Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge

Want to revise Class 10 Economics for your CBSE board exams? The chapter "Sectors of the Indian Economy" is crucial as it explains the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary sectors, their role in GDP, employment patterns, and organized vs. unorganized sectors.

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Chapter Name: Sectors of the Indian Economy
Subject: Social Science (Economics)
Book: NCERT Class 10 Economics
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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Chapter 2 - Sectors of the Indian Economy

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Which of the following is an example of the dependency of the primary sector on the tertiary sector?

The bank employees could not reach on time due to a transportation strike.

Weavers made less money because the shops did not want to sell handloom products.

Farmers suffered a loss when there was not enough water to grow cotton.

Diary and poultry producers suffered a loss when the shops went on strike.

2 / 15

A man is employed on a food processing farm where he has to do a lot of manual work. His wife and daughter also help him with his work on the farm every day. Which type of employment is this an example?

Seasonal employment

Under employment

Cyclical employment

Over employment

3 / 15

The sectors are classified into public and private sectors on the basis of:

Number of workers employed in the enterprise

Ownership of enterprises

The nature of economic activity

Employment conditions

4 / 15

Which of the following explains the rising importance of the tertiary sector in our country?

Increased formalization of the service sector

The decreasing importance of other sectors

Global pressure to develop the tertiary sector

Greater demand for services

5 / 15

The type of unemployment in which more people work than actually needed is known as _____.

Seasonal unemployment

Underemployed

Over employed

Disguised unemployment

6 / 15

If there is a disruption by transporters and lorries refuse to transport vegetables, milk, etc. from rural areas to urban areas, food will become scarce in urban areas, whereas farmers will be unable to sell their products.
Which of the following sectors will be affected due to the situation stated above?

Secondary and Tertiary

Primary and Secondary

Tertiary, Primary, and Secondary

Tertiary and Primary.

7 / 15

Observe the graph given below:

Which of the following statements BEST explains the graph?

The production in all three sectors has decreased and it has decreased the most in the primary sector.

The production in all three sectors has increased and it has increased the most in the tertiary sector.

The production in all three sectors has increased and it has increased the most in the primary sector.

The production in all three sectors has increased and all three sectors have similar growth.

8 / 15

Which was the largest sector in 1973 in India in terms of employment?

Private sector

Public sector

Primary sector

Tertiary sector

9 / 15

The share of the tertiary sector to the GDP has increased but the contribution of which sector to employment is highest at present?

b. Tertiary

a. Primary

d. None of these

c. Secondary

10 / 15

A woman works at a sweet shop in her village on a contract basis and gets a meager salary after working the entire day. She doesn’t get any holidays or paid leave, rather her employer deducts her salary whenever she is absent from work. Find out in which of the following sectors she is working.

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Primary sector

Organized sector

Service sector

Unorganized sector

11 / 15

Choose the correct option from the following:

List I (Example)	List II (Sector)
a. Courier	Tertiary sector
b. Fisherman	Secondary sector
c. Carpenter	Primary sector
d. Transporter	Secondary sector

12 / 15

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) states a guarantee of a minimum of 100 days of employment per year. If the government is unable to fulfill these 100 days of employment, the government would have to _____.

Provide health care as compensation

Pay at least 1/3 percent allowance

Pay the compensation in lieu of these days

Provide another scheme for the same

13 / 15

In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): Not every good or service that is produced and sold needs to be counted to know the total production in each sector.

Reason (R): The value of final goods already includes the value of all the intermediate goods.

A is wrong but R is correct.

A is correct but R is wrong.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

14 / 15

According to 2017-18 data, the share of different sectors in employment (percentage) in India was

Primary sector - 44%

Secondary sector – 25%

Tertiary sector – 31%

Out of the three sectors, why did the ratio of employment in the Primary sector high?

Select the most suitable option from the following:

Outsourcing of job opportunities in the secondary sector.

Workers in the primary sector are underemployed.

Efforts of labor are not equivalent in all the sectors.

Low job opportunities in the secondary sector.

15 / 15

Which of the following examples fall under an organized sector?

An engineer gets all employment benefits.

A cleaning staff in a private school.

A daily wage laborer working for a contractor.

A tailor stitching clothes at his home.

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sectors
✔ Comparison of Different Sectors
✔ Public vs. Private Sector
✔ Organized and Unorganized Sectors
✔ GDP Contribution of Different Sectors
✔ Employment Patterns in India
✔ Government Policies and the Economy

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