1. QUESTION BANK
Subject
SOCIAL
SCIENCE
Lesson
Class 9 Prepared By Suresh & Neethu
Question No. 1 to 6 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:
Unemployment is said to exist when people who are willing to work at the going wages cannot find jobs.
The workforce population includes people from 15 years to 59 years. In case of India, we have
unemployment in rural and urban areas. However, the nature of unemployment differs in rural and urban
areas. In the case of rural areas, there is seasonal and disguised unemployment. Urban areas have mostly
educated unemployment. Seasonal unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during
some months of the year. People dependant upon agriculture usually face such kind of problem. There are
certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weeding and threshing are done. Certain months do not
provide much work to the people dependant on agriculture. In case of disguised unemployment people
appear to be employed. They have an agricultural plot where they find work. This usually happens among
family members engaged in agricultural activity. The work requires the service of five people but engages
eight people. Three people are extra. These three people also work in the same plot as the others. The
contribution made by the three extra people does not add to the contribution made by the five people. If
three people are removed the productivity of the field will not decline. The field requires the service of five
people and the three extra people are disguised as unemployed. In case of urban areas educated
unemployment has become a common phenomenon. Many youths with matriculation, graduation and post-
graduation degrees are not able to find a job.
1. In which of the following fields is disguised unemployment found?
a. Fisheries
b. Agriculture
c. Industries
d. Mining
2. If a person in rural areas cannot find jobs during some months of the year, which type of
employment is this called?
a. Structural unemployment
b. Seasonal unemployment
c. Disguised unemployment
d. Educated unemployment
3. The persons who are not working by choice are covered under ________.
a. disguised unemployment
b. seasonal unemployment
c. none of these
d. educated unemployment
2. 4. At Palampur village, in an agricultural field 6 men are required for weeding, but 10 people are
doing the work. This kind of employment is known as:
a. All of these
b. Rural unemployment
c. Disguised unemployment
d. Seasonal unemployment
5. Choose the most irrelevant options in the context of India's unemployment from the following:
a. The nature of unemployment in rural and urban areas is almost the same.
b. There are three kinds of unemployment: seasonal, disguised, and educated unemployment.
c. People within 15 -59 years compose the Indian workforce population.
d. A village farm labourer and a mason both are seasonally employed.
6. Many educated youths are seen doing odd jobs these days. They do not even get a deserving
salary but have to do it for survival. Young people with a post-graduation degree are unable to
find a job. It has now become a common phenomenon. Identify the case.
a. This is the case of relation between demand-supply of jobs and people in India
b. This is the case of underdeveloped countries like India
c. This is the case of educated unemployment in urban areas of India
d. This is the case of lack of well-paying jobs all over India
7. In the secondary sector which of the following is the most labour absorbing?
a. Mining
b. Quarrying
c. Trade
d. Small scale manufacturing
8. In which sector new services like biotechnology and information technology are now appearing?
a. Tertiary
b. Manufacturing
c. Secondary
d. Primary
9. The _______ of a person helps to realise his/her potential and the ability to fight illness.
a. Earnings
b. Salary
c. Education
d. Health
10. Assertion (A): The plan outlay on education has increased drastically from the first plan to date.
Reason (R): The expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP rose from 0.64% in 1951–52 to
3.1% in 2019–20.
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.
11. Assertion (A): A firm will not like to employ an ill healthy worker.
Reason (R): An Unhealthy worker is a liability rather than an asset for an organisation.
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.
12. Correct the following statement and rewrite:
Labour as Resource is a way of referring to a country’s working people in terms of their existing
productive skills and abilities.
13. Correct the following statement and rewrite:
Disguised unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the
year.
14. State True or False:
3. i. Countries like India have invested heavily in human resources because they did not have
adequate natural resources.
a. True
b. False
ii. Economic growth is a vicious cycle.
a. True
b. False
15.Fill in the blanks:
c. The state of _______ has poor health indices and a few medical colleges in India.
d. CHC stands for ________.
16.Match the following:
(a) Invested in human resource (i) SarvaSikshaAbhiyan
(b) Has built a vast health infrastructure (ii) Japan
(c) Encourage attendance and retention of children (iii) Mid-day meal
(d) Providing elementary education (iv) India
17.Who are educated unemployed?
18.What is the full form of GDP?
19.Write a short note on Educated Employment.
20.Discuss on Structural Employment.
21. Who was Nelson Mandela?
22. What would have happened in South Africa if the black majority had decided to take revenge on the
whites for all their oppression and exploitation?
23. What is meant by Segregation?
24. Which type of tactics did the white racist government of South Africa use to continue to rule?
25. What is apartheid?
26. How many years of his life, Nelson Mandela spent in Jail?
4. 27. When was the new national flag of the Republic of South Africa hoisted for the first time?
28. Why is India called ‘a Republic’?
29. What do you mean by political equality?
