15 Qns on Ch-8,NOVELS By Harsita

Q-1 Who was the Indian writer who used the novel to propogate his ideas about society among a wider readership?

 Ans- Viresalingam

Q-2 Indulekha, the main character of a novel written by Chandu Menon, was educated in which languages?

 Ans- English and Sanskrit

Q-3 Which two types of novel were most popular in Tamil in the early decades of twentieth century?

 Ans- Detective and mystery novels

Q-4 Which two novels had main characters belonging to upper-caste?

 Ans- Indulekha and Indirabai

Q-5 Who was the Bengali female writer who started a girls school?

 Ans- Rokeya Hossien

Q-6 Which novel written by Rokeya Hossein showed the need for women to reform?

 Ans- Padmarag

Q-7 Which lower caste writer from kerala wrote Saraswativijayam?

 Ans- Potheri  Kunjambu

Q-8 Which novel was the first historic novel written in Bengal and who wrote it?

Ans- Bhudeb mukhopadhyays Anguriya Binimoy

Q-9 Who wrote "Anandmath" and in which year?

 Ans- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882

Q-10 Which novel is about life of Mallas,a community of fisherfolk and who wrote it?

 Ans- Advaita Malla Burmans Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Q-11 Which early Muslim writer gained popularity as a Malayalam novelist?

 Ans- Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer

Q-12 Who were the main characters of Premchands novel godan?

 Ans- Hori and Dhania

Q-13 Traditional stories written about past in India are called ___________?

 Ans- Puranic stories

Q-14 Premchands which novel tells about the life of peasants during great depression?

 Ans- Godan

Q-15 What is a satire?

 Ans- A form of representation by writing, drawing, painting etc. that critises society in a clever manner.   

POWER SHARING BY SHADAB AHMED X A

One word question for power sharing

1.A social division based on the shared culture_________?

2.What is the capital of Belgium________?

3.How much percentage of the people speak dutch and French_______?

4.Who are the major social groups in srilanka?

5.Tamil natives of the country are called_______?

6._______is the belief that the majority  community should be able to a country in whichever way he wants, by disregarding the wishes and needs of the minority?

7.In which year the act was passed to recognize Sinhala as the only official language ,thus regarding the tamil_______?

8. Apart from the central and the state government ,there is a third kind of government .Name?

9.Power sharing is good because it helps to reduce the possibility of ________between social groups?

10.Power sharing is very ________of democracy?

11.___________stress that power sharing will bring better outcomes?

12. _________ emphasise the very act of the power sharing?

13.Which power sharing is known as horizontal power sharing?

14.Give two examples for pressure groups?

15.The constitution clearly lays down the powers of different levels of the government?

16.Demanding independence of any particular area or demanding equal power for the rest of the country____________?

17.Sharing power by different groups or levels for the smooth functioning of the government_______________?

History Making Of the Global World By Anis Ali

 1.   Food – an example of long distance culture exchange

·        Spaghetti and noodles

·        Pasta

·        Foods in India

·        Dependence on potato

·        Discovery of India

2.   The most powerful weapon of Spanish consequences

·        Germs of smallpox

·        No immunity

·        Spread of disease

·        Way for conquest

3.   Why thousand fled from Europe to America?

·        Poverty ad hunger

·        Overcrowded cities

·        Deadly disease

·        Religious conflicts

4.   Flows within international economic exchange

·        Flows of trade

·        Flows of capital

·        Flows of Labour

5.   Corn Laws: Pressure from landed groups- restricted import of corn

       Effects

·        Industrialists- unhappy with corn law- corn produced less-prices increased.

·        Peasants were unhappy- land utilized- good sum of money.

·        Urban dwellers were unhappy.

6.   Role of Technology

·        Railways, steamships and telegraph

·        Technological advances

7.   Problems in carrying live animals on ships

·        Lot of space

·        Died in voyage

·        Became unfit

8. Advantages of carrying slaughtered animals

·        Reduced shipping costs

·        Lowered meat prices

·        More varied diet

9. Methods to recruit African labour by Europeans

·        Imposing heavy taxes

·        Changing inheritance laws

·        Rinderpest: It was a cattle disease.

10. What was it? How it reached Africa? Why?

·        Carried by infected cattle from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers

·        Reached Africa’s Atlantic Coast in 1892.

Effects:-

·        Lass of cattle- destruction of African livelihoods

·        Monopoly over scare resources

·        Control over cattle.

  11. Uses of Britain’s trade surplus with India

·        Balancing trade deficits

·        Play ‘home charges’

·        Pay interests

 12. Significance of World War 1

·        Use of modern weapons/ First modern industrial war

·        Large number of solders from around World

·        Large transportation

·        Massive destruction

 13. Effects of 1^st World war

·        Mass death and destruction

·        Reduction in workforce of Europe

·        Restructuring of industries

·        Reorganization of society

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14.  Effects of Economic Boom(during war)

·        Production increased

·        Employment increased

15.  Methods followed by Henry ford for mass production.

·        Assembly line

·        Doubling wages

·        Banning trade unions

16.  Impacts of Assembly line method

·        Copying in Europe

·        Low cost and prices

·        More affordability

·        Mass production

·        Demand for work increased

17.  Factors for great depression

·        Agriculture overproduction

·        Loans from US

·        Withdrawal of US loans

18.  Effects of Great depression on India

·        Halved import and export

·        Prices crashed

·        Indebt ness of peasants and farmers

·        Refusal for reduction in revenue

19.  How peasants coped up with GD?

·        Increased peasants indebt ness

·        Used their savings

·        Mortgaged lands

·        Sold jewellary

20.  Lessons for USA from inter- war economic experience

·        Mass production by full employment

·        Economic links with outside world

21.  Influences that shaped post- war reconstruction

·        US dominance

·        Dominance of the Soviet union

22.  Aims of Bretton wood system

·        Role IMF

·        Role of world bank

23.  Effects of Bretton woods system

·        Growth of incomes and trade

·        Stale growth

·        Spread of technology and enterprises

24.  Factors for end of Bretton woods system

·        Rising cost of overseas involvement

·        No command of US dollars

·        Focus over developing countries

·        Fixed exchange rate

25.  Factors helping China a position in World Market

·        Low wages, cheap labour

·        Low cost structure of Chinese goods

·        Hardworking workers

26.  After corn laws scrapped – effects on Britain

·         British agriculture unable to compete

·        Vast area remain uncultivated

·         Unemployment

·        Migration

27.  Role of Silk route in Globalization

·        Connecting the Word

·        Trade and commence

·        Culture exchange

28.  Role of conquest in globalization

·        Industries

·        Introduction of English language

·        Exchange of knowledge

·        Establishment of Railways

29.  What were the ancient or pre-modern factors which helped in globalization

·        Travelers

·        Traders

·        Priests and Pilgrims

·        Germs and disease

30.  3 types of Flows

·        Flow of trade

·        Flow of labour

·        Flow of capital

31.  How a global agriculture economy took place

·        Flow of trade

·        Flow of labour

·        Flow of capital

32.  Factors which led to making of a global world

·        Railways

·        Telegraph

·        Steam ships

·        Internet

33.  Effects of reinterprets

·        Rest ruction of cattle

·        Destruction of livelihood

·        Monopolization of cattle’s

·        Conquering part of Africa