List of practice Questions

High rates of infant mortality and maternal mortality are the result of which factors?

The NGO, Mahila Samakhya, adopted an innovative method to communicate about the Panchayat Raj system to the women in villages.

India has which kind of democracy?

Opinions that are not fact based can be understood as

Match the newspapers in List I with the language in List II

List-I		List-II
(A)	Kesari	(I)	Malayali
(B)	Mathrubhumi	(II)	Hindi
(C)	Sambad-Kaumudi	(III)	Bengali
(D)	Amar Ujala	(IV)	Marathi

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Why is Demographic Dividend considered temporary?

Identify the three villages that were initially brought together to establish the trading post on river Hooghly by the English in 17th century.

Who believed that famines are the result of "failure of entitlements"?

When did Right to Information Act came into force?

Identify the key characteristic of social stratification from the list given below:
A. It is social and not individual in character
B. Social stratification persists through ideologies and practices
C. It persists over generations
D. It is natural
E. It is not natural
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What does population pyramid show?

Match the books in List I with the authors in List II

List-I		List-II
(A)	Stree Purush Tulana	(I)	Daya Pawar
(B)	The city	(II)	Begum Rokeya
(C)	Analogy of Religion	(III)	Tarabai Shinde
(D)	Sultana's Dream	(IV)	Bishop Joseph Butler

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The working age group considered for measuring dependency ratio is:

In Madhopur village, 77 out of 298 households work and live in the cities of Bombay and Calcutta. What does the example reflect?

Common features of caste system include
A. equalities within the same caste members
B. social mobility
C. occupational link
D. subdivisions
E. hierarchical arrangements
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Match the concept in List I with the example in List II

List-I (Concept)		List-II (Example)
(A)	Weekly market	(I)	Use of branded cars
(B)	Status symbol	(II)	BPO
(C)	Commodification	(III)	Dhorai
(D)	Globalisation	(IV)	Sale of kidney to rich patients

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Arrange the states having lowest to highest child sex-ratio as per 2011 Census:
A. Himachal Pradesh
B. Kerala
C. Bihar
D. Haryana
E. Rajasthan
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Arrange the following groups in an ascending order in terms of their percentage share in the Bidi industry:
A. Manufacturer
B. Worker
C. Contractor
D. Distributor
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For migrant workers Jan Breman has used the term:

Identify the permanent traits of tribes from the list provided below:
A. Language
B. Mode of livelihood
C. Region
D. Extent of incorporation into Hindu society
E. Physical characteristics
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Arrange the four-fold division of society into the varna system:
A. Vaisya
B. Brahmin
C. Sudra
D. Kshatriya
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Scrubber technology used in automobile to remove mainly which harmful gas from the exhaust with the help of water spray or lime :

Acid Rain is caused due to _________.

Silicon doped with electron elements of group-13 forms.

Phenol is brominated in solvent CS, at low temperature. The product formed are: