NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 5 | Indigo | MCQs |

1. Who offered to work in Champaran as a volunteer?

A. Kasturba and the eldest son of Gandhi

B. Mahadev Desai and his wife.

C. Narhari Prasad and his wife

D. Two disciples of Gandhi and their wives

Answer: (D) Two disciples of Gandhi and their wives


2. What were the health conditions in Champaran?

A. Fairly good

B. Under control

C. Miserable

D. Tolerable

Answer: (C) Miserable


3. When Gandhi was in Champaran, how long did he stay?

A. Three months

B. Seven months

C. Six weeks

D. One and a half year

Answer: (B) Seven months


4. What did the big planters expect Gandhi to demand in terms of repayment?

A. Fifty percent of the amount

B. Double the amount

C. Repayment in full

D. No payment, just an apology

Answer: (C) Repayment in full


5. Who was willing to go to jail with Gandhi?

A. Lawyers

B. Peasants

C. J.B. Kriplani

D. Shukla

Answer: (A) Lawyers


6. Outside of the courtroom, how did Gandhi interact with the officials?

A. He said that he would disobey the order

B. Cooperated with them

C. Demonstrated his power

D. Was firm and resolute

Answer: (B) Cooperated with them


7. Where did Gandhi travel after Tirhut?

A. Ahmedabad

B. Cawnpore

C. Lucknow

D. Motihari

Answer: (D) Motihari


8. What is the location of the Champaran district?

A. In the northeast of Orissa

B. In the south of Bihar

C. In the south-west of Orissa

D. In the foothills of the Himalayas in Bihar

Answer: (D) in the foothills of the Himalayas in Bihar


9. What did the British landlords and peasants do after the development of synthetic indigo?

A. Money as compensation

B. 15% of produce

C. Indigo as rent

D. A new settlement

Answer: (A) Money as compensation


10. Who is the writer of Indigo?

A. Mark Twain

B. Charles Dickens

C. Louis Fischer

D. Leo Tolstoy

Answer: (C) Louis Fischer


11. Between his initial encounter with Shukla and his arrival to Champaran, where did Gandhi travel?

A. Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Gaya, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur

B. Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Patna and Muzaffarnagar

C. Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur

D. Calcutta, Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarnagar

Answer: (C) Cawnpore, Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Patna, Muzaffarpur


12. Who greeted Gandhi when he arrived at Muzaffarpur station?

A. Nehru

B. Shukla

C. J.B. Kriplani

D. Rajendra Prasad

Answer: (C) J.B Kriplani


13. What was the peasant's full name from Champaran?

A. Ramkumar Shukla

B. Roopkumar Shukla

C. J.B.Shukla

D. Rajkumar Shukla

Answer: (D) Rajkumar Shukla


14. When did Gandhiji make his visit to Lucknow?

A. February 1917

B. December 1916

C. December 1917

D. October 1916

Answer: (B) December 1916.


15. What was the average Indian's attitude toward proponents of home rule in smaller towns?

A. Very fearful and indifferent

B. Very welcoming

C. Very polite

D. Very courageous

Answer: (A) Very fearful and indifferent


16. What was Gandhiji's statement, in which he pleaded guilty?

A. He was not a lawbreaker and came to render humanitarian and national service

B. That he had broken the law.

C. That he desired to be respected.

D. None of the above

Answer: (A) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service.


17. Why is Champaran so well-known?

A. For Indigo

B. For fighting

C. For the first Satyagraha movement in 1917

D. Because Gandhiji visited

Answer: (C) For the first Satyagraha movement in 1917.


18. What does the word “Yeoman” mean?

A. Man who bothers everyone

B. Man holding and cultivating a small land

C. Man who looks at others repulsively

D. None of these

Answer: (B) Man holding and cultivating a small land.


1. The Last Lesson MCQs

2. Lost Spring MCQs

3. Deep Water MCQs

4. The Rattrap MCQs

5. Indigo MCQs

6. Poets and Pancakes MCQs

7. The Interview MCQs

8. Going Places MCQs

9. My Mother  at Sixty-six MCQs

10. An Elementary School  Classroom in a Slum MCQs

11. Keeping Quiet MCQs

12. A Thing of Beauty MCQs

13. A Roadside Stand MCQs

14. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers MCQs

 

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