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Question-1. In the early nineteenth century Raja Ram Mohan Roy was

  1. an able fighter
  2. an important reformer
  3. a great religious person
  4. a great king
Answer-1

Question-2. Which Englishman reported the plight of India to England?

  1. Babington Macaulay
  2. General Bentinck
  3. William Jones
  4. Simon John
Answer-2

Question-3. Who killed the adjutant of his regiment?

  1. Bentinck
  2. Mangal Pandey
  3. Macaulay
  4. Kunwar Singh
Answer-3

Question-4. How does the speaker explain the problem to his wife?

  1. By giving the example of cows and milk
  2. By giving the example of great leader
  3. By giving the example of religious leaders
  4. By giving the example of different teachers
Answer-4

Question-5. What were the reasons behind the prospering British?

  1. Company's loot
  2. Killing of Indians
  3. Divide and rule policy
  4. Missionary zeal
Answer-5

Question-6. What was the value of the British goods exported to India in 1829?

  1. Five crores
  2. Six crores
  3. Seven crores
  4. Eight crores
Answer-6

Question-7. What did the British impose on the Indian farmers?

  1. Heavy taxes
  2. Service taxes
  3. Regulation II
  4. Regulation III
Answer-7

Question-8. Under Regulation III of the British rulers

  1. Indians were to pay higher taxes
  2. British goods became cheap
  3. cotton-wearers became poor
  4. Indians could be jailed without trial in a court.
Answer-8

Question-9. Between 1822 and 1836…...............people died of starvation in India.

  1. ten thousand
  2. fifteen lakh
  3. fifty thousand
  4. forty lakh
Answer-9

Question-10. In the year 1765, in India

  1. The British Govt, ruled most of the country
  2. East India Company ruled most parts of India
  3. Indian princes ruled most of the country
  4. The Mughals ruled the whole country
Answer-10

Question-11. From 1757 to 1849, there was no peace in India because

  1. the Indian Princes kept fighting each other
  2. the East India Company was cruel
  3. Tipu Sultan fought the British
  4. there were Hindu-Muslim riots
Answer-11

Question-12. The business community welcomed the British because

  1. they liked Europeans
  2. they disliked their own countrymen
  3. the British rule had brought a degree of peace
  4. they were afraid of the British
Answer-12

Question-13. The worst sufferers under the British rule were

  1. who served in East India Company
  2. the business community
  3. the religious leaders
  4. the poor farmers and artisans
Answer-13



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