MCQ on Forest, Society & Colonialism
History Chapter
Class IX
(c) It also made it harder for the government to calculate taxes
Q.13. What was the policy followed by the British
in India towards
forests during the First and
the Second World Wars?
(c) The growing urban populations in Europe needed more crops and more raw materials for industry
Q.28. Which place is now famous as a rice-producing
island in Indonesia?
47. Which of the following
is a community of skilled
forest cutters?
History Chapter
Class IX
Q.1. The Imperial Forest Research
Institute was set up in :
(a) Dehradun (b) Delhi
(c) Calcutta (d) Kanpur
Q.2. This river flows through Bastar.
(a) Ganga (b) Indus (c) Indrawati (d) None of these
Q.3. Java was a colony.
(a) French (b) English (c) Dutch
(d) None of these
Q.4. Sarnas are .
(a) Sacred groves (b)
Forests (c) Grasslands (d)
None of these
Q.5. The Forest Act meant severe hardship for the villagers
across the country, because : (a) Cutting wood,
grazing cattle, collecting fruits, roots, hunting
and fishing became
illegal
(b) People were forced to steal and if caught,
they had to pay bribes
to the forest guards (c) Women who collected
firewood were harassed
by guards
(d) All the above
Q.6. Shifting
cultivation was banned by the Government in India because
:
(a) European foresters
regarded this practice
as harmful for the forests
(b) When a forest was burnt there
was the danger
of flames spreading and burning valuable timber
(d) All the above
Q.7. How did the American writer
Richard Harding justify
the conquest of Honduras in Central America?
(a) The Central Americans
were semi-barbarians, who failed to understand the value of their
land
(b) Uncultivated land had to be taken over by the colonisers and improved (c) Land could
not be allowed to remain
unimproved with its original owner (d)
All the above
Q.8. Why does the story of the forests and people of Bastar not end with the rebellion
of 1910?
(a) Practice
of keeping
people out
of the
forests and
reserving them
for industrial
use continued even after Independence
(b) The World Bank proposed that 4,600 hectares of national
sal forest should be replaced by tropical pine for paper
industry. It was scrapped
later.
(c) Both
(a) and (b) (d)
None of the above
Q.9. Which of the following problems were faced
by the people of Bastar
under the colonial government?
(a) People of villages were displaced without
any notice of compensation
(b) Villagers suffered
from increased rents,
frequent demands for free labour
and goods by colonial officials
(c) Terrible famines
in 1899-1900, 1907 and 1908 (d)
All the above
Q.10. About how much percentage of the world’s total forest area was cleared between
1700 and 1995?
(a) 9% (b) 9.3% (c) 20.5% (d) 30%
Q.11. How much of India’s landmass was under cultivation in 1600?
(a) One-sixth (b) One-third (c) Two-third (d) Half
Q.12. What was the ‘scorched
earth’ policy followed by the Dutch in Java during the First and
the Second World Wars?
(a) Dutch weapons
were destroyed on the land of Java
(b) The earth was exploited further to grow more trees
(c) Huge piles of giant teak logs were burnt and saw mills destroyed
(d) None of the above
(a) The
forest department cut trees freely
to meet British
war needs
(b) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British
(c) More
and more trees were planted
to give employment to Indians
(d) None of the above
Q.14. How have some of the dense forests survived
across India from Mizoram
to Kerala?
(a) Villagers have protected them in sacred groves
(b) Some villagers have been patrolling their own forests
(c) By strict patrolling of forest officers
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Q.15. Out of three categories, which forests were regarded as the best?
(a) Reserved forests (b) Protected forests
(c) Village forests (d) Both (a) and (b)
Q.16. The new forest laws changed
the lives of forest dwellers
in yet another way. What was it?
(a) The
forest laws prohibited people from hunting
animals
(b) The people could not build houses in the forest areas (c) Women were not allowed to work in the forest
areas (d) None of the above
Q.17. Large
areas of natural forests were also cleared to make way for which of these?
(a) Tea plantations (b) Coffee plantations
(c) Rubber plantations (d) All the above
Q.18. During the colonial period,
the British directly encouraged the production of which of these
crops?
(a) Jute
(b) Sugar and wheat
(c) Cotton (d) All the above
Q.19. Which of these trade
regulations in colonial
India had serious
effects on pastoralist and nomadic communities?
(a) Many
communities became slave labours in tea and coffee plantations
(b) Some of them were called criminal
tribes
(c) Grazing and hunting were restricted and many communities lost their livelihood
(d) All the above
Q.20. Why did the cultivated area in India rise between 1880 and 1920?
(a) The British directly
encouraged the production of commercial crops like jute, sugarcane,
wheat and cotton
(b) Forests were considered to be wilderness. They had to be cultivated to yield agricultural products and revenue
(d) All the above
Q.21. The British believed
that by killing
dangerous animals, the British would
civilise India.
What did they do to encourage these killings?
(a) They gave rewards for killing tigers,
wolves and other large animals
(b) Over 80,000
tigers, 150,000 leopards
and 200,000 wolves
were killed during
1875-1925 alone
(c) Gradually the tiger came to be seen as a sporting
trophy
(d) All the above
Q.22. Which of the following
problems were faced by the tribal communities from Assam, Jharkahand, Chhattisgarh etc?
(a) Stopping
of ‘shifting cultivation’ had left them without a source of earning
(b) In tea plantations their wages were low and conditions of work were very bad
(c) They could
not return easily
to their home villages from where they had been recruited
(d) All the above
Q.23. Where is Bastar located?
(a) Southernmost part of Chhattisgarh (b) In central Jharkhand region
(c) In Andhra Pradesh (d) None of the above
Q.24. What were ‘forest villages’?
(a) ‘Reserved forests’
where some villagers
were allowed to stay
(b) Forests which were cut down to make new villages
(c) Villages
where forests were to be grown
(d) None of the above
Q.25. Who was Gunda
Dhur?
(a) A rebel
of Java (b) First Inspector
General
(c) A leader of Santhal
rebellion (d) A leader of Dhurwa tribe
Q.26. What was the result of the rebellion
by the Dhurwas?
(a) The British
sent troops to suppess the rebellion
(b) Work on reservation was temporarily suspended
(c) Area
to be reserved was reduced
to roughly half of that planned before
1910 (d) All the above
Q.27. Who were the colonial
power in Indonesia?
(a) British (b) Dutch (c) French (d) Portuguese
(a) Java (b) Sumatra (c) Borneo (d) Kalimantan
Q.29. Where did the Dutch start forest management in Indonesia?
(a) Java
(b) Sumatra
(c) Bali (d) None of the above
Q.30. Who were ‘Kalangs’ of Java?
(a) Dynasty of rulers (b) Skilled forest
cutters and shifting cultivators
(c) A community of moneylenders (d) None of the above
Q.31. The Kalangs resisted
the Dutch in
(a) 1700 (b) 1750 (c) 1770 (d) 1800
Q.32. According to the forest laws enacted by the Dutch in Java,
(a) villagers’ access
to forest was restricted
(b) wood could
be cut only for specified purposes like making
river boats or constructing
houses
(c) villagers were punished for grazing cattle
(d) all the above
Q.33. What was the system of ‘blandongdiensten’?
(a) A system
of education (b) Industrialisation
(c) First imposition of rent on land and then exemption
(d) None of the above
Q.34. What
did Surontiko Samin
of Randublatung
village, a teak
forest village,
begin questioning?
(a) The foreign
policy of the Dutch (b) State ownership of the forest
(c) The export
policy of the Dutch (d) None of the above
Q.35. What was the policy followed by the British
in India towards
forests during the First and
the Second World Wars?
(a) The forest
department cut trees
freely to meet British war needs
(b) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British
(c) More and more trees were planted
to give employment to Indians
(d) None of the above
Q.36. What is the goal of governments across Asia and Africa since the 1980s?
(a) Conservation of forests (b) Collection of timber
(c) Settling people in forest areas
(d) Destroying old forests and growing new ones
37. Who wrote the book ‘The Forests of India’ in the year 1923?
(a) David Spurr (b) E.P. Stebbing (c) Verrier
Elvin (d) John Middleton
38. Which of the following is not associated with swidden agriculture?
(a) Karacha (b) Jhum (c) Bewar (d) Penda
39. Indian Forest Service was set up in the year:
(a) 1865 (b) 1864 (c) 1854 (d) 1884
40. Which of the following was not a tribal community?
(a) Karacha (b) Jhum (c) Korava (d) Yerukula
41. The system of scientific forestry
stands for:
(a) system
whereby the
local farmers
were allowed
to cultivate
temporarily within a plantation
(b) system of cutting old trees and plant new ones
(c) division of forest into three categories
(d) disappearance of forests
42. In which year the Bastar rebellion
took place?
(a) 1910 (b) 1909 (c) 1911 (d) 1912
43. In South-East Asia shifting agriculture is known as:
(a) Chitemene (b) Tavy (c) Lading (d) Milpa
44. The Gond forest community belongs
to which of the following?
(a) Chhattisgarh (b) Jharkhand (c) Jammu and Kashmir (d) Gujarat
45. Forests consisting of which type of trees were preferred by the Forest Department?
(a) Forests having
trees which provided
fuel, fodder and leaves
(b) Forests having soft wood
(c) Forests having
trees suitable for building ships
and railways
46. Which of the following
term is not associated with shifting agriculture in India?
(a) Penda (b) Bewar (c) Khandad (d) Lading
(a) Maasais of Africa (b) Mundas of Chotanagpur
(c) Gonds of Orissa (d) Kalangs of Java
48. Why did the government decide to ban shifting cultivation?
(a) To grow trees
for railway timber
(b) When a forest was burnt, there
was the danger
of destroying valuable
timber
(c) Difficulties for the government to calculate taxes
(d) All the above reasons
49. Wooden planks
laid across railway tracks
to hold these
tracks in a position are called:
(a) Beams (b) Sleepers (c) Rail fasteners (d) None of these
50. Which of the following was the most essential for the colonial
trade and movement of goods?
(a) Roadways (b) Railways (c) Airways (d) Riverways
51. Which of the following
is a commercial crop?
(a) Rice
(b) Wheat (c) Cotton (d) Corn
52. Colonial rulers considered forests as unproductive because:
(a) the forests
were not fit for habitation (b) forest
had wild grown
trees only
(c) forest did not yield
revenue to enhance
income of the state
(d) forests were full of wild animals
53. Who were the colonial power in Indonesia?
(a) British (b) Dutch (c) French (d) Portuguese
54. Java is famous for:
(a) Rice production (b) Mining
industries (c) Huge population (d) Flood and famines
55. Latex can be collected from which
of the following trees?
(a) Rubber tree (b) Eucalyptus tree (c) Pine tree (d) Deodar tree
56. Who among
the following led the forest revolt in Bastar?
(a) Siddhu (b) Birsa Munda (c) Kanu (d) Gunda Dhur
57. Villagers
wanted forests to satisfy
their following needs:
(a) Fuel, fodder and shelter (b) Fuel, fodder and fruit
(c) Fuel, fodder and cultivation (d) Fuel, fodder and minerals
1.
1. 1. (a), 2.
(c), 3(c), 4(a),5(d), 6(d),7(d),8(c),9(d),10(b),11(a),12.(c),13.(a),14.(d),15.(a),16.(a),17.(d),18.(d),19.(d),20.(d),21.(d),22(d),23(a),24.(a),
25.(d), 26.(d), 27.(b), 28.(a), 29.(a), 30.(b), 31.(c), 32.(d), 33.(c), 34.(b),
35.(b), 36.(a), 37.(b), 38.(a), 39.(b), 40.(b), 41.(b), 42.(a), 43.(c), 44.(a),
45.(c), 46.(d), 47.(d), 48.(b), 49.(b), 50.(b), 51.(c), 52.(c), 53.(b), 54.(a),
55.(a), 56.(d), 57.(b),
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