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Natural occurrences follow ___________.

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  1. Rules of society

  2. Laws of nature

  3. Laws of the country

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Law of nature or natural law is the idea that there are forms of some natural laws that exist by themselves. It is determined by nature. For example, falling of leaves, flowing of a river, rising and setting of the sun, blooming of flowers etc.

Human laws need to be __________ with changing conditions.

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  1. Changed

  2. Unchanged

  3. Stabilized

  4. Permanent

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Human law is the basic law to which all the human being should follow. But like any other law, human laws also need to be changed with changing conditions. It should be molded and drafted according to the situations. It shouldn't be rigid and permanent.

The Constitution of Independent India abolished the custom of ___________.

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  1. Untouchability

  2. Accessibility

  3. Approachability

  4. Reachability

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Untouchability was a practice in which so-called lower caste people used to be kept at a distance, they were not given the status of social equality. Article 17 of the Indian Constitution abolished the practice of untouchability. Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.

Because of the privatisation and the bad condition of ___________, poor people do not have access to good health services.

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  1. Private hospitals

  2. Government hospitals

  3. International hospitals

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The increasing privatization of health services and the bad condition of government hospitals made it difficult for most of the poor people to get affordable and good health services. As the poor people do not have the resources to afford expensive private health services.

Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim girls drop out of school in large numbers.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Indian society has been patriarchal since inception. Female gender is considered inferior to males and males are always given preference and privileges as compared to females. Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslim girls are mostly drop out of schools due to the following reasons:
1) Social Discrimination: The caste system in our society discriminates against lower castes people and majority religion less tolerate minority religion
2) Poverty: This is the major reason why girls cannot pursue their secondary education and some cannot even complete primary education because their parent cannot afford fees and girl children are forced to work at home.
3) Lack of Good School Facilities: These communities are discriminated even by the schooling system. They are given less preference.
4) Uneducated Background: The parents mostly uneducated don't see any good in educating their children while spending money.

__________ and the lack of resources continue to be a key reason why so many peoples lives in India are highly unequal.

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  1. Abundance

  2. Poverty

  3. Excess

  4. Surplus

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Poverty and the lack of resources are the key reasons why so many people live in India are highly unequal. In India, people are discriminated on the basis of religion, caste, class, society, gender etc. People are discriminated because of their social and cultural background as well as because they are women.

The victims of untouchability are the ____________.

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  1. Dalits

  2. Barbers

  3. Brahmins

  4. Politicians

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
A fifth group existed outside the four-fold classification of varna system, that of the non-classified (avarnas) who did work that was and is still considered physically and ritually polluting such as cremation and the handling of dead bodies, removal and skinning of dead animals, removal and cleaning of human bodily fluids and excreta (manual scavenging), and basket
weaving. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Doing anything with dead cattle or cowhides was particularly unclean in Hinduism. Under Hindu beliefs, jobs that involved death corrupted the workers' souls, making them unfit to mingle with other people. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest, barbers and politicians are professionals irrespective of caste, and brahmins are the highest upper caste. Hence, these are incorrect. 

The policy of segregation in South Africa is related with _______________.

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  1. Citizen right to use the public places.

  2. Separate public places for whites and blacks.

  3. Equal opportunities for whites and blacks.

  4. Restrictions on the whites.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
The apartheid system was particularly oppressive for the blacks. They were forbidden from living in white areas. They could work in white areas only if they had a permit. Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks. This was called segregation.

To work in the white living areas, the blacks were asked to carry _____________.

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  1. Identity card

  2. Permit card.

  3. Voter card.

  4. Citizenship card.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The apartheid system facilitated racial discrimination and segregation of people of mixed races and blacks from the whites who considered themselves superior. The Blacks were not allowed to work in whites living areas and they were forbidden from living in white areas. They could

work in white areas only if they had a permit.

The resolution to resolve" Deep Dispute" should come from ______________.

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  1. Parliament

  2. People

  3. Executive

  4. Judiciary

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Democratic conflict is resolved through mass mobilization. Sometimes the conflict may be resolved by using the existing institutions like the parliament or the judiciary. But when there is a deep dispute, very often these institutions themselves get involved in the dispute. The resolution has to come from outside, from the people.