M.E.

S INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA – QATAR

FIRST PREBOARD EXAMINATION
HISTORY- CIVICS QUESTION BANK
[2024-2025]

Student’s Name:
Class X/ Section:
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PORTION–
HISTORY:
Ch. 1 - The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
Ch. 2 - Nationalism in India
Ch. 3 -The Making of a Global World
(Sub topic: Pre Modern World to Conquest, Disease and Trade)
pg: 53-56
Ch. 5 - Print Culture and the Modern World
CIVICS:
Ch. 1 - Power sharing
Ch. 2 - Federalism
Ch. 3 - Gender, Religion and Caste
Ch. 4 - Political Parties
Ch. 5 - Outcomes of Democracy

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read the textbook thoroughly before answering the
following questions.
2. Take a printout of this worksheet.
3. Answer all the questions.
4. The revision questions will be discussed in the class.
5. Each question carries 1, 2, 3 or 5 marks.
6. History map work is included. Mark all the places in the
Blank Map.
HISTORY
CHAPTER –1 – THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

1. How did the French Revolutionaries create a sense of collective

belonging amongst the French people?
2. What is plebiscite?
3. Explain the provisions of the Napoleonic code of 1804.
4. Choose the correctly matched pair from the following:
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 a) Napoleon – Spain
b) Ottovon Bismark- Germany
c) Bourbon Kings- Italy
d) Gieseppe Garibaldi- France
5. Explain the concept of liberalism in political and economic
fields prevailed in Europe.
6. Describe the features of the Vienna Treaty of 1815.
7. Describe the role of Giuseppe Mazzini in the revolutionary
uprisings.
8. Which treaty recognized Greece as an independent nation?
9. Explain in three ways nationalist feelings were kept alive in
Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries.
10. Why were the years of 1830s years of great economic
hardships in Europe?
11.Describe the unification process by which Germany unified as
a nation state.
12. Analyse the process of Italian unification.
13. How did the Balkan issue become the reason for First World
War?
14.Explain the unification process of Great Britian.
15.Assertion : Zollverein was formed at the initiative of Austria and
joined by very few of the German states.
Reason : The term ‘liberalism’ derives from the Latin root liber,
meaning free.

(a) Both assertion and reason are true and R is the correct
explanation of A.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but R is not the correct
explanation of A.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both assertion and reason are false.

16. Identify the image and name the country.

CHAPTER 2 – NATIONALISM IN INDIA

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1. Which of the following was the reason for calling off ‘the Non-
cooperation Movement’ by Gandhiji?
(a) Pressure from the British Government
(b) Second Round Table Conference
(c) Gandhiji’s arrest
(d) Chauri-Chaura incident
2. Arrange the following in the sequence in which the events occurred:
1. Chauri-Chaura
2. Khilafat Movement
3. Second Round Table Conference
4. Civil Disobedience Movement
3. What was the economic condition created by the First World War in
India?
4. Discuss in detail the protest against the Rowlatt Act and how did the
British react to it?
5. Identify the place from the details given below:
• The place is known for salt satyagraha
• The place is in Gujarat.
6. Describe the Khilafat movement. What was its importance?
7. Describe the incident and impact of the Jallianwala Bagh
8. How did the Non-Cooperation Movement unfold in the towns?
9. What was the Inland Emigration Act and how did the workers react to
it?
10. Assertion: When Simon Commission arrived in India, it was greeted
with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’.
Reason: This happened as Mahatma Gandhi was on Dandi March
during that time.
(a) Both assertion and reason are true and R is the correct
explanation of A.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but R is not the correct
explanation of A.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both assertion and reason are false.
11. Describe the role of Alluri Sitaram Raju in Andhra Pradesh during
1920s.
12. Explain the limitations of Civil Disobediance movement.
13. What was the reaction of the Indian merchants and industrialists to
the Civil Disobedience Movement?
14. Explain the role of women in the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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15. How did Salt March become an effective tool of resistance against
colonialism? Explain.

16. Match the following:

a. Hind Swaraj 1. M.R. Jayakar
b. Swaraj Party 2. General Dyer
c. Hindu Mahasaba 3. Gandhi
d. Jallianwala Bagh 4. Motilal Nehru

17. How did cultural processes help in creating a sense of collective

belongingness in India?
18. What was the significance of this tricolor flag designed by Gandhiji?

19. Identify the appropriate reason for the formation of the Swaraj Party
from the options given below :
(a) Wanted members of Congress to return to Council Politics.
(b) Wanted members of Congress to ask for Purna Swaraj for Indians.
(c) Wanted members of Congress to ask Dominion State for India.
(d) Wanted members of Congress to oppose Simon Commission.

CHAPTER 3 – THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD [Pg: 53-56]

1. Why did Europeans flee to America in 19th century? Identify the
correct reason from the following options:
(a) Poverty and diseases
(b) Due to gold rush
(c) To escape from the French Revolution
(d) As an aftermath of the Vietnam War
2. List some few food items that travelled from far away places to
India.
3. Which was the most powerful weapon used by the Spanish to
conquer America?
4. What was the contribution of Christopher Columbus?
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 5. What goods were exported and imported from silk routes?
6. How the Silk Routes are a good example of pre-modern trade
between different countries of the world?
7. How did food travel from one country to another? Give some
examples.
8. ‘The Spanish conquest and colonization of America was decisively
underway by the mid – 16th century. Explain with examples.

CHAPTER 5 - PRINT, CULTURE AND THE MODERN WORLD

1. At which of the following places in India, first printing press was

established?

(a) Bombay (b) Mardras (c) Calcutta (d) Goa

2. What is calligraphy?
3. Who were called ‘Chapmen?’
4. What was the ancient name of Tokyo?
5. Name two best known women novelists in the 19th century.
6. What was the ‘reading mania’?
7. When was the Vernacular press act passed?
8. Define despotism.
9. Who were Grimm Brothers?
10. Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest
one.”
11. Who published ‘Kesari’ and when?
12. Which of the following books is the oldest Japanese book,
printed in AD containing six sheets of text and woodcut
illustrations?

(a) Diamond Sutra (b) Harshcharita (c) Brihatsutra (d)

Mrichkatika

13. What were penny magazines?

14. How was hand printing technology introduced in Japan?
15. How did print come to Europe from China?
16. How did a new reading public emerge with the printing press?
Explain.
17. Why does production of handwritten manuscripts failed?
18. Why did some people in 18th century think Europe that print
culture would bring enlighnment and end despotism?
19. Examine any three effects of Print culture on the French
Revolution.
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 20. “Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas and
introduced a new world of debate and discussion” explain the
statement.
21. How did the print revolution lead to the development of a
reading mania in Europe?
22. Trace the history of print revolution in India.

CIVICS
CHAPTER 1 - POWER SHARING

1. Consider the following statements and select the correct code.

(i) Power-sharing is good for democracy.
(ii) Power-sharing helps to reduce the possibility of conflicts among
social groups.
(a) Statement (i) is true and statement (ii) is false
(b) Statement (i) is false but statement (ii) is true
(c) Both statements are true
(d) Both statements are false

2. What is Majoritarianism? How does it cause ‘Civil War’ in Srilanka?

3. Identify the Act:
• Passed in 1956. SQp 2014
• Passed by the government of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
• It was for making Sinhala, the official language of the country.
• The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language.
4. Give the ethnic composition of Belgium.
5. There are countries in which the constitution clearly lays down the
powers of different levels of government. This is called:
(a) Unitary division of power
(b) Federal division of power
(c) Legal division of power
(d) Authoritarian division of power
6. Discuss in detail the power sharing process in Belgium.
7. Differentiate between horizontal and vertical form of power sharing
in detail.
8. Is power sharing desirable? Support your answer.

9. Assertion (A): In a democracy, everyone has voice in the shaping of

public policies.
Reason(R): India has federal system.

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 (a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct
explanation of assertion.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct
explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both assertion and reason are false
CHAPTER 2 – FEDERALISM

1. Which of the following is not the key feature of federalism?

(a) There are two or more levels of government.
(b) The jurisdictions of the respective levels or tiers of government
are specified in the constitution.
(c) The fundamental provisions of the constitution cannot be
unilaterally changed by one level of government such changes
require the consent of both levels of government.
(d) The central government can pass on orders to the provincial or
the local government.
2. Differenciate between a federal form of government and a unitary
one.
3. Assertion : Third-tier of government is local government.
Reason : It made democracy weak.
(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) Both A and R are false.
4. State the important features of a federalism.
5. Examine the language policy of India.
6. What are the dual objectives of federalism?
7. Arrange the following in order of “Coming together Federations”
formation system.
1. Various Independent states come together.
2. A bigger unit or federation is formed by pooling sovereignty and
retaining identity.
3. Negotiation among states begins
4. Examples of Such Federations are : USA and Australia.
(a) 1, 3, 2, 4 (b) 1, 2, 3, 4 (c) 2, 3, 4, 1 (d) 4, 3, 1, 2
8. Compare the federations of coming together and holding together
type.
9. What is decentralisation? Why do we need it?
10. Name any two subjects that are included in Concurrent List.
11. Discuss in detail the three fold distribution of legislative power
in India.
12. How did the Centre-State relations change in India after 1990?
13. Explain the steps taken by the Indian government in the year
1992 to make the third-tier of democracy more powerful.
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 14. What is a Gram Sabha? Describe any four functions of a Gram
Sabha.
15. What is Panchayati Raj system?

CHAPTER 4 - GENDER, RELIGION AND CASTE

1. Which act provides that equal wages should be paid for equal work
to both men and women?
2. Define communalism?
3. State the different forms of communal politics with one example
each.

4. What are the different ways in which women face discrimination and
oppression in our society today?
5. How are religious differences expressed in the field of politics?
6. “Communalism takes various forms in politics” – Comment on this
statement.
7. Why communalism needs to be combated?
8. Assertion: India is a secular state.
Reason: Constitution gives freedom to everyone to profess, practice
and propagate any religion without prejudices or any discrimination.
(a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct
explanation of assertion.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct
explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both assertion and reason are false.

9. “Caste system in modern India has undergone great changes” –

Support your answer.
10. “Caste can take various forms in Politics.” Explain with
examples
11. Mention the constitutional provisions that make India a secular
state.
12. Write the three ways through which caste gets politicised in
India.

CHAPTER 6 – POLITICAL PARTIES

1. A political party is an association of:
(a) people (b) children (c) parties (d) none of the above

2. What is meant by ‘Political Party’? Mention its components.

3. Which is not a function of political party?

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 (a) To contest election (b) Faith in violent
methods

(c) Political education to the people (d) Form public opinion.

4. ASSERTION – The Constitution was amended to prevent elected

MLA's and MP's from changing parties.
REASON – It should be made mandatory for political parties to give
one-third tickets to women candidates.

(a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct
explanation of assertion.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct
explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) Both assertion and reason are false.

5. How has multi-party system strengthened Democracy in India ?

Explain.

6. . Distinguish between National party and State party.

7. Name the national parties of India. Explai.
8. Explain the various efforts that have been made to reform political
parties.
9. Explain the functions of the Political Party.
10. Examine the various challenges faced by the Political Parties.
11. Describe the necessity of political parties in democratic countries.
12. Discuss briefly the following :
(a) A Single party system (b) A Bi-party system

CHAPTER 7 – OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY

1. Choose the wrong statement about democracy.

(a) Promotes equality among citizens
(b) Enhances the dignity of the individual
(c) Provide a method to resolve conflicts
(d) Does not have room to correct mistakes.
2. The record of democracies is not impressive because:
(a) It often frustrates the needs of the people
(b) It often ignores demands of a majority of its population,
(c) Both a and b (d) None of the above
3. Democratic government is a legitimate government. Explain.
4. Democracy can lead to:
(a) handle social differences (b) secular society
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 (c) harmonious social life (d) All of the above
5. What is transparency in democracies?
6. How do democracies ensure political equality?
7. Explain with examples how the dignity and freedom of citizens are best
guaranteed in a democracy.
8. Why is a democratic government considered better than other forms of
government? Explain.
9. ‘Democratic government is known as responsive government’. Assess
the statement.
10. What are the different factors affecting economic development of a
country?
11. How does democracy accommodate social diversity?

12 Assertion (A) Democracy is not simply a rule by majority of

opinion.
Reason (R). In a democracy, majority always need to work with
the minority so that governments can function to represent the general
view.
(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.

13. How is poverty a major challenge to democracy ? Explain.

14. Study the picture and answer the question that follows:

Which of the following aspect best signifies above image?

(a) Economic Distribution (b) Dignity and freedom of the

citizens

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(c) Accommodation of social diversity (d) Economic growth and
development

MAP WORK-Locate and label the following on the Political Map of India .

1. Kheda
2. Nagpur
3. Madras
4. Ahamedabad
5. Amristar
6. Calcutta
7. Dandi
8. Champaran
9. Chauri Chaura

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