Multiple Choice Questions From (INDIGO)--5

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1. Health conditions in Champaran……………………………………………………………
(a) Miserable                  (b) tolerable                    (c) under control                (d) fairly good

 

2. Who volunteered to work in Champaran?
(a) two disciples of Gandhi and their wives(b) Kasturba and the eldest son of Gandhi

(c) Mahadev Desai and his wife                                 (d) Narhari Prasad and his wife

 

3. The representative of the planters offered to refund……….. percent to the peasants.
(a) 5                                          (b) 10                                       (c) 20                                        (d) 25

 

4. For how long did Gandhi remain in Champaran?
(a) seven weeks      (b) three months          (c) one and a half year           (d) seven months

 

5. What amount of repayment did the big planters think Gandhi would demand?
(a) Repayment in full                                                                          (b) double the amount
(c) fifty percent of the amount                                                   (d) no payment, just an apology

 

6. Gandhi was summoned by ___ the Lt. Governor
(a) Sir Edward Gait  (b) Sir Henry Gait  (c) Sir Richard Andrews  (d) Sir Freer Andrews

 

7. Who were ready to follow Gandhi into jail?
(a) Peasants                    (b) lawyers                       (c) Shukla                         (d) J.B. Kriplani

 

8. The magistrate asked Gandhi to furnish bail for ………………………..minutes.
(a) 30                                          (b) 60                                        (c) 90                                 (d) 120

 

9. How did Gandhi behave with the officials outside the court?
(a) Demonstrated his power                                                                  (b) was firm and resolute
(c) he said that he would disobey the order                                (d) cooperated with them

 

10.  Why did Gandhi start out on the back of an elephant?
(a) a peasant had been maltreated in a village nearby
(b) he set out to meet the secretary of British Landlords Association
(c) he set out to meet British official commissioner
(d) he was summoned by Sir Edward Gait, the Lt. Governor

 

11. After Tirhut, where did Gandhi go?
(a) Lucknow                       (b) Motihari                      (c) Cawnpore               (d) Ahmedabad

 

12. What happened when Gandhi visited the secretary of British landlord’s association?
(a) the secretary proceeded to bully him

(b) the secretary advised him forthwith to leave Tirhut
(c) the secretary said that they could not give any information to an outsider
(d) the secretary was very helpful

 

13. Why was Gandhi not permitted to draw water from Rajendra Prasad’s well?
(a) The servant thought Gandhi was another peasant
(b) as Rajendra Prasad was not at home
(c) Gandhi looked like a vagabond
(d) Gandhi was a Harijan

 

14. Where is Champaran district situated?
(a) in the south-west of Orissa               (b) in the foothills of the Himalayas in Bihar
(c) in the northeast of Orissa                  (d) in the south of Bihar

 

15. What did the British landlords and from the peasants after synthetic indigo was developed?
(a) Indigo as rent                                                                                                (b) 15% of produces

(c) Money as compensation                                                                 (d) a new settlement

 

16. What were the places visited by Gandhi between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran?
(a) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur
(b) Calcutta, Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarnagar
(c) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Gaya, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur
(d) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Patna and Muzaffarnagar

 

17. Who received Gandhi at the Muzaffarpur station?
(a) Shukla                  (b) J.B Kriplani                   (c) Rajendra Prasad                   (d) Nehru

 

18. Shukla led Gandhi to the house of a lawyer who later became the President of India. He was………..
(a) J.B Kriplani         (b) Rajendra Prasad         (c) Zakir Hussain       (d) Mahadev Desai

 

19. What was the full name of the peasant from Champaran?
(a) J.B Shukla     (b) Rajkumar Shukla   (c) Ramkumar Shukla   (d) Roopkumar Shukla

 

20. When did Gandhiji go to Lucknow?
(a) December 1917          (b) October 1916        (c) February 1917          (d) December 1916

 

21. Where did Gandhiji stay for two days?
(a) At a peasant’s house                                                                               (b) At a lawyer’s house

(c) In a guest house                                                                    (d) At Prof. Malkani’s house

 

22. What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?
(a) Very happy    (b) Independent   (c) Very rich    (d) Terror stricken and oppressed

 

23. What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of home rule?
(a) Very welcoming  (b) Very courageous (c) Pleasing (d) Very fearful and indifferent

 

24. 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

 

25. What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?
(a) That he was a law breaker
(b) That he wanted to command respect
(c) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
(d) None

 

26. Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo
(a) A British lawyer                                                                                 (b) A british Businessman
(c) A British Politician                           (d) An Administrator in Indian Civil Services

 

27. 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) Because they were leaving India
(d) They gave 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

 

28. Where was Champaran?
(a) In Lucknow                                                                                                                  (b) In Delhi

(c) In Uttar Pradesh                                                (d) A district of Bihar in British India

 

29. Why is Champaran famous?
(a) For fighting                                                                                                              (b) For Indigo
(c) Because Gandhiji visited                  (d) For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917

 

30. Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at Annual Congress party session?
(a) To be rich

(b) To be famous
(c) To fight and get money

(d) To complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar

 

31. Who was Raj Kumar Shukla?
(a) A lawyer           (b) A government official            (c) A politician      (d) A poor peasant

 

32. Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzaffarpur?
(a) To have detailed information of the sharecroppers of Champaran
(b) To have information about lawyers
(c) To know different capacities of the people
(d) To have a personal bond with the people

 

33. How did Gandhiji help peasants of Champaran?
(a) By fighting and securing justice for them              (b) By hiring lawyers for them
(c) By educating them                                                                (d) By teaching them cleanliness

 

34. How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?
(a) 30%                               (b) 10%                                     (c) 25%                                   (d) 40%

 

35. What was Gandhiji’s demand from the British landlords?
(a) 30% refund as repayment                                                         (b) 40% refund as repayment
(c) 50% refunds as repayment                                             (d) 10% refund as repayment

 

36. Why was Motihari back with peasants?
(a) Because of people’s rights                                (b) Because of the oppression of the British
(c) Because their champion was in trouble                                                       (d) None

 

37. Why did M.K. Gandhi fight in Champaran?
(a) To secure justice for the oppressed                                          (b) To get popularity
(c) To show power                                                                           (d) To boast of his intelligence

 

38. Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?
(a) Men and Politics                                                                                                 (b) Life of Lenin
(c) The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.                                                              (d) None

 

39. When did the author serve in the British army?
(a) 1918 – 1920                  (b) 1909 – 1910               (c) 1912-1913                   (d) 1900-1902

 

40. Who is the author of Indigo?
(a) Louis Fischer         (b) Leo Tolstoy               (c) Mark Twain           (d) Charles Dickens

 

41. 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 Satyagrah movement by peasants

 

42. Whom did Gandhiji send a telegram to?
(a) Sir Edmund        (b) British Government          (c) Peasants       (d) Prof. J.B Kriplani

 

43. What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?
(a) To get money

(b) To be popular
(c) To instigate the people
(d) To encourage people to participate in the freedom movement

 

44. How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?
(a) By speaking to the people
(b) By walking with him
(c) By moving here and there
(d) By teaching Ashram rules and cleanliness

 

45. Why did Gandhiji protest at Motihari court house?
(a) To be famous
(b) To show his power
(c) To humiliate the British
(d) To protest the court’s order to postpone the trial

  

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