Well structured WBBSE Class 10 History MCQ Questions Chapter 4 Early Stages of Collective Action can serve as a valuable review tool before exams.
Early Stages of Collective Action Class 10 WBBSE MCQ Questions
Multiple Choice Questions (Tick off the correct ones)
Question 1.
How many times did the Indian people raise their voice of protest prior to the Revolt of 1857 ?
a. 49 times
b. 50 times
c. 51 times
d. 54 times
Answer:
d. 54 times
Question 2.
In Bengal who was the first to fire a shot at a European officer in 1857 ?
a. Tantia Tope
b. Mangal Pandey
c. Lakshmi Bai
d. Kunwar Singh
Answer:
b. Mangal Pandey
Question 3.
On which of the following dates did the Revolt of 1857 break out ?
a. 10 March
b. 10 April
c. 10 May
d. 10 June
Answer:
c. 10 May
Question 4.
The Revolt of 1857 broke out first in :
a. Meerut
b. Lucknow
c. Guindy
d. Calcutta
Answer:
a. Meerut
Question 5.
At Kanpur who assumed leadership of the rebel forces during the Revolt of 1857 ?
a. Tantia Tope
b. Nana Sahib
c. Lakshmi Bai
d. Kunwar Singh
Answer:
b Nana Sahib
Question 6.
Of the following who freed parts of Bihar and helped the rebel forces of Lucknow and Kanpur during the Revolt of 1857?
a. Lakshmi Bai
b. Tantia Tope
c. Kunwar Singh
d. None of the above
Answer:
c. Kunwar Singh
Question 7.
Of the following who was declared the ‘Emperor of India’ after the capture of the city of Delhi ?
a. Bahadur Shah I
b. Bahadur Singh
c. Bahadur Shah II
d. Bahadur Aziz
Answer:
c. Bahadur Shah II
Question 8.
Which of the following leaders frustrated by Dalhousie’s policies took part in the Revolt of 1857 ?
a. Rani of Jhansi and Kunwar Singh
b. Rani of Jhansi and Nana Saheb
c. Tantia Tope and Rani of Jhansi
d. None of the above
Answer:
b. Rani of Jhansi and Nana Saheb
Question 9.
Who among the following was responsible for the massacre of the English in Kanpur?
a. Bahadur Shah II
b. Tantia Tope
c. Rani of Jhansi
d. Nana Saheb
Answer:
d. Nana Saheb
Question 10.
Of the following who described the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘Indian War of Independence’?
a. V.D. Savarkar
b. R.C. Majumdar
c. S.B. Chaudhuri
d. S.N. Sen
Answer:
a. V.D. Savarkar
Question 11.
In Bengal the centre of initial spark of the Revolt of 1857 was :
a. Budge Budge
b. Baranagar
c. Barasat
d. Barrackpore
Answer:
d. Barrackpore
Question 12.
By which of the following Acts control of the Indian government passed on from the East India Company to the British Crown?
a. The Charter Act
b. Doctrine of Lapse
c. Act for the Better Government of India
d. None of the above
Answer:
c. Act for the Better Government of India
Question 13.
Under which of the following Governor-Generals did the Revolt of 1857 take place?
a. Warren Hastings
b. Lord Hastings
c. Lord Wellesley
d. Lord Canning
Answer:
d. Lord Canning
Question 14.
Of the following who was the first ‘Viceroy of India’?
a. Lord Wellesley
b. Lord Hastings
c. Lord Canning
d. Lord Curzon
Answer:
c. Lord Canning
Question 15.
Under which of the following was the title ‘Viceroy’ added to the designation of the ‘Governor-General of India’ ?
a. Act for the Better Government of India
b. Queen’s Proclamation
C. Charter Act of 1855
d Government of India Act
Answer:
b. Queen’s Proclamation
Question 16.
What was not one of the consequences of the Revolt of 1857 ?
a. Control of the Indian government passed on to the British Crown
b. Queen’s Proclamation
c. Amalgamation of troops of the Crown and the East India Company
d. The wide gulf between the Indians and Europeans reduced
Answer:
d. The wide gulf between the Indians and Europeans reduced
Question 17.
The first symptoms of political awakening was visible in Bengal with the formation of :
a. Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha
b. Landholders’ Society
c. Zamindary Association
d. Indian Association
Answer:
a Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha
Question 18.
The associations that followed the Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha could not survive because of :
a. Governmental non co-operation
b. Suppression by the British government
c. ‘Lack of unity’
d Lack of support of the Bengali intelligentsia
Answer:
c. ‘Lack of unity’
Question 19.
One of the Bengal stalwarts who attended the first meeting of the Landholders’ Society Zamindary Association. was :
a. Rashik Krishna Mallick
b. Shib Nath Shastri
c. Rammohan Roy
d. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
Answer:
c. Rammohan Roy
Question 20.
Which of the following broadened the political outlook of the educated Indians?
a. Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha
b. Indian Association
c. British Indian Association
d. Landholders’ Society
Answer:
d. Landholders’ Society
Question 21.
Of the following who organized the Indian Association ?
a. Rammohan Roy
b. Surendranath Banerjee
c. Bipin Chandra Pal
d. Keshab Chandra Sen
Answer:
b. Surendranath Banerjee
Question 22.
Of the following who is called the Grandfather of Indian nationalism?
a. Rammohan Roy
b. Keshab Chandra Sen
c. Rajnarayan Bose
d. Nabagopal Mitra
Answer:
c. Rajnarayan Bose
Question 23.
Of the following who made the word ‘national’ popular among the educated Indians?
a. Rajnarayan Bose
b. Nabagopal Mitra
c. Sibnath Shastri
d Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer:
b. Nabagopal Mitra
Question 24.
Of the following who being inspired by a write-up of Rajnarayan Bose established the Jatiya Mela?
a. Rajnarayan Bose
b. Sibnath Shastri
c. Nabagopal Mitra
d. Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer:
c. Nabagopal Mitra
Question 25.
Which of the following by fostereing the spirit of self-help paved the way for foundation of the Indian national movement?
a. Jatiya Mela
b. Swadeshi Mela
c. Hindu Mela
d. None of the above
Answer:
c. Hindu Mela
Question 26.
In which of the following novels that the Indians got the famous song Bande Mataram?
a. Gora
b. Bartaman Bharat
c. Swadesh o Swaraj
d. Anandamath
Answer:
d. Anandamath
Question 27.
The closing para of which of the following novels is titled Swadesh Mantra?
a. Anandamath
b. Gora
c. Paribrajak
d. Bartaman Bharat
Answer:
d. Bartaman Bharat
Question 28.
Of the following the painting that acclaimed as Bharatmata was the creation of :
a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Jamini Roy
c. Abanindranath Tagore
d. Gaganendranath Tagore
Answer:
c. Abanindranath Tagore
Question 29.
The founder of the Bengal school of painting was :
a. Abanindranath Tagore
b. Ernest Benfield Havell
c. Satyendranath Tagore
d. Gaganendranath Tagore
Answer:
a. Abanindranath Tagore
Tick off True or False
1. The century of British rule, between 1757 and 1857 was a period of total decline in the life of the Indian people.
Answer: True
2. The discontent of all classes of the Indian people found expression in the Revolt of 1856 .
Answer: False
3. Mangal Pandey of the British regiment fired a shot at a European officer on 29 March 1857.
Answer: False
4. The Revolt of 1857 broke out in Meerut in Madhya Pradesh on 10 May 1857.
Answer: False
5. At Kanpur
Nana Saheb assumed the leadership of the rebel forces of the Revolt of 1857.
Answer: False
6. Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi put up stubborn resistance to the British troops.
Answer: True
7. Tantia Tope went to south India and fought desperately against the British soldiers.
Answer: False
8. Kunwar Singh freed parts of Uttar Pradesh and helped the rebel forces of Bihar.
Answer: False
9. One of the features of the Revolt of 1857 was that the revolt of the sepoys was accompanied by a rebellion in the city and countryside.
Answer: True
10. In some areas of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar peasants and artisans rebelled against the British rulers as also the new zamindars who were the creation of the British.
Answer: False
11. The Revolt of 1857 was a failure as there was no plan and no co-ordination among the rebels of different parts of the country.
Answer: True
12. Just like the Indigo Rebellion the middle class intelligentsia came out in the open to support the rebels of the Revolt of 1857.
Answer: False
13. In Bengal Barrackpore, near Calcutta, was the centre of initial spark of the Revolt of 1857.
Answer: True
14. In India, the rule of the English East India Company came to an end with the passing of an Act by the British Parliament.
Answer: True
15. Lord Canning by a Proclamation announced the assumption of the Indian administration by the British Crown.
Answer: False
16. The honorific title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the designation of the Governor-General by the Act for the Better Government of India.
Answer: False
17. Lord Canning was the first Viceroy of India.
Answer: True
18. The Revolt of 1857 did not lead to any reorganization of the army and civil administration in India.
Answer: True
19. The first symptoms of political awakening was visible in Bengal with the formation of the Indian Association.
Answer: False
20. Jnananneshan, a newspaper published from Calcutta, reported that the members of the Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha agreed to discuss matters that would adversely affect the country.
Answer: True
21. The Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha of Bengal is regarded as the first political association of India.
Answer: True
22. The constitution of the Indian Association was not at all democratic in form.
Answer: False
23. The ambitious project of the Indian Association to set up branch in every district of British India was bound to be a failure.
Answer: True
24. Foundation of the Bharat Sabha marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of political association in India.
Answer: True
25. It is said that the pioneer of nationalism in the nineteenth century was Nabagopal Mitra.
Answer: False
26. The religious tone in the Hindu Mela came to be attacked from some quarters.
Answer: True
27. To the founders of the Hindu Mela nationalism meant unity and they believed that the basis of this unity was the Hindu religion.
Answer: True
28. The concept of Bharatmata emerged from the Anandamath of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Answer: True
Question 29
Some people accused Bankim Chandra as one who upheld the ideal of aggressive nationalism which had no basis at all.
Answer: True
30. In Bartaman Bharat Vivekananda ends with calling for giving up imitating the Western life-style in dress and manners.
Answer: True
31. The political objective of Gora was the Partition of Bengal, the blaze of national awakening that it meant.
Answer: True
32. Bharatmata was a painting done by Abanindranath Tagore in the Chinese style.
Answer: False
33. Gaganendranath’s cartoons displayed a marvelous originality as drawings.
Answer: True
Fill in the gaps by choosing the correct words
1. The century, between 1757 and 1857 was a period of total _______ in the life of the Indian people.
Answer: Decline
2. At the time of the Revolt disobedience of the sepoys in the army establishments in different places was reported, and on 10 May 1857 the sepoys of _______ broke out in revolt.
Answer: Meerut
3. During the Revolt of 1857 at Kanpur the troops were led by the military advisor _______
Answer: Tantia Tope
4. During the Revolt of 1857 Kunwar Singh freed parts of Bihar and helped the rebel forces of Lucknow and _______
Answer: Kanpur
5. Towards the close of the Revolt _______ was recaptured by the British soldiers in the third week of September 1857.
Answer: Delhi
6. During the Revolt of 1857 the sepoys were accompanied by a rebellion in the city and countryside where the _______ rose in revolt.
Answer: Civilians
7. During Revolt of 1857 in some parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar peasants and artisans rebelled against the British rulers as also the _______ who were the creations of the British themselves.
Answer: Zamindars
8. As regards the character of the revolt of 1857 it may be said that the _______ did not participate in any measure that can legitimately give it the name of a ‘national rising’.
Answer: Common
9. _______ by describing the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘Indian War of Independence’ directly drafted it into the historiography of Indian nationalism.
Answer: Savarkar
10. In Bengal, _______ was the centre of the initial spark of the Revolt of 1857.
Answer: Barrackpore
11. English educated _______ middle class were hostile towards the Revolt of 1857
Answer: Bengali
12. _______ was the Governor-General of India at the time of the Revolt of 1857
Answer: Lord Canning
13. The foundation of the _______ was the result of the attempt made in Bengal to organize discussions on political matters.
Answer: Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha
14. Despite failure of the _______ it paved the way for later organizational attempt at the formation of political association.
Answer: Bangabhasa Prakashika
15. Zamindary Association ostensibly advocated for the interests of the _______
Answer: Zamindars
16. In 1839 the British India Society was established in _______ by William Adam who was a friend and associate of Rammohan Roy.
Answer: London
17. _______ was the key person of the Zamindary Association that changed its name to the Landholders’ Society.
Answer: Dwarakanath Tagore
18. Being inspired by a write up of Rajnarayan Bose, _______ Nabagopal Mitra established the Jatiya Mela.
Answer: Prospectus
19. _______ was affectionately called the ‘Grandfather of Indian nationalism’.
Answer: Rajnarayan Bose
20. _______ by fostering the spirit of self-help paved the way for foundation of the national movement.
Answer: Hindu Mela
21. The Anandamath of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was written in the shadow of the memory of _______ Rebellion.
Answer: Sannayasi
22. The Bartaman Bharat amplifies and elaborates the ideas on _______
Answer: Society
23. _______ is the largest and the most complex of the novels composed by Rabindranath Tagore.
Answer: Gora
Statement and Assertion
Question 1.
Statement : Under the British colonial rule the discontented people of India broke out in rebellion.
Assertion :
(a) Between 1757 and 1857 the people of India expressed their discontent by way of civil rebellions
(b) The civil rebellions were essentially local in nature and did not assume an all-India character.
(c) Discontent of all classes of Indian people broke out in flames in the Revolt of 1857.
(d) The British found it difficult to suppress the Revolt of 1857
Answer:
(c) Discontent of all classes of Indian people broke out in flames in the Revolt of 1857
Question 2.
Statement : The incident that sparked the Revolt spread in the following days.
Assertion :
(a) Despite order from the European officers none came forward to arrest Mangal Pandey.
(b) Mangal Pandey a sepoy of the Bengal regiment fired a shot at a European military officer.
(c) Mangal Pandey along with those who disobeyed the order were arrested and hanged.
(d) Disobedience of the sepoys in the army establishments were reported.
Answer:
(b) Mangal Pandey a sepoy of the Bengal regiment fired a shot at a European military officer.
Question 3.
Statement : The Revolt of 1857 was joined by different classes of civilian population.
Assertion :
(a) In view of the participation of different classes of people the outbreak of 1857 may better be called the Revolt of 1857
(b) Kunwar Singh freed parts of Bihar and helped the rebel forces of Lucknow and Kanpur.
(c) In several places the common people rose in revolt even before the sepoys raised the banner of rebellion.
(d) In some places the people came forward to fight against the British troops with ordinary weapons.
Answer:
(a) In view of the participation of different classes of people the outbreak of 1857 may better be called the Revolt of 1857.
Question 4.
Statement : Despite the British attempt to create a HinduMuslim divide the two communities fought shoulder to shoulder against the British colonial rulers.
Assertion :
(a) The rebels showed commendable courage and dedication and thousands courted death fighting the colonial rulers.
(b) The Azimgarh Proclamation stated that both Hindu and Muslims were being ruined under the tyranny of the treacherous English.
(c) In some areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar peasantry and the artisans rebelled against the British rulers as also their associates.
(d) The rebels burnt the government records similar to what they did of the accounts book of the moneylenders and sowcars against the British rulers.
Answer:
(b) The Azimgarh Proclamation stated that both Hindu and Muslims were being ruined under the tyranny of the treacherous English
Question 5.
Statement : According to the old school of historians the Revolt of 1857 cannot be called a ‘war of Independence’.
Assertion :
(a) There was no plan, no coordination among the rebels and no road map to establish independent government after the British were expelled.
(b) In the Revolt of 1857 at least some of the zamindars and landlords participated giving it a feudal character.
(c) Common people did not participate in the Revolt of 1857
(d) The Revolt of 1857 basically was a revolt of the sepoys.
Answer:
(a) There was no plan, no coordination among the rebels and no road map to establish independent government after the British were expelled.
Question 6.
Statement : The impact of the Revolt of 1857 was equally felt by the Indians as also the British colonial rulers in India. Assertion :
(a) The rule of the English East India Company on India came to an end.
(b) The Governor-General of India henceforth came to be called ‘Governor-General and Viceroy’.
(c) The new dispensation reorganized the army.
(d) The Queen (Victoria) categorically stated that the British Government in India henceforth will not in any way interfere with the established custom or religion of the Indian people.
Answer:
(d) The Queen (Victoria) categorically stated that the British Government in India henceforth will not in any way interfere with the established custom or religion of the Indian people.
Question 7.
Statement : It was through the political associations of the nineteenth century that India entered into the arena of modern politics.
Assertion :
(a) With the spread of English education it is not surprising that the first political association sprang up.
(b) In a meeting of the Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha the members agreed to discuss matters that would affect the country adversely.
(c) The meetings of the Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha used to be held in every Thursday.
(d) The matters discussed in the meetings of the Sabha were published in various newspapers.
Answer:
(b) In a meeting of the Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha the members agreed to discuss matters that would affect the country adversely.
Question 8.
Statement : The first association of India organized with a specific political outlook was the Zamindary Association (later on Landholders’ Society).
Assertion :
(a) The Zamindary Association, renamed Landholders’ Society, paved the way for raising some issues concerning general people to the English administrators in India.
(b) The Landholders’ Society helped to create some ground of meeting between the landholders and the Englishmen on a footing of equality.
(c) The Landholders’ Society broadened the political outlook of the educated Indians.
(d) The members of the Landholders’ Society failed to realize that in many areas of northern India people were not interested in the Zamindary system at all.
Answer:
(b) The Landholders’ Society helped to create some ground of meeting between the landholders and the Englishmen on a footing of equality.
Question 7.
Statement : The Hindu Mela had immense contribution to the cause of Indian nationalism.
Assertion :
(a) The religious tone of the Hindu Mela came to be attacked from some quarters.
(b) The Hindu Mela drew into national movement personalities like Sibnath Shastri, Bipin Chandra Pal and many others.
(c) The Hindu Mela fostered the spirit of self-help.
(d) The annual sessions of the Hindu Mela were attended by thousands of people.
Answer:
(b) The Hindu Mela drew into national movement personalities like Sibnath Shastri, Bipin Chandra Pal and many others.
Question 8.
Statement : In many ways the Anandamath played a crucial role in the national awareness.
Assertion :
(a) Anandamath was written by Bankim Chandra in the shadow of the memory of the Sannayasi Rebellion.
(b) Some people accuse Bankim Chandra as one who advocated aggressive Hinduism.
(c) Anandamath was the Bible for secret revolutionaries who laid down their lives for the cause of the nation.
(d) The concept of Bharatmata (Mother as the symbol of the country) emerges from the Anandamath.
Answer:
(c) Anandamath was the Bible for secret revolutionaries who laid down their lives for the cause of the nation.
Match List I with List II
Question 1.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Revolt of the Bengal regiment in Calcutta | (i) Kanpur |
(b) Revolt of 1857 | (ii) Jhansi |
(c)Nana Saheb’s leadership of the rebel forces | (iii) Mangal Pandey |
(d) Rani Lakshmi Bai’s resistance | (iv) Meerut |
Answer:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Question 2.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Help to the rebel forces of Lucknow and Kanpur | (i) V.D. Savarkar |
(b) Delhi was recaptured | (ii) Kunwar Singh |
(c) Attempts made to create a Hindu-Muslim divide | (iii) British |
(d) ‘Indian War of Independence’ | (iv) British |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
Question 3.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) No support to the rebels of the Revolt of 1857 | (i) ‘Governor-General and Viceroy’ |
(b) Immediate cause of the Revolt of 1857 | (ii) Bengali intellectuals |
(c) Impact of the Revolt of 1857 | (iii) Enfield Rifle issue |
(d) Queen’s Proclamation | (iv) End of the Company’s rule |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
Question 4.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Initial spark of the Revolt of 1857 | (i) Queen’s Proclamation |
(b) End of the Company’s rule | (ii) Canning |
(c) First Viceroy of India | (iii) Act for the Better Government in India |
(d) No further territorial expansion in India | (iv) Barrackpore |
Answer:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 5.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) First symptoms of political awakening | (i) Jnananneshan |
(b) First political Association in India | (ii) Bengal |
(c) The newspaper edited by Dakshina Ranjan Mukherjee | (iii) Iswar Chandra Gupta |
(d) Sambad Prabhakar | (iv) Bangabhasa Prakashika Sabha |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
Question 5.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Impact of the activities of the Indian Association (Bharat Sabha) | (i) National Society |
(b) ‘Grandfather of Indian nationalism’ | (ii) Repressive laws |
(c) The greater orator of the contemporary times | (iii) Rajnarayan Bose |
(d) Hindu Mela | (iv) Monomohon Bose |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
Question 6.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Bartaman Bharat | (i) Abanindranath Tagore |
(b) Gora | (ii) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
(c) Anandamath | (iii) Rabindranath Tagore |
(d) Bharatmata | (iv) Vivekananda |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
Question 7.
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(a) Bande Mataram | (i) Bartaman Bharat |
(b) Swadesh Mantra | (ii) Anandamath |
(c) Original painting done in | (iii) Spirituality |
(d) The rosary in the hand of Bharatmata | (iv) Jagadish Chandra Bose’s parlour |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)