CHAPTER 2 NATIONALISM IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT
CLASS X

1. Why did Gandhiji organise Satyagraha in 1917 in Kheda district of Gujarat?

(a) To support the plantation workers
(b) To protest against high revenue demand
(c) To support the mill workers to fulfil their demand
(d) To demand loans for the farmers
Answer b

2. Why was Satyagraha organised in Champaran in 1916?

(a) To oppose the British laws
(b) To oppose the plantation system
(c) To oppose high land revenue
(d) To protest against the oppression of the mill workers
Answer b

3. Why was the Simon Commission sent to India?

(a) To look into the Indian constitutional matter and suggest reform
(b) To choose members of Indian Council
(c) To settle disputes between the government and the Congress leaders
(d) To set up a government organisation
Answer a

4. Why was Alluri Sitarama Raju well known?

(a) He led the militant movement of tribal peasants in Andhra Pradesh.
(b) He led a peasant movement in Avadh.
(c) He led a satyagraha movement in Bardoli.
(d) He set up an organisation for the uplifment of the dalits.
Answer a

5. Why did General Dyer open fire on peaceful crowd in JallianwallaBagh? Mark the most important
factor.
(a) To punish the Indians
(b) To take revenge for breaking martial laws
(c) To create a feeling of terror and awe in the mind of Indians
(d) To disperse the crowd
Answer c

6. What kind of movement was launched by the tribal peasants of Gudem Hills in Andhra Pradesh?
(a) Satyagraha Movement
(b) Militant Guerrilla Movement
(c) Non-Violent Movement
(d) None of the above
Answer b

7. Who among the following two leaders led the Khilafat Movement?
(a) Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali
(b) Gandhiji and Sardar Patel
(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah and AbulKalam Azad
(d) AbulKalam Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer a
8. Why did Gandhiji withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement? [Delhi 2011]
(a) Gandhiji realised that people were losing interest in the movement.
(b) Gandhiji felt that the movement was turning violent in many places.
(c) Some Congress leaders wanted to participate in elections to Provincial Councils.
(d) Some Congress leaders wanted more radical mass agitations.
Answer b

9. Who were the ‘Sanatanis’?

(a) Saints
(b) Dalits
(c) Labours
(d) High-caste Hindus
Answer d

10. The main problem with the Simon Commission was that:
(a) It was an all British commission.
(b) It was formed in Britain.
(c) It was set up in response to the nationalist movement.
(d) It supported the Muslim League.
Answer a

11. ‘Hind Swaraj ’ was written by:

(a) AbulKalam Azad
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Sardar Patel
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer b

12. Why did the Indians oppose the Rowlatt Act?

(a) It introduced the Salt Law.
(b) It increased taxes on land.
(c) It gave the British the power to arrest and detain a person without a trial.
(d) It put a ban on the Congress party.
Answer c

13. Due to the effect of the Non-Cooperation movement on the plantation workers in Assam, they:
(a) left the plantations and headed home.
(b) went on strike.
(c) destroyed the plantations.
(d) None of these
Answer a

14. The resolution of PurnaSwaraj was adopted at which session?

(a) Karachi Congress
(b) Haripur Congress
(c) Lahore Congress
(d) Lucknow Congress
Answer c
15. Which one of the following Viceroys announced a vague offer of dominion status for India in
October 1929? [All India 2012]
(a) Lord Mount batten
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Irwin
(d) None of these
Answer c

16. 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 bum 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.
Answer d

17. 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.
Answer b

18. 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 i without trial and conviction
in a court of j law
Answer d

19. Where did the brutal ‘Jallianwala Massacre’ take place?

(a) Amritsar
(b) Meerut
(c) Lahore
(d) Lucknow
Answer a

20. Why did General Dyer order to open fire on a i peaceful demonstration at JallianwalaBagh?
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 j sudden unrest in the crowd.
Answer c

21. Who was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’?

(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawahar Lai Nehru
Answer c
22. Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of
(a) Bombay
(b) Calcutta
(c) Lucknow
(d) Amritsar
Answer a

23. The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in

(a) January 1921
(b) February 1922
(c) December 1929
(d) April 1919
Answer a

24. 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

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

26. Who set up the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’?

(a) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(b) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer b

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

28. 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
29. A form of demonstration used in the Non-cooperation Movement in which people block the
entrance to a shop, factory or office is
(a) Boycott
(b) Begar
(c) Picketing
(d) Bandh
Answer c

30. Who formed the ‘Swaraj Party’ within the Congress?

(a) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Motilal Nehru
(b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
Answer d

31. 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

32. 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

33. What do you mean by the term ‘Begar’l

(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

34. Where did Mahatma Gandhi start his famous ‘Salt March’ on 12th March 1930?
(a) Dandi
(b) Chauri-Chaura
(c) Sabarmati
(d) Surat
Answer c

35. Which industrialist attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil
Disobedience Movement?
(a) Dinshaw Petit
(b) PurshottamdasThakurdas
(c) Dwarkanath Tagore
(d) Seth Hukumchand
Answer b
36. Who visualised and depicted the image of ‘Bharat Mata’ through a painting?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) NatesaSastri
(d) Abanindranath Tagore
Answer d

37. Gandhiji’s march from Sabarmati to Dandi is called the ___________ .

Answer Salt March

38. The Depressed Classes Association was formed by ___________ .

AnswerB.R.Ambedkar

39. The Muslim League was started by ___________ .

Answer M.A Jinnah

40. The Statutory Commission that arrived in India in 1928 was led by ___________ .
Answer John Simon

41. The Swaraj Party was set up by ___________ and ___________ .

AnswerMotilal Nehru and C.R Das

42. The Indian tricolor was first designed at the time of ___________ .
Answer Swadeshi Movement

43. ___________ presided over the Lahore session of Congress in 1929.

AnswerJawahar Lal Nehru

44. During the First World War, the Indian Industrialists suffered huge loss. (True/False)
Answer False

45. Gandhiji’s idea which emphasized truth and non-violence is referred as Swaraj. (True/False)
Answer False

46. Khilafat Movement was led by the Ali Brothers. (True/False)

Answer True

47. Baba Ramchandra and JawaharLal Nehru headed Oudh Kisan Sabha. (TVue/False)
Answer True

48. The term ‘begar’ means homeless labour. (True/False)

Answer False

49. Alluri Sitarama Raju could perform miracles. (True/False)

Answer True

50. The four volume collection of Tamil folktales – “The folklore of Southern India” was published by
Natesa Sastri. (True/False)
Answer True

51. Violation of Salt Tax by Gandhi led to the Civil Disobedience Movement. (True/False)
Answer True

52. Match the columns.

Column A Column B

(a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (i) Depressed Classes Association

(b) B.R Ambedkar (ii) Famous image of Bharat Mata

(c) Sir Mohammad Iqbal (iii) The Folklore of Southern India

(d) Abanindranath Tagore (iv) President of the Muslim League

(e) NatesaSastri (v) VandeMatrami

Answer a(v),b(i),c(iv),d(ii),e(iii)

53. Match the columns.

Column A Column B

(a) Hartal (i) Refused to deal with or associate with someone or with something

(b) Boycott (ii) To strike off work, a form of demonstration

(c) Begar (iii) Form of salutation

(d) Salam (iv) Deprive some one of the service of washer man

(e) Dhobi- bandh (v) Forced or bonded labour without payment

Answer a(ii),b(i),c(v),d(iii),e(iv)

54. What was the reaction of Mahatma Gandhi against the Rowlatt Act?
Answer Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch a non-violent Satyagraha movement against this act

55. Why did Mahatma Gandhi call off Rowlatt Satyagraha?

Answer due to widespread violence

56. What does the term Khalifa refer to?

Answer spiritual leader of the muslim community

57. In which Indian National Congress session, the idea of Khilafat-Non-Cooperation Movement was
accepted?
Answer September 1920 in Calcutta

58. What was the result of the boycott of foreign goods and textiles during the Non-Cooperation
movement?
Answer Production of Indian Textile Mills increased

59. What was the outcome of Congress Session at Nagpur in 1920?

AnswerAdoption of Non-Cooperation Program
60. Who was Baba Ramchandra?
Answer Baba Ramachandra was a Sanyasi and had been an indentured labour in Fiji, He led the
peasants in Awadh

61. What is meant by begar?

Answer Forced labour without payment

62. State the major demands of the peasants who participated in the Non-Cooperation movement.
Answer 1) Reduction in Revenue
2) Abolition of Begar
3) Social Boycott of oppressive landlords

63. What did ‘Swaraj’ mean to the plantation workers in Assam?

Answer
It meant retaining a link with their villages

64. Which act did not permit plantation workers to leave the tea gardens without permission?
Answer
Inland Emigration Act of 1859

65. Who headed Simon Commission?

Answer
Sir John Simon

66. At which session of Congress was the resolution of ‘Puma Swaraj’ adopted?
Answer
The resolution of PoornaSwaraj was adopted at the Lahore Congress Session in December 1929

67. What was the main motive of the Salt March? [All India 2015]
Answer
The British Government acquired monopoly rights over salt production and imposed salt tax-
Indians were prohibited from collecting or selling salt. Thus, the main motive of the salt march was
to break the salt law
68. Who led the Civil Disobedience Movement in Peshawar?
Answer
Abdul Gaffar Khan, Known as Frontier Gandhi

69. Name the peasant communities of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh who were active in Civil
Disobedience Movement.
Patidars of Gujarat and Jats of Uttar Pradesh
70. On an outline map of India, mark and locate the following:
The place where Indian National Congress Session took place in:
September 1920-Calcutta b) December 1920-Nagpur c) 1927-Madras.
71. On an outline map of India, mark and locate the important centres of Indian National Movement
a) The place in Bihar where the movement of Indigo planters started- Champaran
b) The place in Gujarat from where peasant Satyagraha was started- Kheda
c) The place in Gujarat from where cotton mill workers Satyagraha was started- Ahmedabad
d) The place in Punjab where JallianwalaBagh Massacre was held in 1919- Amritsar
e) The calling of the Non Cooperation Movement due to violent incident- ChauriChaura
f) Civil Disobedience Movement/Salt March - Dandi