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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