CLASS -X BoNTA ASHA

ECONOMicS

A. DEVELOPMENT

1. Which of the following is the most common indicator for comparing countries?
a) National income
b) Per capita income
c) Literacy rate
d) Life expectancy
Answer: b) Per capita income

2. Which body publishes the Human Development Report (HDR)?

a) World Bank
b) IMF
c) UNDP
d) WTO
Answer: c) UNDP

3. Which one is not acomponent of Human Development Index?

a) Health
b) Education
c) Per capita income
d) Technology
Answer: d) Technology

4. infant Mortality Rate refers to:

a) Death rate of infants per 100 live births
b)Death rate of infants before completing one year
c) Birth rate per thousand
d) None of these
Answer: b) Death rate of infants before completing one year

5. Which of these is considered a non-renewable resource?

a) Solar energy
b) Wind energy
c) Coal
d) Water
Answer:c) Coal

6. Which state in India has the highest per capita income?

a) Goa
b) Kerala
c) Bihar
d) Punjab
Answer:a) Goa

development aims al:

1. Ihe concept of sUstainable
a) Increasing GDP rapidly
b) Development without damaging the environmen
c) More production of goods
d) None of these
Answer: b) Development without damagingthe environment

standards of countries?
8. Which measure is considered better for comparingliving
a) Total income
b) Per capita income
c) National income
d) Production capacity
Answer: b) Per capita income

9. Which of these is a qualitative indicator of development?

a) Literacy rate
b) Per capita income
c) GDP
d) Foreign exchange reserves
Answer: a) Literacy rate

10. Which country has the highest Human Development Index?

a) Norway
b) USA
c) India
d) China
Answer: a) Norway

11.Which factor is not included in Human Development Index calculation?

a) Life expectancy
b) Education
c) Income
d) Gender ratio
Answer:d) Gender ratio
 12.Which of these is not a goalof development?
a) More income
b)Better quality of life
c) Employment
d) Political dominance over other countries
Answer: d) Political dominance over other countries

13. Literacy rate in India as per Census 2011 is:

a) 72.5%
b)74%
c) 80%
d) 70%
Answer: b) 74%

14.Which is the correct expanded form of HD1?

a) Human Development Indicator
b) Human Development Index
c) Human Data Index
d) Human Development Institute
Answer: b) Human Development Index

15. Which of the following is considered a public facility?

a) Mobile phones
b) Public transport
c) Private school
d) Shopping malls
Answer: b) Public transport

16. Which sector does education fall under?

a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) None of these
Answer: c) Tertiary

17.Which one is an example of non-materialistic development?

a) Higher income
 b) Better health
c) New car facilities
purchase
d) Owning property
Answer: b) Better health
facilities
18. Which of
the
a) It considers following is alimitation of per capita income as an indicator?
D) It does not distribution of income
c) lt includes
show distribution of
income
d) It considersenvironmental factors
quality of life
Answer: b) It does not showdistribution
of income

19. Which
a) MNREGAprogramme aims at providing employment and rural
development in India?
b) PMAY
c) RTE
d) ICDS
Answer: a) MNREGA

20. Which type of

a) Non-renewable resource is water?
b) Renewable
c) Botha and b
d) None of these
Answer: b) Renewable

21. Which state has the

a) Kerala lowest literacy rate in India
(Census 2011)?
b) Bihar
c) Odisha
d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer: b) Bihar

22. Full form of UNDP is:

a) United Nations Development
b) Union National Programme
Development Project
c) United Nations Development
d) None
Project
Answer: a) United Nations Development
Programme
23. Which of these is a sustainable activity?
a) Using coal extensively
b) Cutting forests without replanting
c) Rainwater harvesting
d) Burning fossil fuels
Answer: c) Rainwater harvesting

24. Which state has the highest literacy rate?

a)Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
Gujarat
d) Maharashtra
Answer: b) Kerala

25. Which country ranks highest in per capita income among India's neighbours?
a) Sri Lanka
b) Nepal
c) Bangladesh
d) Pakistan
Answer: a)Sri Lanka

B. SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY (25 MCQs)

26. Which of the following activities is included in the primary sector?

a) Banking
b) Education
c) Fishing
d) Manufacturing
Answer: c) Fishing

27. Secondary sector is also called:

a) Service sector
b) Industrial sector
c) Agriculture sector
 d) None
Answer: b) Industrial sector

provider in India is:

28. The largest employment
a) Secondary sector
b)Primary sector
c) Tertiary sector
d) IT sector
Answer: b) Primary sector

29. GDP stands for:

a)Gross Development Product
b) Gross Domestic Product
c) Great Domestic Production
d) None of these
Answer. b) Gross Domestic Product

30. Which of the following is a natural product?

a) Sugar
b) Cotton
c) Cloth
d) Car
Answer: b) Cotton

31. Example of secondary sector activity is:

a) Mining
b) Education
c) Manufacturing steel
d) Farming
Answer: c) Manufacturing steel

32. IT services fallunder which sector?

a) Primary
b)Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) None
Answer:c) Tertiary
33. Which is the
a) Primary
fastest-growing sector in India?
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) All
Answer: c) Tertiary

34. Which sector contributes the hiahest share in India's GDP (2022-23)?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) None
Answer: c) Tertiary

35. When did MGNREGA Come into force?

a) 2004
b) 2005
c) 2006
d) 2008
Answer: b)2005

36. Which of these is included in the primary sector?

a) Construction
b) Forestry
c) Banking
d) Transport
Answer: b) Forestry

37. Disguised unemployment is generally found in:

a) Urban areas
b) Agriculture sector
c) IT sector
d) Banking
Answer: b) Agriculture sector

38. Public sector enterprise is:

a) Reliance industries
b) TATA Steel
c) Indian Railways
 d) infosys
Answer: c) Indian Railways

39.Which isan organized sector job?

a) Daily wage labourer
b) Factory worker with fixed salary
c) Street vendor
d) Domestic help
Answer: b) Factory worker with fixed salary

40. Which tax is levied on goods and services?

a) Income tax
b)GST
c) Propety tax
d) Corporate tax
Answer: b) GST

41. Which of thefoliowing is a seasonal unemployment example?

a) Software engineer unemployed
b)Farmer without work after harvest
c) Factory closed permanently
d) Bank employee retired
Answer: b) Farmer without work after harvest

42. Which one of the following isan activity of the tertiary sector?
a) Transport
b) Dairy farming
c) Mining
d)Cloth making
Answer: a) Transport

43. Service sector includes:

a) Agriculture and forestry
b) Transport andcommunication
c) Mining
d) Construction
Answer: b) Transport and communication
44.Primary sector depends on:
a) Industrial development
b) Natural resources
c) Foreign trade
d) Banking system
Answer:. b) Natural resources

45. The share of primary sector inGDP is:

a) Increasing
b) Decreasing
c) Constant
d) None
Answer: b) Decreasing

the secondary sector?

46.Which of the following is not in
a) Dairy
b) Sugar factory
c) Cement factory
d) Car manufacturing
Answer: a) Dairy

underemployment?
47. Which is an example of
clinic
a) A doctor with a
b) A graduate selling tea
software company
c) An engineer in a
d) A teacher in a school
Answer: b) Agraduate selling tea

unorganized sector?
48.Which one is part of
a) Government office
b)Factory with fixed wages
c)Street vendor
d) National bank
Answer:c) Street vendor

sectors according to their share in GDP

in India?
49. Which is the correct sequence of
a)Primary> Secondary >Tertiary
b) Secondary >Tertiary > Primary
c) Tertiary >Secondary > Primary
d) Secondary > Primary >Tertiary
Answer:c) Tertiary >Secondary > Primary

50. Which organization calculates GDP in India?

a) RBI
b)CSO (now NSO)
c) NITIAayog
d) Finance Commission
Answer: b) CSO (now NSO)