Class 9 Social Science Economics Chapter 2 MCQ With Answers
1. What does the term ‘People as Resource’ mean?
(A) Population as a problem
(B) Population in terms of its existing productive skills and abilities
(C) Only educated people in a country
(D) Only working women and men
Answer
Answer: (B) Population in terms of its existing productive skills and abilities
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2. How is human capital formed?
(A) By increasing agricultural land
(B) By investment in education, training, and medical care
(C) By setting up industries
(D) By increasing population growth
Answer
Answer: (B) By investment in education, training, and medical care
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3. What is the return on investment in human capital?
(A) More machines and factories
(B) Lower tax rates
(C) Higher productivity and income
(D) Greater land area
Answer
Answer: (C) Higher productivity and income
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4. Which of the following best defines human capital?
(A) Natural talent of individuals
(B) Total number of people in a country
(C) Skill and productive knowledge embodied in people
(D) Government services
Answer
Answer: (C) Skill and productive knowledge embodied in people
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5. What is the role of education in human capital formation?
(A) It reduces job opportunities
(B) It increases burden on family income
(C) It adds to the productive power of the country
(D) It leads to population growth
Answer
Answer: (C) It adds to the productive power of the country
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6. What is India’s Green Revolution an example of?
(A) Increase in population
(B) Use of fertilizers only
(C) Use of human capital to improve productivity
(D) Import of food grains
Answer
Answer: (C) Use of human capital to improve productivity
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7. How is human capital superior to land and physical capital?
(A) It increases land productivity directly
(B) It can make use of other resources
(C) It is available for free
(D) It requires no training or education
Answer
Answer: (B) It can make use of other resources
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8. What is the concept of ‘human resource’ associated with?
(A) The liabilities of population
(B) The productive skills of people
(C) The distribution of natural resources
(D) The industrial development only
Answer
Answer: (B) The productive skills of people
9. What is the key difference between Sakal and Vilas in the case studies?
(A) Sakal was elder than Vilas
(B) Vilas was healthier than Sakal
(C) Sakal received education and training
(D) Vilas studied computer programming
Answer
Answer: (C) Sakal received education and training
10. What factor helped Sakal to get a job and promotion?
(A) He belonged to a rich family
(B) He was physically strong
(C) He completed a vocational computer course
(D) He had many contacts
Answer
Answer: (C) He completed a vocational computer course
11. Why could Vilas not go to school?
(A) He disliked school
(B) He lived far from school
(C) He had arthritis and financial problems
(D) He was working in a factory
Answer
Answer: (C) He had arthritis and financial problems
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12. What type of return did Sakal’s education give him?
(A) Better working conditions
(B) Better income and job opportunities
(C) Government employment
(D) He started his own business
Answer
Answer: (B) Better income and job opportunities
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13. What did Sakal’s father do to support his education?
(A) Sold his land
(B) Sent him to work in a city
(C) Raised a loan
(D) Borrowed books from a library
Answer
Answer: (C) Raised a loan
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14. What lesson does the story of Sakal and Vilas teach us?
(A) Health is not important
(B) Government jobs are best
(C) Education and health improve productivity and income
(D) Children should not play
Answer
Answer: (C) Education and health improve productivity and income
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15. What was the occupation of Vilas after his mother fell ill?
(A) Working in a factory
(B) Selling fish in the village
(C) Teaching at a school
(D) Farming
Answer
Answer: (B) Selling fish in the village
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16. What does the comparison between Sakal and Vilas highlight?
(A) Importance of physical strength
(B) Value of agricultural land
(C) Impact of education and health on one’s future
(D) Role of location in success
Answer
Answer: (C) Impact of education and health on one’s future
17. What is the result of investment in human resources?
(A) Increase in land area
(B) High rates of return in the future
(C) Decrease in national income
(D) Higher unemployment
Answer
Answer: (B) High rates of return in the future
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18. What kind of cycle is created by educated parents?
(A) Vicious cycle
(B) Economic cycle
(C) Unemployment cycle
(D) Virtuous cycle
Answer
Answer: (D) Virtuous cycle
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19. Which country is cited as an example of high investment in human resources?
(A) India
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Brazil
Answer
Answer: (C) Japan
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20. What made Japan a rich and developed country?
(A) Availability of natural resources
(B) Investment in human capital
(C) Investment in agriculture
(D) Dependence on foreign aid
Answer
Answer: (B) Investment in human capital
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21. Which sector includes agriculture and fishing?
(A) Tertiary sector
(B) Industrial sector
(C) Secondary sector
(D) Primary sector
Answer
Answer: (D) Primary sector
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22. What is included in the tertiary sector?
(A) Mining and quarrying
(B) Manufacturing and processing
(C) Services like banking, education, and health
(D) Fishing and poultry farming
Answer
Answer: (C) Services like banking, education, and health
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23. What are market activities?
(A) Production for self-consumption
(B) Activities without payment
(C) Activities performed for pay or profit
(D) Domestic chores done by women
Answer
Answer: (C) Activities performed for pay or profit
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24. What are non-market activities?
(A) Production of goods for sale
(B) Paid employment in a firm
(C) Production for self-consumption
(D) Government services
Answer
Answer: (C) Production for self-consumption
25. What is the main factor behind low income among women?
(A) Lack of jobs in cities
(B) Meagre education and low skill formation
(C) Too many household responsibilities
(D) Seasonal employment only
Answer
Answer: (B) Meagre education and low skill formation
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26. What kind of jobs do most women work in?
(A) High paying and secure jobs
(B) Government administrative jobs
(C) Irregular and insecure jobs with low pay
(D) Jobs in the armed forces
Answer
Answer: (C) Irregular and insecure jobs with low pay
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27. In which sectors are women with higher education mostly employed?
(A) Mining and manufacturing
(B) Defence and transport
(C) Teaching and medicine
(D) Fishing and agriculture
Answer
Answer: (C) Teaching and medicine
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28. What does the quality of population depend upon?
(A) The size of the population
(B) Education, health, and skill formation
(C) Types of industries
(D) Number of children in a family
Answer
Answer: (B) Education, health, and skill formation
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29. What contributes to the growth of society besides individual success?
(A) Individual salary only
(B) Education and values of life
(C) Private business investment
(D) Number of industries opened
Answer
Answer: (B) Education and values of life
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30. What is not recognized in the National Income?
(A) Farming done by men
(B) Construction work by laborers
(C) Domestic chores done by women
(D) Teaching services in schools
Answer
Answer: (C) Domestic chores done by women
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31. What determines a woman’s earnings in the labor market?
(A) The number of hours she works
(B) Age and family size
(C) Her education and skills
(D) Number of children she has
Answer
Answer: (C) Her education and skills
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32. Why is the household work done by women not included in National Income?
(A) It is not productive
(B) It does not generate profit
(C) It is not counted as paid work
(D) It is considered as voluntary
Answer
Answer: (C) It is not counted as paid work
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33. What is the literacy rate an indicator of?
(A) Number of schools in a village
(B) The percentage of educated men only
(C) Quality of population
(D) Government’s spending on education
Answer
Answer: (C) Quality of population
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34. What is the main reason for low female literacy in India?
(A) Lack of interest
(B) Lack of awareness among women
(C) Historical and cultural reasons
(D) No schools in rural areas
Answer
Answer: (C) Historical and cultural reasons
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35. What is the goal of Samagra Shiksha scheme?
(A) Provide midday meals
(B) Improve school attendance only
(C) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education up to Class XII
(D) Build new universities
Answer
Answer: (C) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education up to Class XII
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36. What is the literacy rate in Kerala as per the 2011 census?
(A) 62%
(B) 85%
(C) 94%
(D) 78%
Answer
Answer: (C) 94%
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37. What is the primary goal of the Mid-day Meal Scheme?
(A) Reduce child labor
(B) Encourage attendance and improve nutrition
(C) Provide free books
(D) Recruit more teachers
Answer
Answer: (B) Encourage attendance and improve nutrition
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38. What is the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education in 2020–21?
(A) 18%
(B) 22%
(C) 27%
(D) 30%
Answer
Answer: (C) 27%
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39. Why is literacy essential for citizens?
(A) To increase population
(B) To enjoy rights and perform duties properly
(C) To become a farmer
(D) To earn a daily wage
Answer
Answer: (B) To enjoy rights and perform duties properly
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40. What is the main reason for poor quality schooling in India despite school expansion?
(A) Lack of students
(B) Poor quality of education and high dropout rates
(C) Lack of books
(D) Less teaching staff
Answer
Answer: (B) Poor quality of education and high dropout rates
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41. What is the focus of the strategy for higher education in India?
(A) Opening more private colleges only
(B) Promoting foreign education
(C) Increasing access, quality, and IT use
(D) Reducing student strength
Answer
Answer: (C) Increasing access, quality, and IT use
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42. What is the literacy rate in India as per 2018?
(A) 74%
(B) 85%
(C) 90%
(D) 62%
Answer
Answer: (B) 85%
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43. What causes inequality in literacy between males and females?
(A) Distance from school
(B) Higher cost of education
(C) Social and cultural differences
(D) Lack of teachers
Answer
Answer: (C) Social and cultural differences
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44. Which scheme attempts to ensure school as a continuum from pre-school to Class XII?
(A) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(B) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
(C) Samagra Shiksha
(D) Mid-day Meal Scheme
Answer
Answer: (C) Samagra Shiksha
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45. What has been a major drawback of the school expansion in India?
(A) Overcrowded classrooms
(B) Shortage of furniture
(C) Poor quality of schooling
(D) Excessive teachers
Answer
Answer: (C) Poor quality of schooling
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46. What does GER stand for in education?
(A) Gross Education Ranking
(B) General Enrolment Ratio
(C) Government Education Ratio
(D) Gross Enrolment Ratio
Answer
Answer: (D) Gross Enrolment Ratio
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47. What is the focus of vocational streams in schools?
(A) To reduce the number of students in higher education
(B) To provide job-related skills and occupations
(C) To teach traditional art
(D) To increase physical activities
Answer
Answer: (B) To provide job-related skills and occupations
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48. What has been the trend in education expenditure as a % of GDP in recent years?
(A) Increasing steadily
(B) Decreasing sharply
(C) Stagnant around 3%
(D) Reached 10%
Answer
Answer: (C) Stagnant around 3%
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49. What has been the impact of investment in health in India?
(A) Decrease in literacy
(B) Increase in life expectancy
(C) Increase in poverty
(D) Higher school dropout rate
Answer
Answer: (B) Increase in life expectancy
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50. What is the infant mortality rate (IMR) in India in 2020?
(A) 58
(B) 35
(C) 28
(D) 18
Answer
Answer: (C) 28
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51. Which indicator shows improved quality of life?
(A) Lower literacy
(B) Lower GDP
(C) Increased longevity of life
(D) More agricultural labor
Answer
Answer: (C) Increased longevity of life
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52. What has the national policy on health aimed to improve?
(A) Only private health sector
(B) Luxury hospital facilities
(C) Accessibility to healthcare and family welfare
(D) Number of doctors in urban areas only
Answer
Answer: (C) Accessibility to healthcare and family welfare
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53. What is the crude death rate in India as of 2020?
(A) 9 per 1000
(B) 7 per 1000
(C) 5 per 1000
(D) 6 per 1000
Answer
Answer: (D) 6 per 1000
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54. What has India built over the last five decades in the health sector?
(A) More corporate hospitals only
(B) Health infrastructure and manpower
(C) More pharmacies
(D) Tourist health services
Answer
Answer: (B) Health infrastructure and manpower
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55. Why is good health important for workers?
(A) To reduce wages
(B) To minimize working hours
(C) To increase efficiency and productivity
(D) To avoid taxes
Answer
Answer: (C) To increase efficiency and productivity
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56. What is IMR (Infant Mortality Rate)?
(A) Death of elderly above 60
(B) Number of hospital births per 1000
(C) Death of a child below one year of age
(D) Death rate of pregnant women
Answer
Answer: (C) Death of a child below one year of age
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57. Who cannot be considered unemployed according to the textbook?
(A) People willing to work but not getting jobs
(B) Adults doing domestic chores willingly
(C) Young adults with no income
(D) Students attending school
Answer
Answer: (B) Adults doing domestic chores willingly
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58. What is the age group considered as workforce population?
(A) 0 to 18 years
(B) 10 to 50 years
(C) 15 to 59 years
(D) 18 to 65 years
Answer
Answer: (C) 15 to 59 years
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59. What kind of unemployment is found mostly in rural areas?
(A) Educated unemployment
(B) Industrial unemployment
(C) Seasonal and disguised unemployment
(D) Urban joblessness
Answer
Answer: (C) Seasonal and disguised unemployment
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60. What is disguised unemployment?
(A) Unwillingness to work
(B) People working less hours per day
(C) More people employed than needed with no impact on productivity
(D) Hidden urban jobless rate
Answer
Answer: (C) More people employed than needed with no impact on productivity
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61. What is educated unemployment?
(A) Lack of education among youth
(B) People educated but unable to find suitable jobs
(C) Illiterate workers in agriculture
(D) Students going to school
Answer
Answer: (B) People educated but unable to find suitable jobs
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62. What is a consequence of unemployment among educated people?
(A) Increase in income
(B) Improvement in lifestyle
(C) Social waste and hopelessness
(D) More participation in farming
Answer
Answer: (C) Social waste and hopelessness
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63. What is the impact of unemployment on working population?
(A) Higher wages
(B) Reduced dependency
(C) Increased economic burden
(D) Better job offers
Answer
Answer: (C) Increased economic burden
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64. What does increase in unemployment indicate?
(A) Healthy economy
(B) More business
(C) Depressed economy
(D) Increase in literacy
Answer
Answer: (C) Depressed economy
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65. Why do poor people often accept any kind of work?
(A) To improve their skills
(B) To remain active
(C) Because they cannot afford to sit idle
(D) To support village traditions
Answer
Answer: (C) Because they cannot afford to sit idle
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66. What is the employment structure in the primary sector mostly characterised by?
(A) Full-time employment
(B) Self-employment and disguised unemployment
(C) Highly paid jobs
(D) Contractual work
Answer
Answer: (B) Self-employment and disguised unemployment
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67. What happens to surplus labour in rural agriculture?
(A) It becomes more productive
(B) It is absorbed into family trade
(C) It migrates to urban areas for jobs
(D) It gets employed in rural factories
Answer
Answer: (C) It migrates to urban areas for jobs
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68. Which is the most labour-absorbing sector of the Indian economy?
(A) Tertiary sector
(B) IT sector
(C) Agriculture
(D) Industrial sector
Answer
Answer: (C) Agriculture
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69. Why has the dependence on agriculture declined in recent years?
(A) Increase in rainfall
(B) Government employment guarantee
(C) Disguised unemployment and shifting to other sectors
(D) Closure of farms
Answer
Answer: (C) Disguised unemployment and shifting to other sectors
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70. Which sector is considered most labour-absorbing after agriculture?
(A) Tertiary sector
(B) Defence sector
(C) Industrial services
(D) Household work
Answer
Answer: (A) Tertiary sector
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71. What types of jobs are increasing in the tertiary sector?
(A) Jobs in mining
(B) Services like biotechnology and IT
(C) Unskilled labour in factories
(D) Traditional farming jobs
Answer
Answer: (B) Services like biotechnology and IT
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72. What effect does disguised unemployment have on poverty?
(A) It reduces poverty quickly
(B) It increases family earnings
(C) It does not reduce poverty despite shared income
(D) It helps children go to school
Answer
Answer: (C) It does not reduce poverty despite shared income
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73. What was the first major change in the village described in the story?
(A) A new road was built
(B) A market was opened
(C) A boy was sent to agriculture college
(D) Electricity supply was started
Answer
Answer: (C) A boy was sent to agriculture college
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74. What did the boy design after returning from the agriculture college?
(A) A new type of tractor
(B) An improved plough
(C) A weather prediction app
(D) A solar-powered pump
Answer
Answer: (B) An improved plough
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75. What was the result of using the new plough?
(A) Land area reduced
(B) Water requirement increased
(C) Yield of wheat increased
(D) Seeds became expensive
Answer
Answer: (C) Yield of wheat increased
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76. What inspired the villagers to open a school?
(A) Government orders
(B) Success of the boy and his family
(C) Need for religious education
(D) Visit by an NGO
Answer
Answer: (B) Success of the boy and his family
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77. What new occupation did a girl take up after training?
(A) Farming
(B) Teaching
(C) Tailoring
(D) Shopkeeping
Answer
Answer: (C) Tailoring
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78. What was the impact of having a tailor in the village?
(A) Farmers had more free time and yield increased
(B) Villagers stopped wearing traditional clothes
(C) Clothes became expensive
(D) The tailor moved to a nearby town
Answer
Answer: (A) Farmers had more free time and yield increased
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79. What kind of transformation did the village experience?
(A) It turned into a city
(B) It became a center of agriculture only
(C) It developed complex and modern economic activities
(D) It depended completely on the government
Answer
Answer: (C) It developed complex and modern economic activities
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80. What led to the prosperity of the village in the story?
(A) Shift from farming to mining
(B) Employment of only male workers
(C) Development of human capital through education and skill
(D) Introduction of more shops
Answer
Answer: (C) Development of human capital through education and skill
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Class 9 Social Science Economics Chapter 2 MCQ With Answers