EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 39

EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 39

381) Silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. Which one among the following is not true of silk routes?
A) Historians have identified several silk routes over land and by sea
B) Silk routes have linked Asia with Europe and Northern Africa
C) Silk routes existed before the Christian era and thrived almost up to fifteenth century
D) As a result of silk route trade, precious metals like gold and silver, flowed from Asia to Europe

Answer: Silk routes existed before the Christian era and thrived almost up to fifteenth century
   
382) According to the passage, the permanent settlement vested
A) revenue collecting rights to zamindars
B) land ownership rights to the state
C) land ownership rights to zamindars
D) customary rights to peasants

Answer: land ownership rights to zamindars
   
383) Before the permanent settlement the peasants enjoyed
A) customary occupancy rights
B) only tenancy rights
C) high rent demands
D) revenue collecting rights

Answer: customary occupancy rights
   
384) Patta was a written agreement between the
A) peasant and zamindars providing a record of the amount of rent
B) peasants and the state
C) zamindars and the state
D) peasants and zamindars regarding cesses to be paid except rent

Answer: peasant and zamindars providing a record of the amount of rent
   
385) Assertion (A) Within half a century of the Battle of Plassey, the phenomenal prosperity of
Bengal suffered a serious set back.
Reason (R) The manufacture of cotton goods the most important item of export from India,
enormously increased in other parts of India, while it declined in Bengal.
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 a correct explanation of A
C) A is true, but R is false
D) A is false, but R is true

Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

386) Which amongst the following place was not a centre of the Revolution of 1857?
A) Ajmer
B) Jaipur
C) Neemuch
D) Arrah

Answer: Jaipur
   
387) Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt?
A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Canning
C) Lord Ellenborough
D) Disraeli

Answer: Disraeli
   
388) Which of the following was most important weakness of Revolt of 1857?
A) Lack of discipline among rebel sepoys
B) The rebels lacked coordination and union
C) Lack of modern weapons
D) All of the above

Answer: All of the above
   
389) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists.
List I(Peasant Movement)      List II(Region)
A. Mappila outbreak      1. Maharashtra
B. Ramosi peasant force       2. Bengal
C. Kuka revolt      3. Malabar
D. Pabna revolt      4. Punjab

Below codes are given in A B C D order
A) Only 2
B) Only 3
C) 1 and 2
D) All of these

Answer: Only 2
   
390) Consider the following statements and mark the correct answer
1. RC Majumdar described the 1857 Revolt as neither first nor national war of independence.
2. TR Holmes described the 1857 Revolt as conflict between civilization and Barbarian.
3. Jawaharlal Nehru said that 1857 Revolt was nothing, but a Hindu-Muslim Conspiracy.
A) Only 2
B) Only 3
C) 1 and 2
D) All of these

Answer: 1 and 2