MCQs on Indigo-Louis Fischer-CBSE English for Class 12

 Multiple Choice Questions of Indigo

1.Who was Rajkumar Shukla?

Ans. A sharecropper

2. Who is the writer of Indigo?

Ans. Louis Fischer

3. Where was the annual convention of the Indian National Congress party being held?

Ans. Lucknow

4. How many delegates were present to attend the annual convention of the Indian National Congress Party?

Ans. 2301

5. From where did Rajkumar Shukla come to meet Gandhiji?

Ans. From Champaran

6. Where did Rajkumar Shukla take Gandhiji to pass the night after reaching Patna?

Ans. at Dr. Rajndra Prasad’s house

7. What did the servants at dr. Rajendra’s house think of Gandhiji?

Ans. As a peasant like Raj Kumar Shukla

8. Why was Gandhiji not allowed by the servants to draw water from the well at Dr. Rajendra Prasad’s house?

Ans. Due to the social evil untouchability or Because the servants did not know Gandhiji

9. Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzzafarpur which was on the way to Champaran?

Ans. Gandhiji wanted to gather(get) more information about the sharecroppers’ problems.

10. To whom did Gandhiji send a telegram?

Ans. to G.B. Kripalani

11. Where had Gandhiji met G. B. Kripalani?

Ans. At Tagore’s Shantiniketan School

12. Where was G. B. Kripalani a professor?

Ans. At Arts College in Muzzaffarpur

13. For how many days did Gandhiji stay at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. For 2 days

14. In whose house did Mahatama Gandhi stay at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. in the home of Professor Malkani

15. Where did Malkani serve as a teacher?

Ans. In a Government School

16. What was an extraordinary thing, according to Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. Giving shelter in one’s house to the advocates of ‘home rule’

17. Where was the author born?

Ans. in Philadelphia.

18. Which University was the author a member of?

Ans. at Princeton University
19. Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?

Ans. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

20. Why was Motihari back with peasants?

Ans. Because people from nearby places reached there to support Gandhiji

21. What was Gandhiji’s demand from the British landlords in the beginning?

Ans. To refund 50% of the payment to the farmers

22. How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?

Ans. To refund 25% of the money they had taken

23. Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur about the sharecroppers’ problems?

Ans. Lawyers

24. Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at the Annual Congress party session?

Ans. To complain against the injustice being done to the peasants under the landlord system in Bihar

25. Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo?

Ans. Lieutenant Governor in British administration

26. What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?

Ans. He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
27. Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?

Ans. The fear of the British was removed from the minds of Indian people

28. How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?

Ans. She told the women of the villages about cleanliness.

29.At what time did the train reach Muzaffarpur?

Ans. At Midnight

30. What were Indians in smaller localities afraid of in those days? (Indigo)

Ans.To show sympathy for the advocates of Home Rule

31. For what did Gandhiji chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur?

Ans. For collecting a big fee

32. What was the chief commercial crop in Champaran?

Ans. Indigo

33. In which country was synthetic indigo developed?

Ans. Germany

34. Which place was Gandhiji advised leaving at once?

Ans. Tirhut