SRI KRISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CLASS –IX SOCIALISM IN DATE OF ISSUE:
EUROPE AND
RUSSIAN DATE OF
SECTION:
REVOLUTION SUBMISSION:
I. Multiple Choice Questions:
1. What was the suffragette?
(a) Women’s movement (b) Property tax (c) Land acquisition (d) Proletariat class1.
2. What stands for New Harmony?
(a) A bank (b) A co-operative community (c) A capitalist (d) Common man
3. Marx argued that industrial society was __________ .
(a) Capitalist (b) Clergy (c) Farmer (d) None of these C
II Match the following:
Column-I Column-II
(a) 25th February (i) Formation of Russian Social Democratic Labour
Party
(b) Mass of peaceful (ii) Did not enjoy any political rights
workers were fired
upon by the Russian troops
(c) Provisional Government (iii) Duma suspended
(d) 1898 (iv) Seized buildings of Bolshevik newspapers
(e) Peasants (v) Bloody Sunday
III.Arrange the sequence in order: The First World War and the Russian Empire
* Defeats were shocking and demoralizing. Russia’s armies lost badly in Germany and
Austria between 1914 and 1916. There were over 7 million casualties by 1917.
* In 1914, war broke out between two European alliances – Germany, Austria and Turkey
(the Central Powers) and France, Britain and Russia (later Italy and Romania). This was the
First World War.
* The war also had a severe impact on industry. Russia’s own industries were few in number
and the country was cut off from other suppliers of industrial goods by German control of the
Baltic Sea.
* In Russia, the war was initially popular and people rallied around Tzar Nicholas II.
IV. Find the incorrect option:
1.Views of socialists about private property:
(i)They were against private property.
(ii) Saw it as the root of all social ills.
(iii) Individuals who owned the property were concerned about publics.
(iv) Those who make property productive were ignored by the owners of the
property.
2. Which of these statements is/are correct about Europe after the French Revolution?
(a) Suddenly it seemed possible to change the aristocratic society of the 18th century.
(b) However not everyone wanted a complete transformation of society.
(c) Some wanted gradual shift, while others wanted complete change of society.
(d) All the above
V. Given below are two statements –one labelIed as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
Reason (R): In the context of the given two statements, which of the following is correct?
1.Assertion (A): The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party had to operate as an illegal
organization.
Reason (R): All political parties were illegal in Russia before 1914.
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
c)A is correct but R is wrong.
d)A is wrong but R is correct.
2.Assertion (A): Workers in England and Germany set up funds to help members in times of
distress and demanded a reduction of working hours and the right to vote.
Reason (R): They began forming associations to fight for better living and working
conditions.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false , but (R) is true
3.Assertion (A): Workers were a divided social group. Some had strong links withthe villages
from which they came.
Reason (R): Workers were divided by skill. In the context of the above two statements, which
of the following is correct?
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false , but (R) is true
