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

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  1. Family

  2. Origin

  3. Extraction

  4. Ancestry

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Correct Option: A
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.

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

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  1. Society

  2. Community

  3. Nation

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
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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.

Community helps to give security, ____________. 

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  1. Rights

  2. Duties

  3. Properties

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
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

The people depend on each other.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
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.

An independent media means that no one should control and influence its coverage of news.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Freedom of media is a form of right to freedom of speech and expression. In a democracy, media must remain independent and unbiased if democratic principles are to hold true. 

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

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  1. Panchmahal district in Gujarat

  2. Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh

  3. Araria district in Bihar

  4. Vidarbha district in Maharashtra

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Correct Option: B
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.

The first newspaper to be printed in India was __________.

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  1. Times of India

  2. Kesari

  3. Bengal Gazette

  4. The Hindu

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The first newspaper to be printed in India was "Bengal Gazette" by James Augustus Hickey in 1780. It was a weekly English newspaper. 

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

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  1. Electronic media

  2. Print media

  3. Digital media

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
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.

Censorship of the press _________________.

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  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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Correct Option: B
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

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

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  1. Money

  2. Natural resources

  3. Mineral resources

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
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.