SOCIAL SCIENCE-VII REVISION

CIVICS
 CH-7 MARKETS AROUND US

 CH-8 A SHIRT IN THE MARKET

 CH-9 STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY

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Q1. Why is Weekly market called so?

(a) Because it is held on a specific day of the week

(b) Because it is held on alternate days

(c) Because it is held daily

(d) All of the above

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Q2. Shopkeepers in a weekly market are -

(a) Small traders

(b) Large Traders

(c) Wholesalers

(d) All of these

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Q3. What does refer to buying and selling in large

quantities?

(a) Weekly market

(b) Mall

(c) Wholesale

(d) Cineplex
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Q4. What is advertising?

Ans:- Advertising is means of publicity of product

through various means.

Q5. What is branding?

Ans:- Branding means stamping a product with a

particular name or sign.

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Q6. Why do advertisements make the product costly?

Ans:- In the advertisement, a lot of money is spent

by the company. Producing and showing

advertisements repeatedly in the media and

packaging of a brand product make it costly.

Q7. What do advertisements convince us?

Ans:-Advertisements convince us that their

products are better than the others.

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Q8. What do you understand about social advertisements?

Ans:- Social advertisements are made by the

governments or NGOs or by the other non-profitable

organizations. Social advertisements are not for the

purposes of selling their products or services but for the

information of general public so that they could get the

profit of government schemes or may be prevented

them from any miss-happening.

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Q9. How do the advertisements affect the society?

Ans:- Advertisements can affect the society in the

following ways:

1. It helps making a reputed brand name;

2. It provides a range of products;

3. We get to know about the products.

4. It helps to select good and cheap items

comparatively.
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Q10. Name the various means of advertising.

Ans:- Advertising plays a crucial role in trying to

convince us to buy the product that are advertised

through various means such as radio, television,

newspapers, magazines, periodicals, hoarding,

banners etc. Now-a-days website also display

various advertisements.
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Q1. What does the cultivation of cotton requires?

(a) Fertilizers

(b) Pesticides

(c) Seeds

(d) All of these

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Q2. How much amount did Swapna borrow to buy

seeds, fertilizers, pesticides etc.?

(a) Rs 1500

(b) Rs 2000

(c) Rs 2500

(d) Rs 3000
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Q3. The story of shirt does begins with:

(a) Spinning

(b) Production of Cotton

(c) Weaving

(d) Selling
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Q4. What inputs are required in cultivation of cotton?

Ans:-Cultivation of cotton requires high levels of

inputs as fertilizers and pesticides and the farmers

have to incur heavy expenses on account of these.

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Q5. Why do traders pay cotton growers a low price?

Ans:- Cotton growers take loans from traders for

growing the cotton. They have to sell the finished

material to such traders. Therefore, traders pay

cotton growers a low price.

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Q6. Describe about Erode’s bi-weekly cloth market.

Ans:- Erode’s bi-weekly cloth market in Tamil Nadu

is one of the largest cloth markets in the world. A

large variety of cloth is sold in this market. Clothes

are made by weavers in the villages around and

also brought here for sale.

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Q7. What is a ginning mill?

Ans:- It is a factory where seeds are removed from

cotton bolls. The cotton is pressed into bales to be

sent for spinning into thread.

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Q8. How are the weavers in the grip of the local trader?

Ans:- Weavers are required to invest a lot of money

to buy looms. The weavers invest their savings or

borrow money at high-interest rates. One loom

cost is around 20,000/- and they require atleast

two looms. These looms cannot be operated alone

and hence their family members work together.

They earn about 3,500/per month. Thus the

weavers are always in the grip of the local trader.

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Q9. Describe in brief the status of workers working in

factory?

Ans:- In the garment factory many workers work. Most

of these workers are employed on a temporary basis.

Whenever, the employer feels that a worker is not

needed, the worker can be asked to leave. Workers’

wages are fixed according to their skills. In most of the

cases women are employed as helpers for thread

cutting, buttoning, ironing and packaging. These jobs

have the lowest wages.

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Q10. Describe the role of weaver’s cooperatives to

reduce the dependence on the merchant.

Ans:- Weaver’s cooperatives are one way to reduce

the dependence on the merchant and to earn a

higher income for the weavers. In a cooperative,

people with common interests come together and

work for their mutual benefit.

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In a weaver’s cooperative, the weavers form a

group and take up certain activities collectively.

They produce yarn from the yam dealer and

distribute it among the weavers. The cooperative

also does the marketing. So, the role of the

merchant is reduced, and weavers get a fair price

on the cloth.
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CH-9 STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY
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Q1. What is central to Indian Democracy?

(a) Equality

(b) Discrimination

(c) Both of these

(d) None of these

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Q2. What is the major reason of inequality?

(a) Poverty

(b) Vote

(c) Equality

(d) None of these

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Q3. Following provisions has been mentioned in our

constitution except

(a) No person can be discriminated against on the

basis of their religion, race, caste, place of birth

(b) Every person has access to all public resources.

(c) Untouchability has not been abolished

(d) Every person is equal before the law

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Q4. What do you understand about equal right to vote?

Ans:- All adults in India have the equal right to

vote during elections and this power has been

used by people to elect or replace their

representatives. The vote of one person is as good

as that of another.
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Q5. Why do Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim girls drop out

from school in large number?

Ans:- Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim girls drop out of

school in large numbers. This is a combined

outcome of poverty, social discrimination and the

lack of their artists’ good quality school facilities

for these communities.

Q6. When was Tawa Dam built?

Ans:- It was built between 1958 and 1978.

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Q7. How do the people form cooperatives?

Ans:- In India, there are several struggles in which

people have come together to fight for issues that they

believe are important. There are many such struggles

such as those among beedi workers, fisher-folk,

agricultural labourers, slum dwellers and each group is

struggling for justice in its own way. Many times they

form cooperatives or other collective ways by which

people can have more control over resources.

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Q8. Where is dam built? How does a dam affect the

dwellers?

Ans:- A dam is built across a river at sites where one can

collect a lot of water. Dam submerges vast areas of land

and life of many persons is badly affected. They have to

leave their living places. As an example- the Tehri dam,

Uttarakhand submerged old Tehri town and 100

villages. Nearly one lakh people were displaced from

the construction of Tehri dam.

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Q9. Write a short note on Tawa Matsya Sangh.

Ans:- There are several organizations across the

country fighting for the rights of the displaced.

Tawa Matsya Sangh-a federation of Fisherworker’s

cooperative-an organization fighting for the rights

of the displaced forest dwellers of the Satpura

forest in Madhya Pradesh. The Tawa, originating in

the Mahadeo hills of Chindwara district, flows

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through Betul, before joining the Narmada in

Hoshangabad.

The Tawa dam began to be built in 1958 and was

completed in 1978. It submerged large areas of

forest and agricultural land. People of 33 villages

were displaced. Some of the displaced people

settled around the reservoir and apart from their

meagre farms found a livelihood in fishing.

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Q10. Describe important works done by Tawa Matsya Sangh.

Ans:- In 1994, the government gave the rights for

fishing in the Tawa reservoir to private contractors.

These contractors got cheap labour from outside. The

villagers stood united and decided to set up an

organization to protect their livelihood rights. Thus,

they formed Tawa Matsya Sangh (TMS). And after long

struggles they were granted right to fishing for their

livelihood by the Madhya Pradesh government in 1996.

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For the upliftment of the needs of fishermen, Tawa

Matsya Sangh played a great role to make them able to

increase their earning substantially. The Sangh

arranges for fair price, transport, selling in a market

where they get a good price, loans to fishermen for

repair and the buying of new nets etc. Thus, the

fishermen have started to earn three times more than

they earned earlier.