CBSE Class 10 Social Science Nationalism in India MCQs Set E

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

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

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

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
Answer: d

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
Answer: c

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
Answer: b

Question: Under the presidency of Jawaharlal 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’
Answer: b

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.
Answer: c

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
Answer: c

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
Answer: d

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
Answer: d

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
Answer: b

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.
Answer: c

Question: At the Lahore Session, Congress adopted the demand for:
a) Swaraj
b) Purna Swaraj
c) either Swaraj or Purna Swaraj
d) none of the options
Answer: b

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

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.
Answer: d

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

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
Answer: b

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

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 options
Answer: c

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 options
Answer: c

Question: Muhammad Ali Jinnah 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 options
Answer: c

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

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 options
Answer: a

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
Answer: d

Question: At the Lahore Session, Congress adopted the demand for:
a) Swaraj
b) Purna Swaraj
c) either Representing rich and poor or Purna Swaraj
d) none of the options
Answer: b

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

Fill in the blanks

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

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

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

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

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

Write true (T) or false (F)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Answer: (a) → (5), (b) → (4), (c) → (2), (d) → (3), (e) → (1)

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
Answer:
1. → (h) → (A), 2. → (g) → (B), 3. → (f) → (C), 4. → (a) → (D), 5. → (b) → (E)
6. → (c) → (F), 7. → (d) → (G), 8. → (j) → (H), 9. → (e) → (J), 10. → (i) → (I)