CBSE Class 8 Social Science The Making Of The National Movement VBQs

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Question. Who said "The British rule was a bleeding transform India" ?
(A) Dadabhai Naoroji
(B) M.G. Ranade
(C) R.C. Dutt
(D) B.C. Pal

Answer : A

Question. India became a classic British colony when
(A) She was brought under the British Crown
(B) She was thrown open to British Capital investment
(C) Indian village economy was completely dismantled
(D) The conservative and reactionary elements became the major beneficiaries of British economic policies

Answer : A

Question. Increasing exports from India led to further Drain of Wealth because the exports :
(A) Did not lead to the growth of India's material wealth
(B) Were used to meet the Home Charges and surviving of public debts
(C) Were the further sources of Drain of Wealth
(D) Were all the above

Answer : C

Question. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinliu's Naga movement was that :
(A) She gave considerable support to the Indian National Army (INA)
(B) It was the only nationalist movement by the tribals of the North-east
(C) For thefirst time the tribals of the North-east demanded autonomy
(D) She integrated the tribal movement with the Civil Disobedience movement

Answer : D

Question. Lord Dalhousie's single measure, which went a long way in spreading the Revolt of 1857, was
(A) Annexation of native states on the plea of mismanagement
(B) Introduction of railway, post, and telegraph
(C) Stopping or reducing the pensions of former Indian rulers
(D) Indiscriminate application of the Doctrine of Lapse

Answer : D

Question. Which of the following logistic factors did not facilitate the outbreak of mutiny among the sepoys ?
(A) The great disparity in numbers between European and India troops
(B) The ratillery was in most cases controlled by Indians
(C) The distribution of troops was also defective
(D) England was then engaged in several extra-Indian wars which sorely taxed her resources

Answer : B

Question. With the capture of which of the following rebels in April 1858 could the revolt be said to have ended ?
(A) Kunwar Singh
(B) Nana Saheb
(C) Tanta Tope
(D) Begum Hazrat Mahat of Awadh

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following was the chief organiser of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar ?
(A) AmarSingh
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Pir Ali
(D) Imaduddin

Answer : B

Question. The most fundamental weakness of the Revolt of 1857 was that :
(A) It lacked a planning, programme, and funds
(B) The rebels failed tounderst and the significance of contemporary scientific advancements
(C) The entire movement lacked a modern, unified, and forward-looking programme
(D) There was no understanding of the character of the enemy's political organisation among the rebels

Answer : C

Question. The resistance of British rule during the early phase up to 1857 took three broad forms. Which of the following was not one of them ?
(A) Constitutional agitation
(B) Civil rebellions
(C) Tribal uprisings
(D) Peasant movements and agrarian uprisings

Answer : A

Question. The uprising of the Bhils, an aboriginal tribe of Khandesh andAurangabad, during the first half of the nineteenth century, took place on account of :
(A) The devastation of the region by Maratha wars
(B) The Pindari depredations
(C) The famine in the Deccan
(D) AII the above

Answer : D

Question. Which of the following consequences of the British rule did not affect the Muslim middle classes ?
(A) The tyranny of the British indigo planters
(B) The disbandment of the Nawab's forces
(C) The abolition of the rural police
(D) The resumption of in am lands which provided sustenance to the learned

Answer : C

Question. In which of the following battleswith the Sikhs did the partisans of the holy war suffer a terrible defeat in which Syed Ahmad lost his life ?
(A) The Battle of Amritsar
(B) The Battle of Charsadda
(C) The Battle of Balakot
(D) The Battle of Attock

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following circumstances of the Bengal Army in 1824 proved to be the proverbial last straw leading to a mutiny ?
(A) Changes in regimental arrangements
(B) Concentration of authority with the higher commanders
(C) Orders issued to march to Burma which entailed crossing the sea
(D) The sepoys were paid inadequate over seas allowances

Answer : D

Question. Match the Journals/Newpapers or Periodicals given in the List I with their Founder/Founder Editors mentioned in List II. Select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists    
                    List I                                     List II
(Newspapers/Journals/Periodicals)      (Founder/Founder Editors)
a. Sabd Kaumundi                             1. Keshav Chandra Sen
b. Indian Mirror                                 2. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c. Amrit Bazar Patrika                        3. G.S. Aiyar & Viraraghavachari
d. Hindi                                            4. Sisir Kumar Ghosh
(A) a b c d
(B) a b c d
(C) a b c d
(C) a b c d
1 3 4 2 2 3 4 1 3 2 4 1 2 1 4 3

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following statements about the religious ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy is not correct ?
(A) He vigorously opposed the worship of idols and prevalence of meaningless religious rituals
(B) He assailed the prevalent Hindu belief in many gods and preached monotheism or unity of God
(C) He demonstrated the inferiority of Islam and Christianity in comparison to Hinduism
(D) He founded the Brahmo Samaj with a view to purify Hinduism

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following tenets of Brahmo Samaj was not responsible for its elitist following ?
(A) Deistic theology
(B) Rational ethics
(C) Loving devotion to God and service of man
(D) Liberal attitude in social, economic and political matters

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following was not a part of the chief items ofthe programme of social reform of the Prarthana Samaj?
(A) Intermarriage and interdining among different castes
(B) Improvement of the lot of women and remarriage of widows
(C) Improvement of the lot of depressed classes
(D) Preaching of unity of God

Answer : D

Question. Who unded the Ramakrishna Mission (1896) ?
(A) Ramakrishna Paramahansa
(B) Narendra Nath Datta
(C) Gopal Krishna Gohkale
(D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following statement was not made by Vivekananda ?
(A) "Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well being"
(B) "The only god in Whom I believe, the sum total of all souls and above all, my God the wicked, my God the afflicted, my God the poor of all races"
(C) "I will give up twenty thousand such bodies to help one man. It is glorious to help even one man"
(D) "So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor, who having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them"

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following programmes of the Arya Samaj contributed to the growth of communalism in India ?
(A) Spread of education among women
(B) Eradication of untouchability
(C) The suddhi movement
(D) Propagation of western education and teaching of sciences

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following was not one of the controversial problems of Islam which was reinterpreted by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in order to make Islam look more rational ?
(A) Islam had laid down such liberal conditions for the treatment of slaves as to alter the very character of slavery
(B) Polygamy was allowed but only in rare circumstances
(C) Holy War (Jihad) was not a Muslim concept
(D) Not every type of interest, but only the usury of pre-Islamic times was prohibited

Answer : C

Question. What was the novel undertaking initiated by Dadabhai Naoroji and his Parsi friends in the field of social u pliftment of women ?
(A) Schools for teaching girls
(B) Orphanages for abandoned female
(C) Ahome for destitute women
(D) An institution to teach western manners to Parsi women

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following correctly describes the aim of the Servants of India Society ?
(A) It was a society formed with the object of organising a struggle for the independence of the motherland
(B) Under the influence of Marxist ideology, it undertook to unite the labour force for the betterment of its living conditions
(C) Its main object was to carry the message of modern education to the rural masses
(D) Itconsisted of a group of men who were trained and equipped for some form of service to the motherland

Answer : D

Question. Which of the following did not effect a change in the status of the lower castes ?
(A) Loss of monopoly on land ownership by the traditional upper class
(B) Rise of the rural capitalist class
(C) Growth of a new middle class
(D) British colonial policy of undermining native traditions

Answer : D

Question. Who founded theAll India Harijan Sangh in 1932 ?
(A) BabasahebAmbedkar
(B) M.K. Gandhi
(C) B.G. Tilak
(D) Jotiba Phule

Answer : B

Question. The labour movement in India intensified after the First World War because of :
(A) The economic distress created by increase in cost of living
(B) The Non-cooperation Movement of Gandhiji
(C) The Russian Revolution and the setting up of the Intemational Labour Organisation
(D) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. There was a great spurt in trade union activity after the Second World War because of
(A) Pro-labour attitude of the popular governments, both at the Centre and in the States
(B) The development of an industrial proletariat class in the cities
(C) The setting up of an elaborate machinery by the government for the settlement of industrial disputes
(D) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. In the field of social reform, the main contribution(s) of Dhondo Keshav Karve was/were that he :
(A) Opened Widow's Home at Pune
(B) Started India's firs Women's University at Pune
(C) Founded the Niskam Karma Math to train social workers for women's emancipation
(D) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. What was the main reason for the greatly worsened condition of the peasants in the late 1920s and early 1930s which led to peasant movements in the Punjab, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh ?
(A) New settlement
(B) Oppression of the landlords
(C) Fall in the prices of primary commodities
(D) Rent regulations

Answer : C

Question. Who founded the Gaudiya Samaj in 1823 to promote education and the'Dharma Sabha' in 1330 to organise a campaign against the abolition of Sati ?
(A) Radha Kant Dev
(B) Gopi 11,1ohan Dev
(C) Radha Madhav Bonnerji
(D) Kashinath Bonnerji

Answer : A

Question. During the first twenty years of the Congress, which of the following acted as President of the INC thrice ?
(A) Surendra Nath Baner e
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Sankaran Nair

Answer : A

Question. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya (Universally Respected) during :
(A) Swadeshi movement
(B) Revolutionary movement
(C) Home Rule movement
(D) His imprisonment in 1908

Answer : C

Question. After the Surat Split in 1907, the second split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of
(A) Lucknow Pact
(B) Montagu Declaration
(C) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
(D) Both (A) and (C) above

Answer : B

Question. Who made the greatest contribution in organising the Kisan Sabha movement?
(A) Swami Sahajanand Saraswah
(B) Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Indulal Yajnik

Answer : C

Question. The agitation, during which "for the first time under British rule, India with its varied races and religions had been brought under the same platform for a common cause and united front". It was launched for
(A) Protection of tenants from oppression by the Zamindars
(B) The repeal of the Arms Act
(C) Liberalisation of the Vernacular Press Act.
(D) Raising the maximum age for Civil Services examination

Answer : D

Question. What was the main political weapon used by the moderate nationalists to exert pressure upon the government against the partition of Bengal ?
(A) Satyagraha
(B) Civil disobedience
(C) Non-cooperation
(D) Swadeshi and boycott

Answer : D

Question. Who attended the imperial durbar (1877) dressed in hand-spun khadi ?
(A) Ganesh Vasudev joshi
(B) M.G. Ranade.
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Balendranath Tagore

Answer : A

Question. The outcome to the condemnation of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report by the Congress leaders was that :
(A) The Government threatened towithdraw the reforms
(B) The nationalist leaders were interned
(C) Most of the moderates left the Congress and later founded the Indian Liberal Federation
(D) The Government undertook to modify the proposals to accommodate some of the demands of the nationalists

Answer : B

Question. The important contribution made by the Khilafat agitation to the Non-Cooperation movement was that :
(A) It made a significant contribution to the sussess of the Non-Cooperation movement
(B) It provided a new band of leaders who infused fresh blood into the movement
(C) It brought urban Muslims intothe nationalist movement
(D) It added immense weight to the demands of the nationalists

Answer : C

Question. What was the provocation for MA. Jinnah putting forth his "fourteen points" demanding separate electorate,one-third seats in the central legislature etc., for the Muslims ?
(A) The threat of majority rule
(B) Communal politics of the Hindu-Mahasabha and the Sikh League
(C) Difference of opinion regarding the proposals contained in the Nehru Report
(D) The challenge of the British Government of draw up an agreed constitution of India

Answer : C

Question. The Cripps Proposals were rejected by the Muslim League, because
(A) Its demand for Pakistan had not been directly conceded
(B) For the Constitution-making body separate electorate had not been recognised
(C) Both (A) and (B) above
(D) Muslimswere not given proportionate representation in the proposed Executive Council

Answer : C

Question. A revolutionary, who spent 24 years in various prisons, of which he spent two and a half years on hunger strike on different occasions, was
(A) Jatindranath Das
(B) Jcgesh Chandra Chatterjee
(D) Bhai Bal Mukund
(D) V.D. Savarkar

Answer : D

Question. AMLhprashtrian Brahmin young man, who joined the revolutionary movement in the Punjab and went to the gallovis was :
(A) Rajaguru
(B) Sukhdev
(C) Bhai Parmanand
(D) Bhai Balmukund

Answer : A

Question. A woman revolutionary, who while receiving her Degree at the Convocation of the University of Calcutta from the Governor of Bengal shot him, was
(A) Kalpana Datta
(B) Preetilata Waddedar
(C) Bina Das
(D) Lila Nag

Answer : C

Question. The Congress criticised the Harcourt Butler Committee Report because it stressed on
(A) The preservation of Princely States through British Paramountcy
(B) The independence and autonomy of the Princely States
(C) The sovereignty of the Princely States
(D) All the above

Answer : A

Question. This revolutionary, before being sent to the gallows, declared: "We shall be born again, shall meet again and shall jointly fight once again for the cause of the motherland as comrades-in-arms". He was :
(A) Ashfaquallah Khan
(B) Rajendra Lahiri
(C) Ram Prasad Bismil
(D) Roshan Singh

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following was the last event of the year 1919 ?
(A) Passing of the Rowlatt Act
(B) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
(C) All India Khilafat Conference
(D) The Governement of IndiaAct, 1919

Answer : A

Question. The official position of A.O. Hume in the Indian National Congress was that of
(A) Founder
(B) Vice-President
(C) General Secretary
(D) Head of the Reception Committee

Answer : A

Question. A novel and remarkable feature of the Civil Disobedience movement was the widespread participation of :
(A) Peasants
(B) Students
(C) Women
(D) Industrialists and merchants

Answer : C