CBSE Class 10 Social Science Competency Based Questions Gender, Religion, and caste available here. We have included total 3 set of passage. Each passage has 3 questions. Students who are going to prepare their Board exam please Read the passage below and answer the following questions.
Gender, Religion, and caste Class 10 Competency Based Questions:
1) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
The result of gender-based division of labour is that although women constitute half of the humanity, their role in public life, especially politics, is minimal in most societies. Earlier, only men were allowed to participate in public affairs, vote, and contest for public offices. Gradually the gender issue was raised in politics. Women in different parts of the world organised and agitated for equal rights.
1.) Which of the following reasons are responsible for poor status of women in society?
a.) Right to education
b.) Equal remuneration act
c.) Adherence to patriarchal values
d.) All of the above
Answer: C
2.) What were the feminist movements?
There were agitations all around the world for equal role in society and equal rights. There were agitations in different countries for the extension of voting rights to women. Various agitations were organised for demanding equal political and legal rights to women in society. Eventually radical women’s movement were organised which aimed at equality in personal and family life as well. These movements were known as feminist movements.
3.) How the educational standards are different between men and women in society?
The literacy rate for women in India is only 54% as compared to 76% of the men. Moreover, even a smaller number of girl students go for higher education. Because of this the educational standards of women are poor as compared to men.
2) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
In our country, women still lag much behind men despite some improvement since Independence. Ours is still a male-dominated, patriarchal society. Women facedisadvantage, discrimination, and oppression in various ways.
1.) Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a.) Equal remuneration act provides equal wages for equal amount of work to both men and women.
b.) The child sex ration in India is 918.
c.) Equal remuneration act was passed in 1976.
d.) All of them are correct.
Answer: B
2.) How the proportion of work done by women is different in men and women?
In various aspects the proportion of work done by men is different but, on an average, an Indian woman works one hour more than an average man every day. But her work is underpaid or not paid at all because of gender discriminations or non-recognition.
3.) Which of the following are responsible for poor child sex ratio in India?
a.) Female foeticide
b.) Prevalence of dowry culture
c.) Patriarchal society
d.) All of the above.
Answer: D
3) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
Unlike gender and religion, caste division is special to India. All societies have some kind of social inequality and some form of division of labour. In most societies, occupations are passed on from one generation to another. Caste system is an extreme form of this. What makes it different from other societies is that in this system, hereditary occupational division was sanctioned by rituals.
1.) Which of the following political leaders advocated against caste inequalities?
1.) Mahatma Gandhi
2.) Jyotiba Phule
3.) Periyar Ramaswami Naicker
4.) Subhash Chandra Bose
Identify the correct pair.
a.) 1 and 2
b.) 1, 2 and 3
c.) 1, 2, 3 and 4
d.) 2, 3 and 4
Answer: B
2.) How the caste system in India changed?
By the efforts of political leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jyotiba Phule, Periyar Ramaswami Naicker etc. and because of socio-economic changes the caste system in India has changed to a great degree. With economic development, large scale urbanisation, increase in literacy rates and education, occupational mobility and weakening of the landlords in villages the rigidity of caste system declined.
3.) Which of the following is not an aspect of secular state which are enshrined in the constitution of India?
a.) All the individuals and communities have freedom to profess, practice and propagate any religion.
b.) The constitution prohibits discrimination on the grounds of gender.
c.) Constitution allows the state to intervene in the matters of religion in order to ensure equality.
d.) All of them are correct.
Answer: B
4.) DIRECTIONS for the question: In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per the codes provided below:
Assertion(A): Sri Lanka is a religious state and Buddhism is the official state religion.
Reason(R): Communal politics is based on the idea that religion is the principal basis of social community.
a.) A is false but R is true.
b.) A is true but R is false.
c.) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
d) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
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