Confronting Marginalisation Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. When was the Act framed in response to demands made by Dalits and others that the government must take seriously the ill treatment and humiliation Dalits and tribal groups face in everyday life?

2. What are the names of manual scavengers in different parts of the India?

3. Which is the Article of Constitution that states that untouchability has been abolished?

4. In which year did the government passed the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act

5. What was abolished according to Article 17 of the Constitution states?

6. Which article of the Indian Constitution States that untouchability has been abolished.

7. Who out of the following are facing inequalities due to marginalisation?

8. What is meant by the term ‘Assertive’?

9. What do you mean by Ostracise?

10. Who was Kabir by caste?

11. How does government ensure to end the inequity in the country?

12. Which term is meant ‘broken’ and is used deliberately and actively by groups to highlight the centuries of discrimination they have experienced within the caste system.

13. What do you understand by manual scavenging?

14. When did the Supreme Court ban the practice of manual scavenging?

15. What term means to exclude or banish an individual or a group?

16. Reservations play an important role in providing social justice to:

17. Who wrote the poem on untouchability?

18. A person or a group that can express themselves and their views strongly are

19. Who, being an adivasis, activist, has also pointed out that one of the violators of Constitutional rights guaranteed to tribal people are governments in the various States of India?

20. Which type of poems Kabir wrote?