MCQs For NCERT Class 10 Social Science Chapter 1 Development

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Development Class 10 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question. The World Development Report is published by _____________.
(a) UNDP
(b) World Bank
(c) UNO
(d) UNESCO

Question. What brings about stable income?
(a) Better wages
(b) Work opportunities
(c) Regular work
(d) Decent price for their crops or other products

Question. Besides seeking more income, there is something people resent, what is it?
(a) Getting fewer wages for more work
(b) Discrimination
(c) No work
(d) Poverty

Question. What is the one factor on which our life depends?
(a) Employment
(b) Security of work
(c) Money, or material things that one can buy with it
(d) Freedom

Question. According to the 2004 survey, the literacy rate of the population for 15+ in India was __________.
(a) 41%
(b) 61%
(c) 91%
(d) 51%

Question. What is a creative way of using resources?
(a) Export them
(b) Import them
(c) Use them to the maximum extent
(d) Preserve them as much as possible

Question. IMR stands for
(a) Infant Mortality Rate
(b) Indian Mortality Ratio
(c) International Mortality Ratio
(d) none of these

Question. Development criteria include
(a) income
(b) equal treatment
(c) freedom
(d) all of these

Question. Which is the most common method of measuring economic development?
(a) Profit loss
(b) Income
(c) Sales
(d) Import-export

Question. What are the developmental goals of landless rural labourers?
(a) More days of work and better wages
(b) Acquirement of land for self-tilling
(c) More hours of work
(d) Self-reliance

Question. If women are engaged in paid work, what difference does it make?
(a) Their dignity in the household and society decreases
(b) No difference
(c) No dignity
(d) Their dignity in the household and society increases

Question. Different persons could have ________ notions of a country’s development.
(a) different as well as conflicting
(b) same
(c) indifferent
(d) no

Question. What is considered to be one of the most important attributes when we compare countries at the level of development?
(a) Industrial development
(b) Resources of the country
(c) Income
(d) Import-export

Question. Meaning of development is different for
(a) different people
(b) alien people
(c) same people
(d) none of these

Question. Classical view of economic development includes
(a) per capita income
(b) national income
(c) none of these
(d) both (a) and (b)

Question. Human Development Report is published by
(a) UNDP
(b) World Bank
(c) IMF
(d) WHO

Question. More income means ___________.
(a) average out of needs of people.
(b) more of all things that human beings need.
(c) no effect on the common man.
(d) more business.

Question. ___________ is the total income of the country divided by its total population.
(a) Per capita income
(b) Gross income
(c) Net income
(d) Total income

Question. In World Development Reports, brought out by the World Bank, which criterion is used in classifying countries?
(a) Total income
(b) Gross income
(c) Per capita income
(d) Net income

Question. Development goal for landless agricultural labour is
(a) high prices for crops
(b) more days of work
(c) cheap labour
(d) pollution free environment

Question. If industrialists want more dams then why do local people resist it?
(a) They will be displaced.
(b) Their lands will be submerged.
(c) Their will be no source of earning for them.
(d) All of the above

Question. People may have different developmental goals; what is development for one, may even be ___________ for the other.
(a) destructive
(b) constructive
(c) same
(d) equal

Question. Which of the following neighbouring countries has better performance in terms of human development than India?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Nepal
(d) Pakistan

Question. Countries with per capita income of US$ __________ per annum and above in 2017, are called rich countries.
(a) 12,126
(b) 11,246
(c) 12,056
(d) 10,056

Question. What can money not buy you?
(a) Unadulterated medicines
(b) Water
(c) Pollution-free environment
(d) Organic food

Question. Why does Kerala have a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities
(b) Suitable climate
(c) Pollution Free environment
(d) Good water

Question. Over the past decade or so, __________ indicators have come to be widely used along with income as a measure of development.
(a) health and nutrition
(b) health and education
(c) child development
(d) human development

Question. What does the Infant Mortality Rate indicates? Identify the correct option:
(a) The number of children born in a year.
(b) Literate population in the seven and above age.
(c) The number of children who die before the age of one year as a proportion of 1000 live children.
(d) Average expected length of life of a person at the time of birth.

Question. Assertion (A) Human Development Report published by UNDP is a narrow concept of measuring human development.
Reason (R) It is based on the educational levels of the people, their health status and per capita income.
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(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.

Question. When we divide the National Income of a country by its total population what we get? Identify the correct option from the following:
(a) Per Capita Income
(b) Gross Development Product
(c) Human Development Index
(d) Total Income

Question. Match the following.

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(a) A → 1, B → 3, C → 2
(b) A → 3, B → 1, C → 2
(c) A → 2, B → 3, C → 1
(d) A → 3, B → 2, C → 1

Question. Which of the following statement/s is correct with regard to the World Development Report published by the World Bank?
(i) It has classified the countries on the basis of Per Capita Income.
(ii) The countries have been categorised into rich and low income countries.
(iii) It helps to calculate the nutritional level of people.
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(a) Only (i)
(b) Only (iii)
(c) Both (i) and (ii)
(d) Both (ii) and (iii)

Question. Full form of SED is
(a) sustainable economic development
(b) simple economic development
(c) sound economic development
(d) none of these

Question. Per capita income hides
(a) disparities
(b) average income
(c) total population
(d) none of these

Question. Which of the following is the most important component for comparing different countries?
(a) Population
(b) Income
(c) Per capita income
(d) Resources

Question. According to the Human Development Report, 2018, United Nations Development Programme, which two countries have a higher Life expectancy at Birth rate than India?
(a) Sri Lanka and Myanmar
(b) Pakistan and Nepal
(c) Pakistan and Bangladesh
(d) Nepal and Bangladesh

Question. Per Capita Income is calculated in __________ for all countries.
(a) pounds
(b) euros
(c) dollars
(d) rupees

Question. Since the second half of the twentieth century, a number of scientists have been warning that__________.
(a) health and nutrition is declining
(b) per capita income is unstable
(c) levels of resources are not sustainable
(d) levels of development are not sustainable

Question. In the data for the Per Capita Income of Haryana, Kerala, Bihar-which state has the lowest per capita income?
(a) Haryana
(b) Kerala
(c) Bihar
(d) All are equal

Question. Countries with per capita income of US$ __________ or less are called low-income countries.
(a) 995
(b) 885
(c) 955
(d) 855

Question. Which category does India come under?
(a) High-income countries
(b) Low middle-income countries
(c) Low-income countries
(d) High middle-income countries

Question. What was India’s per capita income in 2017?
(a) US$ 1950 per annum
(b) US$ 1880 per annum
(c) US$ 1930 per annum
(d) US$ 1820 per annum

Question. Development is sustained by the ____________.
(a) conservation of resources and the environment
(b) conservation of the factors of production
(c) continuous increase in per capita income
(d) all the above

Match the following

Question.

Column-A	Column-B
1. Infant Mortality Rate	(a) measures the proportion of literate population in the age group of 7 and above.
2. Literacy Rate	(b) Total number of children of age-group 6-10 attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same group.
3. Net Attendance Ratio	(c) Total income of the country divided by its total population
4. Average income	(d) includes three levels of school.
5. Gross Enrolment Ratio	(e) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one as a proportion of live children born in that year

Answer :

Column-A	Column-B
1. Infant Mortality Rate	(e) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one as a proportion of live children born in that year
2. Literacy Rate	(a) measures the proportion of literate population in the age group of 7 and above.
3. Net Attendance Ratio	(b) Total number of children of age-group 6-10 attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same group.
4. Average income	(c) Total income of the country divided by its total population
5. Gross Enrolment Ratio	(d) includes three levels of school.

Question.

Column-I	Column-II	Column-III
1. The average income is also called	(а) 2003 was	(A) income
2. The Infant Mortality Rate in Bihar in	(b) the goods	(B) 49
3. The Infant Mortality Rate in Pubjab in	(c) UP is	(C) 52
4. Money in your pocket cannot buy all	(d) 2003 was	(D) and services
5. The percentage of literacy rate for rural population of males in	(e) per capita	(E) 60

Answer :

Column-I	Column-II	Column-III
1. The average income is also called	(e) per capita	(A) income
2. The Infant Mortality Rate in Bihar in	(а) 2003 was	(E) 60
3. The Infant Mortality Rate in Pubjab in	(d) 2003 was	(B) 49
4. Money in your pocket cannot buy all	(b) the goods	(D) and services
5. The percentage of literacy rate for rural population of males in	(c) UP is	(C) 52