CALCUTTA DIOCESAN ST.
SAVIOUR’S SCHOOL
FIRST TERM EXAMINATION – 2021
SUBJECT - HISTORY
DATE: FULL MARKS: 40
TIME: CLASS X
I. Multiple Choice Questions [MCQ]: 1x5=5
Choose the correct answer
1. In which year was the custom of ‘sati’ abolished in India?
(a) 1825 (b) 1826
(c) 1828 (d) 1829
2. ‘Somprakash’ was first published in:
(a) 1780 (b) 1784
(c) 1858 (d) 1865
3. The First Forest Act was passed in India in:
(a) 1859 AD (b) 1860 AD
(c) 1865 AD (d) 1878 AD
4. Name the Mughal Emperor during the Revolt of 1857:
(a) Bahadur Shah II (b) Wajid Ali Shah
(c) Shah Alam (d) Alamgir II
5. The first weekly newspaper published in India was:
(a) Bengal Gazette (b) Digdarshan
(c) SamacharDarpan (d) SamvadSamachar
II. Fill in the blanks with correct options: 6x½=3
1) The Rajabazar Science College was founded by ______
(Jagadish Chandra Bose / Satyendranath Bose / MeghnadSaha /
Ashutosh Mukherjee)
2) The editor of ‘SamacharDarpan’ was ______
(J.C. Marshman / Ishwarchandra Gupta / Ganga Kishore
Bhattacharya / William Carey)
3) The Zamindari Association of Calcutta was founded on ____
November of 1837
(10th / 11th / 12th / 13th)
4) Durjan Singh gave leadership to the ______ rebellion.
(Rangpur / Kol / Santhal / Chuar)
5) BangabhasaPrakashika Sabha was founded in ______ .
(1832 / 1834 / 1836 / 1838)
6) ‘Nil Darpan’ is a Bengali play written by ______
(DihabandhuMitra / Michael Madhusudhan Dutta / Ishwar
Chandra Gupta / DwarkanathGanguly)
III. Answer in a single sentence: 1 x 10 = 10
i. What is meant by Renaissance in Bengal?
ii. Who introduced the ‘Widow Remarriage Act’ and in which year?
iii. What is meant by ‘beth-begari’?
iv. What is the meaning of the term Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya?
v. Who founded the Landholder’s Society and when?
vi. When was Indian Association founded and by whom?
vii. Name the first Bengali daily newspaper and its editor.
viii. Who founded the Bose Institute and when?
ix. Name two famous teachers of IACS.
x. Who founded the VisvaBharati University and when?
IV. Short answer type questions to be answered in two or three
sentences {any 4}: 4x2=8
a) Why is MahendralalSicar remembered?
b) What was the role of the Bose Institute in the development
of scientific education?
c) What was the purpose of the Hindu Mela?
d) Who was Titumir?
e) What was the 6 T’s in Kathia System?
f) Why is David Hare remembered in spreading Western
education in India?
V. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentence only:
4x2=8
i) A. What were the contribution of the Bengal Technical in
spreading the technical education.
OR
B. Analyse the role of the Zamindari Association or
Landholder’s Society.
ii) A. What were the causes of the Indigo Rebellion?
B. What were the contribution of Brahma Samaj in the 19thC ?
VI. Explanatory answer type question {any 1} 1x6=6
i. Discuss the role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy as a social and
religious reformers.
ii. What was the role of Upendra Kishore Roy Choudhary in the
development of printing press in Bengal? What were his
literary achivements?
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