CHAPTER- 2 NATIONALISM IN INDIA IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

CHAPTER- 2 

NATIONALISM IN INDIA 

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

1. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. Who led the peasants in the Awadh region during the Non-Cooperation Movement?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Sardar Patel

c) Baba Ramchandra

d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer: c) Baba Ramchandra

2. The Simon Commission was sent to India in:

a) 1917

b) 1927

c) 1935

d) 1942

Answer: b) 1927

3. Who was the President of the Lahore Session of Congress in 1929?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Motilal Nehru

d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: b) Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Which of the following was the main demand of the Simon Commission?

a) To give India Dominion Status

b) To frame a new Constitution for India

c) To develop heavy industries

d) To increase agriculture production

Answer: b) To frame a new Constitution for India

5. Who designed the Swaraj flag in 1921?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Pingali Venkayya

c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer: b) Pingali Venkayya

6. The Rowlatt Act was passed in which year?

a) 1915

b) 1916

c) 1917

d) 1919

Answer: d) 1919

7. Which industrial organization supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?

a) FICCI

b) CII

c) ASSOCHAM

d) Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress

Answer: a) FICCI

8. The Dandi March started from Sabarmati Ashram to which village?

a) Bardoli

b) Surat

c) Dandi

d) Champaran

Answer: c) Dandi

9. In which year Chaura Chauri incedence took place?

a) 1919

b) 1922

c) 1920

d) 1923

Answer: b) 1922

10. Who led the militant guerrilla movement in Gudem Hills?

a) Baba Ramchandra

b) Alluri Sitarama Raju

c) Birsa Munda

d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer: b) Alluri Sitarama Raju

11. Which community boycotted the Simon Commission by raising ‘Go Back Simon’?

a) British Officials

b) Indians

c) French

d) Dutch

Answer: b) Indians

12. Why did the rich peasants participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement?

a) They wanted high taxes

b) They wanted abolition of rent

c) They wanted reduction of revenue demand

d) They wanted new railways

Answer: c) They wanted reduction of revenue demand

13. The Poorna Swaraj Resolution was passed on which date?

a) 15 August 1947

b) 26 January 1930

c) 2 October 1929

d) 13 April 1919

Answer: b) 26 January 1930

14. Who was writer of Anandmath?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Jawharlal Nehru

c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

d) Abanindranath Tagore

Answer: c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

15. Which among the following leaders was not related to the Khilafat Movement?

a) Ali Brothers

b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

16. Which of the following was Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India?

a) Non-Cooperation Movement

b) Civil Disobedience Movement

c) Champaran Satyagraha

d) Quit India Movement

Answer: c) Champaran Satyagraha

17. Who wrote Hind Swaraj?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: b) Mahatma Gandhi

18. Which Act gave the British government extensive powers to repress political activities?

a) Rowlatt Act

b) Pitt’s India Act

c) Regulating Act

d) Government of India Act, 1935

Answer: a) Rowlatt Act

19. Where did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?

a) Amritsar

b) Lahore

c) Delhi

d) Lucknow

Answer: a) Amritsar

20. Which session of the Congress declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ as its goal?

a) Lahore Session, 1929

b) Lucknow Session, 1916

c) Nagpur Session, 1920

d) Calcutta Session, 1906

Answer: a) Lahore Session, 1929

21. Who draw first Bharat Mata image

a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

b) Abindra Nath Tagore

c) Rabindra Nath Tagore

d) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

22. Who painted famous image Bharat Mata

a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

b) Abindra Nath Tagore

c) Rabindra Nath Tagore

d) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: b) Abindra Nath Tagore

23.  How did the image of Bharat Mata inspire Indians?

a) To wear foreign clothes

b) To cooperate with the British

c) To sacrifice for the nation

d) To pay taxes honestly

Answer: c) To sacrifice for the nation

24.. Bharat Mata was portrayed in which form?

a) As a farmer

b) As a goddess

c) As a British officer

d) As an industrial worker

Answer: b) As a goddess

25.  What feeling did the image of Bharat Mata evoke?

a) Religious division

b) Praise for colonial rule

c) Unity and sacrifice

d) Industrialization

Answer: c) Unity and sacrifice

26.  What symbols were usually shown in Bharat Mata’s images?

a) Machines and factories

b) Flag, lion, lotus

c) Railway stations

d) British soldiers

Answer: b) Flag, lion, lotus

27. Bharat Mata became a symbol of which ideology?

a) Colonialism

b) Imperialism

c) Nationalism

d) Globalization

Answer: c) Nationalism

28. Eight lotus in Indian flag representing.

a) Colonialism

b) Imperialism

c) Eight Provinces 

d) Globalization

Answer: c) Eight Provinces

29. Crescent moon representing

a) Hindu and Muslims

b) Imperialism

c) Eight Provinces 

d) Globalization

Answer: a) Hindu and Muslims

30. Which colors was in flag draw by Gandhi ji.

a) Red, green and White

b) Yellow, green and red

c) White, black and green

d) Green, yellow and blue

Answer: a)  Red, green and White

 Map-based Questions

Locate and label any 2 on an outline political map of India:

1.  Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar, Punjab) – site of the massacre in 1919.
2.  Champaran (Bihar) – first Satyagraha by Gandhi for indigo farmers.
3.  Ahmedabad (Gujarat) – mill workers’ strike led by Gandhi.
4.  Kheda (Gujarat) – peasants’ Satyagraha for remission of tax.
5. Locate on map where congress session held during September,1920 and December1920

Short Answer Questions (2-3 Marks)

Q1. What was the main aim of the Non-Cooperation Movement? (2 Marks)

Answer: The main aim was to resist British rule in India through non-violent means by boycotting British goods, institutions, and titles, and to demand Swaraj (self-rule).

Q2. Why did Gandhiji call off the Non-Cooperation Movement? (2 Marks)

Answer: The movement was called off due to the violent incident at Chauri Chaura in 1922, where a mob set fire to a police station killing policemen. Gandhiji believed the movement had strayed from its non-violent path.

Q3. What was the significance of the Lahore Session of the Congress in 1929? (3 Marks)

Answer: At the Lahore Session, the Congress declared Purna Swaraj (complete independence) as its ultimate goal, passed a resolution to launch Civil Disobedience, and decided to celebrate 26th January 1930 as Independence Day.

Q4. What was Martial Law?

Q5. What was the reason of slow down of movement in cities?

Q6. Who was Alluri Sitaram Raju?

Q7. What was Inland Emigration Act of 1859?

Q8. Why Tribal Rebelled against colonial?

Q9. Who formed Swaraj Party and why?

Q10. How Indians greet Simon Commission?

Long Answer Questions (5 Marks)

Q1. Describe the main features of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Answer:

• Started with the Dandi March in March 1930 when Gandhi broke the Salt Law.
• People refused to pay taxes, broke colonial laws (salt, forest, liquor).
• Foreign cloth and goods were boycotted, people resigned from government jobs.
• The movement spread to countryside – peasants, tribals, and women participated.
• The British responded with brutal repression, arrests, and imprisonments.
• Ended temporarily after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact but resumed after failure of Second Round Table Conference.

Q2. Explain how the idea of nationalism spread among different social groups in India.

Answer:

• Peasants: Joined due to oppressive taxes, inspired by promise of Swaraj.
• Tribals: Fought forest laws that restricted their livelihoods.
• Business Class: Supported as they wanted protection from British economic policies.
• Women: Actively participated in picketing liquor shops, boycotts, processions.
• Students and Teachers: Left government schools and colleges.
• Muslims, Industrial Workers: Some participated but with regional variations.
• The idea was spread through songs, symbols (tricolour flag), newspapers, folk tales.

Q3. Explain the factors that led to the growth of nationalism in India.

Q4. Describe the events and impact of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Q5. Highlight the main features and significance of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Q6. How did the Civil Disobedience Movement start and what were its main impacts?

Q7. How did different social groups participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement?

Q8. Explain the role of symbols and culture in the spread of nationalism in India.

CBSE Class 10 Subject: Geography Chapter:- 2 Forests and Wildlife Resources

CBSE Class 10

Subject: Geography 

Chapter:- 2 Forests and Wildlife Resources 

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) – (1 Mark Each)

a) Which one of the following is not a direct cause of deforestation?

a) Mining

b) Overgrazing

c) Afforestation

d) Shifting cultivation

Answer: c) Afforestation

b) The species which are not found after searches of known or likely areas are known as:

a) Endangered species

b) Rare species

c) Extinct species

d) Vulnerable species

Answer: c) Extinct species

c) Which of the following animals is not included in the list of animals protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Act?

a) Black buck

b) Himalayan Yaks

c) Tiger

d) Elephant

Answer: b) Himalayan Yaks

d) Chipko Movement is associated with:

a) Wildlife protection

b) Water conservation

c) Forest conservation

d) Soil conservation

Answer: c) Forest conservation

e) Which of the following types of species are known to have a declining population?

a) Endemic species

b) Endangered species

c) Normal species

d) Extinct species

Answer: b) Endangered species

2 Marks Questions

• What is biodiversity? Why is biodiversity important for human beings?
• Define the term 'flora' and 'fauna'.
• What is deforestation? State two causes of deforestation.
• What is the reason of loss of cultural diversity?
• What is a wildlife sanctuary? How is it different from a national park?
• What is JFM?
• Which year project Tiger introduced?
• In which year conservaion planning added to protected plant and butterflies species?
• What is Taxus wallachiana? what is it used?

3 Marks Questions

• List any three steps taken by the Indian government to protect flora and fauna.
• What is the impact of deforestation on the environment? Explain with examples.
• What are Reserved, Protected, Unclassed, forests.
• Mention any three major threats to forest and wildlife resources.
• Colonial forest policies in India are widely blamed for significant negative impacts on forests. 

5 Marks Questions

• Why do we need to conserve our forests and wildlife? Explain any five reasons.
• Describe the role of community and local people in forest and wildlife conservation with examples.
• Explain the various categories of existing plants and animal species as per IUCN.
• Discuss the factors that have led to the decline of India's biodiversity.
• Do you think community play an important role to conserve environment?
• How will you relate environment conservation with communinty?
• What are the negative factors that cause such fearful depletion of the flora and fauna?

Assertion and Reason Type Questions

Q1.

Assertion (A): Biodiversity is declining in India.

Reason (R): There is a sharp decline in forest cover due to industrialization and urbanization.

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, but R is true.

Answer: a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

Q2.

Assertion (A): Sacred groves help in the conservation of rare species.

Reason (R): Sacred groves are highly protected by local communities due to religious beliefs.

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, but R is true.

Answer: a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

Q3.

Assertion (A): Project Tiger was launched by the government to protect the tiger population.

Reason (R): Tigers are endangered species and face the threat of extinction.

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, but R is true.

Answer: a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

Map Based Questions.:- Locate on map 

• Corbett National Park
• Sunderbans National Park
• Bandhavgarh National Park
• Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary
• Manas Tiger Reserve
• Periyar Tiger Reserve

Chapter - 1 Nationalism in Europe Important Questions

 1 Mark Questions (Very Short Answer)

• Who was the architect of the unification of Germany?
• What was the significance of the Treaty of Vienna (1815)?
• Name the allegory used to represent France.
• Who was Giuseppe Mazzini?
• What does the term ‘Zollverein’ refer to?
• Who was Johann Gottfried and Grimm Brothers? 
• Who was Frederic Sorrieu and what's the name of his painting? 
• What is a meaning of Utopian vision of a worlds according to Frederic Sorrieu? 
• What is the meaning of torch which hold by The statue? 
• Broken thrown can be seen as? 
• What do you mean by liberalism?
• Allegory of Germany and France called. 
• Sword, oak, and Imperial crown symbolize for? 
• How this picture relate to nationalism? 

3 Mark Questions (Short Answer)

• Explain any three features of the French Revolution that promoted the idea of nationalism in Europe.
• What role did language and culture play in developing nationalist sentiments in Europe?
• Describe the process of unification of Italy.
• Explain the role of Giuseppe Garibaldi in the unification of Italy.
• What were the main provisions of the Treaty of Vienna 1815?
• What do you mean by Romanticism?
• What is civil code and who introduced it? 
• What was the reason of conflict between middle class and aristocrate? 

5 Mark Questions (Long Answer)

• How did the French Revolution lay the foundation for nationalism in Europe? Explain with examples.
• Compare the processes of unification of Germany and Italy.
• Describe the role of Otto von Bismarck in the unification of Germany.
• How did Romanticism help in the rise of nationalism in Europe?
• How unification of Britain different from Germany and Italy? 
• What were the major impacts of the Revolution of 1830 and 1848 in Europe?