This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > English > Glimpses Of The Past > Class 8 English Chapter 3 Glimpses Of The Past – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 English Chapter 3 Glimpses Of The Past Quiz 2 (53 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What were the social practices that were being preached by the religious leader? A) Child Marriage. B) Untouchability. C) Inferiority towards women. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 2. What was the status of the Mughal Empire by 1765? A) Declining and weakened. B) Unified and powerful. C) Stable and prosperous. D) Thriving and expanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declining and weakened. 3. The Santhals revolt started from the state of ..... A) Bengal. B) Bihar. C) Orissa. D) Punjab. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bengal. 4. At first what was the role of British in India? A) Kings. B) Rulers. C) Friends. D) Merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchants. 5. Who gave the offering of his wrist to mother Ganga? A) Tope Tope. B) Kunwar Singh. C) Nana Saheb. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kunwar Singh. 6. Under Regulation III of the British rulers A) British goods became cheap. B) Cotton-wearers became poor. C) Indians could be jailed without trial in a court. D) Indians were to pay higher taxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indians could be jailed without trial in a court. 7. From where were the goods exported? A) INDIA. B) Britian. C) RUSSIA. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Britian. 8. Who attacked the adjutant of his regiment and was executed? A) Ram Mohan Roy. B) Gandhiji. C) Mangal Pandey. D) Bhagat Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mangal Pandey. 9. Where the revolt of 1857 got intensified first? A) Delhi. B) Kanpur. C) Bihar. D) Meerut. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meerut. 10. Which Indian leader was executed after attacking British military forces? A) Kunwar Singh. B) King Ram Mohan Roy. C) Sultan's deception. D) Mangal Pandey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mangal Pandey. 11. Whom did the British policies of trade ruin? A) Expert artisans. B) Indian princes. C) Peasants. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. What changes did British colonization bring to Indian society? A) Political, legal, educational, economic changes; spread of Christianity, English language, Western cultural influences. B) Introduction of Bollywood movies, Adoption of Chinese cultural practices, Implementation of Russian political system. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political, legal, educational, economic changes; spread of Christianity, English language, Western cultural influences. 13. ..... attacked an adjutant of his regiment of the British East India Company. A) Ram Moahn Roy. B) MANGAL PANDEY. C) Makoule. D) Sultan's deception. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MANGAL PANDEY. 14. What were Britishers at first when they come to India? A) Kings. B) Friends. C) Merchants. D) Rulers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merchants. 15. Which language did the Britishers want to change the Education to? A) English. B) Persian. C) Sanskrit. D) Hindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 16. 'Now we have become slaves of foreigners!'-who are 'we' here? A) Britishers. B) Pakistanis. C) Sri Lankans. D) Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indians. 17. Which other methods did the Britishers invent to increase their trade profits? A) No import duty on goods imported from England. B) No export duty on goods exported to England. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No import duty on goods imported from England. 18. What was the consequence of the Britishers' heavy taxation on farmers? A) Better living conditions. B) Loss of land. C) Increased wealth. D) More jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loss of land. 19. The chapter 'Glimpses of the past' gives the history of our country from ..... to ..... A) 1807-1857. B) 1757-1857. C) 1857-1957. D) 1757-1777. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1757-1857. 20. What did the chapatis symbolize during the revolt of 1857? A) British oppression. B) Call for unity. C) Food scarcity. D) Religious beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Call for unity. 21. Glimpses of the past is written by ..... A) Satyajit Ray. B) Amitav Ghosh. C) S. D Sawant. D) Satyajit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. D Sawant. 22. Which song has been dedicated to the Martyrs in the beginning of the lesson? A) Teri mitti me mil javan gul ban ke main khil javan . B) O people of my homeland. C) Mere desh ki dharti sona ugale . D) Better than all the world is our India . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) O people of my homeland. 23. Who was extending its power in 18$^{th}$ century India? A) East India company. B) Indian National Congress. C) British East India company. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East India company. 24. Who wanted to reform the society? A) Nana Saheb. B) MANGAL PANDEY. C) King Ram Mohan Roy. D) Kunwar singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Ram Mohan Roy. 25. Which song was sung in remembrance of martyrs during a function in Delhi? A) Vande killed. B) Jana wins mana. C) Ae mere watan ke logo. D) Better than rest of the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ae mere watan ke logo. 26. The worst sufferers under the British rule were A) Who served in East India Company. B) The business community. C) The religious leaders. D) The poor farmers and artisans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The poor farmers and artisans. 27. The business community welcomed the British because A) They liked Europeans. B) The British rule had brought a degree of peace. C) They were afraid of the British an. D) They disliked their own countrymen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The British rule had brought a degree of peace. 28. By what date, the British had conquered the whole India? A) 1835. B) 1818. C) 1857. D) 1856. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1856. 29. Which company played a major role in the governance of India? A) West India Company. B) British India Company. C) South India Company. D) East India Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) East India Company. 30. Name two oppressive policies of the British. A) (i) Under Regulation III, an Indian could be jailed without trial in a court. (ii) The goods manufactured in England did not have any import duty when brought to India. B) Encouragement of untouchability and child marriage. C) (i) ban on consumption of Indian food(ii) 'no employment rule' for Indians. D) British policies were developmental in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (i) Under Regulation III, an Indian could be jailed without trial in a court. (ii) The goods manufactured in England did not have any import duty when brought to India. 31. When did an English man Macaulay suggest English in India? A) 1818. B) 1823. C) 1857. D) 1835. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1835. 32. NAME THE RULER WHO FOUGHT PITCHED BATTLES AGAINST THE BRITISH AND DIED FIGHTING WHEN HE RECEIVED A BULLET IN HIS WRIST. A) King Ram Mohan Roy. B) Peshwa Nana Sahib. C) Kunwar Singh. D) Sultan's deception. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kunwar Singh. 33. In which year the newspapers had been stopped by the British? A) 1773. B) 1823. C) 1903. D) 1923. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1823. 34. What was the value of the British goods exported to India in 1829? A) Five crores. B) Seven crores. C) Six crores. D) Eight crores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seven crores. 35. Which entity had significant influence in India during the mentioned period? A) Roman Empire. B) Ottoman Empire. C) British Empire. D) Mongoli Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British Empire. 36. Who were short-sighted? A) Govenor General Bentick. B) Princes of India. C) Govenor General Macaulay. D) Peasants of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Princes of India. 37. Who offered his hand to mother Ganga? A) Bhagat Singh. B) Kunwar Singh. C) Azimulla Khan. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kunwar Singh. 38. What was the Regulation Act III of 1818 about? A) Jailing Indians without trial. B) Land reforms. C) Taxation. D) Education policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jailing Indians without trial. 39. Which empire was in decline during this time in India? A) Sikh Empire. B) Mughal Empire. C) Maurya Empire. D) Gupta Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mughal Empire. 40. WHO MADE FORTUNES IN THEIR PRIVATE BUSINESSES? A) INDIANS. B) BRITISH OFFICERS. C) ALL OF THE ABOVE. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BRITISH OFFICERS. 41. How did the British force the farmers to abandon their fields? A) By threatening. B) By putting them into prisons. C) By increasing taxes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By increasing taxes. 42. First what were British- A) Rulers. B) Kings. C) Merchants. D) Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merchants. 43. The antonym of 'pittance' is A) Very little. B) Fortune. C) Ration. D) Inadequate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fortune. 44. From which place Kunwar singh belonged? A) Lucknow. B) Kanpur. C) Faizabd. D) Bihar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bihar. 45. What did the Britishers do to exploit Indian farmers? A) Gave them loans. B) Increased taxes. C) Provided free land. D) Promoted farming techniques. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increased taxes. 46. How did the British rule affect the Indian princely states? A) The British rule affected the Indian princely states by diminishing their autonomy and authority, leading to their integration into British India. B) The British rule led to the empowerment of the Indian princely states. C) The British rule resulted in the complete independence of the Indian princely states. D) The British rule had no impact on the Indian princely states. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British rule affected the Indian princely states by diminishing their autonomy and authority, leading to their integration into British India. 47. Which is not told about Ram Mohan Roy? A) A social reformer. B) A British officer. C) A true patriot. D) A Bengali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A British officer. 48. What did Raja Ram Mohan Roy advocate for? A) British rule. B) Religious conversion. C) Education and science. D) Superstitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education and science. 49. What spoiled the religion of Indian soldiers in British army? A) Crossing the sea. B) Speaking English. C) Joining army. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crossing the sea. 50. What was Regulation III that was passed by the Britisher? A) New land rules. B) Imprisoning any Indian without any trial in court. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imprisoning any Indian without any trial in court. 51. What was the ruling authority in most parts of India in the year 1765? A) Mughal Empire. B) French East India Company. C) British East India Company. D) Portuguese Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British East India Company. 52. WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF BENTINCK? A) LORD BENTINCK. B) BENTINCK. C) LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK. 53. Sultan Was Ruler of A) Calicut. B) Awadh. C) Mysore. D) Hampi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mysore. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 English Chapter 3 Glimpses Of The Past Quiz 1 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books