Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 9 (SSC) · History-Political Science (इतिहास-राज्यशास्त्र)
Chapter: Chapter 1 — Chapter 1: Sources of History
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. What do government records provide? [1]
(A) Accounts of policy and administrative actions
(B) Only personal opinions
(C) Only entertainment
(D) Nothing useful
2. What do newspapers and media provide? [1]
(A) Contemporary coverage of events
(B) Only fictional stories
(C) Only advertisements
(D) Nothing useful
3. What is oral history? [1]
(A) Interviews preserving personal experiences
(B) Only written records
(C) Only government documents
(D) Only photographs
4. What has transformed historical record storage? [1]
(A) Digital archives and the internet
(B) Nothing has changed
(C) Only newspapers
(D) Only oral history
5. What do digital archives help with? [1]
(A) Research and education access
(B) Nothing useful
(C) Only entertainment
(D) Only advertisements
6. Why are multiple source types valuable? [1]
(A) They offer different perspectives on events
(B) They confuse historians
(C) They are not valuable
(D) They contradict each other uselessly
7. What kind of history do these sources document? [1]
(A) Contemporary Indian history
(B) Only ancient history
(C) Only prehistoric times
(D) No specific period
8. Why learn about sources of contemporary history? [1]
(A) To understand how modern history is documented
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests
9. What do government records provide? [1]
(A) Accounts of policy and administrative actions
(B) Only personal opinions
(C) Only entertainment
(D) Nothing useful
10. What do newspapers and media provide? [1]
(A) Contemporary coverage of events
(B) Only fictional stories
(C) Only advertisements
(D) Nothing useful
11. What is oral history? [1]
(A) Interviews preserving personal experiences
(B) Only written records
(C) Only government documents
(D) Only photographs
12. What has transformed historical record storage? [1]
(A) Digital archives and the internet
(B) Nothing has changed
(C) Only newspapers
(D) Only oral history
13. What do digital archives help with? [1]
(A) Research and education access
(B) Nothing useful
(C) Only entertainment
(D) Only advertisements
14. Why are multiple source types valuable? [1]
(A) They offer different perspectives on events
(B) They confuse historians
(C) They are not valuable
(D) They contradict each other uselessly
15. What kind of history do these sources document? [1]
(A) Contemporary Indian history
(B) Only ancient history
(C) Only prehistoric times
(D) No specific period
16. Why learn about sources of contemporary history? [1]
(A) To understand how modern history is documented
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests