List of practice Questions

Name the place where the Indian National Congress session was held in 1927.

Name the place where Gandhiji broke the Salt Law.

Choose the correct option related to main crops of Kharif cropping season:

Analyse the contribution of Gutenberg to printing in Europe.

“Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.” Analyse the statement.

Why is the French Revolution of 1789 considered the first clear expression of nationalism? Explain with examples.

How did nationalism, aligned with imperialism, lead Europe to disaster in 1914? Explain with examples.

Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option:

Column I (Role)	Column II (Scholar)
a. The song Vande Mataram	i. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
b. Picture of Bharat Mata with spiritual qualities	ii. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
c. Bardoli Satyagraha	iii. Abanindranath Tagore
d. Poona Pact in 1932	iv. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.

The Indus Valley Civilization was linked to the __________ region through coastal trade as early as 3000 BCE.

Two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are given below. Read both the statements carefully and choose the correct option:

Assertion (A): The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century.
Reason (R): The Spanish conquerors had the most powerful conventional weapons.

Identify the place where the secret underground society named ‘Young Europe’ was founded by Mazzini.

Arrange the following events of ‘print culture’ in chronological order and choose the correct option:

I. Publication of ‘Sambad Kaumudi’
II. Publication of weekly magazine ‘Bengal Gazette’
III. ‘Vernacular Press Act’ was implemented
IV. The first printed edition of the ‘Ramcharitmanas’

Identify the given picture and choose the correct option:

Which one of the following is the oldest printed book in Japan?

PQ and PR are two tangents to a circle with centre O and radius 5 cm. AB is another tangent to the circle at C which lies on OP. If \(OP = 13\) cm, then find the length AB and PA.

Shyam attended winter trekking camps in both Nainital and in Ooty. He observed that the mountains in Nainital were ice-covered, whereas, in Ooty, they were ice-free. As a student of Geography, explain the reason for the difference in climate of Nainital and Ooty?

The graph of \(y = f(x)\) is given. The number of zeroes of \(f(x)\) is :

Mention the source and the role of the following in providing defence against infection in the human body : (I) Histamine (II) Interferons

If \[ x=\sin2\theta+\sin3\theta,\qquad y=\cos2\theta-\cos3\theta \] then \[ \frac{d^2y}{dx^2} = \]

If \( \sin x \cos x = \frac{1}{4} \), then the general solution is:

Let $A$ be a $3 \times 3$ matrix such that $A^2 = I$. If $\det(A) = -1$ and the sum of eigenvalues is $1$, find the set of eigenvalues of $A$.

He picked up the bundle. He walked away.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Early Childhood Care
Early childhood is the phase of life from birth till 8 years of age, and is commonly divided into two, from birth to three years and 3--8 years, based on the developmental changes that characterize young children in these two stages. Infancy is the period between birth and one year, during which a child is largely dependent upon adults for everyday needs. In circumstances where the mother is employed outside the home, the infant has to be cared for by a substitute caregiver, who may be a family member or a hired person. The location of the substitute care arrangement may be the child's own home or the home of the caregiver or an institution or crèche. Day care and crèches are usually all-day programmes. Teachers and helpers in these programmes need to be especially trained for the care of very young children, their safety, their feeding, toilet habits, language development, social and emotional needs and learning. Teachers, who have to deal with children above three years of age, require different skill sets. A preschool child is so called because he or she is now ready for experiencing some sort of environment beyond that of the family (extra-familial). Even for this programme, a teacher needs to be specially trained as a pre-school or nursery school teacher. Some pre-schools for young children are often called Montessori schools. The developmental psychologist Jean Piaget spent his life trying to comprehend and explain that young children have different ways of understanding the world, due to which, they need a supportive environment to explore phenomena in their own ways. Another important principle to be kept in mind is the fact that any ECCE institution must realise the importance of the cultural context within which it operates and works along with, rather than in opposition to, the family.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
International Organisations and Agreements in the Area of Food Standards, Quality, Research and Trade
Since ancient times, governing authorities the world over, have made attempts to develop and implement food standards in order to protect health of consumers and prevent dishonest practices in the sale of food. There have been several international organisations and agreements which have played a role in enhancing food safety, quality and security, facilitating research and trade. CAC is an intergovernmental body whose published document is a collection of internationally adopted Food Standards. The document includes Standards, Codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations in order to protect consumers and ensure fair practices in food trade. Different countries use Codex Standards to develop national standards. The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) is a worldwide, non-governmental federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardisation and related activities in the world with a view to facilitate the international exchange of goods and services, and to develop cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. Adoption of these standards is voluntary. The main objective of WTO is to help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly and predictably, by administering trade agreements, settling trade disputes, assisting countries in trade policy issues. HACCP is an approach to food manufacture and storage in which raw materials and each individual step in a specific process are considered in detail and evaluated for its potential to contribute to the development of pathogenic micro organisms or other food hazards.

Read the passage and answer the questions:
Constitution: Welcoming the Objectives Resolution
“As an Adibasi, I am not expected to understand the legal intricacies of the Resolution, But my common sense tells me that every one of us should march in that road to freedom and fight together. Sir, if there is any group of Indian people that has been shabbily treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, neglected for the last 6,000 years. ... The whole history of my people is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India punctuated by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at his word. I take you all at your word that now we are going to start a new chapter, a new chapter of independent India where there is equality of opportunity, where no one would be neglected.”
Singh spoke eloquently on the need to protect the tribes, and ensure conditions that could help them come up to the level of the general population. Tribes were not a numerical minority, he argued, but they needed protection. They had been dispossessed of the land they had settled, deprived of their forests and pastures, and forced to move in search of new homes. Perceiving them as primitive and backward, the rest of society had turned away from them, spurned them. He made a moving plea for breaking the emotional and physical distance that separated the tribals from the rest of society: “Our point is that you have got to mix with us. We are willing to mix with you ...”. Singh was not asking for separate electorates, but he felt that reservation of seats in the legislature was essential to allow tribals to represent themselves. It would be a way, he said, of compelling others to hear the voice of tribals, and come near them.