Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 10 (CBSE) · Social Science
Chapter: Chapter 2 — Chapter 2: Nationalism in India
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. Who led the Non-Cooperation Movement? [1]
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Bhagat Singh
2. When did the Non-Cooperation Movement take place? [1]
(A) 1920-1922
(B) 1857
(C) 1942
(D) 1947
3. What did the movement call for? [1]
(A) Boycotting British goods, schools and courts
(B) Supporting British institutions
(C) Only economic reform
(D) Only religious reform
4. What term describes using Indian-made goods? [1]
(A) Swadeshi
(B) Satyagraha
(C) Swaraj
(D) Ahimsa
5. Why was the movement called off? [1]
(A) The Chauri Chaura incident
(B) A British ban on protests
(C) Lack of participation
(D) Gandhi's arrest alone
6. What happened at Chauri Chaura? [1]
(A) A violent clash resulted in deaths of police officers
(B) A peaceful negotiation occurred
(C) The British surrendered
(D) Nothing significant happened
7. What principle did the Chauri Chaura incident contradict? [1]
(A) Non-violence
(B) Swadeshi
(C) Boycotting goods
(D) Civil disobedience
8. What did the Non-Cooperation Movement demonstrate? [1]
(A) The power of mass non-violent civil disobedience
(B) The failure of all protest movements
(C) Only limited local impact
(D) Support for continued colonial rule
9. What launched the Civil Disobedience Movement? [1]
(A) The Salt March (Dandi March)
(B) The Quit India Movement
(C) The Non-Cooperation Movement
(D) The Chauri Chaura incident
10. When did the Salt March take place? [1]
(A) 1930
(B) 1920
(C) 1942
(D) 1947
11. What law did the Salt March defy? [1]
(A) The British salt tax and monopoly
(B) A tax on cloth
(C) A tax on land
(D) A ban on newspapers
12. What other actions were part of the movement? [1]
(A) Boycotting foreign cloth and refusing taxes
(B) Only violent protests
(C) Only negotiations with the British
(D) Supporting British goods
13. How did the British respond to the movement? [1]
(A) Mass arrests, including Gandhi's
(B) Full cooperation with protesters
(C) Immediate independence for India
(D) Ignoring the movement completely
14. What did the movement demonstrate? [1]
(A) Widespread Indian resistance to colonial rule
(B) Support for colonial rule
(C) Limited, isolated resistance
(D) No impact on independence efforts
15. What did the movement increase? [1]
(A) International attention to India's independence struggle
(B) Only local attention
(C) No attention at all
(D) Only British public support for colonialism
16. Why is the Civil Disobedience Movement significant? [1]
(A) It strengthened nationalism despite repression
(B) It had no lasting impact
(C) It ended the independence movement
(D) It weakened nationalist sentiment