Worksheet Solution: Great Philosophers / Noble Laureates | Social Studies for Class 5

MCQs

Question 1: Socrates was condemned to death by
(a) gallos
(b) burning in fire
(c) drinking poison
(d) none of these

Correct Answer is Option C.

When the political climate of Greece turned against him, Socrates was sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning.

Question 2: Abraham Lincoln was the son of
(a) the president of America
(b) a farmer
(c) a politician
(d) none of these

Correct Answer is Option B.

As a boy, he lived on a 30-acre farm. Because of hills and gullies only 14 acres could be cultivated.

Question 3: Karl Marx wrote which of the following books?
(a) Communist Manifesto
(b) Das Capital
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of these

Correct Answer is Option C.

His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital.

Question 4: Martin Luther King was an
(a) Indian
(b) Jamaican
(c) Indonesian
(d) American

Correct Answer is Option D.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement. 

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Question 5:
(a) Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809.
(b) Mahatma Gandhi died on 30 January 1948.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi showed the path of truth, love and selfless service.
(d) Marx became the editor of a newspaper in 1843.

EduRev Tips:

• Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States.
• Gandhi was assassinated when he was getting up from the evening prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi. Godse shot Gandhi in his chest three times and killed him.
• Bapu, through his life and teachings, showed us the path of truth, love and selfless service to mankind. Mahatma Gandhi showed us the path of truth and selfless service.
• In 1843, Marx became co-editor of a new, radical left-wing Parisian newspaper, German-French Annals, then being set up by the German activist Arnold Ruge to bring together German and French radicals. Therefore Marx and his wife moved to Paris in October 1843.

Answer the following questions briefly.

Question 6: How did Mahatma Gandhi make the British leave India?

Gandhi and other nationalists continued to demand independence for India throughout the war, although they were careful to avoid disrupting the war effort. When the war ended the protests increased. International opinion, especially in the USA, was increasingly hostile to British rule.

Question 7: What did Mahatma Gandhi do in South Africa?

Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. Born in India and educated in England, Gandhi traveled to South Africa in early 1893 to practice law under a one-year contract.

Question 8: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln’s early life?

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His family moved to southern Indiana in 1816. Lincoln's formal schooling was limited to three brief periods in local schools, as he had to work constantly to support his family.

Question 9: What was common between Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln?

Both Martin Luther and Abraham Lincoln believed that a government should never be in a position to take all. They both were icons of civil rights. They both were assassinated because of the decision they took for their people.

Question 10: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln’s early life?

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His family moved to southern Indiana in 1816. Lincoln's formal schooling was limited to three brief periods in local schools, as he had to work constantly to support his family.

Match the following

Question 11:

True & False

Question 12: 

• In 1865, Lincoln was elected as the president for the third time. False
• Martin Luther King strongly opposed injustice. True
• Marx believed that workers always try to suppress the capitalists. True

EduRev Tips:

• In a three-way election, Democrat James Buchanan defeated Republican nominee John C. Frémont, and Know Nothing nominee and former President Millard Fillmore.
• Marx believed that capitalism is a volatile economic system that will suffer a series of ever-worsening crisis.