas become powerful in South India?

(a) About 1,300 years ago

(b) About 2,300 years ago

(c) About 3,300 years ago

(d)About 4,300 years ago

Answer

Answer: (b) About 2,300 years ago

Question 7.

Who was the most powerful ruler of Satavahanas?

(a) Gautamiputra Sri Satakarni

(b) Krishna

(c) Sidhartha

(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (a) Gautamiputra Sri Satakarni

Question 8.

Who were known as lord of dakshanipath?

(a) Chandragupta

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Rai

(c) Gautamiputra Sri Satakarni

(d) None of these

Answer

Answer: (c) Gautamiputra Sri Satakarni

Question 9.

To whom did the Chinese rulers send gifts of silk?

(a) Rulers of Iran

(b) Rulers of Iraq

(c) Rulers of Pakistan

(d) Rulers of Kajakistan

Answer

Answer: (a) Rulers of Iran

Question 10.
Which tree was shown in the sculptures?

(a) Neem

(b) Tulsi

(c) Peepal

(d) Mango

Answer

Answer: (c) Peepal

Question 11.

Where were the statues of Buddha made?

(a) Mathura and Taxila

(b) Mumbai and Goa

(c) Bihar and UP

(d) Delhi and Haryana

Answer

Answer: (a) Mathura and Taxila

Question 12.

Men and women who undertook journey to the holy places in order to offer worship are called

(a) Traders

(b) Pilgrims

(c) Buddhism

(d) Theravada
Answer

Answer: (b) Pilgrims

Question 13.

In what work did Xuan Zang spend his life?

(a) In translating manuscripts from Sanskrit to Chinese

(b) Moving here and there

(c) Sleeping

(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (a) In translating manuscripts from Sanskrit to Chinese

Question 14.

From where did the term ‘India’ derive?

(a) River Indus

(b) River Ganga

(c) River Yamuna

(d) River Mahanadi

Answer

Answer: (a) River Indus