CBSE Class 12 History Rebels And The Raj Assignment Set A

Question. Name the famous British journal of comic satire.
a) The Atlantis
b) The Engineer
c) Punch
d) All of these

Answer : C

Question. Who was the younger son of Birjis Qadar?
a) Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
b) Mawab Shaukat-Ali
c) Nawab Siraj-ud-daula
d) Nawab Mir Ali

Answer : A

Question. After the failure in the 1857 revolt, Nana Saheb escaped to__
a) Bengal
b) Rangoon
c) Bhutan
d) Nepal

Answer : D

Question. After how many years of mutiny ‘In Memoriam’ was painted?
a) 2 years
b) 2.5 years
c) 3 years
d) 1.5 years

Answer : A

Question. Where did the execution of mutineers take place?
a) Peshawar
b) Andaman and Nicobar
c) Lahore
d) Qandhar

Answer : A

Question. Where did Rani Laxmibai die ?
a) Kota-ki-Serai
b) Bareily
c) Jhansi
d) Awadh

Answer : A

Question. Which rebellion never got captured and never got killed?
a) Tantya Tope
b) Nana Saheb
c) Hazrat Begum
d) Razia sultan

Answer : B

Question. Under whose leadership Britishers adopted policies aimed at Reforming Indian societies?
a) Lord Minto
b) Lord Mountbatten
c) Lord William Bentick
d) Lord Curzon

Answer : C

Question. Under whose governor generalship revolt of 1857 occurred?
a) Lord Campbell
b) Lord Irwin
c) Lord Canning
d) Lord Minto

Answer : C

Question. Who gave the lines “Khoob lari mardani woh to Jhansi wali rani thi”?
a) Dilip Chauhan
b) Maithili Sharan Gupt
c) Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
d) Mahadevi Verma

Answer : C

Question. Who was known as Danka Shah?
a) Bahadur Shah
b) None of these
c) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
d) Razia Sultan

Answer : C

Question. Who painted ‘Relief of Lucknow’ in 1859?
a) Felice Beato
b) Collin Campbell
c) Henry Lawrence
d) Thomas Jones Barker

Answer : D

Question. Awadh and Satara were captured under ________
a) Mahalwari System
b) None of these
c) Doctrine of Lapse
d) Subsidary Alliance

Answer : C

Question. Subsidiary Alliance was imposed on Awadh in _________-
a) 1801
b) 1808
c) 1807
d) 1799

Answer : A

Question. In which of the following battles were the Britishers defeated?
a) Battle of Jind
b) Battle of Buxar
c) Battle of Chinhat
d) Battle fo Awadh

Answer : C

Question. Who led the revolt from Bihar?
a) Birjis Qadar
b) Todar Mal
c) Nana Saheb
d) Kunwar Singh

Answer : D

Question. After getting dethroned Wajid Ali Shah was exiled to which place ?
a) Calcutta
b) Agra
c) Lahore
d) Andaman and Nicobar

Answer : A

Question. Name the place where the revolt of 1857 started)
a) Awadh
b) Meerut
c) Ambala
d) Jhansi

Answer : B

Question. Secundrah Bagh is located in __?
a) Agra
b) Kanpur
c) Lucknow
d) Ranchi

Answer : C

Question. Who described the Kingdom of Awadh “a cherry that will drop into our mouth one day”?
a) Warren Hastings
b) Charles Metcalf
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Auckland

Answer : C

Question. Who led the Revolt of 1857 from Delhi?
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Bahadur Shah
(c) Feroz Shah Tughlaq
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. Shah Mal become the leaders of Revolt 1857 of Pargana Baraut in
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Bihar

Answer : B

Question. Nana Saheb was selected to led the Revolt of 1857 from
(a) Jhansi
(b) Kanpur
(c) Awadh
(d) Bihar

Answer : B

Question. In Bihar, who led the Flag of revolt against British?
(a) Nana Sahib
(b) Maulvi Ahmadullah
(c) Kunwar Singh
(d) Birjis Qadr

Answer : C

Question. Captain Hearsey was given protection by
(a) Bengal Military Police
(b) Sikh Military Police
(c) Gorkha Forces
(d) Awadh Military Police

Answer : D 

Question. Distribution of chapattis in villages were perceived as
(a) signal of an upheaval
(b) sign of solidarity among people
(c) sign of resisting inequality
(d) invitation to join British Army

Answer : A

Question. The Governor General who introduced Subsidiary Alliances.
(a) Lord Lytton
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Lord William Bentinck

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following was not an objective of the Revolt of 1857?
(a) Vision of Unity
(b) Search for alternative power
(c) To revive Islamic rule
(d) Attacking every symbol of British rule

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following issues did not contributed in spread of revolt?
(a) Issue of Cartridges
(b) Conversion of Indians to Christianity
(c) Mixing of bone dust in flour
(d) Dishonouring Hindu Women

Answer : D 

Question. Which is known as the first war of Indian Independence?
(a) Revolt of 1857
(b) Swadeshi Movement
(c) Dandi March
(d) All of these

Answer : A

Question. The subsidiary alliance was imposed on Awadh in
(a) 1785
(b) 1801
(c) 1809
(d) 1819

Answer : B

Question. The Sepoys of Revolt 1857, arrived Delhi on
(a) 10th March
(b) 11th May
(c) 15th March
(d) 9th May

Answer : B

Question. A Land Revenue Policy known as summary settlement in
(a) 1819
(b) 1856
(c) 1886
(d) 1905

Answer : B

Question. Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of
(a) Awadh
(b) Bengal
(c) Karnataka
(d) Hyderabad

Answer : A

Question. Awadh and Satara were captured under
(a) Doctrine of Lapse
(b) Subsidiary Alliance
(c) Issue of Misgovernance
(d) Mahalwari System

Answer : A 

Question. Laws related to abolishing customs of Sati was passed in the year ........
(a) 1832
(b) 1875
(c) 1829
(d) 1825

Answer : C

Question. Summary settlement was introduced by British in
(a) Awadh
(b) Sindh
(c) Bengal
(d) Madras

Answer : A

Question. At which place mutiny broke out on 10th May, 1857
(a) Meerut
(b) Barrackpore
(c) Kanpur
(d) Delhi

Answer : A

Question. In 1856, the kingdom which was formally annexed to the British empire was ......
(a) Awadh
(b) Satara
(c) Mysore
(d) Jhansi

Answer : A

Question. British started annexing the Indian states on the pretext of
I. misgovernance
II. anarchy
III. refusal to recognise adoption
IV. treachery
Which of the following option(s) is/are correct?
(a) Only I
(b) I and II
(c) I and III
(d) I, II and III

Answer : C

Question. Who led the Revolt from Lucknow?
(a) Begum Hazarat Mahal
(b) Rani Laxmi Bai
(c) Nana Saheb
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. Find out from the following pairs which one is correctly matched.
(a) Relief of Lucknow – Joseph Noel Paton
(b) In Memoriam – Thomas Jones Barker
(c) The clemency of Canning – A journal named ‘Punch’

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following statements regarding revolt of 1857.
I. Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah was declared as the leader of sepoys.
II. There was no participation of common people.
III. Moneylenders and the rich were attacked.
Which of the above statement is/are correct?
(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) I, II and III

Answer : C

Question. Match the following.
         List I                   List II
A. Delhi                    1. Hazrat Mahal
B. Kanpur                 2. Kunwar Singh
C. Arrah                   3. Bahadur Shah
D. Lucknow              4. Nana Sahib
Codes
     A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 3 4 2 1
(c) 1 2 3 4
(d) 4 2 3 1

Answer : B

Question. Match the following.
             List I                                      List II
A. Lord Wellesley        1. Commander of British Forces in India
B. Lord Dalhousie       2. Introduced Doctrine of Lapse
C. Lord Canning         3. Introduced Subsidiary Alliance
D. Colin Campbell      4. Governor-General during Revolt of 1857
Codes
      A  B  C D
(a) 1  2  3  4
(b) 2  1  3  4
(c) 4  1  3  2
(d) 3  2  4  1

Answer : D

ASSERTION AND REASON BASED MCQs

Directions : In the following questions, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is correct but R is wrong.
(D) A is wrong and R is correct.

Question. Assertion (A): There were similarities in the pattern of the revolt in different places.
Reason (R): Sepoys lived in lines and shared a common lifestyle and that many of them came from the same caste 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): The British became increasingly interested in acquiring the territory of Awadh. 
Reason (R): They felt that the soil there was good for producing tea and coffee, and the region was ideally located to be developed into the principal market of Upper India. U A
Answer : C

Question. Assertion (A): In towns and cantonments, sepoys and the common people refused to touch the atta. 
Reason (R): There was fear and suspicion that the British wanted to convert Indians to Christianity. Panic spread fast. 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): Historians till now have continued to discuss rebel actions primarily through accounts written by the British.
Reason (R): There are many rebel proclamations and notifications, as also some letters that rebel leaders wrote. However, historians prefer to study British documents rather than the rebel’s account.
Answer : C

Question. Assertion (A): Awadh was, in fact, called the “Nursery of the Bengal Army’’.
Reason (R): The large majority of the sepoys of the Bengal Army were recruited from the villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Many of them were Brahmins or from the “upper” castes. 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A) : The Commissioner of Lucknow Henry Lawrence, killed but the Residency continued to be defended under the command of Colonel Inglis.
Reason (R): When the rebel forces besieged Lucknow, Henry Lawrence, the Commissioner of Lucknow, collected the Christian population and took refuge in the heavily fortified Residency. 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): Ordinary people, peasants began joining the revolt, the targets of attack widened. In major towns like Lucknow, Kanpur and Bareilly, money- lenders and the rich also became the objects of rebel wrath. In most places their houses were looted and destroyed. 
Reason (R): Ordinary people not only saw the money-lenders and rich as oppressors but also as allies of the British.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): Many of the taluqdars were loyal to the Nawab of Awadh, and they joined Begum Hazrat Mahal (the wife of the Nawab) in Lucknow to fight the British; some even remained with her in defeat.
Reason (R): Large areas of Awadh were heavily overassessed. The increase of revenue demand in some places was from 30 to 70 percent. Thus, neither taluqdars nor peasants had any reasons to be happy with the annexation. 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): The relationship of the sepoys with their superior white officers underwent a significant change in the years preceding the uprising of 1857.
Reason (R): The officers developed a sense of superiority and started treating the sepoys as their racial inferiors, riding roughshod over their sensibilities. 
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): The stories of the revolt that were published in British newspapers and magazines narrated in gory detail the violence of the mutineers – and these stories inflamed public feelings and provoked demands of retribution and revenge.
Reason (R): One important record of the mutiny is the pictorial images produced by the British and Indians: paintings, pencil drawings, etchings, posters, cartoons, etc.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion (A): To fight the British, leadership and organisation were required
Reason (R): Rumours and prophecies played a part in moving people to action.
Answer : B

Question. Assertion (A): The national movement in the twentieth century drew its inspiration from the
events of 1857.
Reason (R): All sections of the people of India came together to fight against imperial rule. Art and literature, as much as the writing of history, have helped in keeping alive the memory of 1857.
Answer : A

CASE-BASED MCQs

Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the following questions :

Rumours and prophecies played a part in moving people to action. The Sepoys who had arrived in Delhi from Meerut had told Bahadur Shah about the bullets coated with the fat of cow and pigs and that biting those bullets would corrupt their caste and religion. They were referring to the cartridges of the Enfield Rifles that had just been given to them. The British tried to explain to the Sepoys that this was not the case but the rumour of greased cartridge spread like wild fire across the Sepoy lines of North India.

Question. Why did the Sepoys marched to Delhi from Meerut?
(A) The Governor General of East India company lived in Delhi.
(B) Delhi was the seat and symbol of Mughal authority
(C) Rani Laxmi Bai urged the Sepoys to move to Delhi.
(D) The greased cartridges were being made in Delhi.
Answer : B

Question. Choose the correct option.
Assertion (A): According to the rumour the cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs.
Reason (R): The Sepoys refused to use these cartridges because for Hindu Sepoys, cow was a revered animal and for the Muslims the pig was a hated animal.
(A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is wrong but R is correct.
(D) R is wrong but A is correct.
Answer : A

Question. How did the rumour of greased cartridges spread like wild fire across the cantonments?
(A) The cantonments were connected through the Telegraph Lines.
(B) The cantonments published their own newspapers, in which this was reported.
(C) This news was broadcasted on the Television.
(D) All of the above
Answer : A

Question. Consider the following statements :
(a) The greased cartridges were to be used in the new Enfield Rifles.
(b) The British officers tried to explain to the Sepoys that cartridges were not greased. It was just a rumour.
Choose the correct option:
(A) Only (a) is correct
(B) Both (a) and (b) are correct.
(C) Only (b) is correct.
(D) Neither (a) nor (b) is correct
Answer : B