CBSE Class 12 English Indigo MCQs Set E

Question: Why did Mr. Shukla meet Gandhiji?
a) to seek his help for the poor sharecroppers
b) to get ideas to be famous
c) to learn the art of speaking
d) to seek his guidance for his own upliftment
Answer: a

Question: Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?
a) its voice spread far and wide
b) it became famous
c) The British were scared
d) to protest the courts’ order to postpone the trial
Answer: a

Question: What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?
a) very happy
b) independent
c) very rich
d) terror stricken and oppressed
Answer: d

Question: Who was Sir Edmund in Indigo?
a) An Administrator in Indian Civil Services
b) A British Businessman
c) a British Politician
d) a British lawyer
Answer: a

Question: Why did Gandhi protest at Motihari court house?
a) to be famous
b) to show his power
c) to humiliate the British
d) to protest the courts’ order to postpone the trial
Answer: d

Question: What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?
a) that he was a law breaker
b) that he wanted to command res
c) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter’s offer of 25% refund to the farmers?
a) because of money
b) because more than money prestige of farmers was important
c) because of fear of power
d) because of fear of loss
Answer: b

Question: Why was Satyagraha Movement launched in Champaran?
a) for Gandhiji’s upliftment
b) for the upliftment of the farmers
c) for getting business
d) for raising funds
Answer: b

Question: Why was the government baffled?
a) Because of lawyer’s power
b) because of farmers
c) because of sharecroppers
d) because of the success of Satyagraha movement by peasants
Answer: d

Question: Where was Champaran?
a) In Lucknow
b) In Delhi
c) a district of Bihar in British India
d) In Uttar Pradesh
Answer: c

Question: Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?
a) Government officers
b) politicians
c) farmers
d) lawyers
Answer: d

Question: Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at Annual Congress party session?
a) to be rich
b) to be famous
c) to complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar
d) to fight and get money
Answer: c

Question: Why did the British want the peasant to pay compensation?
a) because they freed them
b) because they got orders from the British headquarters
c) 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest
d) because of 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest
Answer: c

Question: Where was Sir Edmund posted?
a) In East India
b) In Purvanchal
c) In Uttar Pradesh
d) at Bihar & Orissa Province in Bengal Presidency of British India
Answer: d

Question: Who is the author of Indigo?
a) Louis Fischer
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Mark Twain
d) Charles Dickens
Answer: a

Question: What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?
a) to encourage people to participate in the freedom movement
b) to be popular
c) to instigate the people
d) to get money
Answer: a

Question: When did the author serve in the British army?
a) 1918 – 1920
b) 1909 – 1910
c) 1912 – 1913
d) 1900 – 1902
Answer: a

Question: Why is Champaran famous?
a) for fighting
b) for Indigo
c) because Gandhi ji visited
d) for the first Satyagraha movement in 1917
Answer: d

Question: Where did Gandhiji stay for two days?
a) At a peasant’s house
b) at Prof. Malkani’s house
c) in a guest house
d) at a lawyer’s house
Answer: b

Question: How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?
a) by speaking to the people
b) by teaching Ashram Rules and cleanliness
c) by moving here and there
d) by walking with him
Answer: b

Source Based Question

This settlement was adopted unanimously by the commission. Gandhi explained that the amount of the refund was less important than the fact that the landlords had been obliged to surrender part of the money and, with it, part of their prestige. Therefore, as far as the peasants were concerned, the planters had behaved as lords above the law. Now the peasant saw that he had rights and defenders. He learned courage.

Question: The big planters agreed to pay the refund to small farmers. This might not have happened if-
A) their illegal extortion was not exposed.
B) they did not have fear of official punishment.
C) they did not have fear of peasants’ revolt.
D) they did not have fear of Gandhiji.
Answer: a

Question: Gandhiji accepted only part of the total money. Choose the option that is NOT the motive of Gandhiji behind this deed.
A) To get out of bargaining impasse.
B) To keep good relations between the farmers and planters.
C) To him the dispelling of fear was more important.
D) To him only money was not that much important.
Answer: b

Question: The phrase ‘lords above the law’ mentioned in the extract means
A) Someone who always obeys the law.
B) Someone who does not have to be against the law.
C) Someone who does not have to criticise the law.
D) Someone who does not have to obey the law.
Answer: d

Question: The word ‘unanimously’ has been used in the extract. Choose the option that DOES NOT show the correct usage of the word.
A) The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to hostilities.
B) The judges unanimously disagreed with each other that Mr. Mehta was fit to compete.
C) At its conference, the Socialist League unanimously passed the decision to dissolve itself.
D) The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional
Answer: b

They had merely heard that a Mahatma who wanted to help them was in trouble with the authorities. Their spontaneous demonstration, in thousands, around the courthouse was the beginning of their liberation from fear of the British. The officials felt powerless without Gandhi’s cooperation. He helped them regulate the crowd. He was polite and friendly. He was giving them concrete proof that their might, hitherto dreaded and unquestioned, could be challenged by Indians. The government was baffled. The prosecutor requested the judge to postpone the trial. Apparently, the authorities wished to consult their superiors.

Question: The officials felt powerless because
A) of Gandhi’s refusal to cooperate with them.
B) of Gandhi’s polite and friendly behaviour.
C) the crowd was listening only to Gandhi.
D) the crowd was getting violent.
Answer: c

Question: The demonstration proved that the
A) policies of the British had failed.
B) dread instilled in the hearts of Indians had begun to lessen.
C) dealings with the Indian citizens had been unsuccessful.
D) might of the British had not been understood by Indians.
Answer: b

Question: Which style, from those given below, is being used by the author, when he says,
“Apparently, the authorities wished to consult their superiors.”?
A) humourous
B) dramatic
C) sarcastic
D) persuasive
Answer: c

Question: Gandhiji’s behaviour towards the British prior to the proposal of postponement of the trial was that of
A) indifference.
B) calm acceptance.
C) gnorance of consequences.
D) polite helpfulness.
Answer: b