Glimpses of the Past MCQ Questions Class 8 English Chapter 3
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Glimpses of the Past MCQ Questions Class 8 English Chapter 3
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Question: 1
The chapter ‘Glimpses of the past’ gives the history of our country from ——- to —–.
(i) 1757-1777
(ii) 1757-1857
(iii) 1857-1957
(iv) 1807-1857
Answer:- (ii) 1757-1857.
Question: 2
First war of Independence in ——–
(i) 1857
(ii) 1957
(iii) 1757
(iv) 1947
Answer:- (i) 1857.
Question: 3
Who was extending its power in 18th century India?
(i) East India company
(ii) British East India Company
(iii) Indian National Congress
(iv) None of them
Answer:- (ii) British East India Company.
Question: 4
The British East India Company was extending its power in —– India.
(i) 17th century
(ii) 19th century
(iii) 18th century
(iv) 16th century
Answer:- (iii) 18th century.
Question: 5
The company’s conquests from — to —-
(i) 1757-1857
(ii) 1857-1949
(iii) 1757-1949
(iv) 1757-1849
Answer:- (iv) 1757-1849.
Question: 6
Who was the great ruler of Mysore?
(i) Dayamand Saraswati
(ii) Bahadur Shah
(iii) Tipu
(iv) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer:- (iii) Tipu.
Question: 7
‘Now we have become slaves of foreigners!’ – who are ‘we’ here?
(i) Bangladeshis
(ii) Indian
(iii) Pakistanis
(iv) All of them
Answer:- (ii) Indians.
Question: 8
Religious leaders preached ideas like —– & ——.
(i) Window remarriage
(ii) Untouchability
(iii) Child marriage
(iv) Both (ii) & (iii).
Answer:- (iv) Both (ii) & (iii).
Question: 9
British Rule from —– to ——
(i) 1765-1836
(ii) 1756-1836
(iii) 1765-1863
(iv) 1736-1865
Answer:- (i) 1765-1836.
Question: 10
All the misery in the world is due to whom?
(i) Men
(ii) Woman
(iii) Child
(iv) Priest
Answer:- (ii) Woman.
Question: 11
How did the British force the farmers to abandon their fields?
(i) By threatening
(ii) By putting them in to prison
(iii) By increasing taxes
(iv) All of these
Answer:- (iii) By increasing taxes.
Question: 12
Between 1822 and 1836, how many Indians died of starvation?
(i) Ten thousand
(ii) Twenty lakh
(iii) Fifty lakh
(iv) Fifteen lakh
Answer:- (iv) Fifteen lakh.
Question: 13
Between —- and —, fifteen lakh Indians died of striation.
(i) 1820-1836
(ii) 1822-1836
(iii) 1822-1863
(iv) 1822-1837
Answer:- (ii) 1822-1836.
Question: 14
Tick the correct answer —
(i) The goods manufactured in England should not have import duty when brought into India.
(ii) The goods manufactured in England should have import duty brought into India.
(iii) The goods manufactured in England should not have export duty.
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (i) The goods manufactured in England should not have import duty when brought into India.
Question: 15
Ram Mohan Roy born and died in the year —
(i) 1727-1833
(ii) 1772-1830
(iii) 1772-1833
(iv) 1733-1872
Answer:- (iii) 1772-1833.
Question:- 16
Ram Mohan Roy was a learned man from —-
(i) Assam
(ii) Bengal
(iii) Orissa
(iv) Maharashtra
Answer:- (ii) Bengal.
Question: 17
Name the wife of Ram Mohan Roy
(i) Maya
(ii) Bela
(iii) Geeta
(iv) Uma
Answer:- (iv) Uma.
Question:- 18
‘Different teachers have different opinions but’ —–
(i) The essence of some religion is the same
(ii) The essence of every religion is the same
(iii) The essence of every religion is the different
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (ii) The essence of every religion is the same.
Question: 19
What was ruining the society?
(i) Superstitions
(ii) Child marriage
(iii) Increase in taxes
(iv) All of these
Answer:- (i) Superstitions.
Question: 20
Who was attracted by science and modern knowledge?
(i) The Britishers
(ii) Tipu Sultan
(iii) Ram Mohan Roy
(iv) Lal Bahadurs Shastri
Answer:- (iii) Ram Mohan Roy.
Question: 21
Knowledge should be —— and scientific.
(i) Mutual
(ii) Practical
(iii) Moral
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (ii) Practical.
Question: 22
What was stopped by the British in 1823 started by Ram Mohan Roy?
(i) Low taxes
(ii) Newspaper
(iii) Widow Remarriage
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (ii) Newspaper.
Question: 23
‘He started newspapers but the British stopped them in 1823’ – Who is ‘he’ here
(i) Mahatma Gandhi
(ii) Jawaharlal Nehru
(iii) Tipu Sultan
(iv) Ram Mohan Roy
Answer:- (v) Ram Mohan Roy.
Question: 24
In which year the newspapers had been stopped by the British?
(i) 1823
(ii) 1832
(iii) 1932
(iv) 1923
Answer:- (i) 1823.
Question: 25
Oppression from —– to ——.
(i) 1756-1835
(ii) 1765-1853
(iii) 1765-1835
(iv) 1735-1865
Answer:- (iii) 1765-1835.
Question: 26
Under which Regulation, Indians could be jailed without trial by the British?
(i) Regulation II
(ii) Regulation III
(iii) Regulation I
(iv) None
Answer:- (ii) Regulation III.
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Question: 27
What was Regulation III given by the British?
(i) Low salaries should be paid to Indians
(ii) Indians should be jailed with trial in a court
(iii) Indians should be jailed without trial in a court
(iv) None of them
Answer:- (iii) Indians should be jailed without trial in a court.
Question: 28
In which year, British goods export to India?
(i) 1829
(ii) 1982
(iii) 1892
(iv) 1929
Answer:- (i) 1829.
Question: 29
What was the amount of British goods exported by Britain to India?
(i) 5 lakh
(ii) 50 crore
(iii) 1 crore
(iv) 7 crore
Answer:- (iv) 7 crore.
Question: 30
Who was the Governor General of India?
(i) Robert Clave
(ii) Lord Macaulay
(iii) William Bentinck
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (iii) William Bentinck.
Question: 31
“The bones of cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India” —- who said this?
(i) William Bentinck
(ii) Ram Mohan Roy
(iii) Robert clave
(iv) Lord Macaulay
Answer:- (i) William Bentinck.
Question: 32
Dissatisfaction from —- to —.
(i) 1853-1956
(ii) 1835-1856
(iii) 1835-1965
(iv) 1935-1956
Answer:- (ii) 1835-1856.
Question: 33
Education in India was in —- and —-.
(i) Hindi
(ii) Persian
(iii) Sanskrit
(iv) Both (ii) & (iii)
Answer:- Both (ii) & (iii).
Question: 34
In which year Macaulay suggested a change in education?
(i) 1935
(ii) 1735
(iii) 1835
(iv) 1953
Answer:- (iii) 1835.
Question: 35
Who suggested a change in education in India?
(i) Subhash Chandra Bose
(ii) William Bentinck
(iii) Lord Macaulay
(iv) Tipu Sultan
Answer:- (iii) Lord Macaulay.
Question: 36
Which language of education was suggested by the British?
(i) English
(ii) Punjabi
(iii) Bengali
(iv) Sanskrit
Answer:- (i) English.
Question: 37
By which year, the British had conquered the whole of India?
(i) 1956
(ii) 1865
(iii) 1765
(iv) 1856
Answer:- (iv) 1856.
Question: 38
In —-, the santhals who had lost their lands.
(i) Orissa
(ii) North-East
(iii) Bengal
(iv) All of these
Answer:- (iii) Bengal.
Question: 39
What did the white armies get from the east India Company?
(i) Huge payments
(ii) Mansions to live in
(iii) Providing servants
(iv) All of these
Answer:- (iv) All of these.
Question: 40
What was the process of discontent brewing in the East India Company’s army?
(i) A scanty meal
(ii) Slow promotions
(iii) Both (i) & (ii)
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (iii) Both (i) & (ii).
Question: 41
The grease on the bullet was from the fat of —- and —-.
(i) Buffaloes-cows
(ii) Cows-pigs
(iii) Crows-goats
(iv) Dogs and cats
Answer:- (ii) Cows-pigs.
Question: 42
What were sent from village to village to tell the people that their emperor would want their services?
(i) Letters
(ii) Money
(iii) Chapaties
(iv) All of these
Answer:- (iii) Chapaties.
Question: 43
Which flower circulated among Indian soldiers?
(i) Lotus
(ii) Daisy
(iii) Lily
(iv) Marigold
Answer:- (i) Lotus.
Question: 44
In which year revolt took place?
(i) 1875
(ii) 1957
(iii) 1855
(iv) 1857
Answer:- (iv) 1857.
Question: 45
The Sepoys marched to —-
(i) Bombay
(ii) Calcutta
(iii) Delhi
(iv) Assam
Answer:- (iii) Delhi.
Question: 46
‘Long live our Emperor —–!’
(i) Bahadur shah
(ii) Aurangzeb
(iii) Shah Jahan
(iv) Akber
Answer:- (i) Bahadur Shah.
Question: 47
Who had lost their lands because of the British policies?
(i) White soldiers
(ii) Landlords
(iii) Emperors
(iv) None of them
Answer:- (ii) Landlords.
Question: 48
Who was the farmer ruler of Lucknow?
(i) Rajiya Begum
(ii) Mumtaz Mahal
(iii) Nizam Bai
(iv) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Answer:- (iv) Begum Hazrat Mahal.
Question: 49
Begum Hazrat Mahal was the farmer ruler of —–.
(i) Hyderabad
(ii) Delhi
(iii) Lucknow
(iv) Bihar
Answer:- (iii) Lucknow.
Question: 50
Who said, ‘Rise, brothers, rise! The Angrez is ruining our land!’?
(i) Maulvi Ahmedulla
(ii) Humayun
(iii) Ahmad Shah Bahadur
(iv) Akbar
Answer:- (i) Maulvi Ahmedulla.
Question: 51
Whom did Azimulla Khan said to have as their leader in war of Independence?
(i) Bairam Khan
(ii) Akbar
(iii) Peshwa Nana Saheb
(iv) No one
Answer:- (iii) Peshwa Nana Saheb.
Question: 52
How old was Kunwar Singh?
(i) Seventy five
(ii) Sixty
(iii) Eighty-five
(iv) Eighty
Answer:- (iv) Eighty.
Question: 53
Kunwar Singh was from —–.
(i) Bengal
(ii) Chandigarh
(iii) Bihar
(iv) Kanpur
Answer:- (iii) Bihar.
Question: 54
Whom did Azimulla Khan tell to have Pehwa Nana Saheb as leader in war of independence?
(i) Tatya Tope
(ii) Kunwar Singh
(iii) Tipu Sultan
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (i) Tatya Tope
Question: 55
Who received a bullet in his wrist?
(i) Maulvi Ahmedulla
(ii) Kunwar Singh
(iii) Azimulla Khan
(iv) Tatya Tope
Answer:- (ii) Kunwar Singh.
Question: 56
Who said ‘Mother Ganga! this is my last offering to you!’
(i) Tatya Tope
(ii) Peshwa Nana Saheb
(iii) Bahadur Shah
(iv) Kunwar Singh
Answer:- (iv) Kunwar Singh.
Question: 57
Name the writer of ‘Glimpses of the past’
(i) Rabindra Tagore
(ii) Amartya Sen
(iii) S.D. Sawant
(iv) None of these
Answer:- (iii) S.D. Sawant.
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