Family and Community — Mastery

Q1. A child describes living with grandparents, parents, two uncles and several cousins, all sharing meals. The chapter would classify this household as a joint family chiefly because

• A. It is wealthy
• B. It is in a city
• C. Several generations live together
• D. It celebrates Onam

Q2. A student argues English kinship words are 'better' because shorter. Using the chapter, the best counter-argument is

• A. Indian terms convey exact relationships that English needs many words to express
• B. English has more relatives
• C. Short words are always clearer
• D. Kinship words do not matter

Q3. A family that quietly cares for a sick elderly relative without complaint is teaching children which set of values the chapter highlights?

• A. Competition and profit
• B. Sevā and tyāga (service and sacrifice)
• C. Map reading and writing
• D. Tax collection

Q4. The activity asks students to draw Shalini's family tree of seven members. Who among these lives WITH Shalini in the story?

• A. Only her parents and brother
• B. Parents, brother, grandmother, uncle, aunt and cousin
• C. Only her grandmother
• D. Her school friends

Q5. Tenzing's father consults his wife before special expenses. The chapter most supports the view that this reflects

• A. Weakness in the father
• B. A community rule
• C. Shared decision-making and respect within the family
• D. A festival custom

Q6. How does the chapter distinguish a community from a family in size and scope?

• A. A community is smaller than a family
• B. A community is a bigger unit connecting families and people around them
• C. They are exactly the same
• D. A family contains many communities

Q7. Shri Mahesh Sharma of the Shivganga movement received the Padma Shri in 2019 for transformational work with which community?

• A. The Parsi community
• B. Chennai flood victims
• C. The Bhil communities
• D. A Residents' Welfare Association

Q8. The chapter concludes that in complex societies everyone depends on many others. Which example best supports this conclusion?

• A. A family living entirely alone
• B. A village ignoring all neighbours
• C. An RWA depending on traders for supplies and municipal workers for waste
• D. A person needing no one

Q9. The chapter's opening quote, 'Love and dharma are the flower and fruit of family life', is attributed to

• A. Tiruvalluvar
• B. Kalidasa
• C. Aryabhata
• D. Acchamma

Q10. One of the chapter's 'Big Questions' asks 'What is a community and what is its role?' The chapter's overall answer is that a community

• A. Replaces the family
• B. Connects families and people who support each other and share resources
• C. Only exists in tribal areas
• D. Is the same as a single household

Q11. Most Indian languages calling cousins simply 'brothers' and 'sisters' is presented in the chapter as evidence of

• A. A shortage of words
• B. Deep bonds among all the children in the family
• C. Confusion in relationships
• D. Influence of English

Q12. Besides daily participation, what else does the chapter say children learn at home over time?

• A. Traditions and practices the family has followed for generations
• B. Only modern technology
• C. How to leave the family
• D. Only foreign customs

Q13. After the halma, Chennai and Kamal Parmar stories, the chapter notes that community in an urban context

• A. Is present but may function a little differently
• B. Does not exist
• C. Is identical to rural community
• D. Has no rules

Q14. Acchamma told Shalini's father his brother had financial difficulties before Onam. How did the family respond?

• A. They cancelled Onam
• B. They bought clothes for the uncle's family too, sharing what they had
• C. They asked the uncle to leave
• D. They borrowed from the community

Q15. Tenzing's mother became busy making traditional fabrics, wood carvings and items for tourists as part of a

• A. Residents' Welfare Association
• B. Science club
• C. Local handicraft cooperative
• D. Joint family business of farming

Q16. Why is calling the family 'the most ancient unit of any society' a reasonable claim per the chapter?

• A. Almost all of us have always lived in families, the basic building block of society
• B. Families were invented recently
• C. Only kings had families
• D. Families replaced communities

Q17. A student says 'community means only people of the same religion.' Using the chapter, the best evaluation is

• A. Correct, community is only religious
• B. Community means only a family
• C. Too narrow — community can be by region, work, interest, school or jati too
• D. Community has only one fixed meaning

Q18. In Residents' Welfare Associations, who makes the rules about waste, cleanliness and pets?

• A. The people living in the community participate in making them
• B. The municipal corporation alone
• C. Only the oldest resident
• D. No one; there are no rules

Q19. What common attitude towards the community is revealed by the Bhils, Chennai volunteers and Kamal Parmar together?

• A. Helping only for payment
• B. Avoiding all responsibility
• C. Helping only relatives
• D. Doing something for others' benefit without expecting anything in return

Q20. The chapter says individuals in a family 'often give up their own needs' for the family's needs. This is an example of which value?

• A. Dāna only
• B. Tyāga (sacrifice)
• C. Competition
• D. Independence

Q21. By the end, Shalini 'did not mind her simpler dress' and 'was happy that everyone could get new clothes.' This change best shows she

• A. Understood and accepted the value of sharing in the family
• B. Regretted helping her family
• C. Disliked Onam
• D. Wanted to leave home

Q22. The activity asking students to list relatives' terms in their mother tongue mainly aims to make them appreciate

• A. That English is superior
• B. That relatives are unimportant
• C. The richness and precision of their own regional language
• D. That all terms are the same

Q23. Tenzing says no one understands people better than his grandmother. This is linked in the chapter to her

• A. Running a business
• B. Making handicrafts
• C. Building water trenches
• D. Telling stories with humour and wisdom

Q24. For which kinds of occasions does the chapter say community members come together?

• A. Only funerals
• B. Celebrating festivals and organising feasts, weddings and other events
• C. Only court cases
• D. Only school exams

Q25. During the 2015 Chennai floods, which groups especially cooked and distributed large quantities of food?

• A. Only the army
• B. Private groups, especially spiritual and religious organisations
• C. Only Residents' Welfare Associations
• D. Only the Bhil community

Q26. The chapter's question asks if some community rules can be unfair. Why might shared-resource rules sometimes be seen as unfair?

• A. They may bind all families to specific duties whether or not all benefit equally
• B. They never assign duties
• C. They make resources unlimited
• D. They abolish all communities

Q27. According to the chapter's closing summary, ideally members of a family

• A. Compete for resources
• B. Avoid all responsibilities
• C. Live entirely independently
• D. Support each other in their many duties and tasks

Q28. In Shalini's family, Chinni is her

• A. Younger brother
• B. Neighbour
• C. Grandmother
• D. Cousin (her uncle and aunt's daughter)

Q29. Tenzing begins his account by saying he loves the mountains he lives in, though life there is

• A. Always easy
• B. Free of any work
• C. Never worth it
• D. Sometimes hard

Q30. Which statement best captures the chapter's view of what healthy family relationships rest on?

• A. Fear and control
• B. Money and property only
• C. Love, care, cooperation and interdependence
• D. Competition between members