Glimpses of the Past | Class 8 MCQ Questions with Answers English Chapter 3

NCERT MCQ Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Prose with Answers PDF Free Download based on the major ideas and themes presented in the textbook as per the CBSE new test pattern are available here. This will help you learn and test your understanding of the chapters. Students can also take a free test of Class 8 English Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four possibilities, each of which is followed by the correct response. These MCQ Questions were chosen in accordance with the most recent CBSE exam format.

Q1.What was Regulation III that was passed by the Britisher?

(1) New land rules
(2) Imprisoning any Indian without a trial in court
(3) Both a and b
(4) None of the above

Answer

Answer: Imprisoning any Indian without a trial in court


Q2.Under Regulation III of the British rulers

(1) Indians were to pay higher taxes
(2) British goods became cheap
(3) cotton-wearers became poor
(4) Indians could be jailed without trial in a court.

Answer

Answer: Indians could be jailed without trial in a court.


Q3.Who was extending its power in 18th century India?

(1) East India company
(2) British East India Company
(3) Indian National Congress
(4) None of them

Answer

Answer: British East India Company.


Q4.Who tried to end superstitions in India?

(1) Tipu Sultan
(2) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(3) Subhash Chandra Bose
(4) All of the above

Answer

Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy


Q5.What did the British impose on the Indian farmers?

(1) Heavy taxes
(2) Service taxes
(3) Regulation II
(4) Regulation III

Answer

Answer: Heavy taxes


Q6.The companys conquests from — to —

(1) 1757-1857
(2) 1857-1949
(3) 1757-1949
(4) 1757-1849

Answer

Answer: 1757-1849.


Q7.Who all are present in Picture1?

(1) Indira Gandhi
(2) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
(3) Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji
(4) All of the above

Answer

Answer: All of the above


Q8.Which Englishman reported the plight of India to England?

(1) Babington Macaulay
(2) General Bentinck
(3) William Jones
(4) Simon John

Answer

Answer: General Bentinck


Q9.Now we have become slaves of foreigners! – who are we here?

(1) Bangladeshis
(2) Indian
(3) Pakistanis
(4) All of them

Answer

Answer: Indians.


Q10.Who was told that the grease on the bullet they have to bite is made from the fat of cows and pigs?

(1) Brahmin soldiers
(2) Sepoys in Bengal
(3) Tipu
(4) All of the above

Answer

Answer: Brahmin soldiers


Q11.What were the reasons behind the prospering British?

(1) Company’s loot
(2) Killing of Indians
(3) Divide and rule policy
(4) Missionary zeal

Answer

Answer: Company’s loot


Q12.All the misery in the world is due to whom?

(1) Men
(2) Woman
(3) Child
(4) Priest

Answer

Answer: Woman.


Q13.What was the situation of Indian cotton weavers?

(1) Miserable
(2) Good
(3) Flamboyant
(4) Not known

Answer

Answer: Miserable


Q14.Who killed the adjutant of his regiment?

(1) Bentinck
(2) Mangal Pandey
(3) Macaulay
(4) Kunwar Singh

Answer

Answer: Mangal Pandey


Q15.Between 1822 and 1836, how many Indians died of starvation?

(1) Ten thousand
(2) Twenty lakh
(3) Fifty lakh
(4) Fifteen lakh

Answer

Answer: Fifteen lakh.


Q16.Which other methods did the Britishers invent to increase their profits?

(1) No import duty on goods imported from England
(2) No export duty on goods exported to England
(3) Both a and b
(4) None of the above

Answer

Answer: No import duty on goods imported from England


Q17.In the year 1765, in India

(1) The British Govt, ruled most of the country
(2) East India Company ruled most parts of India
(3) Indian princes ruled most of the country
(4) The Mughals ruled the whole country

Answer

Answer: Indian princes ruled most of the country


Q18.Ram Mohan Roy born and died in the year —

(1) 1727-1833
(2) 1772-1830
(3) 1772-1833
(4) 1733-1872

Answer

Answer: 1772-1833.


Q19.Who is the singer singing in Picture1?

(1) Asha Bhosle
(2) Lata Mangeshkar
(3) Sunidhi Chauhan
(4) Kanika Kapoor

Answer

Answer: Lata Mangeshkar


Q20.The worst sufferers under the British rule were

(1) who served in East India Company
(2) the business community
(3) the religious leaders
(4) the poor farmers and artisans

Answer

Answer: the poor farmers and artisans


Q21.Name the wife of Ram Mohan Roy

(1) Maya
(2) Bela
(3) Geeta
(4) Uma

Answer

Answer: Uma.


Q22.Knowledge should be —— and scientific.

(1) Mutual
(2) Practical
(3) Moral
(4) None of these

Answer

Answer: Practical.


Q23.In which year the newspapers had been stopped by the British?

(1)1823
(2)1832
(3)1932
(4)1923

Answer

Answer: 1823.


Q25.From 1757 to 1849, there was no peace in India because

(1) the Indian Princes kept fighting each other
(2) the East India Company was cruel
(3) Tipu Sultan fought the British
(4) there were Hindu-Muslim riots

Answer

Answer: the Indian Princes kept fighting each other


Q26.The business community welcomed the British because

(1) they liked Europeans
(2) they disliked their own countrymen
(3) the British rule had brought a degree of peace
(4) they were afraid of the British

Answer

Answer: the British rule had brought a degree of peace


Q28.In the early nineteenth century Raja Ram Mohan Roy was

(1) an able fighter
(2) an important reformer
(3) a great religious person
(4) a great king

Answer

Answer: an important reformer


Q30.Between 1822 and 1836 people died of starvation in India.

(1) ten thousand
(2) fifteen lakh
(3) fifty thousand
(4) forty lakh

Answer

Answer: fifteen lakh


Q31.What was the value of the British goods exported to India in 1829?

(1) Five crores
(2) Six crores
(3) Seven crores
(4) Eight crores

Answer

Answer: Seven crores


Q32.How does the speaker explain the problem to his wife?

(1) By giving the example of cows and milk
(2) By giving the example of great leader
(3) By giving the example of religious leaders
(4) By giving the example of different teachers

Answer

Answer: By giving the example of cows and milk


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