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Multiple choice civics understanding our relations family, their types and inheritance family and society the family and society family values family values and its importance

Living in one house and sharing meals cooked under the same roof is called __________.

  1. Family

  2. Origin

  3. Extraction

  4. Ancestry
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A Correct answer
Explanation

A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children. A family can be either nuclear or joint. Living in one house and sharing meals cooked under the same room is also termed as a family. A family is a group of people related to each other either by birth, marriage, or co-residence.

Multiple choice civics understanding our relations family, their types and inheritance family and society the family and society family values family values and its importance

Our relatives, neighbours, classmates and playmates co-exist in a ________.

  1. Society

  2. Community

  3. Nation

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

A community is a group of people living in the same place or a group of people having a particular characteristic in common. Our relatives, classmates, neighbours, and playmates co-exist in a community.

Multiple choice civics understanding our relations family, their types and inheritance family and society the family and society family values family values and its importance

Community helps to give security, ____________. 

  1. Rights

  2. Duties

  3. Properties

  4. All of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Benefits of a community are as follows:

1. Social security
2. Helps in getting our rights
3. Helps in performing our duties
4. Properties
5. Provides an opportunity to apply academic learning to real life
6. A sense of social responsibility

Multiple choice civics understanding our relations family, their types and inheritance family and society the family and society family values family values and its importance

The people depend on each other.

  1. True

  2. False
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Explanation

People depend on each other for survival, fulfilling needs and other interest. No man can fulfil his requirements alone. Everyone needs the assistance of others for this purpose and that is how civilisation develops and social relations came into being. We are dependent for services and other needs.

Multiple choice civics understanding media media and democracy role and importance of media role of media in democracy administrative reforms

A newspaper called Khabar Lahriya is a fortnightly that is run by eight Dalit women in ___________.

  1. Panchmahal district in Gujarat

  2. Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh

  3. Araria district in Bihar

  4. Vidarbha district in Maharashtra
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Khabar Lahriya: It is a newspaper which is a fortnightly that is run by Dalit women in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh. It reports the issues of the Dalits. It has its reach to the farmers, shopkeepers, school teachers, panchayat members and literate women.

Multiple choice civics understanding media media and democracy role and importance of media role of media in democracy

We also tend to discuss newspapers and magazines as the _________.

  1. Electronic media

  2. Print media

  3. Digital media

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

We tend to discuss newspapers and magazines as the print media and TV and radio as the electronic media. This naming is related to the different technologies that these media use. Newspapers and magazines are called print media because they present information in printed form.

Multiple choice civics understanding media media and democracy role and importance of media role of media in democracy

Censorship of the press _________________.

  1. is prohibited by the Constitution

  2. has to be judged by the test of reasonableness

  3. is a restriction on the freedom of the press mentioned in Article 20

  4. is specified in Article 31 of the Constitution
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B Correct answer
Explanation
Censorship of the press has to be judged by the test of reasonableness. Clause (2) of Article 19 of the Indian constitution governs censorship of press under free speech category. It enables the legislature to impose certain restrictions on free speech only under following heads:
I. Security of the State
II. Friendly relations with foreign States
III. Public order
IV. Decency and morality
V. Contempt of court
VI. Defamation
VII. Incitement to an offence 
VIII. Sovereignty and integrity of India
Multiple choice civics understanding media media and democracy role and importance of media role of media in democracy

Due to the costs of technologies, that mass media use, keep changing the mass media needs a great deal of _________ to do its work.

  1. Money

  2. Natural resources

  3. Mineral resources

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The different technologies that mass media use are expensive. Also, the technologies that mass media use keep changing and so a lot of money is spent on getting the latest technology. Due to these costs, the mass media needs a great deal of money to do its work. As a result, most television channels and newspapers are part of big business houses.