MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS : (MCQ’s)
1. In _________ and __________ centuries many of the class or caste norms and perceptions changed .
(d) Twentieth and eighteenth
2. In the year_________ sati was banned .
(b) 1821
3. In the north, Swami Dayanand Saraswati , found association named _________ .
(d) Veda Samaj
4. ________ learned in flickering lights of candles secretly to read and write .
(d) Rashsundari Debi
5. Tarabai Shinde, a woman educated published a book named ________ .
(d) Stripurush
6. The _________ an association Phule founded, propagated caste equality .
(d) Shatriya Samaj
7. In 1873 , Phule wrote a book named ________ .
(d) Hanuman charitra
8. The Brahmans and Kshatriyas considered themselves as ________ .
(d) Other castes
9. The peasants and artisans were included in the ________ caste .
(d) Other castes
10. Raja Ram Mohan Roy began a campaign against the practice of ________ .
(d) Sati
11. Sati was banned in ________ .
(d) 1949
12. The widow Remarriage Act was passed in ________ .
(d) 1849
13. The Paramhans Mandali was founded in Bombay in ________ .
(d) 1810
14. ________ founded the Satnami movement in central India .
(d) Pandita Ramabai
15. Jyotiba Phule studied in schools set up by ________ .
(d) Christian missionaries
16. The Veda Samaj was inspired by the ________ .
(d) Shatriya Samaj
17. The idea of widow remarriage was advocated by ____
(a) Dayanand Saraswati
(b) Jyotirao Phule
(c) Periyar
(d) Pandita Ramabai
18. The Satyashodhak Samaj association was founded by _____
(a) Mumtaz Ali
(b) Periyar
(c) Jyotirao Phule
(d) B.R. Ambedkar
19. Widow remarriage Act was passed in the year __
(a) 1826
(b) 1856
(c) 1876
(d) 1886
20. What is coolie ship?
(a) Luggage lifter at railway platform
(b) A ship that carried many Indians to Mauritius
(c) Association of Coolies
(d) None of the above
21. E.V. Ramaswamy was known by the name ____
(a) Phule
(b) Periyar
(c) Vidyasagar
(d) Dayanand Saraswati
22. Who started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta?
(a) Mumtaz Ali
(b) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
(c) Sayyed Ahmed Khan
(d) None of these
23. The first Urdu novels began to be written from _____
(a) the late sixteenth century
(b) the late seventeenth century
(c) the late eighteenth century
(d) the late nineteeth century
24. _______founded a reform association known as the Brahmo Samaj.
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Periyar
(c) Vidyasagar
(d) Dayanand Saraswati
25. _______ wrote a book about the miserable lives of the upper caste Hindu women
(a) Dayanand Saraswati
(b) Jyotirao Phule
(c) Periyar
(d) Pandita Ramabai
Answers:
1. (a) Nineteenth and twentieth
2. (b) 1829
3. (a) Aryan Samaj
4. (d) Rashsundari Debi
5. (a) Stripurushshtulna
6. (b) Satyashodak Samaj
7. (a) Gulamgiri
8. (c) Upper castes
9. (b) Shudra
10. (d) Sati
11. (b) 1929
12. (a) 1856
13. (a) 1840
14. (b) Ghasidas
15. (d) Christian missionaries
16. (a) Brahmosamaj
17. (a) Dayanand Saraswati
18.(c) Jyotirao Phule
19. (b) 1856
20.(b) A ship that carried many Indians to Mauritius
21. (b) Periyar
22.(b) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
23.(d) The late nineteeth century
24. (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
25.(d) Pandita Ramabai