LOURDES CENTRAL SCHOOL, BEJAI, MANGALURU

Model Paper
SOCIAL SCIENCE - March, 2024
Class: VIII Duration: 3 Hours
Date: 04/03/2024 Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
i. There are 37 questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory.
ii. Question no. 1 to 20 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
iii. Question no. 21 to 24 are Very Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 2 marks
each. Answer to each question should not exceed 40 words.
iv. Question no. 25 to 29 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3 marks each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 60 words.
v. Question no. 30 to 33 are Long Answer Type Questions, carrying 5 marks each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 120 words.
vi. Question no. 34 to 36 are Case Based Questions of 4 marks each.
vii. Question no. 37 is Map Based, carrying 5 marks.

1.________ allowed for trial of Europeans by Indians.

a) Ilbert Bill b) Vernacular Press Act c) Judiciary Bill d) Arms Bill

2. ______ was Viceroy of India when partition of Bengal was announced.

a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Minto c) Lord Hastings d) Lord Clive

3. The Government of India Act was passed in _____.

a) 1935 b) 1932 c) 1938 d) 1934

4. Self- Respect movement was led by ______.

A) Periyar b) Ambedkar c) Jyotiba Phule d) Raja Rammohan Roy

5.Name the Englishman who introduced the Mahalwari Settlement.

a) Thomas Munro b) Holt Mackenzie c) H T Colebrook d) Alexander

6. Who started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta?

a) Mumtaz Ali b) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
c) Sayyid Ahmed Khan d) None of these
7. After harvest, the indigo plant was taken to ______ in the indigo factory.
a) dye b) vat c) farm d) machine
8. Which one from the following list is a Physical Input to the agriculture
system.
a) Labour b) Chemicals c) Machinery d) Rainfall

9. Name the type of farming practiced to meet the needs of the farmer’s family
(a) Mixed Farming b) Subsistence Farming
c) Commercial Farming d) Plantation agriculture
10. Which of the following are joint sector industries?
a) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited b) Steel Authority of India Limited
c) Maruti Udyog Limited d) Tata Steel Industry
11. Which one of the following is a natural fiber?
a) nylon b) jute c) acrylic d) All of the above
12.The number of deaths per 1,000 people refer to
a) Migration b) Birth Rate c) Death rate d) Population change
13. In which country is the city of Osaka located?
a. Japan b. India c. China d. USA
14. Few factors on which the productivity of a nation’s human resources depends
are given below. Pick out the one that is not a factor.
a) Health b) Census c) Literacy d) Possession of technical skills
16. The term UC stands for
a. Union Cabinet b. Union Committee c. Union Council d. Union Carbide
17.Article ________ refers to right to life
a) 16 b) 20 c) 21 d) 17
18. All the children between the age of ____ years must exercise Right to
Education.
A) 5 to 9 B) 6 to 12 C) 6 to 14 D) 3 to 12
19. Who is the Chairman of Rajya Sabha?
a) Prime Minister of India b) President of India
c) Vice-President of India d) None of these
20.What type of cases are decided by under Civil Law?
(a) Divorce b) Rent matters c) Sale of land d) All the above
 2 x 4=8
21. What was the outcome of Woods Despatch?
22.What was claimed by Phule about time period before Aryan rule?
23. Why is law enforcement important?
24. Write the difference between Lok sabha and Rajya Sabha.

25. Water as part of Fundamental Right to Life. Explain 3 x 5=15

26. Distinguish between intensive and commercial farming.
27. Distinguish between joint sector and Public sector.
28.What were the different reasons for not sending girls to school?
29.Exlplain the civil disobedience movement.
5 x 4=20
30. Discuss the various forms of non-co-operation movement took place in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
31.What were the features of Pathshala?
32. How was environment treated earlier? What has been the change in
perception? Discuss.
33.What are the reasons for uneven distribution of population in the world?
3 x 4 = 12
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 1x4 =4

34.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 had
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.) What were the key ideas promoted by the Swadeshi movement?
2.) The All-India Muslim League was founded when, where, and for what
reasons?
3.) What did the league support?
4 How did the Congress and the Muslim League cooperate after reuniting in
1916?
35 An industrial system consists of inputs, processes and outputs. The inputs are
the raw materials, labour and costs of land, transport, power and other
infrastructure. The processes include a wide range of activities that convert the
raw material into finished products. The outputs are the end product and the
income earned from it. In case of the textile industry the inputs may be cotton,
human labour, factory and transport cost. The processes include ginning,
spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing. The output is the shirt you wear. Industrial
regions emerge when a number of industries locate close to each other and share
the benefits of their closeness. India has several industrial regions like Mumbai
Pune cluster, Bangalore-Tamil Nadu region, Hugli region, Ahmedabad-Baroda
region, Chotanagpur industrial belt, Vishakhapatnam-Guntur belt, Gurgaon-Delhi-
Meerut region and the Kollam Thiruvananthapuram industrial cluster.
In industries, accidents/disasters mainly occur due to technical failure or
irresponsible handling of hazardous material. One of the worst industrial disasters
of all time occurred in Bhopal on 3 December 1984 around 00:30 a.m. It was a
technological accident in which highly poisonous Methyl Isocynate (MIC) gas
along with Hydrogen Cyanide and other reaction products leaked out of the
pesticide factory of Union Carbide. The official death toll was 3,598 in 1989.
Thousands, who survived still suffer from one or many ailments like blindness,
impaired immune system, gastrointestinal disorders, etc. The world’s major
industries are the iron and steel industry, the textile industry and the information
technology industry. The iron and steel and textile industry are the older
industries while information technology is an emerging industry.
1.Why industrial disasters occur?
2.Give one example of major industry.
3.What are the inputs of industrial system?
4. What were some of the health issues faced by the people after the Bhopal gas
tragedy?

37. Other public facilities such as schools and hospitals, private companies may
well be interested. We have many of these, particularly in large cities. Similarly, if
you are living in a city, you will have seen private companies supplying water
through tankers or supplying drinking water in sealed bottles. In such cases,
private companies provide public facilities but at a price that only some people
can afford. Hence, this facility is not available to all at an affordable rate. If we go
by the rule that people will get as much as they can pay for then many people
who cannot afford to pay for such facilities will be deprived of the opportunity to
live a decent life.
public facilities such as schools and hospitals, private companies may well be
interested. We have many of these, particularly in large cities. Similarly, if you are
living in a city, you will have seen private companies supplying water through
tankers or supplying drinking water in sealed bottles. In such cases, private
companies provide public facilities but at a price that only some people can
afford. Hence, this facility is not available to all at an affordable rate. If we go by
the rule that people will get as much as they can pay for then many people who
cannot afford to pay for such facilities will be deprived of the opportunity to live a
decent life.
1) What is the major issue pertaining to the public facilities which are
provided by private companies?
2) How does the affordability of private sector-provided public facilities
affect the principle of equal opportunities for all citizens?
3) How should the government ensure that all public facilities are easily
affordable by citizens? How does the availability of such facilities affect
societal well-being?
4) How should the government ensure that all public facilities are easily
affordable by citizens? How does the availability of such facilities affect
societal well-being?
37. On the outline map of India 1 x 5=5
i) Locate: 1. Bombay 2. Lucknow 3. Delhi
ii) Identify:
a)Gandhiji called off the non-co-operation movement after this incident.
b) Partition took place in 1905