CBSE Class 12 English Indigo Worksheet Set B

Question. What is the message conveyed in the lesson Indigo?
A. Efficient lawyers
B. Speak aloud
C. Wise and courageous leadership can resolve any problem.
D. None

Answer : C 

Question. Who was Raj Kumar Shukla?
A. A lawyer
B. A government official
C. A politician
D. A poor peasant

Answer : D 

Question. At Lucknow Conference, a peasant came to meet Mahatma Gandhi. What was his name? *
A. Rajkumar Shukla
B. Ram Singh Shukla
C. Raj Singh Shukla
D. Rajkumar Singla

Answer : A

Question. Champaran was located near the kingdom of......
A. Nepal
B. Bhutan
C. Tibet
D. China

Answer : A

Question. Who was Reverend J.Z. Hodge?
A. British missionary in Champaran
B. British missionary in Calcutta
C. British missionary in Chennai
D. British missionary in Patna

Answer : A

Question. What was the chief/commercial crop of the Champaran? *
A. Indigo
B. Tea
C. Cashew Nuts
D. Almonds

Answer : A

Question. Where was the ashram of Gandhiji situated?
A. Lucknow
B. Patna
C. Sevagram
D. Bombay

Answer : C 

Question. From where had the peasant Rajkumar Shukla come to meet Mahatma Gandhi? *
A. Kanpur
B. Champaran
C. Bangalore
D. Chennai

Answer : B

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. In Patna, Mahatma Gandhi met Rajendra Prasad. What did he later become? *
A. The first Prime Minister of India
B. The first king of India
C. The first President of India
D. The first Field Marshal of India

Answer : C 

Question. Rajkumar Shukla asked Gandhi to visit Champaran. What did he complain about? *
A. Electricity problem
B. Shortage of water
C. Injustice of the landlords
D. Environmental Pollution

Answer : C 

Question. Who came to Calcutta to meet Mahatma Gandhi? *
A. Sardar Patel
B. Lala Lajpat Rai
C. Maulana Azad
D. Rajkumar Shukla

Answer : D

Question. Why did Gandhi protest at Motihari court house?
A. To be famous
B. To show his power
C. To humiliate the British
D. To protest the courts' order to postpone the trial

Answer : D

Question. According to Gandhiji what was the real relief for the farmers?
A. Going to law courts
B. free from fear
C. both a and b
D. neither a nor b

Answer : B

Question. What was Gandhiji’s demand from the British landlords?
A. 30% refund as repayment
B. 40% refund as repayment
C. 50% refund as repayment
D. 10% refund as repayment

Answer : C 

Question. Gandhi asked Shukla to meet at.....
A. Bombay
B. Calcutta
C. Madras
D. Delhi

Answer : B

Question. Where was Shukla waiting for Gandhiji?
A. Patna
B. Calcutta
C. Sevagram
D. Mumbai

Answer : B

Question. Who is the author of Indigo?
A. Louis Fischer
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Mark Twain
D. Charles Dickens

Answer : A

Question. Where was the author born?
A. In Philadelphia.
B. In Yugoslavia
C. In Scotland
D. None

Answer : A

Question. Rajkumar Shukla was.....
A. Resolute
B. coward
C. weak
D. literate

Answer : A

Question. 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

Answer : D 

Question. When did the author serve in the British army?
A. 1918 - 1920
B. 1909 - 1910
C. 1912-1913
D. 1900-1902

Answer : A

Question. Why was Gandhiji not permitted to draw water from the well?
A. He was a guest
B. he was considered untouchable by the servants
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B

Answer : B

Question. How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?
A. 30%
B. 10%
C. 25%
D. 40%

Answer : C 

Question. Quinine plus castor oil was given for…….
A. Malaria
B. Typhoid
C. Dengue
D. Corona

Answer : A

Question. When was the annual convention of the Congress party held?
A. 1942
B. 1917
C. 1916
D. 1920

Answer : C 

Question. In Patna whose house did Gandhi and Shukla go?
A. The lawyer's
B. The magistrate's
C. Shukla's
D. All of the above

Answer : A

Question. Which medicine was given for skin eruptions?
A. Sulphur ointment
B. Castor oil
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

Answer : C 

Question. Champaran episode was a..... Point in Gandhiji’s life?
A. Turning point
B. Central point
C. Mid-Point
D. End Point

Answer : A

Question. Where was Sir Edmund posted?
A. In East India
B. In Purvanchal
C. In Uttar Pradesh
D. At Bihar & Orissa Province in Bengal Presidency of British India

Answer : D

Question. How did Gandhiji sent instructions to ashram?
A. Via mail
B. Via twitter
C. Via whats app
D. Via facebook

Answer : A

Question. Who of the following was both the President of the Congress party and of India?
A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Rajendra Prasad
D. None of the above

Answer : C 

Question. Who was Kasturba?
A. Gandhi’s wife
B. Gandhi’s daughter
C. Gandhi’s sister
D. None of the above

Answer : A

Question. How much did Gandhi ji ask the Indigo planters to pay to the farmers?
A. 20%
B. 40%
C. 30%
D. 50%

Answer : D

Question. Name the English pacifist who had become a devoted follower of Mahatma Gandhi?
A. Charles Freer Andrews
B. Rajkumar Shukla
C. Kasturba
D. Devdas

Answer : A

Question. Where had Gandhi seen Professor J.B. Kripalani?
A. Shantiniketan school
B. Vidya Niketan school
C. Surya Niketan school
D. Saraswati Niketan school

Answer : A 

Question. How many delegates attended the convention held in Lucknow?
A. 2301
B. 2500
C. 2000
D. 1500

Answer : A

Question. Which University was the author a member of?
A. Harvard University
B. Princeton University
C. University of Columbia
D. Oxford University

Answer : B

Question. When did train arrive at Muzaffarpur?
A. Midnight 15 April 1917
B. Morning 15 April 1917
C. Evening 15 April 1917
D. Afternoon15 April 1917

Answer : A

Question. Did Gandhi obey the government order to leave Champaran? *
A. Yes
B. No
C. May be
D. May not be

Answer : B

Question. Where did Gandhi decide to go first?
A. Muzaffarpur
B. Mirzapur
C. Saharanpur
D. Kanpur

Answer : A

Question. How much refund did the British landlords agree to make to the indigo farmers? *
A. Fifty percent
B. Forty percent
C. Twenty five percent
D. Ten percent

Answer : C 

Question. Whom did Gandhiji send a telegram to?
A. Sir Edmund
B. British Government
C. Peasants
D. Prof. J.B Kriplani

Answer : D 

Question. What was the capital of Champaran? *
A. Calcutta
B. Patna
C. Motihari
D. Lucknow

Answer : C 

Question. What kind of change did Gandhi want to bring? *
A. Political change
B. Social change
C. Economic change
D. Military change

Answer : B

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. What was the condition of the Sharecroppers?
A. Were forced to give 10% of land for Indigo plantation
B. Were forced to give 20% of land for Indigo plantation
C. Were forced to give 15% of land for Indigo plantation
D. Were forced to give 5% of land for Indigo plantation

Answer : C 

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. Why did prosecutor request the judge to postpone the trial?
A. Authorities wish to consult their superiors
B. Authorities wish to consult their peers
C. Authorities wish to withdraw the case
D. Authorities wish to consult their subordinates

Answer : A

Question. Which country had developed the synthetic indigo? *
A. Japan
B. Germany
C. Pakistan
D. Iraq

Answer : B

Question. Where did Gandhiji stay in Muzzafarpur 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

Answer : D

Question. Why did Gandhiji decided 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

Answer : A

Question. Who was J.B. Kripalani?
A. Professor of arts College
B. Professor of science College
C. Professor of commerce College
D. Professor of law College

Answer : A

Question. Champaran was located In the foothills of......
A. Himalayas
B. Aravalli
C. Vindhyachal
D. Nilgiri

Answer : A

Question. Where was the annual convention of Indian National congress held?
A. At Varanasi
B. At Mumbai
C. At Bangalore
D. At Lucknow

Answer : D 

Question. Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?
A. Government officers
B. Politicians
C. Farmers
D. Lawyers

Answer : D 

Question. Who was Sir Edmund in Indigo?
A. A British lawyer
B. A British businessman
C. A British politician
D. An Administrator in Indian Civil Services

Answer : D

Question. Anybody who showed a coated tongue was given a dose of....
A. Castor oil
B. Mustard oil
C. Coconut oil
D. Olive oil

Answer : A

Question. Why was Satyagraha Movement launched in Champaran?
A. For Gandhiji’s upliftment
B. For raising funds
C. For getting business
D. For the upliftment of the farmers

Answer : D

Question. What did Gandhi want Indians to become? *
A. Self-reliant and fearless
B. Weak and miserable
C. Greedy
D. Corrupt

Answer : A

Question. Why did Gandhi decide to go to Muzaffarpur?
A. To obtain complete information
B. To meet Rajender Parsad
C. To meet Raj Kumar Shukla
D. To meet British officer

Answer : A

Question. What did the peasants pay the British landlords?
A. 10% of landholding and 15% of harvest
B. 20% of landholding and 15% of harvest
C. 10% of landholding and 25% of harvest
D. 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

Answer : D

Question. Who greeted Gandhiji at Motihari station?
A. Several lawyers
B. Vast multitude
C. Police Superintendent's Messenger
D. A peasant

Answer : B

Question. Why did Mr. Shukla meet Gandhiji?
A. To seek his guidance for his own upliftment
B. To get ideas to be famous
C. To learn the art of speaking
D. To seek his help for the poor sharecroppers

Answer : D

Question. 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 Satyagraha movement by peasants

Answer : D

Question. What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?
A. That he was a law breaker
B. That he wanted to command
C. He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
D. None

Answer : C 

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. Why did 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

Answer : A

Question. 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 of15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest
D. 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. Name the Gandhi's youngest son.
A. Devdas
B. Surdas
C. Mohandas
D. Devdutt

Answer : A

Question. Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter's offer of 25% refund to the farmers?
A. Because of money
B. Because of fear of loss
C. Because of fear of power
D. Because more than money prestige of farmers was important

Answer : D

Question. What was the plight of the Indigo growing tenants of Champaran?
A. They had to grow Indigo on 15% of their holdings
B. They had to surrender the entire Indigo crop as rent
C. This was done by long term contract
D. All of the above

Answer : D

Question. Who called Gandhiji as outsider?
A. Secretary of the British Landlords Association
B. Chairman of the British Landlords Association
C. Director of the British Landlords Association
D. Manager of the British Landlords Association

Answer : A

Question. How did Gandhi address the actions of the people of Motihari?
A. As liberation from the fear of the British
B. By calling them courageous
C .By chiding the lawyers
D. None

Answer : A

Question. Why did Gandhiji decide to visit the nearby village?
A. To address a big gathering
B. To sit on a fast
C. To meet the lawyer
D. To meet a maltreated tenant

Answer : D

Question. Why was Motihari black with peasants?
A. Because of people's rights
B. Because of the oppression of the British
B. Because their champion was in trouble
D. None

Answer : C 

Question. What does Gandhi's fight in Champaran signify?
A. The power of effective leadership
B. The power of lawyers
C. The power of farmers
D. The power of money

Answer : A

Question. On the back of which animal Gandhi decided to go to a nearby village
A. Horse
B. Camel
C. Elephant
D. Yak

Answer : C 

Question. What did people of Motihari do when they learnt that Gandhi was in trouble with the British authorities? *
A. They surrounded the courthouse
B. They did not help him
C. They remained in their houses
D. They took the side of the British

Answer : A

Question. Why did Gandhi chide the lawyers?
A. They were not expert
B. They were having Nexus with the British
C. They were collecting big fee from the sharecroppers
D. All of the above

Answer : C 

Question. Who triumphed lastly?
A. Civil disobedience
B. Civil obedience
C. Quit India movement
D. Non-Cooperation movement

Answer : A

Question. What did the Lieutenant-Governor tell Gandhi in his communication? *
A. He asked Gandhi to leave Champaran
B. He said that Gandhi would be arrested
C. He threatened to deport Gandhi
D. That the case against him had been dropped

Answer : D 

Question. Who were the members of official commission of inquiry for sharecropper’s situation?
A. Landlords
B. Government officials
C. Gandhi
D. All of the above

Answer : D

Question. Why is Champaran famous?
A. For fighting
B. For Indigo
C. Because Gandhi ji visited
D. For the first Satyagraha movement in 1917

Answer : D

Question. How did British Commissioner of Tirhut behave with Mahatma Gandhi? *
A. He met Gandhi cordially
B. He was happy to meet Gandhi
C. He invited Gandhi to lunch
D. He asked Gandhi to leave Tirhut

Answer : D

Question. What order was given to Gandhiji by police superintendent's messenger?
A. To quit Champaran
B. To remain only at Motihari
C. Not to meet the tenants
D. To meet the police superintendent

Answer : A

Question. What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?
A. Very happy
B. Independent
C. Very rich
D. Terror stricken and oppressed

Answer : D 

Question. 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

Answer : C 

Question. Gandhiji remained in Champaran for an initial uninterrupted period of ……
A. Seven years
B. Seven days
C. Seven hours
D. seven months

Answer : D

Question. Where was Champaran?
A. In Lucknow
B. In Delhi
C. In Uttar Pradesh
D. A district of Bihar in British India

Answer : D

Question. Where did Gandhiji and Shukla board a train for?
A. New Delhi
B. Jaipur
C. Mumbai
D. Patna

Answer : D

Question. What problems were faced by the Champaran Indigo sharecroppers?
A. Poverty
B. Were forced to grow Indigo
C. Unable to raise voice
D. Illiteracy

Answer : B

Question. Who owned most of the fertile/arable land in Champaran? *
A. Indian farmers
B. Labourers
C. Shopkeepers
D. English Landlords

Answer : D

Question. Who summoned Gandhi for negotiations about the complaints of indigo farmers? *
A. The Lieutenant-Governor
B. The Dy. Commissioner
C. The Governor
D. The Chief Minister

Answer : A

Question. Name the two persons, who had joined Gandhi as disciples and volunteered for the work of teaching?
A. Mahadev Desai
B. Narhari Parikh
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

Answer : C 

 

 

 

Very Short Questions

Q.1)        Who were the members of the official commission of enquiry? What did it find?

Q.2)        List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran?

Q.3)        How did the episode change the plight of the peasants?

Q.4)        Why did Gandhi stay on in Champaran even after the Sharecropper’s problems were solved?

Q.5)        Why did Gandhi decide to go to Muzzafarpur before going to Champaran?

Short Questions

Q.6)        Gandhiji had great love for poor. What did he do for the indigo farmers of Champaran?

Q.7)        Describe the Theme/Central Idea of the lesson.

Q.8)        Describe the Qualities of Gandhiji?

Q.9)        Describe the Role of RajKumar Shukla in the Lesson ‘Indigo’?

Q.10)      Justify the title of Indigo?

Long Questions

Q.11)      How was the official commission of enquiry constituted? What was the outcome?

Q.12)      Describe how, according to Louis Fischer, Gandhiji succeeded in his Champaran campaign?

Q.13)      What did Gandhiji do to uplift culturally and socially the people of Champaran villages?

Q.14)      What did Gandhiji do to remove the cultural and social backwardness in the Champaran villages?

Q.15)      What idea of Gandhiji’s personality and character do you form after reading ‘Indigo’?

 

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