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ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS

I. Multiple Choice Questions
Goyal Brothers Prakashan
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 these
Ans. (d) All of these

2. The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in ____________.
(a) Dehradun (b) Delhi
(c) Calcutta (d) Kanpur
Ans. (a) Dehradun
3. What was the result of the rebellion by the Dhurwas?
(a) The British sent troops to suppress 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 these
Ans. (d) All of these
4. 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
Ans. (d) A leader of Dhurwa tribe

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

6. 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 these
Ans. (a) ‘Reserved forests’ where some villagers were allowed to stay

7. Who were ‘Kalangs’ of Java?
(a) Dynasty of rulers (b) Skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators
(c) A community of moneylenders (d) None of these
Ans. (b) Skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators
8. 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 these
Ans. (b) State ownership of the forest

History Class IX H-87