Colonialism and the City Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers

Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.
Which of the following was manufacturing town?
(a) Madurai
(b) Dacca
(c) Surat
(d) Agra

Answer

Answer: (b) Dacca


Question 2.
Which of the following city was Not developed as Presidency city in colonial India?
(a) Agra
(b) Bombay
(c) Madras
(d) Calcutta

Answer

Answer: (a) Agra


Question 3.
How many Delhi Muslints migrated in 1947 partition of India?
(a) Over two-third of the Delhi Muslims
(b) Over one-third of the Delhi Muslims
(c) Over three-fourth of the Delhi Muslims
(d) None of the above

Answer

Answer: (a) Over two-third of the Delhi Muslims


Question 4.
Most of the migrants in Delhi were from
(a) Bengal
(b) Assam
(c) Punjab
(d) Rajasthan

Answer

Answer: (c) Punjab


Question 5.
Which was NOT the new British Port in the late eighteenth century?
(a) Bombay
(b) Machlipatnam
(c) Madras
(d) Calcutta

Answer

Answer: (b) Machlipatnam


Question 6.
Which region was NOT de-urbanised in the 19th century?
(a) Machlipatnam
(b) Surat
(c) Seringapatam
(d) Bombay

Answer

Answer: (d) Bombay


Question 7.
Which was NOT the place of East India Company’s ‘factories’?
(a) Calcutta
(b) Surat
(c) Madras
(d) Delhi

Answer

Answer: (d) Delhi


Question 8.
When did the British gain control of Delhi?
(a) 1800
(b) 1803
(c) 1805
(d) 1810

Answer

Answer: (b) 1803


Question 9.
When did Delhi become the capital of British India?
(a) 1900
(b) 1905
(c) 1911
(d) 1915

Answer

Answer: (c) 1911


Match the following:

Column A Column B
(i) Countryside (a) Street with a dead end
(ii) Presidency (b) Trading posts
(iii) Khanqahs (c) Villages and their environment
(iv) Cul-de-sac (d) A festival of flowers
(v) Gulfaroshan (e) The administrative units affected by the British
(vi) Factories (f) A sufi lodge used as a rest house
(vii) Idgah (g) An open prayer place of Muslims
Answer

Answer:

Column A Column B
(i) Countryside (c) Villages and their environment
(ii) Presidency (e) The administrative units affected by the British
(iii) Khanqahs (f) A sufi lodge used as a rest house
(iv) Cul-de-sac (a) Street with a dead end
(v) Gulfaroshan (d) A festival of flowers
(vi) Factories (b) Trading posts
(vii) Idgah (g) An open prayer place of Muslims

State whether true or false:

1. The British lived in white areas of the cities

Answer

Answer: True


2. The British wanted Delhi to forget its Mughal past.

Answer

Answer: True


3. The Jama-Masjid was converted into Bakery by British.

Answer

Answer: False


4. In 1877, the Queen Victoria was recognised as the Empress of India.

Answer

Answer: True


5. Lahore gate improvement scheme was devised in the year 1905.

Answer

Answer: False


Fill in the blanks:

1. In the 1870s, the western walls of …………….. were broken to establish the railways.

Answer

Answer: Shahjahanabad


2. The Mughal aristocracy in the 17th and 18th century lived in ……………..

Answer

Answer: havelis


3. A haveli (is) housed by many ……………..

Answer

Answer: families


4. The central dome of the Viceroy’s Palace was copied from the ……………..

Answer

Answer: Buddhist Stupa


5. The British exiled Bahadur Shah Zafar to ……………..

Answer

Answer: Burma (now Myanmar)


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