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REVOLT OF 1857 MCQ CLASS 10 ICSE
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11. Which amongst the following is/are correct?
(i) The soldiers were divide into martial and non- martial races after the revolt.
(ii) Women took an active part during the revolt.
Options:
(a) Only (i) is correct
(b) Only (ii) is correct
(c) Both (i) and (ii) are correct
(d) None is correct
ANSWER: A
12. Which place witnessed the incident of Mangal Pandey firing upon British officers?
(a) Barrackpore
(b) Meerut
(c) Gwalior
(d) Delhi
Answer: A
13. Consider the following statement (s) related to the administrative causes of the 1857 revolt and select the correct one.
(a) Deprivation of the traditional ruling classes of their luxury due to the establishment of the company’s suzerainty over the Indian states;
(b) Introduction of new and revenue system which snatched the land from cultivator and gave it to the moneylender or traitor.
(c) Lord Canning’s announcement to that Mughals would lose the title of King .
(d) None of the above
Ans. C
14. Which of the following is/are correct?
(i) Licensing act was an reaction to the revolt of 1857.
(ii) Under this act, Government reserved the right to stop publication and circulation of any book, newspaper or printed matter.
(iii) It was an addition to the already existing Metcalfe Act.
Options:
(a) All of the above
(b) Only C
(c) Only B
(d) A and B
ANSWER: A
15. Choose the correct option about administrative changes due to 1857 revolt:
(i) The Indian branch of the army was used for expansion and the British army as an army of occupation.
(ii) There was now to be one third of white army as against 14% before 1857.
Options:
(a) Only (i) is correct
(b) Only (ii) is correct
(c) Both (i) and (ii) are correct
(d) None is correct
ANSWER: (c)
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16. Under whose governor-generalship, the Revolt of 1857 occurred?
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) Lord Lytton
(d) Lord Willington
Answer: A
17. Who authored the book ”The First Indian War of Independence- 1857-59”?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Syed Ahmad Khan
(c) R.C Mazumdar
(d) S. N. Sen
Answer: A
18. Sir Huge Rose described whom as ‘the best and bravest military leader of the rebel’?
(a) Begum Hazrat Mahal
(b) Rani Laxmi Bai
(c) Kuar Singh
(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: B
19. About which kingdom did Dalhousie say that it was a “cherry that will drop into our mouth one day”?
(a) Oudh
(b) Jhansi
(c) Mysore
(d) Patiala
Answer: A
20.The sepoy of the 3rd cavalry at meerut revolted on
(a).10th my 1857
(b).21st June 1857
(c).22nd april1857
(d).1st October 1857
Answer: A
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21. Who of the following was neither captured nor killed by the British?
(a) Tantiya Tope
(b) Nana Saheb
(c) Mangal Pandey
(d) Jhansi Lakshmibai
Answer: B
22. Who led the British forces which defeated Jhansi Lakshmibai?
(a) Henry Havelock
(b) John Hearsey
(c) Henry Barnard
(d) Hugh Rose
Answer: D
23. To which regiment did Mangal Pandey belong?
(a) 34 Native Infantry
(b) 7 Oudh Regiment
(c) 19 Native Infantry
(d) Madras Regiment
Answer: A
24. Who of the following was the adopted son the last Peshwa Baji Rao II?
(a) Tantiya Tope
(b) Damodar Rao
(c) Nana Saheb
(d) Anand Rao
Answer: C
25. Which of the following states was the first to be annexed by the Doctrine of Lapse?
(a) Nagpur
(b) Satara
(c) Jhansi
(d) Udaipur
Answer: B
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26. At which of the following places was the revolt led by Kunwar Singh?
(a) Meerut
(b) Bihar
(c) Bareilly
(d) Gwalior
Answer: B
27. Which place is not a center of sepoy mutiny?
(a) Ajmer
(b) Jhansi
(c) Arrah
(d) Jaipur
Answer D
28. Most important of revolt of 1857 was –
(a) lack of modern weapons
(b) lack of coordination among the rebel and union
(c) Lack of discipline among the rebel
(d) All the above
Answer D
29. Which leader’s death of 1857 was unknown?
(a) Nana Shaheb
(b) Tatia Topi
(c) Rani Lakshmibai Jhansi
(d) Shah Jafar
Answer A
30. “Revolt of 1857 was an extension of social progress the English had already initiated” Who among the following said that?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Max Mular
(d) Devid Morn
Answer A
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