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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SESSION 2020-21
CLASS-IX

ECONOMICS- CHAPTER-3 POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE

HOME ASSIGNMENT
SUB TOPIC-2
Poverty as seen by social scientists

Objective Assessment

1
Which of the following describes the greater probability of being more adversely affected
than other people when bad time comes for everybody?
(a) Vulnerability
(b) Social exclusion
(c) Unemployment
(d) Hunger

2
Which one of the social groups are not vulnerable to poverty?
(a) Scheduled caste
(b) Urban casual labour households
(c) Rural agricultural households
(d) Big farmers

Which of the following best describes Vulnerability to poverty of a person or community?
3 (a) High illiteracy level
(b) Unable to have benefits, facilities which other enjoy.
(c) Greater probability of becoming or remaining poor.
(d) Lack of general resistance due to malnutrition.

According to social scientists, the social indicator of poverty is
4
(a) Lack of housing
(b) Increasing population
(c) casteism
(d) illiteracy level

5 One of the biggest challenges of independent India has been to eradicate
(a) Poverty
(b) Communalism
(c) Casteism
(d) Population

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