This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Commerce > Economics Indian Economic Development > Class 11 Economics (Indian Economic Development) Chapter 4 Poverty – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Indian Economic Development) Chapter 4 Poverty Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Consumer Spending + Investment(Business) Spending + ..... + Net Exports = A) Government Spending. B) Stocks and Bonds. C) Household Spending. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government Spending. 2. What are the social indicators of poverty? A) Illiteracy level. B) Income level. C) Lack of access to healthcare. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. If Bob can't find a job because he shovels snow and it is July, he is frictionally unemployed. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Self-employment programmes include: A) Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana. B) National Food for Work Programme. C) National Social Assistance Programme. D) Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana. 5. What is living wage? A) People who have a job but fall below the poverty line. B) How expensive it is to live in a certain location. C) The lowest amount of money a person can legally be paid. D) The minimum income needed for a worker to meet their basic needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The minimum income needed for a worker to meet their basic needs. 6. For the year 2000 the poverty line in urban areas was fixed at A) Rs. 500 per month. B) Rs. 300 per month. C) Rs. 350 per month. D) Rs. 450 per month. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rs. 450 per month. 7. Poverty level in India is the established on the basis of:(A) (B) (C) D) A) House-hold average income. B) Per capita income in different State. C) Slum population in the country. D) House-hold consumer expenditure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) House-hold consumer expenditure. 8. Which of the following cities has the lowest living wage? A) Chicago. B) Des Moines. C) New York City. D) San Francisco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Des Moines. 9. Which of the following is a basic requirement for survival A) Job. B) Holidays. C) Housing. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Housing. 10. ..... to poverty is a measure, which describes the greater probability of certain communities . A) BPL. B) Poverty of line. C) Vulnerability. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vulnerability. 11. What is a major reason for the lack of investment in the DRC's mining industry? A) Excessive foreign investment. B) Political instability and corruption. C) Lack of natural resources. D) High cost of labor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political instability and corruption. 12. The Poverty Point people traveled far and wide to trade. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Minimum daily intake of calories for determining poverty line for rural area is A) 2100. B) 2400. C) 1600. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2400. 14. Based on your knowledge of how physical geography shapes an area's cultural geography, what do you believe was the basis for Poverty Point's economy? A) Trade. B) Food. C) Rich soil. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trade. 15. If the GDP is ..... , there will be a lower percentage of people living below the poverty line. A) High. B) Low. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High. 16. An unemployment rate below what percent is considered full employment? A) 6. B) 12. C) 10. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 17. Which of the following is NOT a government policy to alleviate poverty? A) Promoting economic growth. B) Raising national minimum wage. C) Encouraging multinational companies. D) Increasing taxes on all citizens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increasing taxes on all citizens. 18. Which of the following is NOT an effect of poverty? A) Lack of food. B) Lack of healthcare. C) Earthquakes. D) Homelessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquakes. 19. What was the poverty line in 2012? A) $ 17, 890. B) $ 19, 530. C) $ 23, 492. D) $ 25, 726. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ 23, 492. 20. Poverty substantially declined in ..... and ..... countries. A) China and Southeast Asian Countries. B) Latin America. C) India and America. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China and Southeast Asian Countries. 21. Poverty Point has the largest earthworks in the Western Hemisphere. A) Cultural Characteristics. B) Economic Characteristics. C) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. 22. THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE BELOW POVERTY LINE FURTHER CAME DOWN TO ABOUT ..... IN 2011-12 A) 60 PER CENT. B) 23 PER CENT. C) 22 PER CENT. D) 20 PER CENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 22 PER CENT. 23. What role does taxation play in income distribution? A) It only benefits the wealthy. B) It has no effect on income distribution. C) It increases income inequality. D) It evens out distribution of income. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It evens out distribution of income. 24. Corruption has little or no impact on the likelihood of poverty A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. Which form of following consider as poor A) A rich landlord. B) A businessman. C) A landless labourer. D) A teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A landless labourer. 26. How were Native Americans able to travel long distances? A) Rivers. B) Cars. C) Planes. D) Trains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rivers. 27. Which one of the following is/are the feature of MGNREGA? A) (a)Self employment by providing bank loans. B) (b)100 days of guaranteed employment. C) (c )It is a wage employment programme. D) Both (b) and (c ). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both (b) and (c ). 28. Which statement about cost of living is TRUE? A) A low-wage earner in one place might be considered a high-wage earner in another. B) A higher cost of living will eliminate poverty. C) People's basic needs differ from country to country. D) Cost of living is equal in large cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A low-wage earner in one place might be considered a high-wage earner in another. 29. Late Archaic Native Americans were hunter-gathers who usually never settled in big groups. Poverty Point is an exception to this because it was a major city built during this period. A) Cultural Characteristics. B) Economic Characteristics. C) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultural Characteristics. 30. Children that live below the poverty line will typically not have developmental delays or learning disabilities. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 31. The level of available income, goods, and services in each place is ..... A) Absolute poverty. B) Relative poverty. C) Standard of living. D) Poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Standard of living. 32. ..... 27crs or 270 million peopleWho are under POVERTY A) 2011-12. B) 2010-11. C) 2005-6. D) 2009-10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2010-11. 33. What is the nominal GDP per capita in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? A) $ 1, 500. B) $ 2, 000. C) $ 1, 000. D) $ 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $ 500. 34. Women, children and poor people are- A) Much richer than others. B) Independent. C) Poorest of the poor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poorest of the poor. 35. What is the unemployment rate? A) Unemployment Population Ratio. B) Unemployment rate. C) Labour force rate. D) Employment rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unemployment rate. 36. What is the U.S. minimum wage? A) $ 11.00. B) $ 1.90. C) $ 5.00. D) $ 7.25. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $ 7.25. 37. A scientist who tries to understand what people of the past were like and how they lived A) Archeologist. B) Native Americans. C) Poverty Point. D) Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archeologist. 38. Complete the sentence:Poor people often live in ..... houses. A) Dilapidated. B) Big. C) Beautiful. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dilapidated. 39. Which of the following is an action adopted under the provision of minimum basic amenities to the people? A) Swarna Jayanti Shahari RozgarYojna. B) Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojna. C) National Rural Livelihood Mission. D) Prime Minister's RozgarYojna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojna. 40. Some small communities in the remote parts of the Amazon Rainforest hunt and farm in the same ways their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. They barter among themselves or with other small communities for the things they cannot make themselves. What type of economy is this? A) Mixed economy. B) Traditional economy. C) Command economy. D) Market economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional economy. 41. More than 1 in ..... children in the U.S are living in poverty. A) 3. B) 5. C) 4. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 42. How does the United Nations define extreme poverty? A) Living on less than $ 32 a day. B) A condition characterized by a lack of luxury goods. C) Severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, water, and shelter. D) Having an income below the national poverty line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, water, and shelter. 43. Archaeologists have found beads from Poverty Point at other Native American sites in Louisiana which shows Poverty Point had a strong cultural influence on the surrounding areas. A) Cultural Characteristics. B) Economic Characteristics. C) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultural Characteristics. 44. A cut-off point (in terms of per capita expenditure) dividing people as poor & non-poor indicates the number of those who are: A) Relatively poor. B) Absolutely poor. C) Occasionally poor. D) Both (b) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Absolutely poor. 45. It is type of poverty that involves a relatively permanent insufficiency of means to secure basic needs. A) Case Poverty. B) Collective poverty. C) Relative Poverty. D) Asset Poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collective poverty. 46. Which of the following is a characteristic of people below the poverty line? A) Debt trap. B) Gender inequality. C) Poor health. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. What does the term "vulnerable groups" refer to? A) Groups of people who are at risk of falling into poverty. B) Groups of people who are responsible for causing poverty. C) Groups of people who are unaffected by poverty. D) Groups of people who are wealthy and privileged. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Groups of people who are at risk of falling into poverty. 48. Countries with few welfare benefits are more likely to have higher relative poverty A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. "How comfortably people live" is the definition of which vocabulary term? A) Relative Poverty. B) Standard of Living. C) GDP per capita. D) Absolute Poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Standard of Living. 50. Which organisation collects data on poverty in India? A) NSSO. B) SJSRY. C) MGNREGA. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NSSO. 51. Which body conducts a sample survey for the estimation of the poverty line? A) Sample of Poverty Survey Organisation. B) The Central Government. C) The Indian Poverty Estimate Survey Organisation. D) National Sample Survey Organisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) National Sample Survey Organisation. 52. Archaeologists have found tools and stones that come from as far away as Michigan. What does this say about the site? A) It was a trading center. B) Nothing significant. C) It was a cultural center. D) It was a religious center. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was a trading center. 53. The Mississippi River was used by the Poverty Point people for trade and travel. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. Mexico has what type of economic system? A) Mixed economy. B) Traditional economy. C) Pure market economy. D) Pure command economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed economy. 55. Condition in which a person lacks the financial resources ..... A) Literacy. B) Poverty. C) Slum. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poverty. 56. From your EdPuzzle:The boys went to the market to purchase essentials. What was their most expensive item? A) Beans. B) Firewood. C) Soap. D) Rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Firewood. 57. A situation where people's needs are not met. These needs can be for food, water and shelter, but they can also be for self-esteem, companionship and happiness. A) Relative poverty. B) Inequality. C) Poverty. D) Human poverty. E) Quality of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poverty. 58. Archaeologists have found bones of many animals including deer, fish, squirrel, and turtles. This proves residents of Poverty Point ate a variety of animals to survive and that they were skilled hunters and fishers. A) Cultural Characteristics. B) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. C) Economic Characteristics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographic/Historical Characteristics. 59. Solid structures built by some Native American tribe using clay or dirt A) Mound. B) Ceremony. C) Natural Resource. D) Artifact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mound. 60. What is the poverty ratio in the largest state of India? A) 15 %. B) 35 %. C) 20 %. D) 30 %. 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