Great Philosophers / Nobel Laureates - 1 Class 5 Worksheet Solutions SST

Q1: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

(i) Socrates was condemned to death by

(a) gallos
(b) burning in fire
(c) drinking poison
(d) none of these
Ans: (c)
When the political climate of Greece turned against him, Socrates was sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning.

(ii) Abraham Lincoln was the son of
(a) the president of America
(b) a farmer
(c) a politician
(d) none of these
Ans: (b)
As a boy, he lived on a 30-acre farm. Because of hills and gullies only 14 acres could be cultivated.
(iii) Karl Marx wrote which of the following books?
(a) Communist Manifesto
(b) Das Capital
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of these
Ans: (c)
His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital.

(iv) Martin Luther King was an
(a) Indian
(b) Jamaican
(c) Indonesian
(d) American
Ans: (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. 

Q2: Fill in the blanks

(i) Abraham Lincoln was born in ______.
(ii) Mahatma Gandhi died on ________.
(iii) Mahatma Gandhi showed the path of __________.
(iv) Marx became the editor of a newspaper in _______.
Ans:
(i) 1809
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States.
(ii) 30 January 1948
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.
(iii) truth, love and selfless service
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.
(iv) 1843
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.

Q3: True & False

Q4: Match the following

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Q5: Answer the following questions briefly.

(i) How did Mahatma Gandhi make the British leave India?
Ans: 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.

(ii) What did Mahatma Gandhi do in South Africa?
Ans: 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

(iii) What do you know about Abraham Lincoln’s early life?
Ans: 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.

(iv) What was common between Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln?
Ans: 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.

(v) What do you know about Abraham Lincoln’s early life?
Ans: 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.