Choose the correct answer:
Question 1.
Who out of the following are facing inequalities due to marginalisation?
(a) Dalits
(b) Women
(c) Adivasis
(d) All of them
Answer
Answer: (d) All of them
Question 2.
Which is the Article of Constitution that states that untouchability has been abolished?
(a) Article 16
(b) Article 18
(c) Article 28
(d) Article 17
Answer
Answer: (d) Article 17
Question 3.
Who wrote the poem on untouchability?
(a) Poet Chokhamela
(b) Poet Surender Sharma
(c) Poet Maithali Sharan Gupta
(d) Poetess Soyrabai
Answer
Answer: (d) Poetess Soyrabai
Question 4.
How does government ensure to end the inequity in the country?
(a) Through laws
(b) Through reservations
(c) Both A and B
(d) None of them
Answer
Answer: (c) Both A and B
Question 5.
What term means to exclude or banish an individual or a group?
(a) Dalit
(b) S.C.
(c) Ostracise
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Ostracise
Question 6.
A person or a group that can express themselves and their views strongly are
(a) assertive
(b) representative
(c) forceful person
(d) none of these
Answer
Answer: (a) assertive
Question 7.
Who was Kabir by caste?
(a) Weaver
(b) Kumhar
(c) Barbar
(d) Mason
Answer
Answer: (a) Weaver
Question 8.
Which type of poems Kabir wrote?
(a) Bhakti tradition
(b) Veer Ras
(c) Revolutionary
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Bhakti tradition
Question 9.
What do you understand by manual scavenging?
(a) Work of scavenging by machine
(b) Work of scavenging by hand
(c) Work of scavenging by power
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Work of scavenging by hand
Question 10.
When did the Supreme Court ban the practice of manual scavenging?
(a) 2001
(b) 2002
(c) 2004
(d) 1993
Answer
Answer: (d) 1993
Question 11.
The forest or tribal people living in their aboriginal state the lifestyle are known as
(a) Invoke
(b) Dalits
(c) Adivasis
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Adivasis
Question 12.
Which Act is important for Adivasis?
(a) Act, 1989
(b) Act, 1990
(c) Act, 1991
(d) Act, 1996
Answer
Answer: (a) Act, 1989
Question 13.
Who needs to constantly work to bring equality and dignity for all?
(a) Government
(b) People
(c) None of them
(d) Both of them
Answer
Answer: (d) Both of them
Match the following:
| Column A | Column B |
| (а) Untouchability | (i) Face to face |
| (b) Priest | (ii) Work to earn money |
| (c) Occupation | (iii) Scavenging by hand |
| (d) Confront | (iv) Temple |
| (e) Manual scavenging | (v) Not touchability |
Answer
Answer:
| Column A | Column B |
| (а) Untouchability | (v) Not touchability |
| (b) Priest | (iv) Temple |
| (c) Occupation | (ii) Work to earn money |
| (d) Confront | (i) Face to face |
| (e) Manual scavenging | (iii) Scavenging by hand |
State whether true or false:
1. Generally, Adivasis live in forests or mountainous areas.
Answer
Answer: True
2. Fundamental Rights are those rights which the Constitution of India has conferred with the discrimination.
Answer
Answer: False
3. Dalits had to work for powerful castes to earn their livelihood.
Answer
Answer: True
4. The Constitution ensures that principles that guide our society and nation are democratic.
Answer
Answer: True
5. Fundamental Rights are not available equally to all people.
Answer
Answer: False