THE INDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL
Class 10 - Social Science
Sample Paper - 04 (2022-23)
Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: : 3 hours
General Instructions:
i. Question paper comprises Six Sections – A, B, C, D, E and F. There are 37 questions in the question paper. All questions
are compulsory.
ii. Section A – From question 1 to 20 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
iii. Section B – 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. Section C contains Q.25to Q.29 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question
should not exceed 60 words
v. Section D – Question no. 30 to 33 are long answer type questions, carrying 5 marks each. Answer to each question should
not exceed 120 words.
vi. Section-E - Questions no from 34 to 36 are case based questions with three sub questions and are of 4 marks each
vii. Section F – Question no. 37 is map based, carrying 5 marks with two parts, 37a from History (2 marks) and 37b from
Geography (3 marks).
viii. There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in few questions. Only
one of the choices in such questions have to be attempted.
ix. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary.
Section A
1. Which relief feature of India provides facilities for tourism and ecological aspects?
a) Mountain
b) Plateau
c) Desert
d) Plain
2. The floods not only devastate life and property but also cause:
a) extensive soil erosion
b) water level increases
c) diseases
d) soil fertility
3. Study the picture and answer the question that follows:
Which French painter painted this?
a) Eugene Delacroix
b) Claude Monet
c) Raymond Bonheur
d) Constant Troyon
4. Consider the following points regarding the relationship between religion and politics. Identify the incorrect one.
a) ideals and values of different religions play a role in politics
b) The needs, interests and demands of the people should be heard
c) These political acts are not wrong as long as they treat every religion unequally
d) people should be able to regulate the practice of religion so as to prevent discrimination and oppression
5. is the success story that met the credit needs of the poor, at reasonable rates, in Bangladesh.
a) Reserve Bank
b) Common Bank
c) Grameen Bank
d) Cooperative Bank
6. Match the following:
Column A Column B
(a) Low-grade brown coal which is soft with high moisture content. (i) Meghalaya
(b) The most popular coal in commercial use. (ii) Damodar valley
(c) Gondwana coal deposits. (iii) Lignite
(d) Tertiary coal deposits. (iv) Bituminous
a) (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iv), (d) - (i)
b) (a) - (i), (b) - (iv), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iii)
c) (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iv)
d) (a) - (iii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)
7. Identify the incorrect option
a) Commercial Banks make use of the deposits to meet the loan requirements of the people.
b) People’s money is safe with the banks and it earns an amount of interest.
c) The Reserve Bank of India supervises the functioning of formal sources of loans.
d) The Central government issues currency notes on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India.
8. In Victorian Britain who preferred things produced by hand?
a) The aristocrats and the bourgeoisie
b) Bourgeoisie
c) Aristocrats
d) Peasants
9. Which act provides for payment of equal wages for equal work?
a) Equal Payment Act
b) Equal Salary Act
c) Equal Wages Act
d) Equal Remuneration Act
10. Match the following:
(a) Factors that crucial for the country's
(i) Bank and Cooperatives
development
(b) Formal sector of credit (ii) A person who borrows money from the bank
(c) Moneylenders (iii) Cheap and affordable credit
(iv) a person who lends money which has to be paid back at
(d) Borrowers
a high rate of interest.
a) (a) - (iii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (i), (d) - (ii)
b) (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (iii)
c) (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii)
d) (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iv)
11. Assertion (A): Power Sharing is good.
Reason (R): It leads to ethical tension.
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.
12. What is collateral?
a) Assets owned by the government
b) An asset owned by the borrower
c) Loan given by the bank
d) Asset owned by the lender
13. Based on the given data and find out which state can be regarded as the most developed of the three.
STATE PER CAPITA INCOME for 2018-19 (in ₹)
Haryana 2,36,147
Kerala 2,04,105
Bihar 40,982
a) Bihar
b) Kerala
c) Haryana
d) Haryana and Kerala both
14. Which among the following is a developmental goal for the landless rural labourers?
(a) To get electricity and water
(b) To educate their children
(c) More days of work and better wages
(d) To shift to the cities
14. Read the following data and select the appropriate option from the following:
Production of Manganese in 2016–17 Percentage
Andhra Pradesh 10
Madhya Pradesh 27
Karnataka 11
Odisha 25
Maharashtra 25
Choose the ODD one out in the context of share manganese production.
a) Odisha
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Andhra Pradesh
15. Find the odd one out:
i. Vegetable vendor
ii. IT sector
iii. Postal services
iv. Railway
a) (i)
b) (ii)
c) (iii)
d) (iv)
16. Fill in the blank:
SECTOR CRITERIA USED
Industrial associated with the different kinds of industries
Service ?
a) Involves the production of goods
b) Services that help in the production of goods
c) Involves exploitation of natural resources
d) Associated with communication
17. Read the information given below and select the correct option
Shyam is a small farmer. He took a loan to meet the expenses of cultivation hoping that there would be a good harvest
and he would repay the loan. The harvest, however, fails and he is unable to repay the loan. Next year again he took a
loan but the crop is not good and loan repayment cannot be made. He has no option but to sell a part of his land to pay
off the loan. Loan/credit instead of helping Shyam improve his condition left him worse off. What kind of situation
Shyam is facing?
a) Loan Trap
b) Debt Trap
c) Credit Trap
d) Tariff Trap
18. Which political party of the six national parties was formed as late as in 1999?
a) BSP
b) NCP
c) BJP
d) CPI(M)
19. Choose the correct statement: Gandhiji began fast unto death when Dr. B.R. Ambedkar demanded a separate
electorate for Dalits because:
A. Separate electorates would create division in the society.
B. Separate electorates would slow down the process of integration into society.
C. With separate electorates, Dalits would gain respect in society.
a) A only
b) A and B
c) B only
d) A and C
Section B
20. Mention the effects of the British Government's decision for the abolition of the Corn Laws.
21. In what ways sexual division of labour is done in our country?
22. What is Globalization? Explain.
OR
What was the main channel connecting countries in the past? How is it different now?
23. What are the major attributes of development considered by UNDP in making the Human Development Report? Explain
the importance of each of these attributes.
Section C
24. Explain with an example how the opening up of foreign trade results in connecting the markets of different countries.
OR
“The impact of globalization has not been uniform”. Explain this statement.
25. Write down the features of JFM.
26. "Both Belgium and Sri Lanka are democracies, but they follow different systems of power sharing". Support
the statement by giving three points of difference.
27. How do money and muscle power play an important role in elections? Explain.
28. State any three differences between the local government before and after the constitutional Amendment in 1992.
Section D
29. "Wheat and rice farming in India are fairly different from each other". Support the statement with five suitable examples.
OR
What are the four important fibre crops of India? Describe any one of them.
30. Explain the different factors which led to the rise of nationalism in
Europe.
OR
With reference to Scotland and Ireland, explain how British nationalism grew at the cost of other cultures.
31. How far is it correct to say that several services which cannot be provided by private sector can be provided by the
public sector? Explain.
OR
Explain the meaning of disguised unemployment with the help of any two suitable examples.
32. How are democracies based on political and economic equalities?
OR
Democracy is best suited to produce better results. Examine the statement.
Section E
33. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
In the countryside, rich peasant communities were active in the movement. Being producers of commercial crops, they
were very hard hit by the trade depression and falling prices. As their cash income disappeared, they found it impossible
to pay the government’s revenue demand. And the refusal of the government to reduce the revenue demand led to
widespread resentment. These rich peasants became enthusiastic supporters of the Movement, organising them
communities, and at times forcing reluctant members, to participate in the boycott programmes. For them, the fight for
swaraj was a struggle against high revenues. But they were deeply disappointed when the movement was called off in
1931 without the revenue rates being revised. So when the movement was restarted in 1932, many of them refused to
participate. The poorer peasantry was not just interested in the lowering of the revenue demand. Many of them were
small tenants cultivating land they had rented from landlords. As the Depression continued and cash incomes dwindled,
the small tenants found it difficult to pay their rent. They wanted the unpaid rent to the landlord to be remitted. They
joined a variety of radical movements, often led by Socialists and Communists. Congress was unwilling to support ‘no
rent’ campaigns in most places. So the relationship between the poor peasants and the Congress remained uncertain.
i. Name the peasant communities that were active in the movement.
ii. Why was Congress unwilling to support ‘no rent’ campaigns in most places? (It might upset the rich peasants
and landlords.)
iii. What did Swaraj mean for the rich peasants?
34. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
Before 1798, the colonial state under the East India Company was not too concerned with censorship. Strangely, its
early measures to control printed matter were directed against Englishmen in India who were critical of Company
misrule and hated the actions of particular Company officers. The Company was worried that such criticisms might be
used by its
critics in England to attack its trade monopoly in India.
By the 1820s, the Calcutta Supreme Court passed certain regulations to control press freedom and the Company began
encouraging publication of newspapers that would celebrate Britsh rule. In 1835, faced with urgent petitions by editors
of English and vernacular newspapers, Governor-General Bentinck agreed to revise press laws. Thomas Macaulay, a
liberal colonial official, formulated new rules that restored the earlier freedoms.
After the revolt of 1857, the attitude towards freedom of the press changed. Enraged Englishmen demanded a clamp-
down on the ‘native’ press. As vernacular newspapers became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began
debating measures of stringent control. In 1878, the Vernacular Press Act was passed, modelled on the Irish Press Laws.
It provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press. From now on
the government kept regular track of the vernacular newspapers published in different provinces. When a report was
judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned, and if the warning was ignored, the press was liable to be seized and the
printing machinery confiscated.
i. How did Governor General William Bentinck react to the petition filed by editors of English and
vernacular newspapers?
ii. How did the Vernacular Press Act strengthen the British government in India?
iii. Why did the British government curb the freedom of the Indian press?
35. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
India has one of the largest road networks in the world, aggregating to about 2.3 million km at present. In India,
roadways have preceded railways. They still have an edge over railways in view of the ease with which they can be built
and maintained. The growing importance of road transport vis-à-vis rail transport is rooted in the following reasons; (a)
construction cost of roads is much lower than that of railway lines, (b) roads can traverse comparatively more dissected
and undulating topography, (c) roads can negotiate higher gradients of slopes and as such can traverse mountains such as
the Himalayas, (d) road transport is economical in transportation of few persons and relatively smaller amount of goods
over short distances, (e) it also provides door-to-door service; thus, the cost of loading and unloading is much lower, (f)
road transport is also used as a feeder to other modes of transport such as they provide a link between railway stations,
air and seaports. In India, roads are classified in the following six classes according to their capacity.
i. Give the importance of road with regards to topographical factors.
ii. Roadways still have an edge over railways in India. Support the statement with two arguments.
iii. Give the classifications of roads.
Section F
36. (a) Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of India. Identify them and write their correct
names on the lines drawn near them.
A. The place where Indian National Congress session was held in September, 1920.
B. The place associated with Jallianwala Bagh Incident.
(b) On the same outline map of India locate and label any four of the following with suitable Symbols. (any three)
i. Kochi - Major Sea Port
ii. Pune - Software Technology Park
iii. Durg– Iron Ore Mines
iv. Naraura - Nuclear Power Plant
v. Chhatrapati Shivaji - International Airport
