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Confronting Marginalisation · CBSE STD 8 (CBSE - English Medium). 50 questions.

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MCQ 11 Mark
What is meant by the term ‘Assertive’?
  • A
    Those never express themselves.
  • B
    Those oppose every concept.
  • ✓
    Those express themselves strongly.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Those express themselves strongly.
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MCQ 21 Mark
In which year did the government passed the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines $($Prohibition$)$ Act.
  • A
    In $1991$
  • B
    In $1992$
  • ✓
    In $1993$
  • D
    In $1990$
Answer
Correct option: C.
In $1993$
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MCQ 31 Mark
What are the fundamental rights in the constitution that are treated with dignity and equality?
  • A
    Right to Equality.
  • B
    Right to freedom.
  • ✓
    Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
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MCQ 61 Mark
People believing that adivasis are:
  • A
    Cunning, primitive and forward.
  • ✓
    Exotic, primitive and backward.
  • C
    Extrovert, primitive and forward.
  • D
    Exotic, modern and backward.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Exotic, primitive and backward.
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MCQ 71 Mark
Reservation Policy is adopted by the government for the benefits of:
  • A
    Scheduled castes.
  • B
    Backward classes.
  • C
    Scheduled tribes.
  • ✓
    All of the the above.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of the the above.
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MCQ 81 Mark
$............$ refers to the practice of removing human and animal waste/ excreta using brooms, tin plates, and baskts from dry latrines.
  • ✓
    Manual scavenging.
  • B
    Rag pickers.
  • C
    Sweepers.
  • D
    Dalits.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Manual scavenging.
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MCQ 91 Mark
How does the government ensure to end the inequity in the country?
  • A
    Through laws.
  • B
    Through reservations.
  • ✓
    Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
  • D
    None of the above.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
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MCQ 101 Mark
Dalits can invoke their $..........$ if they feel they are being marginalised.
  • A
    Constitution.
  • B
    Article $15.$
  • ✓
    Fundamental Rights.
  • D
    Police Complaint.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Fundamental Rights.
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MCQ 111 Mark
Who wrote the poem on untouchability?
  • A
    Poet Chokhamela.
  • B
    Poet Surender Sharma.
  • C
    Poet Maithali Sharan Gupta.
  • ✓
    Poetess Soyrabai.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Poetess Soyrabai.
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MCQ 121 Mark
When did the Supreme Court ban the practice of manual scavenging?
  • A
    $2001$
  • B
    $2002$
  • C
    $2004$
  • ✓
    $1993$
Answer
Correct option: D.
$1993$
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MCQ 131 Mark
Which encroachers were pointed out by C. K. Janu.
  • A
    Paper mill owner.
  • B
    Timber Merchant.
  • ✓
    Both $a$ and $b.$
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both $a$ and $b.$
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MCQ 141 Mark
Who needs to constantly work to bring equality and dignity for all?
  • A
    Government
  • B
    People
  • C
    None of them
  • ✓
    Both of them
Answer
Correct option: D.
Both of them
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MCQ 151 Mark
Which Act states that this Act is meant to undo the historical injustices meted out to forest dwelling populations in not recognising their rights to land and resources.
  • A
    The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines $($Prohibition$)$ Act.
  • B
    The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes $($Prevention of Atrocities$)$ Act.
  • C
    Dalits Act.
  • ✓
    The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers $($Recognition of Forest Rights$)$ Act.
Answer
Correct option: D.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers $($Recognition of Forest Rights$)$ Act.
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MCQ 161 Mark
Marginalization results in:
  • A
    Low social status.
  • B
    Not equal access of Eduation.
  • ✓
    Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both $(a)\ \&\ (b).$
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MCQ 171 Mark
The forest or tribal people living in their aboriginal state the lifestyle are known as:
  • A
    Invoke
  • B
    Dalits
  • ✓
    Adivasis
  • D
    None of these
Answer
Correct option: C.
Adivasis
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MCQ 191 Mark
What do you mean by Ostracise?
  • ✓
    Banish Individual or group.
  • B
    Banish Caste.
  • C
    Banish religion.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Banish Individual or group.
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MCQ 211 Mark
Which article of the Constitution notes that no citizenof India shall be discriminated against on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
  • A
    Article $18$
  • ✓
    Article $15$
  • C
    Article $16$
  • D
    Article $17$
Answer
Correct option: B.
Article $15$
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MCQ 221 Mark
Who out of the following are facing inequalities due to marginalization?
  • A
    Dalits
  • B
    Women
  • C
    Adivasis
  • ✓
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of the above
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MCQ 231 Mark
Bhakti poet Chokhamela belonged to $..........$ caste.
  • ✓
    Mahar
  • B
    Kumhar
  • C
    Bhil
  • D
    Gujjar
Answer
Correct option: A.
Mahar
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MCQ 241 Mark
The act passed in $2006.$
  • ✓
    The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers $($Recognition of Forest Rights$)$ Act.
  • B
    The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines $($Prohibition$)$ Act.
  • C
    The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes $($Prevention of Atrocities$)$ Act.
  • D
    Dalits Act.
Answer
Correct option: A.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers $($Recognition of Forest Rights$)$ Act.
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MCQ 251 Mark
Why do we need safeguards?
  • A
    To protect the state.
  • B
    To protect the society.
  • C
    To protect the rich people.
  • ✓
    To protect minority community.
Answer
Correct option: D.
To protect minority community.
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MCQ 261 Mark
$1835$ onwards, Adivasis from Jharkhand $\&$ adjoining areas moved in India $\&$ the world's like:
  • A
    Mauritius
  • B
    Caribbean
  • C
    Australia
  • ✓
    All of these
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of these
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MCQ 281 Mark
$..........$ of Indian Constitution states that no citizen shall be discriminated against on the basis of religion.
  • A
    Article $5$
  • B
    Article $10$
  • ✓
    Article $15$
  • D
    Article $4$
Answer
Correct option: C.
Article $15$
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MCQ 291 Mark
Who are Bhangis and Pakhis.
  • ✓
    Manual Scavengers.
  • B
    Schedule Tribes.
  • C
    Illiterates.
  • D
    Below Poverty Line.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Manual Scavengers.
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MCQ 301 Mark
What do you understand by manual scavenging?
  • A
    Work of scavenging by machine.
  • ✓
    Work of scavenging by hand.
  • C
    Work of scavenging by power.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Work of scavenging by hand.
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MCQ 311 Mark
Untouchability is abolished under which article of the Constitution?
  • ✓
    Article $17$
  • B
    Article $15$
  • C
    Article $19$
  • D
    Article $14$
Answer
Correct option: A.
Article $17$
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MCQ 321 Mark
Meaning of Manual Scavenging?
  • A
    Cleaning of cities.
  • ✓
    Carrying Human excreta on heads.
  • C
    Both $a$ and $b$.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Carrying Human excreta on heads.
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MCQ 331 Mark
Which type of poems Kabir wrote?
  • ✓
    Bhakti tradition.
  • B
    Veer Ras.
  • C
    Revolutionary.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Bhakti tradition.
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MCQ 341 Mark
What term means to exclude or banish an individual or a group?
  • A
    Dalit.
  • B
    Scheduled caste.
  • ✓
    Ostracise.
  • D
    None of the above.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Ostracise.
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MCQ 351 Mark
How many percent of India's population is Adivasi?
  • ✓
    Around $8\%$
  • B
    About $10\%$
  • C
    About $4\%$
  • D
    About $6\%$
Answer
Correct option: A.
Around $8\%$
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MCQ 361 Mark
Which is the Article of Constitution that states that untouchability has been abolished?
  • A
    Article $16$
  • B
    Article $18$
  • C
    Article $28$
  • ✓
    Article $17$
Answer
Correct option: D.
Article $17$
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MCQ 371 Mark
$..........$ faces discrimination in their daily lives, mostly in rural India.
  • ✓
    Dalits
  • B
    Parsis
  • C
    Brahmins
  • D
    Vaishyas
Answer
Correct option: A.
Dalits
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MCQ 391 Mark
A person or a group that can express themselves and their views strongly are:
  • ✓
    Assertive
  • B
    Representative
  • C
    Forceful person
  • D
    None of these
Answer
Correct option: A.
Assertive
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MCQ 401 Mark
Militarised means:
  • A
    Presence of Minor Group.
  • B
    Presence of Major group.
  • C
    Presence of Adivasis.
  • ✓
    Presence of armed force.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Presence of armed force.
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MCQ 411 Mark
In social environment, Marginalization is due to:
  • A
    Different Language.
  • B
    Different Religion.
  • C
    Minority.
  • ✓
    All of these.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of these.
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MCQ 421 Mark
$..........$ has been abolished according to Article $17.$
  • A
    Poverty
  • B
    Education
  • C
    Crime
  • ✓
    Untouchability
Answer
Correct option: D.
Untouchability
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MCQ 431 Mark
Which Act is important for Adivasis?
  • ✓
    Act, $1989$
  • B
    Act, $1990$
  • C
    Act, $1991$
  • D
    Act, $1996$
Answer
Correct option: A.
Act, $1989$
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MCQ 441 Mark
The areas where tribal originally lived and continue to stay in these fields:
  • A
    Ancestors
  • ✓
    Encroachers
  • C
    Both $(a)\ \&\ (b)$
  • D
    All of these
Answer
Correct option: B.
Encroachers
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MCQ 451 Mark
The well known Bhakti poet Chokhamela was from:
  • A
    Sixteenth century.
  • B
    Seventeenth century.
  • C
    Fifteenth century.
  • ✓
    Fourteenth century.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Fourteenth century.
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MCQ 461 Mark
Reservations play an important role in providing social justice to:
  • A
    Adivasis
  • B
    Dalits
  • C
    Muslims
  • ✓
    Both $(a)$ and $(b)$
Answer
Correct option: D.
Both $(a)$ and $(b)$
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MCQ 471 Mark
Who needs to constantly work to bring equality and dignity for all?
  • A
    Government.
  • B
    People.
  • C
    None of them.
  • ✓
    Both of them.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Both of them.
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MCQ 481 Mark
A stated course of action that provides direction for the future, sets goals to be achieved or lays out principles or guidelines to be followed and acted upon.
  • ✓
    Policy
  • B
    Programme
  • C
    Strategy
  • D
    Budget
Answer
Correct option: A.
Policy
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MCQ 491 Mark
Marginalization is linked to:
  • A
    Experiencing disadvantages
  • B
    Prejudices
  • C
    Powerless
  • ✓
    All of these
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of these
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MCQ 501 Mark
Reservations plays an important role in safeguarding the interests of $..........$
  • A
    Dalits.
  • B
    Adivasis.
  • ✓
    Both $a$ and $b.$
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Both $a$ and $b.$
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