Nationalism in India Class 10 MCQ Questions With Answers
Question 1.
Which of the following was the reason for calling off ‘the Non-cooperation Movement1 by Gandhiji?
(A) Pressure from the British Government
(B) Second Round Table Conference
(C) Gandhiji’s arrest
(D) Chauri-Chaura incident
Answer:
(D) Chauri-Chaura incident
Explanation:
At Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur, a peaceful demonstration turned into a violent clash with the police, thats why Mahatma Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Question 2.
Who among the following wrote the Vande Mataram?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(C) Abindranath Tagore
(D) Dwarkanath Tagore
Answer:
(B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Question 3.
In which of the following Indian National Congress Session, the idea of Non-Cooperation Movement was accepted?
(A) Lahore Session
(B) Nagpur Session
(C) Calcutta Session
(D) Madras Session
Answer:
(C) Calcutta Session
Explanation:
At the Calcutta session of the’ Congress in September 1920, Gandhiji convinced other leaders of the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for Swaraj.
Question 4.
Study the picture and answer the question that follows:
Which of the following events was related to this image of Gandhi?
(A) Non-Cooperation Movement
(B) Kheda Salyagraha
(C) Dandi March
(D) None of these
Answer:
(C) Dandi March
Question 5.
Identify the appropriate reason for the formation of the Swaraj party from the options given below:
(A) Wanted members of Congress to return to council politics.
(B) Wanted members of Congress to ask for Purna Swaraj for IndiAnswer:
(C) Wanted members of Congress to ask dominion Status for India.
(D) Wanted members of Congress to oppose Simon Commission.
Answer:
(A) Wanted members of Congress to return to council politics.
Question 6.
With the growth of Nationalism, who created the image of Bharat Mata ?
(A) Abanindranath Tagore
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer:
(A) Abanindranath Tagore
Question 7.
In the 19th Century India, which ideas were revived through a movement to develop nationalism ?
(A) History and fictions
(B) Figure or images
(C) Folklore or songs
(D) Popular prints
Answer:
(C) Folklore or songs
Question 8.
Study the picture and answer the question that follows :
Which of the following personalities is shown in the given image ?
(A) Vallabhbhai Pate!
(B) C. R. Das
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer:
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Question 9.
Study the picture and answer the question that follows:
Which of the following things is being held by Jawaharlal Nehru in this image ?
(A) Bhagwad Gita
(B) Image of Bharat Mata
(C) Discovery of India
(D) Hind Swaraj
Answer:
(B) Image of Bharat Mata
Question 10.
Which of the following agreement gave seats to the depressed classes in Provincial and Central Legislative Council?
(A) Poona Pact
(B) Lucknow Pact
(C) Gandhi – Irvin Pact
(D) None of these
Answer:
(A) Poona Pact
Explanation:
Dr. B.R, Ambedkar demanded a separate electorate, this clashed with Mahatma Gandhi where the result was Poona Pact.
Question 11.
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Kheda Satyagraha | (A) Motilal Nehru |
| (ii) Natesa Sastri | (B) Mahatma Gandh |
| (ill) Swaraj Party | (C) 1930 |
| (iv) Depressed Classes Association | (D) “The Folklore of Southern India” |
(A) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B)
(B) (i)-(B), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(A)
(C) (i)-(D), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(C)
(D) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D)
Answer:
(D) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D)
Explanation:
Column A shows the name of person that matches with Column B having s the creations by them.
Question 12.
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Second Round Table Conference | (A) A tricolour flag designed in Bengal |
| (ii) Flindustan Socialist Republican Association | (B) Mahatma Gandhi |
| (iii) All India Trade Union Congress | (C) Chandrashek- har Azad |
| (iv) Swadeshi Mov- ment | (D) N. M. Joshi |
(A) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B)
(B) (i)-(B), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(A)
(C) (i)-(D), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(C)
(D) (i)'(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D)
Answer:
(B) (i)-(B), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(A)
Question 13.
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Abanindranath Tagore | (A) Jana Gana Mana |
| (ii) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | (B) The Folklore of Southern India |
| (iii) Rabindranath Tagore | (C) Bharat Mata im-age |
| (iv) Natesa Sastri | (D) Vande Mataram |
(A) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B)
(B) (i)-(B), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(A)
(C) (i)-(D), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(C)
(D) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D)
Answer:
(D) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D)
Explanation:
Column A shows the name of person that matches with Column B having s the creations by them.
Question 14.
Certain events are given below. Choose the appropriate chronological order:
(i) Coming of Simon Commission to India
(ii) Demand of Puma Swaraj in Lahore Session of INC
(iii) Government of India Act, 1919
(iv) Champaran Satyagraha
Options:
(A) (iii) – (ii) – (iv) – (i)
(B) (i) – (ii) – (iv) – (iii)
(C) (ii) – (iii) – (i) – (iv)
(D) (iv) – (iii) – (i) – (ii)
Answer:
(D) (iv) – (iii) – (i) – (ii)
Explanation:
(i) Champaran Satyagraha in 1918.
(ii) Government of India Act, 1919.
(iii) Coming of Simon Commission of India in 1928.
(iv) Demand of Purna Swaraj in Lahore Session of INC in 1929.
Question 15.
Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) Formation of the Muslim League.
(ii) The First Word War.
(iii) The first rrieeting of the Indian National Congress in Bombay.
(iv) Through the war prices increased in double.
Options:
(A) (ii) – (iv) – (iii) – (i)
(B) (i) – (iii) – (iv) – (ii)
(C) (iv) – (ii) – (i) – (iii)
(D) (iii) – (i) – (ii) – (iv)
Answer:
(D) (iii) – (i) – (ii) – (iv)
Explanation:
(i) The first meeting of the Indian National Congress in Bombay in 1885.
(ii) Formation of the Muslim League in 1906.
(iii) The First Word War in 1914.
(iv) Through the war prices increased in double in 1918.
Question 16.
Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(ii) Rowlatt Act passed. The Partition of Bengal officially came into existence.
(iii) Satyagraha Movement in Ahmedabad.
(iv) Satyagraha Movement in Kheda District (Gujarat)
Options:
(A) (iv) – (ii) – (i) – (iii)
(B) (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (i)
(C) (ii) – (iv) – (iii) – (i)
(D) (i) – (iii) – (ii) – (iv)
Answer:
(C) (ii) – (iv) – (iii) – (i)
Explanation:
(i) The Partition of Bengal officially came into existence in 1905.
(ii) Satyagraha Movement in Kheda District (Gujarat) in 1917.
(iii) Satyagraha Movement in Ahmedabad g 1918.
(iv) Rowlatt Act passed in 1919.
Question 17.
Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options: Mahatma Gandhi’s letter was, in a way, an ultimatum. If the demands were not fulfilled by 11 March, the letter stated, the Congress would launch a civil disobedience campaign. Irwin was unwilling to negotiate. So Mahatma Gandhi started his famous salt march accompanied by 78 of his trusted volunteers.The march was over 240 miles, from Gandhiji’s ashram in Sabarmati to the Gujarati coastal town of Dandi. The volunteers walked for 24 days, about 10 miles a day. Thousands came to hear Mahatma Gandhi wherever he stopped, and – he told them what he meant by Swaraj and urged them to peacefully defy the British. On 6 April he reached Dandi, and ceremonially violated the law, manufacturing salt by boiling sea water.
(A) Non-Cooperation Movement
(B) Salt March
(C) Khilafat Movement
(D) Rowlatt Act
Answer:
(B) Salt March
Question 18.
Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options: As the national movement developed, nationalist leaders became more and more aware of such icons and symbols in unifying people and inspiring in them a feeling of nationalism. During the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, a tricolour flag (red, green and yellow) was designed. It had eight lotuses representing eight provinces of British India, and a crescent moon, representing Hindus and Muslims. By 1921, Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag. It was again a tricolour (red, green and white) and had a spinning wheel in the centre, representing the Gandhian ideal of self-help. Carrying the flag, holding it aloft, during marches became a symbol of defiance.
(A) Designing of icons
(B) Designing of tricolour flag
(C) Designing of national symbols
(D) Designing of images
Answer:
(B) Designing of tricolour flag
Question 19.
Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) Mahatma Gandhi found sugar a powerful symbol that could unite a nation.
(B) On 31th January, 1930 he sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating eleven demands.
(C) Some of these were of general interest; others were specific demands of different classes, from industrialists to peasants.
(D) The idea was to make the demands wide-ranging, so that all classes within Indian society could identify with them and everyone could be brought together in a united campaign.
Answer:
(A) Mahatma Gandhi found sugar a powerful symbol that could unite a nation.
Explanation:
Mahatma Gandhi found salt a powerful symbol that could unite a nation as salt is used in our day to day life.
Question 20.
Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) Against this background the new Tory government in Britain constituted a Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon.
(B) Set up in response to nationalist movement, the Commission was to look into the functioning of the constitutional system in India and suggest changes.
(C) The problem was that the Commission did not have a single Indian member.
(D) They were all AmericAnswer:
Answer:
(D) They were all AmericAnswer:
Question 21.
Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) In 1928, Vallabhbhai Patel led the Peasant Movement in Bardoli, a taluka in Gujarat.
(B) It was against enhancement of land revenue, known as the Civil Disobedient Movement.
(C) This Movement was a success under the able leadership of Vallabhbhai Patel.
(D) The struggle was widely publicized and generated immense sympathy in many parts of India.
Answer:
(B) It was against enhancement of land revenue, known as the Civil Disobedient Movement.
Assertion and Reason Based MCQs
Directions: In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(C) A is true but R is false
(D) A is false and R is True
Question 1.
Assertion (A) : It was declared that 26lh January, 1930 would be celebrated as the Independence Day when people were to take a pledge to struggle for Complete Independence.
Reason (R) : Mahatma Gandhi had to find a way to relate this abstract idea of freedom to more concrete issues of everyday life.
Answer:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Question 2.
Assertion (A) : Dyer entered the area, blocked the exit points, and opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds.
Reason (R): His object, as he declared later, was to ‘produce a moral effect’, to create in the minds of satyagrahis a feeling of terror and awe.
Answer:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Question 3.
Assertion (A) : Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires.
Reason (R): Students and teachers began trickling back to government schools and lawyers joined back work in government courts.
Answer:
(C) A is true but R is false
Explanation:
Boycott movement was also launched to collapse the British rule in India and promoting a culture to make in house products.
Question 4.
Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi decided to take up the Khilafat issue. ‘
Reason (R): After many leaders were arrested, violent clashes broke out at many places in India and women and children were beaten up.
Answer:
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation:
Mahatma Gandhi alway.wanted to bring the Hindu-Muslims together ; and launch a broad nation wide resistance movement against the Britishers.
Question 5.
Assertion (A): Between 1921-1922, production of tea and coffee grew up.
Reason (R) : As the non-cooperation moved into economic sphere, foreign goods and clothes were boycotted and burnt.
Answer:
(D) A is false and R is True
Explanation:
As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothe , and wearing only Indian ones, production c:d Indian textile mills and handlooms grew up.
Question 6.
Assertion (A): Folklores gave a picture of traditional culture, it helps in discovering a national identify and restoring a sense of pride in one’s past.
Reason (R): Nationalism spreads when peep’e discover some unity that binds them together
Answer:
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
Explanation:
Folklores played an important j role in developing a feeling of nationalism.
I. Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
The movement started with middle-class participation in the cities. Thousands of students left government- controlled schools and colleges, headmasters and teachers resigned, and lawyers gave up their legal practices. The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except Madras, where the Justice Party, the party of the non-Brahmans, felt that entering the council was one way of gaining some power-something that usually only Brahmans had access to. The effects of non- cooperation on the economic front were more dramatic. Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires. The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922, its value dropping from ? 102 crore to ? 57 crore. In many places merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up. But this movement in the cities gradually slowed down for a variety of reasons.
Khadi cloth was often more expensive than mass produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it. How then could they boycott mill cloth for too long? Similarly the boycott of British institutions posed a problem. For the movement to be successful, alternative Indian institutions had to be set up so that they could be used in place of the British Ones. These were slow to come up. So students and teachers began trickling back to government, schools and lawyers joined back work in government courts. Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option
Question 1.
What was the purpose of Justice Party to contest Elections to the Council in Madras? Select the appropriate option:
(A) It wanted to contest elections to the council as it was one of the ways to gain some Income that usually only Brahmans had access to.
(B) It wanted to contest elections to the council as it was one of the ways to gain some power that usually only Brahmans had access to.
(C) It wanted to contest elections to the council as it was one of the way to gain more popularity that usually only Brahmans had access to.
(D) It wanted to contest elections to the council as it was one of the ways to take revenge from BrahmAnswer:
Answer:
(B) It wanted to contest elections to the council as it was one of the ways to gain some power that usually only Brahmans had access to.
Question 2.
How was the effects of ‘Non- Cooperation on the economic front’ dramatic?
(A) Merchants refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
(B) The merchants imported goods from other countries.
(C) The neighbouring countries were offering same goods at cheaper prices.
(D) Public was not interested in buying foreign goods.
Answer:
(A) Merchants refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.
Question 3.
Theimport of foreigri cloth between 1921 and 1922 saw changes because :
(A) Its value dropped from? 100 crore to T 97 crove
(B) Its value dropped from? 201 crore to f IN) crore
(C) Its value dropped from? 102 crore to? 57 crore
(D) Its value dropped from? 102 crore to? 75 crore
Answer:
(C) Its value dropped from ? 102 crore to ? 57 crore
Question 4.
Thousands of………. left government controlled schools and colleges and …………gave up their legal practices.
(A) Teachers, Judges
(B) Headmasters, Clerks
(C) Students, Advocates
(D) Students, Lawyers
Answer:
(D) Students, Lawyers
II. Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
The identity of the nation, as you know is most often symbolised in a figure or image. This helps create an image with which people can identify the nation. It was in the twentieth century, with the growth of nationalism, that the identity of India came to be visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata. The image was first created by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. In the 1870s he wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ as a hymn to the motherland. Later it was included in his novel Anandamath and widely sung during the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. Moved by the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore painted his famous image of Bharat Mata. In this painting Bharat Mata is portrayed as an ascetic figure; she is calm, composed, divine and spiritual. In subsequent years, the image of Bharat Mata acquired many different forms, as it circulated in popular prints and was painted by different artists. Devotion to this mother figure came to be seen as evidence of one’s nationalism.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option
Question 1.
Means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through:
(A) Reinterpretation of Astronomy
(B) Reinterpretation of Philosophy
(C) Reinterpretation of Mythology
(D) Reinterpretation of History
Answer:
(D) Reinterpretation of History
Explanation:
Historical events led the feeling of nationalism.
Question 2.
Bharat Mata was first created by:
(A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(B) Natesa Sastri
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Abanindranath Tagore
Answer:
(A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Question 3.
As Bharat Mata is to India,………..is to Italy and is………. to Germany.
(A) Statue of Liberty, Mother Mary
(B) Marianne, Germania
(C) Germania, Marianne
(D) Statue of Liberty, Germania
Answer:
(B) Marianne, Germania
Explanation:
These statues represents liberty, fraternity and equality of their respective countries.
Question 4.
What quality is emphasized by Bharat mata ?
(A) Anxious
(B) Sacred
(C) Mortal
(D) All of the above
Answer:
(B) Sacred
III. Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
In the countryside, rich peasant communities – like the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of Uttar Pradesh – were active in the movement. Being producers of commercial crops, they were very hard hit by the trade depression and falling prices. As their cash income disappeared, they found it impossible to pay the government’s revenue demand. And the refusal of the government to reduce the revenue demand led to widespread resentment. These rich peasants became enthusiastic supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement, organising their communities, and at times forcing reluctant members, to participate in the boycott programmes. For them the fight for Swaraj was a struggle against high revenues. But they were deeply disappointed when the movement was called off in 1931 without the revenue rates being revised. So, when the movement was restarted in 1932, many of them refused to participate.
The poorer peasantry were not just interested in the lowering of the revenue demand. Many of them were small tenants cultivating land they had rented from landlords. As the Depression continued and cash incomes dwindled, the small tenants found it difficult to pay their rent. They wanted the unpaid rent to the landlord to be remitted. They joined a variety of radical movements, often led by Socialists and Communists. Apprehensive of raising issues that might upset the rich peasants and landlords, the Congress was unwilling to support ‘no rent’ campaigns in most places. So, the relationship between the poor peasants and the Congress remained uncertain.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option
Question 1.
Patidars and Jats are rich Peasants of which State?
(A) Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh
(B) Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
(C) Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan
(D) Punjab and Haryana
Answer:
(A) Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh
Question 2.
Who led the Peasant’s Movement in Awadh?
(A) Baba Ramnath
(B) Baba Ramchandra
(C) Baba Ramdev
(D) Baba Ram Mohan
Answer:
(B) Baba Ramchandra
Question 3.
For plantation workers in Assam, which Act did not permit them to leave the tea gardens without permission?
(A) Inland Emigration Act of 1947
(B) Inland Emigration Act of 1839
(C) Inland Emigration Act of 1859
(D) Inland Emigration Act of 1887
Answer:
(C) Inland Emigration Act of 1859
Question 4.
Congress was unwilling to support campaigns in most places.
(A) High Rent
(B) No Rent
(C) Low Rent
(D) Equal Rent
Answer:
(B) No Rent