Class 10 History Chapter 1 (NCERT) — 40 MCQ Practice
Eight medium-difficulty MCQs based on CBSE Class 10 History Chapter 1 (NCERT). Focused on key concepts, causes, consequences and source-based reasoning from previous-year MCQs and important points.
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Question 1: What was the main reason peasants in colonial India converted their land-tenure struggles into mass movements in the 1920s and 1930s?
Sharp rise in rents and insecurity of tenure
Spread of industrial factories in villages
Complete collapse of local markets
Abolition of land taxes by colonial government
Question 2: Which strategy best explains why leaders linked peasant issues with the national movement?
Suggesting peasants should form private militias
Arguing that peasants should abandon agriculture
Promising immediate industrial jobs for peasants
Framing land rights as a question of social justice and political freedom
Question 3: Which institutional weakness made tenants especially vulnerable under colonial land systems?
Extensive social welfare programs
Lack of legal recognition for customary rights
Universal land ownership for all villagers
Strong state-supported tenant unions
Question 4: How did cultural leaders (writers and social reformers) influence peasant mobilization during this chapter's period?
By encouraging mass migration to cities
By organizing international trade fairs
By funding large-scale industrial projects
By publicizing injustices and shaping collective identity
Question 5: Which consequence often followed peasant non-cooperation campaigns against landlords?
Complete collapse of local governance
Universal adoption of cash-crop farming
Formation of local councils and cooperative bodies
Immediate transfer of land ownership to tenants
Question 6: When historians analyze peasant movements in this chapter, what methodological caution is emphasized?
Ignore oral testimonies as unreliable
Only use colonial official reports as primary evidence
Avoid treating all peasant actions as identical across regions
Assume economic factors fully explain every action
Question 7: A student reads a peasant petition demanding lower rents. What critical reading step would best assess its reliability?
Treat all petitions from the period as identical evidence
Compare it with other local accounts and the petition's author perspective
Discard it if it contradicts colonial records
Accept its claims because it is a primary source
Question 8: Which myth about peasant resistance does the chapter specifically challenge?
That peasant struggles never affected urban politics
That peasants invented modern banking
That peasants were always politically passive
That all peasant movements were violent uprisings