MCQ Questions for Chapter 4 Forest Society and Colonialism Class 9 History with answers

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Chapter 4 Forest Society and Colonialism MCQ Questions for Class 9 History with answers

1. The Forest Act meant severe hardship for the villagers across the country, because :
(a) Cutting wood, grazing cattle, collecting fruits, roots, hunting and fishing became illegal
(b) People were forced to steal and if caught, they had to pay bribes to the forest guards
(c) Women who collected firewood were harassed by guards
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

2. The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in :
(a) Dehradun
(b) Delhi
(c) Calcutta
(d) Kanpur
► (a) Dehradun

3. Shifting cultivation was banned by the Government in India because :
(a) European foresters regarded this practice as harmful for the forests
(b) When a forest was burnt there was the danger of flames spreading and burning valuable
timber
(c) It also made it harder for the government to calculate taxes
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

4. Which of the following problems were faced by the people of Bastar under the colonial government?
(a) People of villages were displaced without any notice of compensation
(b) Villagers suffered from increased rents, frequent demands for free labour and goods by colonial officials
(c) Terrible famines in 1899-1900, 1907 and 1908
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

5. How did the American writer Richard Harding justify the conquest of Honduras in Central America?
(a) The Central Americans were semi-barbarians, who failed to understand the value of their land
(b) Uncultivated land had to be taken over by the colonisers and improved
(c) Land could not be allowed to remain unimproved with its original owner
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

6. What was the ‘scorched earth’ policy followed by the Dutch in Java during the First and the Second World Wars?
(a) Dutch weapons were destroyed on the land of Java
(b) The earth was exploited further to grow more trees
(c) Huge piles of giant teak logs were burnt and saw mills destroyed
(d) None of the above
► (c) Huge piles of giant teak logs were burnt and saw mills destroyed

7. How have some of the dense forests survived across India from Mizoram to Kerala?
(a) Villagers have protected them in sacred groves
(b) Some villagers have been patrolling their own forests
(c) By strict patrolling of forest officers
(d) Both (a) and (b)
► (d) Both (a) and (b)

8. About how much percentage of the world’s total forest area was cleared between 1700 and 1995?
(a) 9%
(b) 9.3%
(c) 20.5%
(d) 30%
► (b) 9.3%

9. The new forest laws changed the lives of forest dwellers in yet another way. What was it?
(a) The forest laws prohibited people from hunting animals
(b) The people could not build houses in the forest areas
(c) Women were not allowed to work in the forest areas
(d) None of the above
► (a) The forest laws prohibited people from hunting animals

10. What was the policy followed by the British in India towards forests during the First and the Second World Wars?
(a) The forest department cut trees freely to meet British war needs
(b) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British
(c) More and more trees were planted to give employment to Indians
(d) None of the above
► (a) The forest department cut trees freely to meet British war needs

11. Which of these trade regulations in colonial India had serious effects on pastoralist and nomadic communities?
(a) Many communities became slave labours in tea and coffee plantations
(b) Some of them were called criminal tribes
(c) Grazing and hunting were restricted and many communities lost their livelihood
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

12. Large areas of natural forests were also cleared to make way for which of these?
(a) Tea plantations
(b) Coffee plantations
(c) Rubber plantations
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

13. Why did the cultivated area in India rise between 1880 and 1920?
(a) The British directly encouraged the production of commercial crops like jute, sugarcane, wheat and cotton
(b) Forests were considered to be wilderness. They had to be cultivated to yield agricultural products and revenue
(c) The growing urban populations in Europe needed more crops and more raw materials for industry
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

14. Which of the following problems were faced by the tribal communities from Assam, Jharkahand, Chhattisgarh etc?
(a) Stopping of ‘shifting cultivation’ had left them without a source of earning
(b) In tea plantations their wages were low and conditions of work were very bad
(c) They could not return easily to their home villages from where they had been recruited
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

15. What was the result of the rebellion by the Dhurwas?
(a) The British sent troops to suppess the rebellion
(b) Work on reservation was temporarily suspended
(c) Area to be reserved was reduced to roughly half of that planned before 1910
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above

16. Who was Gunda Dhur?
(a) A rebel of Java
(b) First Inspector General
(c) A leader of Santhal rebellion
(d) A leader of Dhurwa tribe
► (d) A leader of Dhurwa tribe

17. Which place is now famous as a rice-producing island in Indonesia?
(a) Java
(b) Sumatra
(c) Borneo
(d) Kalimantan
► (a) Java

18. What were ‘forest villages’?
(a) ‘Reserved forests’ where some villagers were allowed to stay
(b) Forests which were cut down to make new villages
(c) Villages where forests were to be grown
(d) None of the above
► (a) ‘Reserved forests’ where some villagers were allowed to stay

19. Who were ‘Kalangs’ of Java?
(a) Dynasty of rulers
(b) Skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators
(c) A community of moneylenders
(d) None of the above
► (b) Skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators

20. What did Surontiko Samin of Randublatung village, a teak forest village, begin questioning?
(a) The foreign policy of the Dutch
(b) State ownership of the forest
(c) The export policy of the Dutch
(d) None of the above
► (b) State ownership of the forest

21. What was the system of ‘blandongdiensten’?
(a) A system of education
(b) Industrialisation
(c) First imposition of rent on land and then exemption
(d) None of the above
► (c) First imposition of rent on land and then exemption

22. What was the policy followed by the British in India towards forests during the First and the Second World Wars?
(a) The forest department cut trees freely to meet British war needs
(b) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British
(c) More and more trees were planted to give employment to Indians
(d) None of the above
► (b) Cutting of trees was strictly prohibited for everyone, including the British

23. Who wrote the book ‘The Forests of India’ in the year 1923?
(a) David Spurr
(b) E.P. Stebbing
(c) Verrier Elvin
(d) John Middleton
► (b) E.P. Stebbing

24. Which of the following was not a tribal community?
(a) Karacha
(b) Jhum
(c) Korava
(d) Yerukula
► (b) Jhum

25. The Gond forest community belongs to which of the following?
(a) Chhattisgarh
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Jammu and Kashmir
(d) Gujarat
► (a) Chhattisgarh

26. The system of scientific forestry stands for:
(a) system whereby the local farmers were allowed to cultivate temporarily within a plantation
(b) system of cutting old trees and plant new ones
(c) division of forest into three categories
(d) disappearance of forests
► (b) system of cutting old trees and plant new ones

27. Which of the following term is not associated with shifting agriculture in India?
(a) Penda
(b) Bewar
(c) Khandad
(d) Lading
► (d) Lading

28. Why did the government decide to ban shifting cultivation?
(a) To grow trees for railway timber
(b) When a forest was burnt, there was the danger of destroying valuable timber
(c) Difficulties for the government to calculate taxes
(d) All the above reasons
► (b) When a forest was burnt, there was the danger of destroying valuable timber

29. Which of the following is a community of skilled forest cutters?
(a) Maasais of Africa
(b) Mundas of Chotanagpur
(c) Gonds of Orissa
(d) Kalangs of Java
► (d) Kalangs of Java

30. Which of the following is a commercial crop?
(a) Rice
(b) Wheat
(c) Cotton
(d) Corn
► (c) Cotton

31. Latex can be collected from which of the following trees?
(a) Rubber tree
(b) Eucalyptus tree
(c) Pine tree
(d) Deodar tree
► (a) Rubber tree

32. Colonial rulers considered forests as unproductive because:
(a) the forests were not fit for habitation
(b) forest had wild grown trees only
(c) forest did not yield revenue to enhance income of the state
(d) forests were full of wild animals
► (c) forest did not yield revenue to enhance income of the state