laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | English CBES Board(Class 12-English)MCQ Questions with Answers(Chapter 5 Indigo)-Flamingo book

Who is the author of Indigo?

1. Louis Fischer
2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Mark Twain
4. Charles Dickens

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where was the author born?

1. in Philadelphia.
2. In Yugoslavia
3. In Scotland
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When did the author serve in the British army?

1. 1918 - 1920
2. 1909 - 1910
3. 1912-1913
4. 1900-1902

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which University was the author a member of?

1. Harvard University
2. Princeton University
3. University of Columbia
4. Oxford University

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?

1. Men and Politics
2. Life of Lenin
3. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the message conveyed in the lesson Indigo?

1. Efficient lawyers
2. Speak aloud
3. Wise and courageous leadership can resolve any problem.
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did M.K. Gandhi fight in Champaran?

1. To secure justice for the oppressed
2. To get popularity
3. To show power
4. To boast of his intelligence

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does Gandhi's fight in Champaran signify?

1. The power of effective leadership
2. The power of lawyers
3. The power of farmers
4. The power of money

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why was Motihari back with peasants?

1. Because of people's rights
2. Because of the oppression of the British
3. Because their champion was in trouble
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How did Gandhi address the actions of the people of Motihari ?

1. As liberation from the fear of the British
2. By calling them courageous
3. By chiding the lawyers
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was Gandhiji's demand from the British landlords?

1. 30% refund as repayment
2. 40% refund as repayment
3. 50% refund as repayment
4. 10% refund as repayment

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How much did Gandhi ji ask the Indigo planters to pay to the farmers?

1. 20%
2. 40%
3. 30%
4. 50%

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?

1. 30%
2. 10%
3. 25%
4. 40%

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the condition of the Sharecroppers?

1. Were forced to give 10% of land for Indigo plantation
2. Were forced to give 20% of land for Indigo plantation
3. Were forced to give 15% of land for Indigo plantation
4. Were forced to give 5% of land for Indigo plantation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How did Gandhiji help peasants of Champaran?

1. By fighting and securing justice for them
2. By hiring lawyers for them
3. By educating them
4. By teaching them cleanliness

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What problems were faced by the Champaran Indigo sharecroppers?

1. Poverty
2. Were forced to grow Indigo
3. Unable to raise voice
4. Illiteracy

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzaffarpur?

1. To have detailed information of the sharecroppers of Champaran
2. To have information about lawyers
3. To know different capacities of the people
4. To have a personal bond with the people

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?

1. Government officers
2. Politicians
3. Farmers
4. Lawyers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was Raj Kumar Shukla?

1. A lawyer
2. A government official
3. A politician
4. A poor peasant

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where was the annual congress party session held?

1. At Varanasi
2. At Mumbai
3. At Bangalore
4. At Lucknow

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at Annual Congress party session?

1. To be rich
2. To be famous
3. To fight and get money
4. To complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Mr. Shukla meet Gandhiji?

1. to seek his guidance for his own upliftment
2. to get ideas to be famous
3. to learn the art of speaking
4. to seek his help for the poor sharecroppers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why is Champaran famous?

1. For fighting
2. For Indigo
3. Because Gandhiji visited
4. For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was Satyagrah Movement launched in Champaran?

1. For Gandhiji's upliftment
2. For raising funds
3. For getting business
4. For the upliftment of the farmers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where was Champaran?

1. In Lucknow
2. In Delhi
3. In Uttar Pradesh
4. A district of Bihar in British India

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What did the peasants pay the British landlords?

1. 10% of landholding and 15% of harvest
2. 20% of landholding and 15% of harvest
3. 10% of landholding and 25% of harvest
4. 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did the British want the peasant to pay compensation?

1. Because they freed them
2. Because they got orders from the British headquarters
3. Because they were leaving India
4. They gave 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter's offer of 25% refund to the farmers?

1. Because of money
2. Because of fear of loss
3. Because of fear of power
4. Because more than money, prestige of farmers was important

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo?

1. A British lawyer
2. A british Businessman
3. A British Politician
4. An Administrator in Indian Civil Services

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where was Sir Edmund posted?

1. In East India
2. In Purvanchal
3. In Uttarpradesh
4. At Bihar & Orissa Province in Bengal Presidency of British India

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?

1. That he was a law breaker
2. That he wanted to command respect
3. He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did Gandhiji protest at Motihari court house?

1. To be famous
2. To show his power
3. To humiliate the British
4. To protest the court's order to postpone the trial

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?

1. Its voice spread far and wide
2. It became famous
3. The British were scared
4. To protest the courts' order to postpone the trial

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?

1. By speaking to the people
2. By walking with him
3. By moving here and there
4. By teaching Ashram rules and cleanliness

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of home rule?

1. Very welcoming
2. Very courageous
3. Pleasing
4. Very fearful and indifferent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?

1. To get money
2. To be popular
3. To instigate the people
4. To encourage people to participate in the freedom movement

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?

1. Very happy
2. Independent
3. Very rich
4. Terror stricken and oppressed

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Whom did Gandhiji send a telegram to ?

1. Sir Edmund
2. British Government
3. Peasants
4. Prof. J.B Kriplani

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where did Gandhiji stay for two days?

1. At a peasant's house
2. At a lawyer's house
3. In a guest house
4. At Prof. Malkani's house

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was the government baffled?

1. Because of lawyer's power
2. Because of farmers
3. Because of sharecroppers
4. Because of the success of Satyagrah movement by peasants

✅ Correct Answer: 4