Zydus School For Excellence, Godhavi

Ahmedabad
Practice Worksheet
Topic Ch 2 Nationalism in India Practice Worksheet H-2
Class & Sec. X Subject: History
Name Roll No.
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
1. Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements?
a) Khilafat Movement
b) Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh
c) Peasants’ Movement of Awadh d) Plantation Workers’ Movement in Assam

2. Who was the author of the famous novel ‘Anandamath’?

a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay b) Abanindranath Tagore
c) Natesa Sastri d) Rabindranath Tagore
3. Which one of the following combination of colours was there in the ‘Swaraj flag’ designed
by Gandhiji in 1921?
a) Red, Green and White b) Red, Green and Yellow
c) Orange, White and Green d) Yellow, White and Green
4. Fill in the blanks-
................ was known as Lion of Punjab.Due to a violent incident in ................ Gandhiji called
off the Non-Cooperation movement.
5. Match the following,choose the correct answer from the options given below

Column A Column B
i) Salt March a) Amristsar

ii) Jallianwala Bagh b) Lahore

iii) Purna Swaraj c) Awadh

iv) Peasants movement d) Dandi

a) i - a, ii - b, iii - d, iv – c b) i - d, ii - b, iii - c, iv - a
c) i - c, ii - b, iii - a, iv - d d) i - d, ii - a, iii - b, iv – c

6. What decision was made at the Nagpur Session of Congress in 1920?

7.What resolution was passed at Calcutta session of Congress in September 1920?
8. Which of the following is not true regarding Rowlatt Act, 1919?
a) The act was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council
b) It gave power to the government to repress political activities
c) It empowered the government to detain the political prisoners without trial
d) The act controlled the movement of plantation workers
9. Where did Mahatma Gandhiji start his famous ‘Salt March’ on 12th March 1930?
a) Dandi b) Chauri-Chaura c) Sabarmati d) Surat

10. Arrange the following in the correct sequence.

i) Rowlatt Act Passed
ii) The Partition of Bengal officially came into existence
iii) Satyagraha Movement in Ahmedabad
iv) Satyagraha Movement in Kheda District (Gujarat)

a) iv - ii - i – iii b) ii - iii - iv – I c) ii - iv - iii - i d) i - iii - ii - iv

Assertion Reason Type –

In the following questions there are two statements marked as Assertion Type (A) and
other is Reason (R).
Read the following statements and choose the correct option.
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 wrong.
d) A is wrong but R is true.

11. Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhiji found salt as a powerful symbol that could unite the
nation.
Reason (R): Salt was something essential, consumed by the rich and the poor alike.

12. Assertion (A) : When the Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928, it was greeted
with slogan ‘go back Simon’.
Reason (R) : The Commission did not have a single Indian member.

13. Assertion (A): Some of the Muslim political organizations in India were lukewarm in
their response to the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Reason (R): The First World War had ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey and
there were rumours that a harsh peace treaty was going to be imposed on the Ottoman
Emperor.

14. Assertion (A) : The Non-Cooperation Movement gradually slowed down for a variety
of reasons in the cities.
Reason (R) : As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes
and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.

15.Consider the following statements and find the incorrect from the given options
i) Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta threw a bomb in the Central LegislativeAssembly.
ii) Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was based on the principles given by Mahatma
Gandhiji.
iii) Bhagat Singh wanted a revolution in the society.

a) only(i) b) only(ii) c) only (iii) d) Both (ii) and (iii)

16. Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows.
In the countryside, rich peasant communities - like the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of
Uttar Pradesh - were active in the movement. Being producers of commercial crops, they were
very hard hit by the trade depression and falling prices. As their cash income disappeared, they
found it impossible to pay the government’s revenue demand. And the refusal of the
government to reduce the revenue demand led to widespread resentment.

These rich peasants became enthusiastic supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement,
organising their communities, and at times forcing reluctant members, to participate in
the boycott programmes. For them the fight for swaraj was a struggle against high
revenues. But they were deeply disappointed when the movement was called off in 1931
without the revenue rates being revised. So, when the movement was restarted in 1932,
many of them refused to participate.

The poorer peasantry were not just interested in the lowering of the revenue demand.
Many of them were small tenants cultivating land they had rented from landlords. As the
Depression continued and cash incomes dwindled, the small tenants found it difficult to
pay their rent. They wanted the unpaid rent to the landlord to be remitted. They joined a
variety of radical movements, often led by Socialists and Communists. Apprehensive of
raising issues that might upset the rich peasants and landlords, the Congress was unwilling
to support ‘no rent’ campaigns in most places. So, the relationship between the poor
peasants and the Congress remained uncertain.

i)When the movement restarted who refused to participate?

ii) Who led the Peasant’s Movement in Awadh?
iii) For plantation workers in Assam, which Act did not permit them to leave the tea
gardens without permission?
iv)Why Congress was unwilling to support rent campaigns in most places?

17. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows.
Mahatma Gandhi’s letter was, in a way, an ultimatum. If the demands were not fulfilled by
11 March, the letter stated, the Congress would launch a civil disobedience campaign.
Irwin was unwilling to negotiate. So Mahatma Gandhi started his famous salt march
accompanied by 78 of his trusted volunteers. The march was over 240 miles, from
Gandhiji’s ashram in Sabarmati to the Gujarati coastal town of Dandi.

In December 1931, Gandhiji went to London for the conference, but the negotiations broke
down and he returned disappointed. Back in India, he discovered that the government
had begun a new cycle of repression. Ghaffar Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru were both in
jail, the Congress had been declared illegal, and a series of measures had been imposed
to prevent meetings, demonstrations and boycotts. With great apprehension, Mahatma
Gandhi relaunched the Civil Disobedience Movement. For over a year, the movement
continued, but by 1934 it lost its momentum.

i) What marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement?

ii) Why did Gandhiji go to London?
iii) What was the Gandhi-Irwin pact
18.Picture interpretation-

18.A.Which of the following event related to

the given image?
a.Non Co-operation Movement
b.Dandi March
c.Kheda Movement
d.Indigo Planters Movement

18.B.Fill in the blanks-

1.The First image of Bharat Mata was

painted by _____________.

2.She was portrayed as a

__________and________ figure.

3.She was shown as calm, composed,

________ and _________.

4.Bharat Mata is portrayed with her

______ and _________and ________is
standing beside a lion and an elephant.

5.Hence, animals were shown as ________

and ___________.

19.Why did Gandhiji considered salt as a powerful symbol of national movement against the
British?
20.How was civil disobedience movement different from the non-cooperation movement?
21. Describe the participation of women in the civil disobedience movement.
22. Why did the participation of women in large numbers in the movement not bring any
radical change in the position of Indian women?
23.“Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same
nation”. Support the statement.
24. Discuss the significance of the congress session in 1929 in the freedom struggle of India
25. Why did Gandhiji call off civil disobedience movement?

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