D.P.S.

MIS DOHA QATAR

Class: X
Subject History & Civics
Revision Questions for Summative Assessment I - 2015-16
Instructions:
Read the text book thoroughly before answering the following
questions.
Take a print out of this revision worksheet.
Answer all the questions in your book
Write in points & underline the key words.
The answers will be discussed in the class.

HISTORY
THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
1. What is proto industrialization?
2. Difference between factory production and proto
industrialization.
3. Why did merchants from the towns in Europe begin moving
to the countryside in the 17th and 18th century?
4. During the First World War years, industrial production
boomed. Give reasons.
5. By the first decade of the 20th century a series of changes
affected the pattern of industrialization in India. Explain.
6. Give reasons why the handloom weavers in India survived
the onslaught of the machine made textiles of Manchester.
7. Elucidate on the lives of the workers in Britain.
8. What was the impact of colonialization of India on the Indian
traders and merchants?
9. What is the importance of advertisements? How were they
used by the Britishers to expand the markets for their
products?

10.
Why did the system of advances prove harmful for the
weavers?
NOVELS, SOCIETY AND HISTORY
1. In what way was the novel in colonial India useful for both
the colonizers as well as the nationalists?
2. Explain Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyayas contribution to
Indian literature.
3. Define with examples what is meant by epistolary &
serialized novels.
4. What did Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy want to portray
through their writing of novels? Explain with examples.
5. How did the novel Pariksha Guru reflect the inner and outer
world of the newly emerging middle classes?
6. What did novels in the 19th century India mean to women
and children?
7. Mention the features of Vaikkom Muhammad Basheers
writings.
8. How did novels become popular among its readers?
9. Give reasons why Premchands novels acquired popularity?
10.
What were the various uses of the novel?

CIVICS
POWER SHARING
1. What was the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka and Belgium? How
did the Sri Lankan and the Belgium Government try to solve
the ethnic problem?
2. Distinguish between prudential and moral reasons of power
sharing.
3. Explain the principle of federal division of power.
4. Short note on accommodation in Belgium.
5. Explain the major forms of power sharing.
6. What is majoritarianism?
7. Define civil war.
FEDERALISM
1. What is federalism?

2. How was the third tier of government made more powerful

and effective by the constitution?
3. Define decentralization. What is the need for
decentralization?
4. All states in the Indian federation do not have identical
powers. Justify.
5. What is Panchayati Raj? What is its importance?
6. How is federalism practiced in India?
7. Difference between federal and unitary government.
DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY
1. Three factors are crucial in deciding the outcome of politics
of social divisions. Explain.
2. Short note on the Civil Rights Movement in the USA.
3. Explain how every social difference does not lead to social
division.
4. Social division takes place when some social difference
overlaps with other differences. Explain with examples.
5. Explain the reasons of social differences.
6. How was the Civil Rights Movement different from the Black
power Movement?
7. What is a homogeneous society?
GENDER, RELIGION AND CASTE
1. What is a secular state? What makes India a secular state?
2. What were Gandhijis views regarding religion and politics?
3. Why do we need to control communalism? Suggest ways
how it can be done.
4. When does communal problem become acute?
5. How does politics influence the caste system?
6. What forms can communalism take in politics?