MCQ Class 10 Social Science Chapter 2 Nationalism in India

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Question. Which of the following was Mahatma Gandhi’s novel method of fighting against the British?
(a) He used violent method of stone pelting.
(b) He used arson to burn down government offices.
(c) He fought with the principle of ‘an eye for an eye’.
(d) He practised open defiance of law, peaceful demonstration, satyagraha and non-violence.

Question. What does satyagraha mean? Choose one from the following options.
(a) ‘Satyagraha’ means use of physical force to inflict pain while fighting.
(b) ‘Satyagraha’ does not inflict pain, it is a non-violent method of fighting against oppression.
(c) ‘Satyagraha‘ means passive resistance and is a weapon of the weak.
(d) ‘Satyagraha‘ was a racist method of mass agitation.

Question. What was the purpose of imposing the Rowlatt Act?
(a) The Rowlatt Act forbade the Indians to qualify for administrative services.
(b) The Rowlatt Act had denied Indians the right to political participation.
(c) The Rowlatt Act imposed additional taxes on Indians who were already groaning under the burden of taxes.
d) The Rowlatt Act authorised the government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in a court of law.

Question. Where did the brutal ‘Jallianwala Massacre’ take place?
(a) Amritsar
(b) Meerut
(c) Lahore
(d) Lucknow

Question. Why did General Dyer order to open fire on a peaceful demonstration at Jallianwala Bagh? Choose from the given options.
(a) He wanted to show his power.
(b) Firing was ordered because it was an unruly crowd.
(c) Because his object, as he declared later, was to ‘produce a moral effect’ to create fear in the minds of ‘satyagrahis’.
(d) He ordered to fire because he noticed a sudden unrest in the crowd.

Question. Who was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru

Question. Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of
(a) Bombay
(b) Calcutta
(c) Lucknow
(d) Amritsar

Question. The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in
(a) January 1921
(b) February 1922
(c) December 1929
(d) April 1919

Question. Which of the following was the reason for calling off the Non-cooperation Movement by Gandhiji?
(a) Pressure from the British Government
(b) Second Round Table Conference
(c) Gandhiji’s arrest
(d) Chauri-Chaura incident

Question. Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements?
(a) Plantation Workers’ Movement in Assam
(b) Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh
(c) Peasants’ Movement of Awadh
(d) Khilafat Movement

Question. Who set up the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’?
(a) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Baba Ramchandra
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali
(d) Mahatma Gandhi

Question. Under the presidency of Jawahahar Lal Nehru, the Lahore Congress Session of 1929 formalised the demand of
(a) abolition of Salt Tax
(b) ‘Purna Swaraj’ or complete independence
(c) boycott of Simon Commission
(d) separate electorate for the ‘dalits’

Question. The ‘Simon Commission’ was boycotted because
(a) there was no British Member in the Commission.
(b) it demanded separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
(c) there was no Indian Member in the Commission.
(d) it favoured the Muslims over the Hindus.

Question. A form of demonstration used in the Noncooperation Movement in which people block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is
(a) Boycott
(b) Begar
(c) Picketing
(d) Bandh

Question. Who formed the ‘Swaraj Party’ within the Congress?
(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Motilal Nehru
(b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

Question. Who founded the ‘Depressed Classes Association’ in 1930?
(a) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(b) C.R. Das
(c) M.R. Jayakar
(d) Dr B.R. Ambedkar

Question. Which party did not boycott the Council elections held in the year 1921?
(a) Swaraj Party
(b) Justice Party
(c) Muslim League
(d) Congress Party

Question. What do you mean by the term ‘Begar’?
(a) An Act to prevent plantation workers to leave the tea gardens without permission.
(b) The forced recruitment of soldiers in rural areas during World War I.
(c) Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any payment.
(d) Refusal to deal and associate with people, or participate in activities as a form of protest.

Question. At the Lahore Session, Congress adopted the demand for:
(а) Swaraj
(b) Purna Swaraj
(c) either (a) or (b)
(d) none of the above

Question. A famous book of Mahatma Gandhi was:
(a) Anandamath
(b) The Folklore of Southern India
(c) Discovery of India
(d) Hind Swaraj

Question. For plantation workers in Assam:
(a) Freedom meant a part of the share.
(b) Freedom meant being paid.
(c) Freedom meant the right to move freely and do whatever they wanted.
(d) Freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confirmed place in which they were enclosed.

Question. Mahatma Gandhi found in salt a powerful symbol that could:
(а) Separate the nation
(b) Separate the rich and the poor
(c) Separate the Hindus and Muslims
(d) Unite the nation.

Question. Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in:
(a) March 1930
(b) April 1930
(c) May 1930
(d) June 1930

Question. Indians began looking into the past to discover:
(а) The history of Indian rulers
(b) The vedas
(c) India’s past geography
(d) India’s great achievements.

Question. According to the census of 1921:
(a) 10 to 11 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(b) 11 to 12 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(c) 12 to 13 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(d) none of the above.

Question. In 1928, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was founded at a meeting in:
(a) Eden Garden in Kolkatta
(b) Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai
(c) Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi
(d) none of the above

Question. Muhammad AliJinnah was willing to give up the demand for separate electorates:
(a) If Muslims were included in the Second Round Table Conference.
(b) If Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly.
(c) If Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly and representation in proportion to population in the Muslim-dominated provinces.
(d) None of the above.

Question. The image of Bharat Mata was first created by:
(a) Abanindranath Tagore
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question. In Madras, a massive four volume collection of Tamil folk tales was published by:
(a) Natesa Sastri
(b) Natesa Verma
(c) Natesa Sharma
(d) none of the above

Question. A tricolour flag, designed in Bengal had eight lotuses representing eight provinces of British India, and a crescent moon
(a) Representing rich and poor
(b) Merchants and peasants
(c) India and British
(d) Hindus and Muslims

Question. At the Lahore Session, Congress adopted the demand for:
(а) Swaraj
(b) Purna Swaraj
(c) either (a) or (b)
(d) none of the above

Question. A famous book of Mahatma Gandhi was:
(a) Anandamath
(b) The Folklore of Southern India
(c) Discovery of India
(d) Hind Swaraj

Question. For plantation workers in Assam:
(a) Freedom meant a part of the share.
(b) Freedom meant being paid.
(c) Freedom meant the right to move freely and do whatever they wanted.
(d) Freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confirmed place in which they were enclosed.

Question. Mahatma Gandhi found in salt a powerful symbol that could:
(а) Separate the nation
(b) Separate the rich and the poor
(c) Separate the Hindus and Muslims
(d) Unite the nation.

Question. Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in:
(a) March 1930
(b) April 1930
(c) May 1930
(d) June 1930

Question. Indians began looking into the past to discover:
(а) The history of Indian rulers
(b) The vedas
(c) India’s past geography
(d) India’s great achievements.

Question. According to the census of 1921:
(a) 10 to 11 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(b) 11 to 12 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(c) 12 to 13 million people perished as a result of famines and the epidemic.
(d) none of the above.

Question. In 1928, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was founded at a meeting in:
(a) Eden Garden in Kolkatta
(b) Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai
(c) Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi
(d) none of the above

Question. Muhammad AliJinnah was willing to give up the demand for separate electorates:
(a) If Muslims were included in the Second Round Table Conference.
(b) If Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly.
(c) If Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly and representation in proportion to population in the Muslim-dominated provinces.
(d) None of the above.

Question. The image of Bharat Mata was first created by:
(a) Abanindranath Tagore
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question. In Madras, a massive four volume collection of Tamil folk tales was published by:
(a) Natesa Sastri
(b) Natesa Verma
(c) Natesa Sharma
(d) none of the above

Question. A tricolour flag, designed in Bengal had eight lotuses representing eight provinces of British India, and a crescent moon
(a) Representing rich and poor
(b) Merchants and peasants
(c) India and British
(d) Hindus and Muslims

Fill in the blanks

Question. The name of the ……………………… was being invoked to sanction all action and aspiration,

Question. On January 6, 1921, the police in United Provinces fired at peasants near ……………………… .

Question. On 10 April, the police in ……………………… fired upon a peaceful procession.

Question. Many nationalists thought that the struggle against the British could not be won through ……………………… .

Question. ……………………… is the inalienable right of mankind.

Question. Though the Rowlatt Satyagraha had been a widespread movement, it was still limited mostly to ……………………… and ……………………… .

Question. At the Congress session at ……………………… in December 1920, a compromise was worked out and the Non-cooperation programme was launched.

Question. ……………………… cloth was seen as the symbol of western economic and cultural domination.

Question. The ……………………… within the Congress led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose, became more assertive.

Question. Mahatma Gandhi found in ……………………… a powerful symbol that could unite the nation.

Write true (T) or false (F)

Question. The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from 102 crore to Rs. 57 crore.

Question. Khadi cloth was less expensive than mass-produced mill cloth.

Question. The Simon Commission arrived in India in 1927 and was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’.

Question. In December 1929, the Lahore Congress formalised the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ in India.

Question. In Andhra Pradesh, the villagers considered Alluri Sitaram Raju as an incarnation of God.

Question. Raju was captured by the Britishers and executed in 1925.

Question. It was declared that 26 January 1940, would be celebrated as the Independence Day.

Question. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

Question. An important feature of the Civil Disobedience Movement was the large- scale participation of women.

Question. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar organised the Dalits into the Depressed Classes Association in 1930.

Question. In 1917, Mahatma Gandhi travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive indigo system.

Question. In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to Allahabad to organise Satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.

Question. Another means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history.

Question. By October, the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and a few others.

Question. Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.

Question. By 1934, the Civil Disobedience Movement lost its momentum.

Question. The industrial working classes did not participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement in large numbers, except in the Surat region.

Question. The First World War ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey.

Question. The Non-cooperation programme was adopted finally at the Congress session at Nagpur in January 1920.

Match the following

Question.

Column-A	Column-B
(a) Forced recruitment	1. A hymn to the motherland
(b) Boycott	2. A form of demonstration
(c) Picket	3. Labour without any payment
(d) Begar	4. A form of protest forbidding people to participate and buy things
(e) ‘Vande Matram’	5. Forcing people to join the army

Question.

Column-I	Column-II	Column-III
1. Distressed Up peasants	(a) Non-cooperation movement	(A) 1918-19
2. Gandhian hartal	(b) arrested in	(B) 1919
3. Non-cooperation and	(c) demand for ‘Purna Swaraj’	(C) 1921
4. Gandhiji withdraws	(d) Depressed Classes Association	(D) 1922
5. Alluri Sitaram Raju	(e) Civil Disobedience Movement	(E) 1924
6. Congress adopts the	(f) Khilafat movement launched	(F) 1929
7. Ambedkar established	(g) against Rowlatt Act	(G) 1930
8. Gandhiji breaks	(h) organised by Baba Ramchandra	(H) 1930
9. Gandhiji ends	(i) re-launched	(I) 1932
10. Civil Disobedience	(j) salt law at Dandi	(J) 1931

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