Multiple choice questions :
1. Within five years the value of goods brought by the company in Bengal _________ .
(a) Doubled (b) Tripled (c) Singled. (d)Was the same
2. About ____________ of the population wiped out in Bengal in the year 1770 due to famine.
(a) One-third (b) Two-third (c) One-fifth. (d) One-fourth
3. The East India company introduced the permanent settlement in ________ .
(a) 1773 (b) 1785 (c) 1793. (d) 1765
4. Holt Mackenzie devised the new system in the year effect from ________ .
(a) 1822 (b) 1823 (c) 1824. (d) 1845
5. __________ introduced the “Mahalwari Settlement” in India .
(a) Holt Mackenzie (b) Captain Alexander (c) Haider Ali. (d) Pierre Cardin
6. Under the “Mahalwari settlement” the charge of collecting revenue was given to the village _________ .
(a) Zamindar (b) Headman (c) Farmer. (d) Sarpanch
7. The cultivators found the “permanent settlement” extremely oppressive in the _______ .
(a) Cities (b) Towns (c) Villages. (d) Talukas
8. “The Ryotwari system” was devised in the British territories in the _______ .
(a) West (b) South (c) East. (d) North
9. Captain Alexander Read tried the Ryotwari system after the war with __________ .
(a) Haider Ali (b) Tipu Sultan (c) Ranjit Singh (d) Muhmad Tughlak
10. Ryotwari system was gradually extended all over south India by _________ .
(a) Thomas Munro (b) Alexander Read (c) Holt Mackenzie. (d) Hyder Ali
11. By the late eighteenth century the company was trying to expand the cultivation of_________ and _______ .
(a) Opium and indigo (b) Indigo and mangoes (c) Cotton and silk. (d) Cotton and Jute
12. ______ indigo came to dominate the world market in eighteenth century.
(a) Bengal (b) Madras (c) Bombay. (d) Delhi
13. Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran for beginning movement against planters in _______ .
(a) 1927 (b) 1917 (c) 1937. (d) 1947
14. When did the ryots in Bengal refuse to grow indigo?
(a) 1855 (b) 1859 (c) 1860 (d) 1865
15. When did the indigo production collapse in Bengal?
(a) After the Battle of Plassey (b) After Tipu Sultans defeat (c) After the Revolt of 1857 (d) After the French Revolution
16. The indigo crop grows primarily in the _________ .
(a) Tropics (b) Temperate (c) Desert (d) Wetlands
17. European cloth manufacturers had to depend on______ to make violet and blue dyes.
(a) Wood plant (b) Jamun plant (c) Turmeric plant (d) Indigo plant
18. Violet and blue dyes were made from the plant called __________ .
(a) Indigo (b) Wood (c) Hemp (d) Jamun
19. By the seventeenth century European cloth producers persuaded government to remove ban on import of _______ .
(a) Indigo (b) Wood (c) Jamun plant (d) Cotton Plant
20. Mrench began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
(a) St. Domingue (b) Marseille (c) Bordeaux (d) Versailles
21. The Portuguese began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
(a) Lisbon (b) Brazil (c) Porto (d) Portugal
22. The English began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
(a) Jamaica (b) London (c) Manchester (d) England
23. The Spanish began cultivating indigo in ______________ .
(a) Barcelona (b) Madrid (c) Venezuela (d ) Spain
24. Who appointed the East India company as the Diwan of Bengal on 12th August 1756?
(a) The Mughal emperor (b) Queen of Britain (c) Peshwas (d) Louis XVI
Answers :
1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (b)
9. (b) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (a) 13. (b) 14. (b) 15. (c) 16. (a)
17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (a) 20. (a) 21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (c) 24. (a).