GURU NANAK HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,RANCHI
Sample Paper EXAMINATION( Session…2025--26…)
SUB: History and Civics
CLASS : X
QNO SECTION A MCQs MARKS
1 Who wrote about the injustices of the caste system in “Gulamgiri”?
(a) Raja Rammohan Roy (b) Jyotiba Phule
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 1
2 Who wrote “Vande Mataram”?
(a) Abindranath Tagore (b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 1
(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Sri Aurobindo
3 COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 1
1. Giuseppe Mazzini A) Unification of Germany
2. Otto Von Bismarck B) Unification of Italy
3. Napoleon Bonaparte C) Battle of waterloo
4. Cavour D) Young Italy
Options-
a) i-a , ii-b , iii-d, iv-a
b) i-d , ii-a , iii-c, iv-b
c) i-d , ii-b , iii-a, iv-c
d) None of the above
4 Look at the picture ,identify which of the following option best signifies
the cartoon.
(a) Challenge of dynastic succession
(b) Challenge of lack of internal
democracy within parties.
(c) Challenge of growing role of money
and muscle power in politics
(d) None of the above
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5 Look at the given picture .Identify the thing which is held by J.L Nehru 1
(a) Bhagwat Gita
(b) Image of Bharat Mata
(c) Discovery of India
(d) Hind Swaraj
6 ______________is the alliance formed by the Congress Party. 1
(a) National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
(b) All India Congress (AIC)
(c) All India Congress Committee (AICC)
(d) United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
7 Bharati ya Jana ta Party believes in the philosophy of 1
(a) Cultural nationalism (b) Religion above all (c)
No discrimination on the basis of caste (d) Equal opportunity for all.
8 What status has been given to Hindi by the Constitution of India?
(a) Regional language (b) Official language (c) 1
National language (d) Community language
9 When we speak of gender divisions, we usually refer to:
(a) biological difference between men and women 1
(b) unequal roles assigned by society to men and women.
(c) unequal child sex ratio
(d) absence of voting rights for women in democracies
10 The most common expression of communalism is in 1
(a) everyday beliefs (b) religious prejudices (c)
stereotypes of religious communities (d) all of these
Section B; Very Short Answer Question
11 How British managed to exploit the economy of India and managed a 2
trade surplus during their rule?
OR
what was the guild system?
12 What were some of the parties in India that were formed on the lines of 2
communalism in India ?
Section C; Short Answer Based Question
13 Describe the role of Giuseppe Mazzni as an Italian revolutionary. 3
OR
Explain the role of language in developing the national sentiments in
Europe.
14 Why did the Sri Lankan Tamils feel alienated in spite of their long stay in
Sri Lanka?
Section D; Long Answer Question 3
15 Why did Mahatma Gandhi decide to call off the Civil Disobedience
Movement ? 4
OR
What do you know about the Great Depression? Write four causes of it.
16 Why do we feel that democracy is a better form of government than any
other form? Explain.
OR 4
What are advantages enjoyed by the Sinhala Community in Sri Lanka ?
Describe the consequences.
17 Section E: Case Based Question
Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow:
What was the role of technology in all this ? The railways, steamships,the
telegraph,,for example,were important inventions without which we
cannot imagine the transformed nineteenth century world. But
technological advances were often the result of larger social , political
and economic factors. For example , colonization stimulated new
investments and improvements in transport faster railways , lighter
wagons and larger ships helped move food more cheaply and quickly
from faraway farms to final markets.
The trade in meat offers a good example of this connected process .Till
the 1870s , animals were shipped live from America to Europe and then
slaughtered when they arrived there. But live animals took up a lot of
ship space . Many also died in voyage ,fell ill lost weight or became unfit
to eat. Meat was hence, an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the
European poor. High prices in turn kept demand and production down
until the development of a new technology, namely, refrigerated ships,
which enabled the transport of perishable foods over long distances.
Now animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point - in America,
Australia or New Zealand – and transported to Europe as frozen meat.
This reduced shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe. The poor
in Europe could now consume a more varied diet To the earlier
monotony of bread and potatoes many, though not all could now add
meat (and butter and eggs) to their diet. Better conditions promoted
social peace within the country and support for imperialism abroad.
1. Name any one invention which transformed the 19th century world.
2. “The trade in meat offers a good example of this connected 1
process”’What does the connected process stand for?
3. “Meat was hence, an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the 1
European poor”. Explain.
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18 Section F: Map Based Questions
T Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of India . 1+ 1
Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near
them.
(A) The place related to the calling off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
(B) The place where the Peasants’ Satyagraha was started.