NCERT MCQ ON FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM
Question 1: In which year the Baster rebellion took place?
- a) 1910
- b) 1909
- c) 1911
- d) 1912
Answer: 1910
Question 2: The Imperial Forest Institute was set up at:
- a) Dehradun
- b) Jamshedpur
- c) Lucknow
- d) Chennai
Answer: Dehradun
Question 3: Which of the following is not associated with swidden agriculture?
- a) Karacha
- b) Jhum
- c) Bewar
- d) Penda
Answer: Karacha
Question 4: Which of the following categories of forests is considered as the best on the basis of their utility?
- a) Reserved forests
- b) Protected forests
- c) Village forests
- d) Community forests
Answer: Reserved forests
Question 5: The system of blandongdiensten implies
- a) Exempting villagers from rent if they worked collectively to provide free labour and buffalos for cutting and transporting timber
- b) Forced villagers to cut trees as per the new forest laws
- c) Exempting villagers to collect wood from reserved forests
- d) Arresting villagers who found stealing timber from forests
Answer: Exempting villagers from rent if they worked collectively to provide free labour and buffalos for cutting and transporting timber
Question 6: In England, Oak forests were used for
- a) Building ships
- b) Carpentry
- c) Building railway tracks
- d) Constructing houses
Answer: Building ships
Question 7: Indian Forest Service was set up in the year
- a) 1864
- b) 1865
- c) 1854
- d) 1884
Answer: 1864
Question 8: The system of scientific forestry stands for
- a) System of cutting old trees and plant new ones
- b) The system whereby local farmers were allowed to cultivate temporarily within a plantation
- c) Disappearance of forests
- d) Division of forests in three categories
Answer: System of cutting old trees and plant new ones
Question 9: Which of the following was not a tribal community?
- a) Jhum
- b) Karacha
- c) Korava
- d) Yerukula
Answer: Jhum
Question 10: The scorched earth followed by policy was
- a) Dutch in Java
- b) Japanese in Java
- c) British in India
- d) French in Vietnam
Answer: Dutch in Java
Question 11: Sacred grooves are known as
- a) sarnas, kan, rai, devarakudu
- b) dhya, penda, bewar
- c) nevad, jhum, podu
- d) siadi, semur, Chena tavi,
Answer: sarnas, kan, rai, devarakudu
Question 12: Which among the following is the main reason for survival of some dense forests in India?
- a) Villages protected them as sacred grooves
- b) Scientific forestry
- c) Environmentalists
- d) Conservationists
Answer: Villages protected them as sacred grooves
Question 13: Which of the following is a new development in forestry?
- a) Conservation of forests
- b) Collecting timber
- c) Scientific forestry
- d) Keeping communities away from forests
Answer: Conservation of forests
Question 14 : Which of the following was not a method adopted by Saminists?
- a) Flogging the Dutch
- b) Refusing to perform labor
- c) Refusing to pay taxes and fines
- d) Lying down on the land
Answer: Flogging the Dutch
Question 15 : Fee paid by people from one village to another
- a) devsari
- b) Rent
- c) Grazing tax
- d) mand
Answer: devsari
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