Ch - 8

Women, Caste and Reform

Worksheet-1
1. Who among the following began a campaign against the practice of sati?
a) Swami Dayanand b) Rammohun Roy c)Swami Vivekananda d) Jyotirao Phule
2. In which year sati system was banned?
a) 1829 b) 1929 c) 1856 d) 1875
3. Widow Remarriage Permission Act was passed by the British on the suggestions of.........................
a) Rammohun Roy b) Swami Dayanand
c) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar d) Pandita Ramabai
4. Widow Remarriage Permission Act was passed in...................
a) 1856 b) 1857 c) 1858 d) 1859
5. Who founded the Arya Samaj?
a) Swami Vivekananda b) Swami Dayanand c) Raja Rammohun Roy d) Jyotirao Phule
6. The Arya Samaj was founded in........................
a) 1675 b) 1775 c) 1875 d) 1975
7. Veerasalingam Pantulu formed an association for Widow Remarriage in the....................speaking areas.
a) Tamil b) Marathi c) Bengali d) Telugu
8. Who opened schools for girls in Calcutta?
a) Rammohun Roy b) Tarabai Shinde
c) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar d) Swami Dayanand
9. Who opened a Widow Home in Poona?
a) Pandita Ramabai b) Mumtaz Ali c) Sakhawat Hossain d) Rashsundari Devi
10. Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in.....................................
a) 1827 b) 1829 c) 1929 d) 1856
11. When was Paramhans Mandali formed?
a) 1830 b) 1840 c) 1850 c) 1860
12. B. R. Ambedkar was born in a ...........................caste.
a) Brahman b) Kshatriya c) Vasihya d) Mahar
13. Who worked among Chandela cultivators?
a) Narayan Guru b) Haridas Thakur c) Ghasidas d) B. R. Ambedkar
14. Who was keen to spread the knowledge of Western education?
a) Swami Dayanand b) Pandita Ramabai c) Swami Vivekananda d) Rammohun Roy
15. Who was the founder of Satnami movement?
a) B. R. Ambedkar b) Haridas Thakur c) Narayan Guru d) Ghasidas
16. Who wrote the book ‘Gulamgiri’?
a) Periyar b) Jyotirao Phule c) Swami Dayanand d) Narayan Guru
17. Who was the founder of Satyashodhak Samaj?
a) Jyotirao Phule b) Henry Derozio c) Swami Vivekananda d) Keshub Chander
18. The Prarthana Samaj was established in Bombay in...................................
a) 1830 b) 1865 c) 1875 d) 1867
19. The Veda Samaj was established in Madras in......................................
a) 1873 b) 1929 c) 1864 d) 1879
20. Who founded Young Bengal?
a) Henry Derozio b) Keshub Chander c) Sakhawat Hossain d) Ghasidas
21. Khalsa College, Amritsar was established in.......................by the leaders of the Singh sabha movement.
a) 1889 b) 1890 c) 1895 d) 1892
22. What was the main idea behind the formation of Arya Samaj by Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
a) Abolish Sati b) Gender Equality c) Reform Hinduism d) None of these
23. Brahmo Samaj was founded by...........................in 1830.
a) Rammohun Roy b) Swami Vivekananda c) M. C. Mukherjee d) None of these
24. ‘Stripurushtulana’ was written by............................
a) Ramabai Ranade b) Tarabai Shinde c) Sakhawat Hossain d) Begum Kausar Bi
25. ..........................was founded in 1840 in Bombay.
a) Brahmo Samaj b) Prarthana Samaj c) Paramhansa Mandali d) Home Rule League
26. ....................................established the school for girls in Maharashtra.
a) Ghasidas b) Pandita Ramabai c) I. C. Vidyasagar d) Jyotirao Phule
27. ................................was an important untouchable caste of present –day Andhra Pradesh.
a) Julahas b) Madigas c) Harijans d) Kinnars
28. Who started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta?
a) Sakhawat Hossain b) Begum Kausar Bi c) Begum Zinat Mahal d) Begum Shanum
29. ..................... was written by Jyotirao Phule.
a) Stripurushtulana b) Harijjans of India c) Gulamgiri d) None of these
30. Which of the following association was founded in Madras in 1864?
a) Ved Samaj b) Prarthana Sabha c) Ramakrishna Mission c) Sikh Samaj
31. Aligarh Movement was led by....................................
a) Swami Vivekananda b) Rahmat Pathan c) Sayyid Ahmed Khan d) Akbar Ali Khan
32. Women who died by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands were called.................
a) Mata b) Suhagan c) Sati d) Devi
33. Who supported the idea of self-respect movement?
a) Mumtaz Ali b) Rammohan Roy c) E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker d) Pandita Ramabai
34. The first Urdu novels began to be written from the late..........................century.
a) sixteenth b) seventeenth c) eighteenth d) nineteenth
35. In aristocratic Muslim households in North India, women learnt to read the Koran in………………
a) Hindi b) Arabic c) Persian d) English
36. The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was opened by.....................
a) Khizr Khan b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
c) Sayyid Ahmed Khan d) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
37. Raja Rammohun Roy was born in....................................
a) 1772 b) 1863 c) 1867 d) 1883
38. The Brahmo Samaj was founded in.........................................
a) 1875 b) 1829 c) 1929 d) 1830
39. The coolie ship-named Johan Allen-carried many Indians labourers to............................
a) Trinidad b) Mauritius c) Indonesia d) Africa
40. Pandita Ramabai was a great scholar of which language?
a) English b) Persian c) Sanskrit d) Hindi
41. According to the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, no women below the age of............could marry.
a) 16 b) 17 d) 18 d) 19
42. Who among the following started temple entry movement?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) B. R. Ambedkar c) E.V. Ramaswamy d) Swami Dayanand
43. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was a teacher at Hindu College..................................
a) Benaras b) Aligarh c) Madras d) Calcutta
44. Who among the following addressed the World Parliament of Religious at Chicago in 1893?
a) Swami Dayanand b) Jyotirao Phule c) Swami Vivekananda d) Rammohun Roy
45. The first Singh Sabha was formed at ..................................in 1873.
a) Lahore b) Amritsar c) Multan d) Delhi
46. Who among these got the title of ‘Pandita’?
a) Ramabai b) Tarabai Shinde c) Indira Gandhi d) None of these
47. Who gave this famous statement: “oru jati, oru matam, oru daivam manushyanu”?
a) Ghasidas c) Haridas Thakur b) Shri Narayan Guru d) Ranveer Chandela
48. Which movement was started by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in 1927?
a) Child Marriage Restraint c) Stop Untouchability
c) Self Respect Movement d) Temple Entry Movement
49. The lower caste labour class ‘Dublas’ associated with which state of India?
a) Assam b) Orissa c) Kerala d) Gujarat
50. Who among these was a Dalit leader in the South?
a) Vivekananda Saraswati b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c) E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker d) B. R. Ambedkar
51. According to the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, no man below the age of…………..could marry.
a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21
52. Jyotirao Phule was born in.....................
a) 1772 b) 1827 c) 1873 d) 1927
53. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio promoted……………………ideas.
a) Radical b) Moderate c) Religious d) All of these
54. Periyar founded the........................
a) Paramhans Mandali b) Brahmo Samaj c) Self Respect Movement d) Arya Samaj
55. Raja Rammohun Roy founded a reform association known as the Brahmo Samaj at..................
a) Calcutta b) Madras c) Bombay d) Lucknow
56. Swami Dayanand founded a reform association called the.......................
a)Brahmo Samaj b) Veda Samaj c) Prarthana Samaj d) Arya Samaj
57. Which low caste did Shri Narayan Guru belong to?
a) Ezhava b) Mahar c) Madigas d) Agaria
58. Who wrote these words “Isn’t a woman’s life is dear to her as yours is to you. Her face is not be seen, a
widowed women is bad woman”?
a) Rashsundari Devi b) Tarabai Shinde c) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain d) Pandita Ramabai
59. Which practice was described as slur or blot on the fair name of India?
a) Widow Remarriage b) Sati c) Untouchability d) None of these
60. Who was the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission?
a) Dayanand Saraswati b) Jyotirao Phule d) Swami Vivekananda d) Rammohan Roy
61. In the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency, …………...formed an association for widow
remarriage.
a) E. V. Ramaswamy b) Ghasidas c) Veerasalingam Pantulu d) Narayan Guru
62. In the later part of the nineteenth century, schools for girls were set up Jyotirao Phule in……………
a) Maharashtra b) Punjab c) Calcutta d) Patna
63. The Begums of Bhopal founded a primary school for girls at……………………
a) Amritsar b) Bhopal c) Aligarh d) Agra
64. The Paramhans Mandali was founded in………………….in 1840.
a) Calcutta b) Bombay c) Delhi d) Madras
65. Shri Narayan Guru who proclaimed the ideals of unity for his people belonged to present-day state…..
a) Bengal c) Maharashtra c) Punjab d) Kerala
66. Who among the following studied in schools set up by Christian missionaries?
 a) Jyotirao Phule b) Haridas Thakur c) E. V. Ramaswamy d) Narayan Guru
67. In……………., Jyotirao Phule wrote a book named Gulamgiri meaning slavery.
a) 1929 b) 1856 c) 1873 d) 1827
68. Jyotirao Phule dedicated his book ‘Gulamgiri’ to all those…………….who fought to free slaves.
a) Indians b) Frenchs c) Germans d) Americans
69. The gateway to the Madurai temple was drawn by………………in 1792.
a) Rembrandt Peale b) Thomas Daniel c) Johan Allen d) None of these
70. Who among the following an outspoken critic of Hindu scriptures, especially the Codes of Manu?
a) Jyotirao Phule b) Ghasidas c) E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker d) Haridas
71. When did Swami Vivekananda address the World Parliament of Religion at Chicago?
a) 1893 b) 1902 c) 1863 d) 1867
72. When did American Revolution break out?
a) 1784 b) 1776 c) 1917 d) 1857
73. E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker was known by the name………………
a) Phule b) Periyar c) Vidyasagar d) None of these
74. Which of the following reforms movement was founded by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio?
a) Araya Samaj b) Brahmo Samaj c) Prarthana Samaj d) Young Bengal
75. Haridas Thakur belonged to……………..sect.
a) Dubla b) Chandela c) Matua d) None of these
76. The slaves of Africa were made to work on ……………..plantations in America.
a) cotton b) banana c) rubber d) potato
77. The Aligarh Muslim University was founded in……………………….
a) 1873 b) 1875 c) 1879 d) 1864
78. Who among the following Muslim reformer reinterpreted verses from Koran to argue for women’s
education?
a) Annie Besant b) Mumtaz Ali c) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain d) Tarabai Shinde
79. Pandita Ramabai founded a widows’ home at………….to provide shelter to widows.
a) Aligarh b) Bhopal c) Poona d) Patna
80. Name the country where the lower caste people went for plantation work.
a) Mauritius b) Trinidad c) Indonesia d) All of these
81. Which of the following is an important untouchable caste of Andhra Pradesh?
a) Madigas b) Mahar c) Dublas d) None of these
82. Match the following
A) Raja Rammohan Roy 1) Arya Samaj
B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 2) Stripurushtulna
C) Rashsundari Debi 3) Brahmo Samaj
D) Tarabai Shinde 4) Amarjiban
a) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-1 b) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4 c) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 d) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
83. Which statement is wrong about Jyotirao Phule?
a) He was born in 1827
b) He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj to propagate caste equality
c) He was from upper caste
d) He wrote a book named ‘Gulamgiri’ in 1873.
84. The Veda Samaj was founded in………………in 1864.
a) Bombay b) Calcutta c) Madras d) Delhi
85. Swami Vivekananda addressed the World Parliament of Religions at…………….in 1893.
a) London b) Chicago c) Paris d) New York
86. E. V. Ramaswamy was an outspoken critic of the Hindu scripture…………………..
a) Bhagavad Gita b) Ramayana c) The Codes of Manu d) All of these
87. Swami Vivekananda was born in……………………
a) 1863 b) 1902 c) 1830 d) 1867
88. He became a member of the Congress, only to leave it in disgust when found that at a feast, organised
by nationalists, seating arrangement s followed caste distinctions. He was…………………….
a) B.R. Ambedkar b) Jyotirao Phule c) E. V. Ramaswami Naicker d) Ghasidas
89. The Prarthana Samaj was established in 1867 at Bombay (now Mumbai) sought to remove……….
a) caste restrictions b) child marriage
c) end the ban on widow remarriage d) all of these
90. In Bombay, the ‘Paramhans Mandali was founded in1940 to work for………….
a) the abolition of caste b) the Child Marriage Restraint Act
c) permitting widow remarriage d) criticising Indian customss