“Indigo” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Book Lesson 5
Indigo MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 5, by Louis Fischer have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 5 Indigo from NCERT Flamingo book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the Indigo MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.
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Class 12 English Flamingo Indigo Chapter 5 Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are a type of objective assessment in which a person is asked to choose one or more correct answers from a list of available options. An MCQ presents a question along with several possible answers.
- Who is the author of Indigo?
A) Louis Fischer
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dickens - Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?
A) Men and Politics
B) Life of Lenin
C) The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
D) None - What is the message conveyed in the lesson Indigo?
A) Efficient lawyers make a country successful
B) Speak aloud for your rights
C) Wise and courageous leadership can resolve any problem.
D) None - Why did M.K. Gandhi fight in Champaran?
A) To secure justice for the oppressed
B) To get popularity
C) To show power
D) To boast of his intelligence - What was Gandhiji’s demand from the British landlords?
A) 30% refund as repayment
B) 40% refund as repayment
C) 50% refund as repayment
D) 10% refund as repayment - How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?
A) 30%
B) 10%
C) 25%
D) 40% - How did Gandhiji help peasants of Champaran?
A) By fighting and securing justice for them
B) By hiring lawyers for them
C) By educating them
D) By providing financial help - What problems were faced by the Champaran Indigo sharecroppers?
A) Poverty
B) Were forced to grow Indigo
C) Unable to raise voice
D) Illiteracy - Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzaffarpur?
A) To have detailed information of the sharecroppers of Champaran
B) To have information about lawyers
C) To know different capacities of the people
D) To have a personal bond with the people - Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?
A) Government officers
B) Politicians
C) Farmers
D) Lawyers - Who was Raj Kumar Shukla?
A) A lawyer
B) A government official
C) A politician
D) A poor peasant - Where was the annual congress party session in 1916 held?
A) At Varanasi
B) At Mumbai
C) At Bangalore
D) At Lucknow - Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at the Annual Congress party session?
A) To be rich
B) To be famous
C) To fight and get money
D) To complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar - Why did Mr. Shukla meet Gandhiji?
A) to seek his guidance for his own upliftment
B) to get ideas to be famous
C) to learn the art of speaking
D) to seek his help for the poor sharecroppers - Why is Champaran famous?
A) For fighting
B) For Indigo
C) Because Gandhiji visited
D) For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917 - Why was Satyagrah Movement launched in Champaran?
A) For Gandhiji’s upliftment
B) For raising funds
C) For getting business
D) For the upliftment of the farmers - Where is Champaran?
A) In Lucknow
B) In Delhi
C) In Uttar Pradesh
D) A district in Bihar - Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter’s offer of 25% refund to the farmers?
A) Because of money
B) Because of fear of loss
C) Because of fear of power
D) Because more than money, prestige of farmers was important - Who was J.Z. Hodge in the lesson Indigo?
A) A British lawyer
B) A british missionary
C) A British Politician
D) An Administrator in Indian Civil Services - What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?
A) That he was a law breaker
B) That he wanted to command respect
C) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
D) None - Why did Gandhiji protest at Motihari court house?
A) To be famous
B) To show his power
C) To humiliate the British
D) To protest the court’s order to postpone the trial - Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?
A) Its voice spread far and wide
B) It became famous
C) The British were scared
D) To protest the courts’ order to postpone the trial - How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?
A) By speaking to the people
B) By walking with him
C) By moving here and there
D) By teaching Ashram rules and cleanliness - What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of home rule?
A) Very welcoming
B) Very courageous
C) Pleasing
D) Very fearful and indifferent - What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?
A) To get money
B) To be popular
C) To instigate the people
D) To encourage people to participate in the freedom movement - What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?
A) Very happy
B) Independent
C) Very rich
D) Terror stricken and oppressed - Whom did Gandhiji send a telegram to?
A) Sir Edmund
B) British Government
C) Peasants
D) Prof. J.B Kriplani - Where did Gandhiji stay for two days?
A) At a peasant’s house
B) At a lawyer’s house
C) In a guest house
D) At Prof. Malkani’s house - Why was the government baffled?
A) Because of lawyer’s power
B) Because of farmers
C) Because of sharecroppers
D) Because of the success of the Satyagrah movement by peasants - Gandhi’s protest in Champaran is most appropriately a great model of (CBSE QB, 2021)
A) power.
B) leadership.
C) charity.
D) sponsorship. - The landlords compelled all tenants to plant three twentieths or ____ percent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent.
A) 25
B) 15
C) 20
D) 30 - Find the most suitable option as the synonym for ‘yeoman’
A) Poor man
B) Poor peasant
C) Illiterate man
D) Cunning person - ‘Irksome’ means-
A) Irritating
B) Annoying
C) Both A and B
D) None of these - Why was the Government ‘baffled’?
A) The farmers were resorting to violence
B) The lawyers were helping the poor farmers free of cost
C) There was a huge crowd in support of Gandhiji
D) Gandhi guided the farmers to break Government buildings - The term ‘Reverend’ means-
A) Strict
B) Disciplined
C) Respectful
D) Disliked - What are trenches?
A) Small hill
B) Pit
C) Hole
D) None of these - Which of the following was NOT done to elevate the health conditions of the farmers?
A) Provision of castor oil, quinine and Sulphur ointment
B) volunteer doctor
C) Health camp
D) All of these - Who out of the following was NOT a volunteer?
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) Kasturba Gandhi
C) Mahadev Desai
D) Narhari Parikh - The term ‘Alleviate’ means-
A) Increase
B) Reduce
C) End
D) Alter - Which of the following best describes a ‘Pacifist’?
A) One who believes that war is justified
B) One who believes that war is injustified
C) One who believes that war may or may not be justified
D) None of these - Who was a pacifist, a devoted follower of the Mahatma?
A) Louis Fischer
B) Charles Andrews
C) J.Z. Hodge
D) Raj Kumar Shukla - The term ‘turning-point’ as used in the lesson Indigo, means-
A) A point which marks an important change
B) Point where the road turns
C) A point where vehicle has to take a compulsory turn
D) a point where everyone does a somersault - How did Gandhi teach self-reliance to the Indians?
A) By resorting to violence
B) By refusing support from South Africa
C) By refusing support of the Englishman, Andrews
D) None of these - Who went on a tour of Fiji islands?
A) Hodge
B) Gandhi
C) Fischer
D) Andrews - ‘Vehemently’ means-
A) Strongly
B) Weakly
C) Selfishly
D) Kindly - His was not a loyalty to______________; it was a loyalty to living, human beings.
A) Obstructions
B) constructions
C) restrictions
D) abstractions - What is a ‘deadlock’?
A) A standstill situation
B) Causing mass deaths
C) Putting several locks
D) All of these - Name Mahatma Gandhi’s youngest son.
A) Narhari
B) Mahadev
C) Devdas
D) Not mentioned in the lesson - Gandhi remained in Champaran for a continuous period of ______
A) 7 months
B) 7 Years
C) 17 months
D) 10 months - Gandhi had returned to ______ from _________.
A) South Africa, England
B) India, South Africa
C) South Africa, India
D) England, India
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ANSWER KEY
1 | A | 26 | D |
2 | C | 27 | D |
3 | C | 28 | D |
4 | A | 29 | D |
5 | C | 30 | D |
6 | C | 31 | B |
7 | A | 32 | B |
8 | B | 33 | C |
9 | A | 34 | C |
10 | D | 35 | C |
11 | D | 36 | B |
12 | D | 37 | C |
13 | D | 38 | A |
14 | D | 39 | B |
15 | D | 40 | B |
16 | D | 41 | B |
17 | D | 42 | A |
18 | D | 43 | C |
19 | B | 44 | D |
20 | C | 45 | A |
21 | D | 46 | D |
22 | A | 47 | A |
23 | D | 48 | C |
24 | D | 49 | A |
25 | D | 50 | B |
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