MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

  MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS :   (MCQ’s)

1.  Within five years the value of goods brought by the company in Bengal ______.

(a) Doubled
(b) Tripled
(c) Singled
(d) Was the same

2.  About ___  of the population got wiped out in Bengal in  1770 due to famine .

(a) One-third
(b) Two-third
(c) One-fifth
(d) One-fourth

3.  The East India company introduced the permanent settlement in __________ .

(a) 1773
(b) 1785
(c) 1793
(d)  1765

4.  Holt Mackenzie devised the new system in the year effect from __________ .

(a) 1822
(b) 1823
(c) 1824
(d) 1845

5.  __________ introduced the “Mahalwari Settlement” in India .

(a) Holt Mackenzie
(b) Captain Alexander
(c) Haider Ali
(d) Pierre Cardin

6.  Under the “Mahalwari settlement” the charge of collecting revenue was given to the village _________ .

(a) Zamindar
(b) Headman
(c) Farmer
(d) Sarpanch

7.  The cultivators found the “permanent settlement” extremely oppressive in the _______ .

(a) Cities
(b) Towns
(c) Villages
(d) Talukas

8.  “The Ryotwari system” was devised in the British territories in the _______ .

(a) West
(b) South
(c) East
(d) North

9.  Captain Alexander Read tried the Ryotwari system after the war with __________ .

(a) Haider Ali
(b) Tipu Sultan
(c) Ranjit Singh
(d) Muhmad Tughlak

10.  Ryotwari system was gradually extended all over south India by _________ .

(a) Thomas Munro
(b) Alexander Read
(c) Holt Mackenzie
(d) Hyder Ali

11.  By the late eighteenth century the company was trying to expand the cultivation of_________  and _______ .

(a) Opium and indigo
(b) Indigo and mangoes
(c) Cotton and silk
(d) Cotton and Jute

12.  ______ indigo came to dominate the world market in eighteenth century .

(a) Bengal
(b) Madras
(c) Bombay
(d) Delhi

13.  Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran for beginning movement against planters in _______ .

(a) 1927
(b) 1917
(c) 1937
(d) 1947

14.  When did the ryots in Bengal refuse to grow indigo ?

(a) 1855
(b) 1859
(c) 1860
(d) 1865

15.  When did the indigo production collapse in Bengal ?

(a) After the Battle of Plassey
(b) After Tipu Sultans defeat
(c) After the Revolt of 1857
(d) After the French Revolution

16.  The indigo crop grows primarily in the _________ .

(a) Tropics
(b) Temperate
(c) Desert
(d) Wetlands

17.  European cloth manufacturers had to depend on______ to make violet and blue dyes .

(a) Wood plant
(b) Jamun plant
(c) Turmeric plant
(d) Indigo plant

18.  Violet and blue dyes were made from the plant called __________ .

(a) Indigo
(b) Wood
(c) Hemp
(d) Jamun

19.  By the seventeenth century European cloth producers persuaded government to remove ban on import of _________ .

(a) Indigo
(b) Wood
(c) Jamun plant
(d) Cotton Plant

20.  French began cultivating indigo in ___________ .

(a) St. Domingue
(b) Marseille
(c) Bordeaux
(d) Versailles

21.  The Portuguese began cultivating indigo in ___________ .

(a) Lisbon
(b) Brazil
(c) Porto
(d) Portugal

22.  The English began cultivating indigo in ___________ .

(a) Jamaica
(b) London
(c) Manchester
(d) England

23.  The Spanish began cultivating indigo in ____________ .

(a) Barcelona
(b) Madrid
(c) Venezuela
(d) Spain

24.  Who appointed the East India company as the Diwan of Bengal on 12th August 1756 ?

(a) The Mughal emperor
(b) Queen of Britain
(c) Peshwas
(d) Louis XVI.

25. A unit of measurement of land  was called as _____in the olden days
(a) Bigha
(b) Area
(c) Acre
(d) Square metres

Answers:
 
1. (a) Doubled
2. (a) One-third
3. (c) 1793
4. (a) 1822
5. (a) Holt Mackenzie
6. (b) Headman
7. (c) Villages
8. (b) South
9. (b) Tipu Sultan
10. (a) Thomas Munro
11. (a) Opium and indigo
12. (a) Bengal
13. (b) 1917
14. (b) 1859
15. (c) After the Revolt of 1857
16. (a) Tropics
17. (a) Wood plant
18. (a) Indigo
19.(a) Indigo
20. (a) St. Domingue
21. (b) Brazil
22. (a) Jamaica
23. (c) Venezuela
24. (a) The Mughal emperor
25.(a) Bigha