MCQ Questions Chapter 5 Indigo Louis Fischer Class 12 English

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Chapter 5 Indigo (Louis Fischer) MCQ Questions

Please refer to the following Chapter 5 Indigo (Louis Fischer) MCQ Questions Class 12 English with solutions for all important topics in the chapter.

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Question. Which of the following statements is not true with reference to ‘Indigo’?
A) Rajendra Prasad was a lawyer.
B) Charles Freer Andrew was an English pacifist.
C) Indigo sharecropping persistently existed in Champaran forever.
D) During his long stay in Champaran, Gandhiji kept a long distance watch on his ashram.

Question. Choose the option that is most appropriate regarding the impacts of the news that Germany had developed synthetic Indigo.
1. When the landlords got the news, they wanted to dissolve the agreement of 15% arrangement.
2. Landlords asked the sharecroppers to pay them compensation for being released from the 15% arrangement.
3. All the sharecroppers signed willingly to pay landlords compensation for being released from 15% arrangement.
4. When the sharecroppers who had signed, got the news of cheaper synthetic Indigo and understood the real intention of landlords to release them from 15% arrangement, they wanted their money back.
A) 1 is NOT TRUE and 2, 3 and 4 are NOT FALSE
B) 2 is NOT TRUE and 1, 3 and 4 are NOT FALSE
C) 3 is NOT TRUE and 1, 2 and 4 are NOT FALSE
D) 4 is NOT TRUE and 1, 2 and 3 are NOT FALSE

Question. Kasturba taught rules of _______________ to the people of Champaran.
A) Hygiene
B) Self Reliance
C) Struggle
D) Equality

Question. What did the British Official commissioner advise Gandhi?
A) to leave Tirthut
B) to proceed to Motihari.
C) to go to the Secretary of British Landlords Association
D) Leave the matter to the lawyers & court

Question. Civil Disobedience triumphed for the first time in modern India when
A) The case against Gandhi was dropped
B) Gandhi’s plea for punishment was rejected
C) An official commission of enquiry was set regarding the issue of Indigo sharecroppers
D) Both options A & C

Question. What did the police superintendent’s messenger serve Gandhi?
A) an order to leave Muzaffarpur immediately
B) an official notice to quit Champaran immediately
C) a summon to appear in the court
D) a letter to meet with the Lieutenant General of the Province

Question. Who accompanied Gandhi to the Capital of Champaran?
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) Rajkumar Shukla
C) peasants
D) several lawyers

Question. Gandhi was informed by the magistrate that the case
A) has been dropped
B) has been taken to the court
C) That they had lost the case
D) That the case had been transferred to Mumbai

Question. What was the beginning of liberation from fear of the British?
A) the people gathered in large numbers
B) the support of the lawyers
C) Gandhi’s use of Satygraha as a means of peaceful protest
D) all the above
E) both A & B

Question. When did Louis Fischer meet Gandhiji first?
A) In 1940
B) In 1941
C) In 1942
D) In 1947

Question. Rajkumar Shukla was aA)
A) Freedom fighter
B) A poor and emaciated peasant
C) Companion of Gandhi
D) A follower of Dr Rajendra Prasad

Question. The Champaran peasants were sharecroppers –
A) Under the local king’s law
B) Under the British law
C) Under an ancient arrangement
D) All above

Question. The division in which Champaran layA)
A) Muzzafarpur
B) Tirhut
C) Patna
D) Shantiniketan

Question. Gandhi read a statement pleading guilty in a ‘conflict of duties’. What were the dutiesA)
A) Helping lawyers and peasants.
B) Rendering humanitarian and national service.
C) Breaking law and order
D) None of above

Question. How did Gandhi know that Shukla was resoluteA)
A) Because he was a strong peasant.
B) Because he had knowledge about circumstances.
C) Because he followed Gandhi everywhere and never left Gandhi.
D) Because he was good at English language.

Question. Who said-‘Fix a date’
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Louis Fischer
C) Rajkumr Shukla
D) Dr Rajendra Prasad

Question. Where did Shukla lead Gandhi in Patna?
A) To the house of a professor J B Kripalani
B) To the house of a lawyer Rajendra Prasad
C) To the house of a peasant
D) To Tagor’s Shantiniketan

Question. Gandhi decided to go first to MuzzafarpurA)
A) To hire competent lawyers.
B) To fight the British Official commissioner.
C) To obtain more complete information about the condition.
D) To chide to lawyers for charging heavy fees from the peasant.

Question. The sharecropping arrangement wasA)
A) beneficial to the peasants.
B) irksome to the peasants.
C) beneficial to the lawyers
D) beneficial to all.

Question. Gandhi was permitted to stay on the grounds of Rajendra Prasad’s house, because……..
A) The servants thought Gandhi was another farmer
B) Rajendra Prasad wasn’t at home
C) Gandhi looked like a vagabond
D) Gandhi was a Harijan

Question. Gandhi was summoned by ……….. the Lt. Governor
A) Sir Edward Gait
B) Sir Henry Gait
C) Sir Richard Andrews
D) Sir Freer Andrews

Question. Who received Gandhi at the Muzaffarpur station?
A) Rajkumar Shukla
B) J B Kripalani
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) J L Nehru

Question. Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?
A) Its voice spread and the mass participated
B) It became famous
C) The British were scared
D) To protest the court’s order to postpone the trial

Question. The magistrate asked Gandhi to furnish bail for ……… minutes.
A) 30
B) 60
C) 90
D) 120

Question. The representative of the planters offered to refunD)…… percent to the peasants.
A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 20%
D) 25%

Question. How did Gandhi act with the officials outside the court?
A) Showed his power
B) He was firm and stubborn
C) He said that he would disobey the order
D) He cooperated with them

Question. What happened when Gandhi visited the secretary of British landlord’s association?
A) the secretary proceeded to bully him
B) the secretary advised him to leave Tirhut
C) the secretary said that they could not give any information to an outsider
D) the secretary was very helpful

Question. Complete the statement about the form of the chapter, ‘Indigo’. The chapter ‘Indigo’ is ________ a Louis Fischer book.
A) a preface to
B) the blurb for
C) the foreword of
D) an excerpt from

Question. The deadlock at Champaran broke because
A) Gandhi’s settlement offer was worth considering
B) All commission members agreed to adopt the representative’s offer
C) Reverent J. Z. Hodge’s intervention brought both parties together
D) The sharecroppers refused to be convinced by the commission.

Question. Which of the following volunteered to work in Champaran?
A) Charles Freer Andrews and Sir Edward Gait
B) Rajendra Prasad and Brij Kishor Babu
C) Mahadev Desai and Narhari Parikh
D) Kasturibai and Devadas

True False Questions:

Question. Gandhi narrated the Champaran episode to Fischer in 1917.

Question. At Motihari, the prosecutor asked for postponement of the trial as the British government was at a loss.

Question. The English landlords were cunning in releasing the peasants from sharecropping as they knew they would have to leave India.

Question. Gandhi stayed on in Champaran to uplift the socio-cultural condition of the villagers.

Question. Gandhiji helped the poor peasants in their upliftment, by making them aware of education, hygiene, fundamental rights, and self-reliance.

Question. The influential lawyers were as resolute as Gandhiji.

Question. Gandhiji chalked out court arrest plan for the lawyers.

Question. Development of synthetic Indigo by Germany was going to hike up the price of natural indigo.

Question. Gandhiji wanted to bring political change in Champaran.

Question. Fischer’s first visit to Sevagram ashram was in 1916.

Question. Rajkumar Shukla was miserable but had a lot of perseverance.

Question. Gandhi agreed to go to Champaran as he was impressed by Shukla’s persistence, determination and the story he told of the predicament of the peasants.

Question. Shukla and Gandhi were not allowed to draw water from Rajendra Prasad’s well as they were assumed to be untouchables.

Question. Seeing Shukla’s tenacity, Gandhi cancelled his appointment at Cawnpore.

Question. Gandhi said that the Champaran battle was won because he united the different strata of the society to fight for peasants rights.

Question. A demonstration in front of the court in Motihari was the triumph of non-violence.

Question. Gandhi taught fellow leaders a lesson in self-reliance by accepting to refuse that the peasants vs the British was an unequal fight.

Question. Sharecropping is the activity of renting land and giving part of the crop you produce on it as rent True/False

Question. The civil disobedience movement is credited for paving the way for freedom in India. True/False

Question. In Champaran, malaria fever was treated with Sulphur ointment True/False

Question. The Secretary of British landlord association wanted to give all information to Gandhi regarding injustice in sharecropping. True/False\

Source Based Question

A But Champaran did not begin as an act of defiance. It grew out of an attempt to alleviate the distress of large numbers of poor peasants. This was the typical Gandhi pattern — his politics were intertwined with the practical, day- to-day problems of the millions. His was not a loyalty to abstractions; it was a loyalty to living, human beings. In everything Gandhi did, moreover, he tried to mould a new free Indian who could stand on his own feet and thus make India free.

Choose the option listing the sentence that is the most appropriate example of an ‘act of defiance’, from the following:

Question. She picked up the telephone terrified of what was about to come. She could hear nobody on the other side. Meanwhile, there was a thud at the door loud enough to scare her. Curious as she was, she wanted to open it as soon as possible. Her mother tried to stop her several times, but she went ahead, nevertheless.
A) She picked up the telephone terrified of what was about to come.
B) Meanwhile, there was a thud at the door loud enough to scare her.
C) Curious as she was, she wanted to open it as soon as possible.
D) Her mother tried to stop her several times but she went ahead nevertheless.

Question. The given extract DOES NOT talk about
A) details of the daily problems faced by human beings.
B) efforts to relieve suffering of the common people.
C) the reason for the occurrence of Champaran.
D) Gandhi’s principles in the field of politics.

Question. What are the features of Gandhian Politics-
(i) it deals with ideal situations
(ii) it is intertwined with practical day-to-day problems
(iii) It is loyal to living beings.
(iv) It is loyal to abstractions
A) (i) is correct
B) (i) and (ii) are correct
C) (ii) and (iii) are correct
D) (iii) and (iv) are correct

Question. Gandhi tried to mould a new free India who could stand on his own feet and thus make India free.
A) It is partly true.
B) The statement is misinterpreted
C) The Statement is the true embodiment of Gandhian Philosophy of Indian Independence.
D) The Statement is made to praise Gandhi in an exaggerated manner.

Gandhi chided the lawyers for collecting big fee from the sharecroppers. He said, “I have come to the conclusion that we should stop going to law courts. Taking such cases to the courts does little good. Where the peasants are so crushed and fear-stricken, law courts are useless. The real relief for them is to be free from fear.

Question. What is synonym of word ‘chide’-
A) Appraisal
B) Hatred
C) Scold
D) Back up

Question. The possible cause of failure of law courtsA) 
A)They are not failure.
B) Gandhi considered himself above the law.
C) The law courts are useless as the peasents are too crushed and fear stricken.
D) Law courts were helpless and didn’t have authority to do justice.

Question. In true sense here the phrase ‘the real relief’ is meantA)
A) To be free from fear and stand on one’s feet
B) To be free from agreement
C) To be free from daily problems of life
D) To have lots of privileges.

Question. Gandhi ji chided which group of people given below?
A) Rajendra Shukla, Brij Kishor Babu,
B) Brij Kishor Babu, MazharulHaq
C) Rajendra Prasad, Brij Kishor Babu, MazharulHaq
D) None of the above