Equality Book Back Questions 7th Social Science Lesson 8
7th Social Science Lesson 8
8] Equality
Book Back Questions with Answer and Do You Know Box Content
Do You Know?
Rule of law was advocated by A.V. Dicey, the British legal luminary.
Efforts were made by many social activists from the 19th century onwards. The noted champions of this cause were Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Dayanand Saraswati, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Tarabai Shinde, Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain. They worked hard to get equal status to the women.
Article 14 – guarantees to all the people equality before law; Article 15 – deals with the prohibition of discrimination; Article 16 – provides equality of opportunity in matters relating to employment; Article 17 – abolishes the practice of untouchability; Article 18 – abolishes the titles conferred to citizens.
Choose the best answers:
1. Which one of the following does not come under Equality?
(a) Non-discrimination on the basis of birth, caste, religion, race, colour, gender
(b) Right to contest in the election
(c) All are treated equal in the eyes of law
(d) Showing inequality between rich and poor
2. Which one of the following is comes under political equality?
(a) Right to petition the government and criticize public policy
(b) Removal of inequality based on race, colour, sex and caste
(c) All are equal before the law
(d) Prevention of concentration of wealth in the hands of law
3. In India, right to vote is given to all the citizens at the age of __________
(a) 21
(b) 18
(c) 25
(d) 31
4. Inequality created by man on the basis of caste, money, religion etc. is called as ______________
(a) Natural inequality
(b) Manmade inequality
(c) Economic inequality
(d) Gender inequality
5. In Switzerland, the right to vote is given to women in the year.
(a) 1981
(b) 1971
(c) 1991
(d) 1961
Fill in the blanks:
1. Civil equality implies equality of all before ____________
2. The Indian constitution deals about the Right to equality from Article ________ to __________
3. Right to contest in the election is a __________ Right.
4. Equality means, absent of _________ privileges.
Answers:
Choose the correct answers:
1. Showing inequality between rich and poor 2. Right to petition the government and criticize public policy 3. 18 4. Manmade inequality 5. 1971
Fill in the blanks:
1. Law 2. 14, 18 3. Political 4. Social importance