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Class 8 India’s Long Road to Independence worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Early resistance, Swadeshi, revolutionaries, Gandhi’s movements, the Simon Commission, Quit India, the INA and 1947. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
Gandhi’s first satyagraha in India, for indigo farmers in 1917, was at:
- Bardoli
- Chauri Chaura
- Dandi
- Champaran
Answer
(d) Champaran
- 2.
Who was Birsa Munda?
- led the Ulgulaan
- hoisted the flag at Gowalia Tank in 1942
- led the Rampa Rebellion in the Godavari hills
- the poet called the “Nightingale of India”
Answer
(a) led the Ulgulaan
- 3.
What does “Lokmanya” mean?
- non-violent resistance based on truth
- the Cellular Jail in the Andamans
- goods of one’s own country
- revered by the people
Answer
(d) revered by the people
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What did the 1858 royal proclamation promise, and was it kept?
Answer
Respect for the princes and equal treatment of Indians; the promises were largely not kept.
- 5.
Who was each? (a) Vallabhbhai Patel (b) Sarojini Naidu
Answer
(a) united the princely states (b) the poet called the “Nightingale of India”
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Why did Indians oppose the Simon Commission, and how did they protest?
Answer
It came in 1927 to review reforms but had no Indian member; people met it with black flags and “Simon Go Back”, and Lala Lajpat Rai was injured at a protest in Lahore.
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