Indigo MCQ Chapter 5 Class 12 English Flamingo

MCQ’s For All Chapters – Flamingo Class 12th

1. Health conditions in Champaran

(a) miserable

(b) tolerable

(c) under control

(d) fairly good

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Question 1 of 30

2. Who volunteered to work in Champaran?

(a) two disciples of Gandhi and their wives

(b) Kasturba and the eldest son of Gandhi

(c) Mahadev Desai and his wife

(d) Narhari Prasad and his wife

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Question 2 of 30

3. The representative of the planters offered to refund—– percent to the peasants

(a) 5

(b) 10

(c) 20

(d) 25

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Question 3 of 30

4. For how long did Gandhi remain in Champaran?

(a) seven weeks

(b) three months

(c) one and a half year

(d) seven months

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Question 4 of 30

5. What amount of repayment did the big planters think Gandhi would demand?

(a) repayment in full

(b) double the amount

(c) fifty percent of the amount

(d) no payment, just an apology

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Question 5 of 30

6. Gandhi was summoned by ___ the Lt. Governor

(a) Sir Edward Gait

(b) Sir Henry Gait

(c) Sir Richard Andrews

(d) Sir Freer Andrews

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Question 6 of 30

7. Who were ready to follow Gandhi into jail?

(a) peasants

(b) lawyers

(c) Shukla

(d) J.B. Kriplani

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Question 7 of 30

8. The magistrate asked Gandhi to furnish bail for __ minutes

(a) 30

(b) 60

(c) 90

(d) 120

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Question 8 of 30

9. How did Gandhi behave with the officials outside the court?

(a) demonstrated his power

(b) was firm and resolute

(c) he said that he would disobey the order

(d) cooperated with them

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Question 9 of 30

10. Why did Gandhi start out on the back of an elephant?

(a) a peasant had been maltreated in a village nearby

(b) he set out to meet the secretary of British Landlords Association

(c) he set out to meet British official commissioner

(d) he was summoned by Sir Edward Gait, the Lt. Governor

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Question 10 of 30

11. After Tirhut, where did Gandhi go?

(a) Lucknow

(b) Motihari

(c) Cawnpore

(d) Ahmedabad

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Question 11 of 30

12. What happened when Gandhi visited the secretary of British landlord’s association?

(a) the secretary proceeded to bully him

(b) the secretary advised him forthwith to leave Tirhut

(c) the secretary said that they could not give any information to an outsider

(d) the secretary was very helpful

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Question 12 of 30

13. Why was Gandhi not permitted to draw water from Rajendra Prasad’s well?

(a) the servant thought Gandhi was another peasant

(b) as Rajendra Prasad was not at home

(c) Gandhi looked like a vagabond

(d) Gandhi was a Harijan

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Question 13 of 30

14. Where is Champaran district situated?

(a) in the south-west of Orissa

(b) in the foothills of the Himalayas in Bihar

(c) in the northeast of Orissa

(d) in the south of Bihar

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Question 14 of 30

15. What did the British landlords and from the peasants after synthetic indigo was developed?

(a) indigo as rent

(b) 15% of produce

(c) money as compensation

(d) a new settlement

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Question 15 of 30

16. What were the places visited by Gandhi between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran?

(a) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur

(b) Calcutta, Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarnagar

(c) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Gaya, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur

(d) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Patna and Muzaffarnagar

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Question 16 of 30

17. Who received Gandhi at the Muzaffarpur station?

(a) Shukla

(b) J.B Kriplani

(c) Rajendra Prasad

(d) Nehru

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Question 17 of 30

18. Shukla led Gandhi to the house of a lawyer who later became the President of India. He was

(a) J.B Kriplani

(b) Rajendra Prasad

(c) Zakir Hussain

(d) Mahadev Desai

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Question 18 of 30

19. What was the full name of the peasant from Champaran?

(a) J.B Shukla

(b) Rajkumar Shukla

(c) Ramkumar Shukla

(d) Roopkumar Shukla

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Question 19 of 30

20. When did Gandhiji go to Lucknow?

(a) December 1917

(b) October 1916

(c) February 1917

(d) December 1916

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Question 20 of 30

21. Where did Gandhiji stay 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

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Question 21 of 30

22. What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?

(a) Very happy

(b) Independent

(c) Very rich

(d) Terror stricken and oppressed

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Question 22 of 30

23. 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

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Question 23 of 30

24. 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

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Question 24 of 30

25. What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?

(a) That he was a law breaker

(b) That he wanted to command respect

(c) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service

(d) None

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Question 25 of 30

26. Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo?

(a) A British lawyer

(b) A british Businessman

(c) A British Politician

(d) An Administrator in Indian Civil Services

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Question 26 of 30

27. 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 they were leaving India

(d) They gave 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

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Question 27 of 30

28. Where was Champaran?

(a) In Lucknow

(b) In Delh

i (c) In Uttar Pradesh

(d) A district of Bihar in British India

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Question 28 of 30

29. Why is Champaran famous?

(a) For fighting

(b) For Indigo

(c) Because Gandhiji visited

(d) For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917

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Question 29 of 30

30. 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

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Question 30 of 30