This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Economics > People As Resource > Class 9 Economics Chapter 2 People As Resource – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Economics Chapter 2 People As Resource Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Unemployment is said to exist when people are A) Are not willing to work. B) Willing to work but cannot find job. C) Uneducated. D) Are not getting the deserving wages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Willing to work but cannot find job. 2. Investment in human resources through ..... and ..... can give high rate of investment. A) Education. B) Medical. C) Skills. D) Education and Medical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Education and Medical. 3. Example of primary sector A) Farming. B) Banking. C) Insurance. D) Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farming. 4. Disguised unemployment when the number of persons working on a farm is A) Only what is required. B) More than required. C) Less than required. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More than required. 5. Which of the following is the primary sector activities(i) Forestry(ii) Poultry farming(iii) Animal husbandry(iv) Manufacturing A) (ii), (ii), (iv). B) (i), (II), (III). C) (i), (iv), (ii). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (i), (II), (III). 6. Which of the following is included in the secondary sector? A) Poultry farming. B) Manufacturing. C) Quarrying. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manufacturing. 7. Why are rural women employed in low-paid jobs? A) They do not need to work in high-paid jobs. B) They lack in education or the necessary skill. C) They are not allowed by their families to do high paid jobs. D) They are not aware of the wage structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They lack in education or the necessary skill. 8. The tertiary sector is also called as primary sector. A) Primary sector. B) Service sector. C) Both a and b. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Service sector. 9. Tertiary sector provides A) Services. B) Goods. C) Both goods and services. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Services. 10. ..... activities are the production for self consumption A) Market. B) Services. C) None of the above. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) None of the above. 11. Here in this chapter the word "Benefits" means A) Assets. B) Liability. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assets. 12. Secondary sector includes: A) Quarrying. B) Trade. C) Forestry. D) Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manufacturing. 13. What is People as Resource? A) It is an effort to explain population as an asset for the economy rather than liability. B) The activities which add a value to the national income. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is an effort to explain population as an asset for the economy rather than liability. 14. Full form of PHC A) Physical Health Center. B) Physical Health Clinic. C) Primary Health Center. D) Primary Health Clinic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary Health Center. 15. What do mean by the word liability A) Resource. B) Asset. C) Helping hand /useful. D) Burden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helping hand /useful. 16. Investment in human capital can be made through A) Education. B) Training. C) Medical care. D) All the three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the three. 17. Which one of the following is an Economic activity? A) A mother caring for her child. B) Painting a wall of a developed person. C) A teacher teaching in school. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A teacher teaching in school. 18. Which of the is an activity of the secondary sector? A) Manufacturing. B) Education. C) Mining. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Manufacturing. 19. ..... is a way of referring to a country's working people in terms of their skills and abilities. A) People as a Resource. B) Occupation. C) Resource. D) Economic Activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People as a Resource. 20. India's ..... is an excellent example of how the importance of human capital has come to acquire a higher position than that of material, plant and machinery. A) IT Revolution. B) White Revolution. C) Green Revolution. D) Bio-Technology Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IT Revolution. 21. Like other resources population also is a resource-a 'human resource'. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. Which of the following is not done by women at home? A) Cleaning utensils. B) Doing tuition work by teaching students. C) Cooking food. D) Washing clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doing tuition work by teaching students. 23. The measures that have been adopted, over the last 5 years, have increased the life expectancy to over ..... years in 2014. A) 68.4. B) 61.2. C) 10.5. D) 68.3. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 68.3. 24. Urban areas have mostly ..... unemployment A) Educated. B) Seasonal. C) Disguised. D) Uneducated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Educated. 25. Investment in human capital (through education, training, medical care) is similar to investment in physical capital as ..... A) A.Both results into higher income generation through increasing the productivity. B) B.Both are undertaken by the employers/producers. C) C.Both physical capital & human capital mean the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A.Both results into higher income generation through increasing the productivity. 26. The crude and death rates have dropped by ..... and ..... respectively. A) 20.4 and 6.4. B) 21.22 and 6.40. C) 20.4 and 3.8. D) 42.5 and 6.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20.4 and 6.4. 27. India most of the workforce Is working? A) Secondary sector. B) Primary sector. C) Secondary sector. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary sector. 28. Tertiary sector provides service? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 29. The existing 'human resource' is further developed by becoming more educated and healthy, wecall it ..... A) 'asset formation'. B) 'capital formation'. C) 'human capital formation'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'human capital formation'. 30. Japan and China get developed by A) Borrowing Money from the World Bank. B) Investing in infrastructure. C) Investing in resources. D) Investing in human capital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Investing in human capital. 31. Large population can be turned into a productive asset by ..... A) Increasing employment level. B) Stopping migration. C) Investing in human capital. D) Improving facilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Investing in human capital. 32. Which of the following sectors is related to agriculture, forestry and dairy? A) Primary Sector. B) Tertiary Sector. C) Secondary Sector. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary Sector. 33. Which one of the following is considered important to create a 'virtuous cycle' by the parents A) To provide goods food to their children. B) To join their children in corporate schools. C) To take care of the health and education of their children. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To take care of the health and education of their children. 34. Where is Seasonal unemployment found A) Urban areas. B) Rural areas. C) In remote areas. D) Both in rural and urban areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rural areas. 35. Pottery can be classified in which of the following sector of economy: A) Primary sector. B) Secondary sector. C) Tertiary Sector. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary sector. 36. What is India's position in scientifically and technically manpower in the world? A) First. B) Third. C) Second. D) Fourth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third. 37. In which of the following fields is disguised unemployment found? A) Industries. B) Fisheries. C) Agriculture. D) Mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agriculture. 38. How many dental colleges are there in the country? A) 301. B) 281. C) 81. D) 663. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 301. 39. How has human capital formation helped India? A) It increases people's level of productivity and efficiency as well as the productive power of the country. B) It has added to skilled labour force of India. C) Millions of skilled workers are working in other countries. They earn foreign exchange for us. D) All of these. E) None of These. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 40. The literacy rate during 2010-11 was A) 64%. B) 80%. C) 74%. D) 70%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 74%. 41. Which of the following is the primary activity? A) Transport. B) Fishing. C) Fising. D) Education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fishing. 42. Why japan is rich and developed? A) Because of efficiency of natural resources have made country developed and rich. B) Because of efficiency and the technology evolved by people have made country developed and rich. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because of efficiency and the technology evolved by people have made country developed and rich. 43. ..... include subsistence farming, consumption and processing of primary product andown account production of fixed assets. A) Market activity. B) Non market activity. C) Non economic activity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non market activity. 44. Mining comes under which sector? A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Tertiary. D) Both Primary and Secondary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 45. When the existing 'human resource' is further developed by becoming more educated and healthy, we call it ..... A) Human resource. B) Human capital formation. C) Physical formation. D) India's Green Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human capital formation. 46. Why is literacy rate is low in the females? A) Due to lack of recreation facilities. B) Due to lack of equal education opportunities. C) Due to lack of income. D) Due to lack of infrastructure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Due to lack of equal education opportunities. 47. Whose life is an example for people can try to become a more productive resource? A) Vilas. B) Beard. C) Mshesh. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beard. 48. Is the statement true or false "when the human existing resource is further developed by becoming less educated and healthy, we call it as human capital formation" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. ..... is the number of babies born for every 1000 people during a particular period of time A) Health. B) Death rate. C) Education. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth rate. 50. Investment in human capital through education, ..... abd practice A) Food. B) Industries. C) Health. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Health. 51. The workforce population includes people from 15 years to A) 65 years. B) 59 years. C) 60 years. D) 62 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 59 years. 52. ..... is the 12th plan endeavoured to raise the country in higher education A) Lhv. B) CHC. C) GER. D) PHC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) GER. 53. For an economy population can be treated as A) An asset. B) A liability. C) Either an asset or a liability. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either an asset or a liability. 54. People as resources explains population as A) A blessing. B) A curse. C) A liability. D) A asset. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A asset. 55. What does "Investment '' mean? A) Here investment means spending money on mutual fund. B) Converting population into resources through proper Health, Education and Training. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Converting population into resources through proper Health, Education and Training. 56. Market activities involve production for the purpose of A) Exchange. B) Earning income. C) Earning profit. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 57. Select the odd one out on the basis of economic activities ..... A) Trade. B) Fishing. C) Forestry. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trade. 58. 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' is meant to provide what kind of education? A) Elementary education in the age group 6-14 years. B) Elementary education in the age group 5-16 years. C) High School education in the age group 5-16 years. D) High school education in the age group 4-14 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elementary education in the age group 6-14 years. 59. What is the expanded form of PHC A) Private Health Club. B) Primary Health Centre. C) Public Health Club. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary Health Centre. 60. Which state has highest literacy rate as per 2001? A) Bihar. B) Madhya Pradesh. C) Kerala. D) Orissa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kerala. Next →Related QuizzesEconomics QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 Economics Chapter 2 People As Resource Quiz 2Class 9 Economics Chapter 2 People As Resource Quiz 3Class 9 Economics Chapter 2 People As Resource Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books