JSS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DUBAI

Pre-Final Examination, 2021-2022

Semester -1
Grade: 10 Max Marks: 40
Duration: 1 hour Date: 14.11.2021
HISTORY & CIVICS
H.C.G PAPER-1

TIME ALLOWED: ONE HOUR Plus 10 Mins OF READING TIME.

ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY
THE MARKS INTENDED FOR THE QUESTIONS ARE GIVEN IN TE BRACKETS

ANSWER THE QUESTION BY CHOOSING THE CORRECT OPTION AFTER EACH. Write the
correct answer in the space provided.

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Q1. What was the immediate cause of the First War of Independence?
a) Absentee Sovereignty
b) Introduction of Enfield Rifle
c) Policy of Doctrine of Lapse.
d) Policy of Subsidiary Alliance. [1]
Answer __________________
Q2. When and by whom was the Indian National Congress established?
a) December 25,1885, by Surendra Nath Banerjee
b) December 28, 1885, by A.O Hume
c) September 23, 1886, By Rashbehari Bose
d) December 28, 1815, by Dadabhai Naoroji [1]
Answer __________________
Q3. Against which two Acts did Surendranath Banerjee start an agitation?
a) Licence Act and Arms act
b) Vernacular Press Act and Press Act
c) Post Office act and General Service Enlistment Act
d) Hindu Law of Property and Widow Remarriage Act [1]
Answer _________________________________________________________
Q4. Who were the Assertive Nationalists?
a) Rabindranath Tagore and Gopal Krishna Gokhale
b) W. C. Banerjee and Aurobindo Ghosh
c) Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali [1]
Answer ________________________________________________________
Q5. Why did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic march to Dandi?
a) Defiance of Salt Tax.
b) To declare Poorna Swaraj
c) To boycott foreign clothes.
d) To pledge for non-violence. [1]
Answer _______________________________________________________
Q6. Why was the Cripps Mission sent to India?
a) To break the political deadlock in India.
b) To declare that India was at war with Germany during Second World War.
c) To propose the India Independence Bill
d) To ban the Indian National Congress. [1]
Answer _________________________________________________________
Q7. Name the party formed by Subhas Chandra Bose in May 1939.
a) Indian National Army
b) Forward Bloc
c) Left wing Congress
d) Azad Hind Fauj [1]
Q8. What were the aims and objectives of the new party formed by Subhas Chandra Bose?
a) Reorganization of agriculture and industry on socialist lines.
b) Total mobilization of Indian manpower and money for a total war.
c) Attainment of Poorna Swaraj.
d) Large scale industrialization [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q9. Why did Congress accept the Mountbatten Plan?
a) Only solution to communal problem lay in Partition of India.
b) Title of Emperor of India was dropped from the royal style.
c) Governor General was given power to modify the Government of India Act of 1935.
d) Princely states became independent. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q10. Which act marked the end of the British rule in India?
a) Vernacular Press Act, 1858
b) Indian Independence Act, 1947
c) Arms Act 1858
d) Government of India Act, 1858. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q11. Which policy was used by the British against Rani Laxmi Bai?
a) Subsidiary alliance
b) Policy of divide and rule
c) Policy of General Enlistment
d) Doctrine of Lapse. [1]
Answer _________________________________________________________
Q12. Who repealed the Vernacular Press act in 1882?
a) Lord Ripon
b) Jyotibha Phule
c) A.O Hume
d) Lord Lytton. [1]
Answer _________________________________________________________
Q13. Who is known as India’s unofficial ambassador?
a) Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Surendranath Banerjee
c) Pherozeshah Mehta
d) Jawaharlal Nehru. [1]
Answer _________________________________________________________
Q14. Name the liberal political leader who founded the Servants Society of India.
a) Surendranath Banejee
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) Raja Rammohan Roy. [1]
Answer ________________________________________________________
Q15. Who was Mangal Pandey?
a) A sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British East India Company.
b) Moderate Nationalist
c) Assertive Nationalist
d) Forerunner of Gandhiji. [1]
Answer___________________________________________________________
Q16. Who is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?
a) Prime Minister
b) President
c) Vice President
d) Senate. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q17. How are the members of the Rajya Sabha elected?
a) By the Lok Sabha in consultation with the President
b) Nominated by the President in consultation with the Council of Ministers
c) Directly by the people
d) By the members of the State Legislative Assembly of each state. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q18. The Presiding Officer has to adjourn the House if the _______ of one-tenth of the total number of
the members of Rajya Sabha are not met.
a) Percentage
b) Allowance
c) Ordinance
d) Quorum. [1]
Answer_______________________________________________________________
Q19. Which one of these statements best defines an adjournment motion?
a) To obtain information on a matter of public importance.
b) A step against a group of ministers, expressing a strong disapproval of their policy.
c) A method to check that public money is spent in accordance with the Parliament’s decision.
d) Setting aside the normal business of the House for discussing a definite matter of urgent public
importance. [1]
Answer _______________________________________________________________
Q20. _______________are those to which a member wishes to have an oral answer on the floor of the
House.
a) Starred Questions
b) Unstarred Questions
c) Short Notice Questions
d) Quorum. [1]
Answer_______________________________________________________
Q21. Why does the will of Lok Sabha prevail at a joint sitting with the Rajya Sabha?
a) The Council of Ministers are collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha.
b) No Confidence Motion can only be moved in the Lok Sabha
c) As total membership of the Rajya Sabha is less than even half of the total strength of the Lok
Sabha.
d) Rajya Sabha has no power to vote. [1]
Answer ____________________________________________________________
Q22. What is the term of the Rajya Sabha?
a) One-third of its members retire at the end of every year.
b) One -third of its members retire at the end of every second year.
c) Two- third of its members retire at the end of every year.
d) Two- third of its members retire at the end of every second year. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q23. If the budget is not passed before the beginning of the financial year, __________authorizes the
Executive to draw funds from the Consolidated Fund until the Budget is passed by the Parliament.
a) Vote of Account
b) Reserve Bank of India
c) Planning Commission of India
d) Supplementary Grants. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________________
Q24. A person shall not be qualified to be elected for a seat in the Lok Sabha if he/she is not registered as
a/an ____________ in any of the ____________
a) Candidate, States
b) Anglo-Indian, Reserved constituencies
c) Member of Legislative Assembly, States
d) Voter, Parliamentary constituencies. [1]
Answer ____________________________________________________________
Q25. Which of these statements is correct about No Confidence Motion?
a) The Cabinet Ministers are collectively responsible to the Parliament.
b) The lower House passes No Confidence Motion only when it carries the support of minimum of
50 members.
c) No Confidence motion can be moved by the ruling party against the opposition party.
d) The motion has to be taken up for discussion within 15 days from the day on which the proposal
is granted. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________
Q26. Which of these statements is not correct about the Question Hour?
a) The President from time to time may summon each House of the Parliament to the Question Hour
as he/she may think fit.
b) The first hour of a sitting in both Houses is allotted for asking and answering of questions.
c) Purpose is to obtain information on a matter of public importance. [1]
Answer ______________________________________________
Q27. Who decides the salaries and allowances of MPs, Ministers and Judges of Supreme Court and High
Courts?
a) Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
b) Parliament
c) Finance Minister
d) President in consultation with the Chief Justice Of India. [1]
Answer ______________________________________________
Q28. ______________ is not subject to dissolution by the President.
a) Lok Sabha
b) Rajya Sabha
c) Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
d) State Legislative Assembly. [1]
Answer_____________________________________________________
Q29. In general, how many Parliamentary sessions are held in a year?
a) Three
b) Six
c) Two
d) Four [1]
Answer ________________________________________________
Q 30. How many members are there in Rajya Sabha?
a) 550
b) 250
c) 350
d) 500 [1]
Answer ___________________________________________________
Q31. Read the passage and answer the questions that follows:
The menacing presence of the Japanese army on the eastern borders of India posed a serious threat to
India’s security. The presence of the British in India made India a target for the Japanese attack. The
danger could have been averted if the British left the country. That is why the congress passed the Quit
India Movement.
a) Quit India Movement was launched in response to which of the following events?
i) Simon Commission
ii) Cabinet Mission Plan
iii) Cripps Mission
iv) Wavell Plan [1]
Answer__________________________________
b) Which of the following is not a part of Quit India Resolution?
i) An immediate end to British rule over India.
ii) Formation of provisional government of India
iii) Sanctioning a civil disobedience movement against British rule.
iv) Setting up of boundary commission. [1]
Answer ___________________________________
c) When was the Quit India Movement started?
i) August 1942
ii) April 1919
iii) May 1939
iv) October 1905 [1]
Answer ____________________________________
d) Who described the Quit India Movement as by far the most serious rebellion since 1857?
i) Viceroy Lord Linlithgo
ii) Franklin Roosevelt
iii) Winston Churchill
iv) Subhas Chandra Bose. [1]
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 e) The historic August session of the All-India Congress Committee at which the Quit India
Resolution was passed was held at Gowali Park in:
i) Bombay
ii) Ahmedabad
iii) Calcutta
iv) Amritsar. [1]
Answer ________________________________________
v) Who believed that the existence of British rule in India was an invitation to the Japanese
invasion?
i) Jawaharlal Nehru
ii) Subhas Chandra Bose
iii) Mahatma Gandhi
iv) Mohan Singh [1]
Answer______________________________________________
Q 32. Study the picture and answer the questions that follows:

a) Identify the Forward Bloc leader who led to the formation of INA
i) Mohan Singh
ii) Subhas Chandra Bose.
iii) Rash Behari Bose
iv) Shah Nawaz Khan [1]
Answer ______________________________________________________
 b) Name the Women’s Regiment of the Indian National Army during the Second World War.
i) Rani of Jhansi Regiment
ii) Rajputana Rifles
iii) Manikarnika
iv) Madras Regiment [1]
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c) Who was the first female commander of INA?
i) Rani Laxmi Bai
ii) Captain Swati Singh
iii) Commander Laxmi Swaminathan
iv) Janaki Thevar. [1]
Answer ___________________________________________________
d) What was the objective of the Indian National Army?
i) Organizing an armed revolution and fighting the British army of occupation with modern
arms
ii) Abolition of zamindari system
iii) Formation of a socialist state
iv) Introducing new credit and monetary system. [1]
Answer __________________________________________________

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