DATE: 09-02-25

S.B.CLASSES
9 (CBSE Medium)
TIME: 3 Hours

Social Science New-(All)

MARKS: 80

SEAT NO:

SECTION A
Multiple choice Question (20)

1) Many Gypsies and blacks living in Nazi Germany were considered as racial 'inferiors' who
threatened the biological purity of the 'superior Aryan' race. They
(a) It led to the establishment of a homogeneous society.
(b) It led to widespread global condemnation and the eventual downfall of Nazi Germany.
(c) It led to an increase in the popularity of Nazi ideology.
(d) It had no long-term effects.

2) Consider the statements given below and choose the correct option.
Statement I The Himalayas represent the loftiest and one of the most rugged mountain
barriers of the world.
Statement Il The Himalaya consists of three parallel ranges in its longitudinal extent.
Options
(a) Statement I is correct and Il is incorrect
(b) Statement I is incorrect and Il is correct
(c) Both I and Il are incorrect
(d) Both I and Il are correct

3) Which one of the following is not correct about the political conditions in Saudi Arabia?
(a) Citizens can form political parties or political organisations.
(b) Media cannot report anything that the monarch does not like.
(c) Non-Muslim residents can follow their religion in private, but not in public.
(c) Women are subjected to many public restrictions.

4) Identify the term associated with following information.

It is consequence of a diet which is regularly inadequate in quantity and quality.

This is caused due to lack of income to buy food for survival.
This is mainly seen in rural areas where people cannot afford quality food due to low
income.
It pattern continues for a long time which can also lead to death.

Options
(a) Chronic Hunger (c) Nutrient Hunger
(b) Seasonal Hunger (d) Physical Hunger

5) A meandering river across a flood plain forms .......... later develop into ..............
(a) Cut-offs, Ox-bow
(b) Ox-bow, Cut-offs
(c) Horse-shoe, Ox-bow
(d) None of these
6) In 1914, Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia and its empire.
The Russian Empire included territory around Moscow, present day Finland Latvia, Lithunia,
Estonia, parts of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus How was the economy and society during the
Tsar Nicholas Il reign?
(a) Industries were very few in number, prominent industrial areas were St Petersburg and
Moscow.
(b) Russia was a major importer of grain in the Empire.
(c) Many factories were set up in the 1790's.
(d) Most of the industries were government owned.

7) Asserion (A) Democracy is a form of government where rulers are chosen through free and
fair elections.
Reason (R) In a democracy, decision-making power rests with those who are elected by the
people.
(a) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are correct, 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

8) Arrange the following in sequence on the basis of the year in which they were launched
starting from the earliest.
I. Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)
II. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
III. Food-For Work (FFW)
IV. National Food Security Act
Codes
(a) II, III, I, IV (b) I, II, III, IV
(c) IV, III, II, I (d) III, IV, II, I

9) When was slavery finally abolished in the French colonies?

(a) In 1842 (b) In 1845
(c) In 1848 (d) In 1850

10) India Is located in which hemisphere?

(a) Northern (b) Southern
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

11) Find the incorrect option.

(a) Dr BR Ambedkar was the Chairman of Drafting Committee.
(b) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the founder President of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi was a member of Constituent Assembly.
(d) HC Mukherjee was the Vice-Chairman of the Constituent Assembly.

12) Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) was started in 1993. The aim of the programme is
I. to create self-employment opportunities
Il. to help educated unemployed youth in rural areas and small towns.
Ill. to help in setting up small business and industries.
IV. to promote higher education
Codes
(a) Only I (b) Ill and IV
(c) I, Il and III (d) Only II
13) Goebbels was the ........ minister in Hitler's regime.
(a) law (c) propaganda
(b) defence (d) None of these

14) Consider the statements given below and choose the correct answer.
Statement I The cold weather season begins from mid-November in Northern India and
stays till February.
Statement II The differential heating and cooling of land and water creates high pressure on
the landmass of India while the ocean around experience comparatively low pressure.
Codes
(a) Statement I is correct and Il is incorrect
(b) Statement I is incorrect and Il is correct
(c) Both I and Il are incorrect
(d) Both I and Il are correct

15) Find the incorrect option.

(a) Election campaigning takes place for three week period between the announcement of
final list of candidates and date of polling.
(b) Election campaign means the promotion of the policies, offers and promises that the
candidates make to the voters to fulfil, if they are elected.
(c) Political parties prepare their election manifestos.
(d) In election campaigns, political parties try to focus public attention on some big issues.

16) PDS dealers are sometimes found resorting to malpractices like diverting the grains to the
open market to get better margin, selling poor quality grains at ration shops, irregular
opening of the shops, etc. It is common to find that ration shops regularly have unsold
stocks of poor quality grains left. Amidst reports of malpractices in the Public Distribution
System (PDS), which measure would be most effective in addressing these issues and
ensuring fair distribution of grains?
(a) Imposing stricter penalties on PDS dealers engaging in malpractices to discourage such
behavior.
(b) Increasing government surveillance on ration shops to monitor their operations regularly.
(c) Privatising the PDS to introduce competition and market forces, promoting efficiency and
accountability.
(d) Conducting awareness campaigns to educate citizens on their rights and responsibilities
in the PDS, encouraging community participation in monitoring.

17) In the 18th century, the middle class emerged, earning wealth through overseas trade and
textile manufacturing. This group, along with professionals like lawyers and officials,
belleved in merit-based social positions rather than birth privilege.
Which philosophers influenced the belief in social mobility based on merit during the
emergence of the middle class in the 18th century?
(a) Aristotle and Plato
(b) John Locke and jean Jacques Rousseau
(c) Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant
(d) John Locke and Montesquieu

18) What per cent of India's population live in urban areas?

(a) 16.2% (b) 31. 8% (c) 41 % (d) 12.3%
19) The Parliament consists of how many houses?
(a) Two (b) Three (c) Four (d) One

20) Assertion (A) A large section of people suffer from food and nutrition insecurity in India.
Reason (R) The social composition of the society and peoples inability to buy food.
Codes
(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

SECTION B
(Very Short Answer Type Question) (8)

21) Name the author of the book 'Third Reich of Dreams'.

22) Why most of the world's deserts are located in the Western margins of continents in the
subtropics?

23) Give one reason each to argue that indian judiciary is independent with respect to Powers of
the Judiciary

OR
What was the result of the intervention of other countries to stop the killings of Albanians?

24) Which agency conducts the periodical sample surveys for estimating the poverty line in
India? or How is poverty line estimated periodically?

SECTION C

( Short Answer Type Question ) (15)

25) How did drought affect the like of pastoralists?

26) The headwaters of the Ganga, called the 'Bhagirathi" are fed by the Gangotri Glacier and
joined by the Alaknanda at Devprayag in Uttarakhand. The Ganga Is joined by many
tributaries from the Himalayas, a few of them being major rivers such as the Yamuna, the
Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi.
(i) What role do the tributaries Yamuna, Ghaghara, Gandak and Kosi play in enriching the soil
for agriculture in the Northern plains?
(ii) What is the source of the river Yamuna and how does its flow contribute to the Ganga
river system?

27) Why Fundamental Rights are given a special status in the Indian Constitution? Give Reason.

OR

Explain the "Indira Sawhney and others vs Union of India case" along with its major reforms.

28) Rama is a farm labourer in a village who works all the year round to meet his expenses.
Being a farm labourer Rama and many others face a number of problems in terms of
employment. State any three such probiems.

29) Which groups of French society would have gained from the Constitution of 1791? Which
groups would have had reason to be dissatisfied? What developments does Marat (Source
B) anticipate in the future?
 Source B
The revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat commented in his newspaper L'Ami du peuple
(The friend of the people) on the Constitution drafted by the National Assembly:
'The task of representing the people has been given lo the rich..... the lot of the poor and
oppressed will never be improved by peaceful means alone. Here w have absolute proof of
how wealth influences the law.
law will last only an long as the people agree to obey them. Are when they have managed to
caut of se yone of be arsioozats, they will do the same to
Source An extract from the newspaper L'Ami du peuple.

SECTION D
(Long Answer Based Question ) (20)

30) What changes were seen in the regime of Robespierre's government?

OR

Explain any five socio-economic conditions of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century?

31) Explain any five significant characteristics of the adolescent population of India.

OR

Give an account of the four divisions of the Himalayas from West to East along with
Purvanchal hills.

32) What is a Universal Adult Franchise? Why has it been adopted in India?

OR

Consider the following facts about a country and decide if you would call it a democracy.
Give reasons to support your decision.
(a) All the citizens of the country have right to vote. Elections are held regularly.
(b) The country took loan from international agencies. One of the conditions for giving loan
was that the government would reduce its expenses on education and health.
(c) People speak more than seven languages but education is available only in one
language, the language spoken by 52% people of that country.
(d) Several organisations have given a call for peaceful demonstrations and nationwide
strikes in the country to oppose these policies. Government has arrested these leaders.
(e) The government owns the radio and television in the country. All the newspapers have to
get permission from the government to publish any news about government's policies and
protests.

33) How are the farmers in village Palampur able to grow more crops from the same land?
Explain In five points.

OR

Distinguish between the condition of a farmer who Is working in his own farm and a
landless labourer.

SECTION E

(Cased based/ Source Based Question ) (12)

34) Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow.
To expand its revenue income, the colonial government looked for every possible source of
taxation. So tax was imposed on land, on canal water, on salt, on trade goods, and even on
 animals. Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the pastures. In most
pastoral tracts of india, grazing tax was introduced in the mid-19th century. The tax per head
of cattle went up rapidly and the system of collection was made increasingly efficient. In the
decades between the 1850s, and 1880s, the right to collect the tax was auctioned out to
contractors. These contractors tried to extract as high a tax as they could to recover the
money they had paid to the stateand earn as much profit as they could within the year.
(i) What was the primary motive behind the colonial government's imposition of grazing
tax?
(a) To encourage pastoral settlement and agricultural development.
(b) To increase the land revenue collected from pastoral communities.
(c) To generate additional income for the state through direct taxation.
(d) To control the movement and activities of nomadic pastoralists.
(ii) What was the purpose of shifting from contractor-based to direct tax collection in the
1880s?
(a) Improving the tax burden for pastoralists by streamlining the collection process.
(b) Solving concerns about corruption and exploitation by contractors.
(c) Allowing the government to exert greater control over the movement and resource
access of pastoral communities.
(d) All of the above
(iii) What unintended consequence did the implementation of the "Pass" system for grazing
tax collection had?
(a) Facilitating data collection on pastoral herd sizes and movement panterns.
(b) Reducing the mobility and flexibility of pastoral communities due to increased
documentation requirements.
(c) Promoting a sense of ownership and responsibility among pastoralists towards their
livestock.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(iv) Identify the statement that does accurately reflect the impact of colonial taxation on
pastoral communities.
(a) It disrupted traditional grazing patterns and resource access practices.
(b) It did not imposed a significant financial burden on pastoralists, often exceeding their
animal's market value.
(c) It had not contributed to the sedentarisation of some pastoral communities, pushing
them towards alternative livelihoods.
(d) It had not fostered resentment and resistance among pastoral groups, sometimes
leading to protests and uprisings.

35) Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow.
China's famine of 1958-1961 was the worst recorded famine in world history. Nearly three
crore people died in this famine. During those day, India's economic condition was not much
better than China. Yet India did not have a famine of the kind China had.
Economists think that this was a result of different government policies in the two countries.
The sovernmeot despond to in india made the indian Chinese government did not. goinese
government di od scarcity in a way that the taken place in an independ scale famine has
ever taken place in an independent and democratic country. If China too had multiparty
elections, an opposition party and a press full to criticise the government, then so many
people may not have died in the famine. This example brings out one of the reasons why
democracy is considered the best form of government Democracy is better than any other
form of onennentin responding to the needs of the people.
A non-democratic government may and can respond to the people's needs, but it all
 depends on the wishes of the people who rule.
(i) Policies adopted by a democratic government can change the condition of people In the
country. Comment.
(ii) Explain with example, that democratic government is more responsive.
(iii) What did the Economists think on comparing the situation of India and China?

36) Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow.
While determining the poverty line in India, a minimum level of food requirement, clothing,
footwear, fuel and light, educational and medical requirement, etc., are determined for
subsistence. These physical quantities are multiplied by their prices in rupees. The present
formula for food requirement while estimating the poverty line is based on the desired
calorie requirement. Food items, such as cereals, pulses, vegetable, milk, oil, sugar, etc
together provide these needed calories. The calorie needs vary depending on age, sex and
the type of work that a person does. The accepted average calorie requirement in India is
2400 calories per person per day in rural areas and 2100 calories per person per day in
urban areas Since people living in rural areas engage themselves in more physical work,
calorie requirements in rural areas are considered to be higher than in urban areas.
The poverty line is estimated periodically (normally every five years) by conducting sample
surveys. These surveys are carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO).
(i) If a person wants to determine poverty line in India then which factors should be used to
determine for subsistence?
(ii) How is the food requirement estimated in poverty line?
(iii) Why is the calorie requirement of rural areas more than that in urban areas?

SECTION F
(Map Skilled Based Question) (3+2=5) (5)

Attempt both the Map based Questions

37A) On the given outline map of world, locate the countries that were central powers in the First
World War.
(i) Germany (ii) Austria

37B) On the given political map of India, name and mark the any four meteorological stations.
(ANY 3)
1) Meteorological station of Rajasthan.
2) Meteorological station of Maharaashtra.
3) Meteorological station of Tamilnadu.
4) Meteorological station of West Bengal.