Class X

Summative Assessment
(Set II)
Social Studies Paper II
(contemporary world and India)
English version
Marks: 40
Time: 2 hrs 45 min

General Instructions:
1. This Question paper contains FOUR parts
2. Answer all the questions.
3. You will have internal choice in the Part I
4. Answers to the multiple choice questions to be written in the answer sheet only.
5. Out of 2 hrs 45 min, 15 minutes are given to reading the question paper and 2 hrs 30
min are given to writing the answers.
PART I
4X 4= 16 Marks
Note:
i)
Answer all the questions.
ii)
Each question carries Four Marks.
iii)
Each question has internal choice.
iv)
Answer each question in eight or ten sentences.
1. a) Explain the Social and economic changes in India after independence.
(OR)
b) Write about any one environmental movement.
2. Read the passage given and comment.
The most important achievement of this period was the establishment of a stable
democracy. The gradual emergence of a competitive multi-party system, with parties
representing diverse interests was a real achievement if one were to compare India with other
countries that got independence around the same time. India unlike other countries not only
had regular, free and fair elections but also had genuine change of governments and leaders
as well. The Indian Constitution not only guaranteed civil rights but also had an institutional
architecture in place to endure its protection.
(OR)
b) Read the passage given and express your opinion.
The Peoples Republic of China government was established in 1949. It was based on the
principles of the New Democracy, an alliance of all social classes opposed to landlordism.
Critical areas of the economy were put under government control. Once in power the CCP
carried out large scale land reform measures which meant taking away the land of landlords
and distributing them among poor peasants. The new government also managed to enact laws
to protect women, their rights and abolition of polygamy. This enabled women to assume
new roles and enjoy equal status visa a vise men in various fields.

3.a) Write about the relations between China and India.

(OR)
3.b) Write down the social service conducted by the present political parties in India.
4 Mark the following in the given World Map:
a) i) Bhutan ii) Philippines island iii) America iv) cuba
(OR)
b) i) New Zealand ii)Bay of Bengal iii)Iran iv)Srilanka
PART II
Note:
i)
ii)
iii)

6X 2= 12 Marks

Answer all the questions.

Each question carries Two Marks.
Each answer to be written in 4 or 5 sentences

5.Write about any basic principle that you like the most in Indian Constitution
6. Explain the good qualities of Gandhiji that you like the most?
7. Explain the cold war with examples
8. How far industrialization responsible for two world wars?
9. Explain briefly Non aligned movement.
10. Based on the information given below, prepare a time line chart.
In 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1939 September Germany attacked
Poland. This is the beginning of Second World War. In June 1941Germany attacked
Russia. In December 1941 America entered the Second World War.
PART III

7X 1= 7 Marks

Note:
i)
Answer all the questions.
ii)
Each question carries One Marks.
iii)
Answer each question in one or two sentences.
11. What do you know about Lok Adalat
Observe the time line table given below and answer the questions that follow:
Debates over Socialism in Russia
1850-1880s
Formation of the Russian Social
1898
Democratic Workers party
The Bloody Sunday and the Revolution
1905
nd
th
2 March- Abdication of the Tsar. 24
1917
October Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd
The Civil war
1918-20
Formation of Comintern
1919
Beginning of Collectivization
1929

12. What is civil war?

13. When did Russian Revolution happen?.
14. What does socialism say?

15. Which revolution took place in 1905?.

Read the map given and answer the questions 16 & 17
16. In which continent is Nigeria?
17. Name the types of people in Nigeria?
PART IV
Note:
i)
ii)
iii)

10X = 5 Marks

Answer all the questions.

Each question carries Mark.
Each question has four alternatives. Select the right alternative given and write it in
the answer sheet along with the question number.

18. Sun Yat Sen programme was called the three principles (San min Chui). It means
A) Nationalism, Democracy, Rationalism
B) Nationalism , Democracy, Socialism
C) Nationalism, Democracy, Nazism
D) Nationalism, Democracy, Fascism
19. The organization formed between the two world wars
A) UNO
C) Security Council
B) League of Nations
D) Versailles pact
20. The chemical in Agent or rang is
A) Dioxin B) Trioxin C) Bioxin

D) Nicotine .

21. The first human to go to space was

A) Neil Armstrong
C) Yuri Gagarin
B) Rakesh Sharma
D) Sunitha Williams
22. PLO means
A) Political Liberation organisation
B) Violence Liberation Organization

C) People Liberation Organization

D) Palestinian Liberation organization

23. One of the following believed that India would get independence with the help of
Japan
A) Bala Gangadhar Tilak
C) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Subhash Chandra Bose
D) Pt. Jawahar lal Nehru
24. The following is related to social change
A) Elections
C) Reservations
B) Employment Generation
D) Secularism
25. The following are the Allies power.

A) Britain, America, Russia

B) Britain, America, Japan

C) Britain, America, Germany

D) America, Germany, France

26. One of the following is not related to United Nations Organization

A) UNICEF
C) League of Nations
B) UNESCO
D) ICJ
27. The country that strengthened military power before second world war was
A) Japan
C) Russia
B) Germany
D) Turkey
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