BLUE BELLS MODEL SCHOOL

QUESTION BANK
SESSION: 2021-22
CLASS- VIII
SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE

THE JUDICIARY

ONE MARKERS
1. How does the Indian Constitution protect the rich and powerful from influencing the judicial process?
a. Through periodic Judiciary
b. Through independent Judiciary
c. Through bias Judiciary
d. Through annual Judiciary
2. The work of the judiciary is to
a. Implement laws
b.to punish guilty
c. frame laws
d. abolish equality
3. Assertion: Supreme court is considered as the apex courts of India
Reason: Supreme court supervises the functions of lower courts.

a. Both Assertion and Reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
b. Both Assertion and Reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
c. Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
d. Assertion is false, but Reason is true.

THREE MARKERS

1. State the importance of Public Interest Litigation.

2. How is Supreme court different from High court.
FIVE MARKERS
1. Name the longest serving chief Justice. Illustrate any four powers of Supreme Court.
2. Enumerate the crucial role played by the Judiciary.

HUMAN RESOURCES
ONE MARKERS
1. Define: Population Density.
2. When people are attracted to an area it becomes___________________ Populated.
3. Assertion: The age structure explains the percentage of country’s population in different age groups.
Reason: Life expectancy increase with better health and medical facilities

a) Both Assertion and Reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
 b) Both Assertion and Reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
c) Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
d) Assertion is false, but Reason is true.

THREE MARKERS
1. Explain how Urbanisation and government can affect distribution of population.
2. Elaborate the reason that Why are people considered a resource?
3. Explain the different types of activities in which people are engaged to earn livelihood.

FOUR MARKER
Read the given source and answer the following
People are a nation’s greatest resource. Nature’s bounty becomes significant only when people find it useful.
It is people with their demands and abilities that turn them into ‘resources’. Healthy, educated and motivated
people develop resources as per their requirements. Human resources like other resources are not equally
distributed over the world. They differ in their educational levels, age and sex. Their numbers and
characteristics also keep changing.
The Government of India has a Ministry for development of human resource Development. The Ministry
was created with an aim to improve people’s skills. This just shows how important people are as a resource
for the country.
The way in which people are spread across the earth surface is known as the pattern of population
distribution. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in about 30 per cent of the land surface.
The distribution of population in the world is extremely uneven. Some areas are very crowded and some are
sparely populated. The crowded areas are south and south east Asia, Europe and north eastern North
America. Very few people live in high latitude areas, tropical deserts, high mountains and areas of equatorial
forests. Many more people live north of the Equator than south of the Equator. Almost three-quarters of the
world’s people live in two continents Asia and Africa. Sixty per cent of the world’s people stay in just 10
countries. All of them have more than a 100 million people.

1. The way in which people are spread across the earth surface is known as_________________________.
a. Pattern of population distribution
b. Population density
c. Change in population
d. Migration

2. State true or false

The Northen hemisphere of the earth is more populated than Southern hemisphere_________________.
3. Three quarters of the world’s people live in continents of __________________ and ________________.
a. North America and Asia
b. Asia and Africa
c. Africa and South America
d. Europe and Asia

4. Healthy, _________________and motivated people develop resources as per their requirements.

a. Trained
b. educated
c. Illiterate
d. wealthy

FIVE MARKERS
1. Explain the problems that arise due to the rapid growth of population in developing countries.
2 Illustrate the causes for uneven distribution of population in the world.

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT AND INDEPENDENCE

ONE MARKERS
1. When was the 'Quit India Movement' Launched by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?
a. 1946 b.1939

c. 1942 d. 1940

2. List the one objective of The Indian National Congress.

3. As a journalist give two examples highlighting e examples of ‘divide and rule.
4. Name two leaders announced Home League Movement.
5. Identify the picture and explain the law passed by him.

THREE MARKERS
1. Elucidate the concept of Ilbert bill.
2. Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
3. State the real purpose of Partition od Bengal in 1905.
FOUR MARKER

Read the given source and answer the following question

The partition of Bengal infuriated people all over India. All sections of the Congress – the Moderates and the
Radicals, as they may be called – opposed it. Large public meetings and demonstrations were organised and
novel methods of mass protest developed. The struggle that unfolded came to be known as the Swadeshi
movement, strongest in Bengal but with echoes elsewhere too – in deltaic Andhra for instance, it was known
as the Vandemataram Movement. The Kesari, a Marathi newspaper edited by Tilak, became one of the
strongest critics of British rule.
The Swadeshi movement sought to oppose British rule and encourage the ideas of self-help, swadeshi
enterprise, national education, and use of Indian languages. To fight for swaraj, the radicals advocated mass
mobilisation and boycott of British institutions and goods. Some individuals also began to suggest that
“revolutionary violence” would be necessary to overthrow British rule. The opening decades of the twentieth
century were marked by other developments as well. A group of Muslim landlords and nawabs formed the
All India Muslim League at Dacca in 1906. The League supported the partition of Bengal. It desired separate
electorates for Muslims, a demand conceded by the government in 1909. Some seats in the councils were
now reserved for Muslims who would be elected by Muslim voters. This tempted politicians to gather a
following by distributing favours to their own religious groups. Meanwhile, the Congress split in 1907. The
Moderates were opposed to the use of boycott. They felt that it involved the use of force. After the split the
Congress came to be dominated by the Moderates with Tilak’s followers functioning from outside. The two
groups reunited in December 1915. Next year the Congress and the Muslim League signed the historic
Lucknow Pact and decided to work together for representative government in the country.
1. The historic place where Muslim league and Congress came together.
a. Dacca
b. Lucknow
c. Bengal
d. Andhra Pradesh
2.______________ a Marathi newspaper which became one of the strongest critics of British rule.
a. Amrita Bazar Patrika
b. Hindu
c. Kesari
d. Bengal Gazette
3. Identify the statement which is correct with reference to the All India muslim league.
a. The League did not supported the partition of Bengal
b. League desired separate electorates for Muslims.
c. The split took place in Andhra Pradesh between Congress and Muslim League
d. All India Muslim League was formed at Dacca in 1904.
 4. The split in Congress took place in 1907 because
a. The Moderates want the partition of Bengal
b. The Radicals supported Muslim league
c. The Moderates were opposed to the method of boycott
d. Moderates and Radicals were in favour of separate electorate

FIVE MARKERS
1.Illustrate the Key features of Gandhiji’s Anti-colonial Struggle.
2. Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in different parts of India. State the
reason for the suspension of Non-cooperation movement.
3. Define Interim Government. Explain the features of Cabinet Mission Plan.

INDIA AFTER INDEPENDENCE

ONE MARKERS
1. Economic planning by which both the state and the private sector played a role in development was
called a _______ model.
2. State True/False, “In the first national election, only men were allowed to vote.”
3. State True/False, “ Balwant Rai Mehta is known as Father of Panchayati Raj.

4. Assertion: The first Summit of NAM was held in 1961 at Belgrade.

Reason: NAM was formed to keep away the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa from the
superpower rivalry and
a. Both Assertion and Reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
b. Both Assertion and Reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
c. Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
d. Assertion is false, but Reason is true.
ii. Assertion: Indian army expelled the Portuguese from Goa in 1961.
Reason: In 1953 French rule in all the territories came to an end.
a. Assertion and Reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
b. Both Assertion and Reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
c. Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
d. Assertion is false, but Reason is true.
THREE MARKER
1. Write the immediate issues faced by the India after Independence.
2. After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines.

FIVE MARKERS
1. Elucidate the five guiding principles of India’s foreign policy.
2. Illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of India, after 70 years of Independence.