Chapter 4 - Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age Extra Questions
Multiple Choice Questions1. Birsa was born in a family of ___________.
a) Baigas
b) Banjara
c) Mundas
d) Santhals
Answer: c) Mundas
2. What is meant by the word “Dikus”?
a) insiders
b) outsiders
c) people who live in forests
d) all of these
Answer: b) outsiders
3. Which of the following didn’t include dikus?
a) Traders
b) Money lenders
c) British
d) Forest people
Answer: d) Forest people
4. What does jhum cultivation mean?
a) shifting cultivation
b) step cultivation
c) farming in small regions
d) none of these
Answer: a) shifting cultivation
5. What do we call a field left uncultivated for a while so that the soil recovers fertility?
a) damaged field
b) fallow field
c) filled field
d) all of these
Answer: b) fallow field
6. The local weavers and leather workers turned to the __________ when they needed supplies of kusum and palash flowers to colour their clothes and leather.
a) Khonds
b) Santhals
c) Van Gujjars
d) Oraon
Answer: a) Khonds
7. The Labadis were of which state?
a) Jammu Kashmir
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Assam
d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: d) Andhra Pradesh
8. The Bastar Rebellion in Central India broke out in
a) 1900
b) 1910
c) 1920
d) 1940
Answer: b) 1910
9. Which revolt was popular in Maharashtra in 1940?
a) The Kols
b) The Bastar
c) The Warli
d) Birsa movement
Answer: c) The Warli
10. Santhals tribe rose in revolt in the year
a) 1900
b) 1855
c) 1920
d) 1930
Answer: b) 1855
11. In many regions Forest Department set up forest villages to ensure
a) a regular supply of cheap labour
b) a regular supply of forest produce
c) a regular supply of agricultural produce
d) none of the above
Answer: a) a regular supply of cheap labour
12. Why were the Baigas of Central India reluctant to do work for others?
a) Since Baigas were tribal chieftains, they thought they cannot work as labourers.
b) Since Baigas only reared cattle, they thought they cannot work as labourers.
c) Since Baigas saw themselves as people of the forest, they thought it below their dignity to work as labourers.
d) Since the Baigas were money lenders, they thought lending money was more profitable.
Answer: c) Since Baigas saw themselves as people of the forest, they thought it below their dignity to work as labourers.
13. What is Mahua?
a) Animal
b) Disease
c) Flower
d) None of these
Answer: c) Flower
14. When was Birsa Munda born?
a) mid-1880s
b) mid-1885s
c) mid-1870s
d) none of these
Answer: c) mid-1870s
Source Based Question
Read the following extract taken from the NCERT textbook (Page 45) and answer the questions that follow:
b) What are the songs about?
c) Who visited the land of Baigas and why did he visit them?
Answer:
a) Baigas were a tribal group in Central India.
b) The songs that he recorded lamented the hard time the Baigas were having under British rule.
c) In the 1930s Verrier Elwin visited the land of the Baigas. He wanted to know about their customs and practices, their art and folklore.
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