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Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [1] medium thorough-understanding
[1m, mcq] In early twentieth-century India, wealthy patrons and mill-owners funded public libraries primarily because: (A) The colonial government mandated private funding for public education (B) Libraries served as centres for spreading nationalist ideas and social reform alongside literacy (C) Printed books had become too expensive for individual ownership (D) The colonial government had banned the sale of political pamphlets in public spaces
  1. A It allowed them to profit from the sale of cheap books to the poor.
  2. B It was a way of gaining social prestige in their communities.
  3. C It helped them avoid paying taxes to the colonial government.
  4. D It gave them direct control over what the poor were allowed to read.
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 15:05 · grounding rag
Model Answer

(B) — The correct answer from the question stem is (B). From the options given, the closest is (B) It was a way of gaining social prestige in their communities, as the passage states: "For rich local patrons, setting up a library was a way of acquiring prestige."

Explanation

The source passage (section 8.2) directly states that rich local patrons set up libraries to acquire prestige. The question's option B matches this. Note: the question stem's own answer (B) mentions nationalist ideas — that applies to mill-workers' libraries sponsored by reformers, not wealthy patrons specifically. Examiners expect you to match the option to the textbook line about prestige.

Previous-year CBSE Grade 10 board exam questions, organised by subject and chapter, each with a model answer — free to read and print.