This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > History > Social Science > Class 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He helped Drinkwater Bethune to start a women's school in Bengal. A) Dayanand Saraswati. B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. C) King Ram Mohan Roy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. 2. Raja Rammohun Roy founded a reform association known as A) Brahmo Sabha. B) Arya Samaj. C) True purifier society. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmo Sabha. 3. FIRST URDU NOVELS BEGAN TO WRITTEN IN A) Ninete Century. B) FOURTEEN CENTUARY. C) EIGHTEEN CENTUARY. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ninete Century. 4. Who started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta? A) Begum of Bhopal. B) Mutaz are (b). C) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. D) Sayyid Ahmed Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. 5. When did Ambedkar start temple entry movement? A) 1933. B) 1924. C) 1927. D) 1921. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1927. 6. Swami Vivekananda was a follower of ..... A) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. B) King Rammohun Roy. C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. D) Jyotirao Phule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. 7. During which period did Ambedkar lead three temple entry movement? A) Between 1900 to 1927. B) Between 1940 to 1945. C) Between 1935 to 1940. D) Between 1927 to 1935. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between 1927 to 1935. 8. In which year was the practice of sati banned? A) 1900. B) 1829. C) 1927. D) 1856. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1829. 9. NAME THE HOME STARTED BY PANDITA RAMABAI FOR WIDOWS AT POONA A) Hundred. B) Shrada Sadan. C) Shrada. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shrada Sadan. 10. Who wrote a book named GULAMGIRI? A) Shri Narayan Guru. B) Jyotirao Phule. C) Rama's Patta. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jyotirao Phule. 11. Nationalist leaders promised that there would be full suffrage for all men and women after independence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Young Bengal Movement is Associated with whom of the following A) Keshab Chandra Sen. B) Henery Vivian Derojio. C) Ram Mohan Roy. D) Vivekananda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henery Vivian Derojio. 13. Who founded a widows' home at Poona to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their in-laws? A) Rammohan Roy. B) Begum Rokeya. C) Mumtaz Ali. D) Rama's Patta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rama's Patta. 14. True or FalseJawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose extended their support to demands for greater equality and freedom for women. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. What was the main focus of Chapter 8 in CBSE Class 8 History? A) Economic reforms. B) Political movements. C) Environmental issues. D) Women, Caste and Reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women, Caste and Reform. 16. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools for Muslim Girls in ..... & ..... A) Madras & Bombay. B) Patna & Calcutta. C) Madras & Varanasi. D) Delhi & Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patna & Calcutta. 17. PANDITA RAMABAI WAS A Great Scholar of. A) Sanskrit. B) Persian. C) Hindi. D) Urdu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanskrit. 18. ..... was the main associate of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. A) DAVID HARE. B) Mr. Narayana Guru. C) Swami Vivekananda. D) E.V. RAMASWAMY NAICKER. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swami Vivekananda. 19. The Satyashodhak Samaj association was founded by A) (B) Periyar. B) (d) B.R. Ambedkar. C) (Key) Jyotra also swells. D) A) mongz are. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (Key) Jyotra also swells. 20. The book 'stripureshtunna' wasn by pandita ramabai. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 21. WHICH SOCIAL REFORMER RESPONSIBLE FOR BAN OF SATI A) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. B) Rajaram Mohan Roy. C) Dayanand Saraswati. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajaram Mohan Roy. 22. Which of the reforms movement was founded by H.L.V. Derozio? A) Veda society. B) Aligarh Movement. C) Brahmo Samaj. D) Young Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young Bengal. 23. The practise of Sati was banned in ..... A) 1822. B) 1845. C) 1833. D) 1829. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1829. 24. Which of the following is considered as lower caste people- A) Shudrasya. B) Brahmins. C) Kshatriyas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shudrasya. 25. Traders and moneylenders are referred as ..... A) Brahmans. B) Vaishyasya. C) Shudrasya. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vaishyasya. 26. Which Indian Reformer founded an association known as Brahmo Samaj? A) Husband Dayanand Saraswati. B) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar. C) King Rammohan Roy. D) Jyotirao Phule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Rammohan Roy. 27. Who led the temple entry movement A) Dayanand Saraswati. B) Subhash Chandra bose. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Ambedkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambedkar. 28. What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement? A) To promote idolatry and sacrifice. B) To fight for the dignity of untouchables. C) To make everyone see the power of caste prejudices within society. D) To establish a link between conditions of 'lower' castes in India and black slaves in America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To fight for the dignity of untouchables. 29. THE SATNAMI MOVEMENT IN CENTRAL INDIA FOUNDED BY- A) Ghasidas. B) Makdasingh. C) LOWE CASTE PEOPLE. D) DUBLAS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ghasidas. 30. E.V. Ramaswamy was known by the name A) Phule. B) Periyar. C) Vidyasagar. D) Dayanand Saraswati. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periyar. 31. NAME THE FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR IN INDIA. A) PANDITA READE. B) Rasundari Deby. C) Kadambini Ganguly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kadambini Ganguly. 32. ..... Estabilishd Kripa Sadan A) Sister. B) Mother Teresa. C) Rama's Patta. D) Tarabai Shinde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rama's Patta. 33. Schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta was started by A) Veeresalingam lines. B) Pandit Ramabai. C) Tarabai Shinde. D) Bigin stopped Sakhawat Hosain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bigin stopped Sakhawat Hosain. 34. Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? A) For setting up schools for tribal groups and lower-caste children. B) For promoting education among women. C) For criticising Indian traditions and customs. D) For spreading new forms of communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For setting up schools for tribal groups and lower-caste children. 35. Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. Around two hundred years ago, Indian society was not as it is now. It imposed many barriers on women; they could not go to school, neither marry according to their will. Widows were praised if they chose to die by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands. What was that practice known as? A) Tradition of Sati. B) Saraswati system. C) Gayatri system. D) Savitri system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tradition of Sati. 37. Women who died by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands were called ..... A) Devi. B) Sati. C) Eye. D) Suhagan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sati. 38. Widow Remarriage Act was passed in the year A) 1856. B) 1876. C) 1857. D) 1826. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1856. 39. What was the main focus of the Prarthana Samaj? A) Supporting traditional practices. B) Promoting child marriage. C) Abolishing caste restrictions. D) Encouraging superstitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abolishing caste restrictions. 40. Jyotiro Phule Studied In- A) Pathshalas. B) MUSLIM SCHOOL. C) HINDU SCHOOL. D) CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES. 41. THE TERM GULAMGIRI WAS ASSOCIATED BY- A) Ghatitaram. B) ARYANS. C) Jyotirao Phule. D) PANDITA READE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jyotirao Phule. 42. Polygamy prevailed among men. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Brahmo Samaj:King Rammohan Roy:Arya Samaj: ..... A) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. B) Veeresalingam lines. C) Mumtaz Ali. D) Husband Dayanand Saraswati. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Husband Dayanand Saraswati. 44. Who was the founder of satnami movement in Central India? A) Thakur watershed day. B) Ram mohan roy. C) Dayanand vavswati. D) Ghasidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ghasidas. 45. In Poona ..... founded home for widows. A) Dayanand Saraswati. B) Jyotirao Phule. C) Pattata is raised. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pattata is raised. 46. The Brahmo Samaj was founded by A) King Rammohun Roy. B) Dayanand Saraswati. C) Vivekananda. D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Rammohun Roy. 47. What was the primary goal of the Self-Respect Movement? A) To support traditional customs. B) To promote women's education. C) To encourage child marriage. D) To abolish untouchability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To abolish untouchability. 48. WHICH OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT WAS FOUNDED BY H.L.V. DEROZIO? A) YOUNG BENGAL. B) Veda society. C) ALIGARH MOVEMENT. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) YOUNG BENGAL. 49. MADIGAS TRIBE AT ANDHRA PRADESH ARE EXPERT IN A) MINING. B) AGRICULTURE. C) LEATHER TANNING. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LEATHER TANNING. 50. Prarathana Samaj was founded by A) (a) H.L.V. Derozio. B) (B) Swami Vivekananda. C) (c) R.G. Bhandarkar. D) (De) King Rammohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (c) R.G. Bhandarkar. 51. Who founded the Brahmo Sabha in Calcutta? A) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar. B) King Rammohun Roy. C) Husband Dayanand Saraswati. D) Jyotirao Phule. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Rammohun Roy. 52. When and where was the Veda Samaj founded? A) 1850 in Calcutta, India. B) 1900 in Delhi, India. C) 1864 in Madras, India. D) 1875 in Bombay, India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1864 in Madras, India. 53. "Madigas" belongs from which states? A) Tamilnadu. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Kerala. D) Andhra Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andhra Pradesh. 54. Who reinterpreted the verses from the Koran to argue for women's education? A) Begum Rukaiya Sakhawat Hosain. B) Mumtaz Ali. C) Begum Of Bhopal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mumtaz Ali. 55. Hindu Widow Remarriage Act was passed in A) 1855. B) 1856. C) 1857. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1856. 56. She wrote High Caste Hindu Women A) Rama's Patta. B) Sayyid Ahmed Khan. C) Mumtaz Ali. D) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rama's Patta. 57. Who started the Temple Entry Movement and when? A) B. R. Ambedkar in 1927. B) Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950. C) Mahatma Gandhi in 1920. D) Sri Narayana Guru in 1931. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. R. Ambedkar in 1927. 58. Who was well versed in Sanskrit, Persian and other Indian languages? A) God. B) King Ram Mogul Roy. C) Jyotirao Phule. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Ram Mogul Roy. 59. NAME THE SAMAJ ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1867 A) Prayer society. B) Truth Shaodak Samaj. C) Arya Samaj. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prayer society. 60. Which movement aimed to improve the social status of leatherworkers? A) Satnami movement. B) Brahmo Samaj. C) Aligarh Movement. D) Self Respect Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satnami movement. Next →Related QuizzesHistory QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 2Class 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 3Class 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 4Class 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 5Class 8 History Chapter 1 How, When And Where QuizClass 8 History Chapter 4 Tribals, Dikus And The Vision Of A Golden Age QuizClass 8 History Chapter 7 Weavers, Iron Smelters And Factory Owners QuizClass 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books