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From Traders to Rulers

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the place (one of the factories of the English East India Company)

a)

Thalassery Fort

b)

Fort St. George

c)

Fort William

d)

Sewri Fort

2.

Which of these trading companies did not come to India in the seventeenth century?

a)

Portugal

b)

Denmark

c)

Holland

d)

Japan

3.

Which of these items were not traded from India to Europe/America at higher prices?

a)

Cloth

b)

Spices

c)

Silk

d)

Indigo

e)

Cheese

4.

__________ granted the Coat of Arms to the English East India Company to show that the Company had her royal patronage.

a)

Queen Elizabeth I

b)

Queen Victoria

c)

Queen Elizabeth IV

d)

Marie Antoinette

5.

The English EIC set up its first factory in __________.

a)

Madras

b)

Surat

c)

Bombay

d)

Calcutta

6.

__________ was the richest province in India.

a)

Bombay

b)

Nagapatnam

c)

Bengal

d)

Malwa

7.

Who preceded Shuja-ud-Din as the Nawab of Bengal?

a)

Alivardi Khan

b)

Murshid Quli Khan

c)

Siraj-ud-Daulah

d)

Shah Alam II

8.

Who received the title 'puppet nawab'?

a)

Mir Qasim

b)

Jagat Seth

c)

Hyder Ali

d)

Mir Jafar

9.

When was the battle of Plassey fought?

a)

26th June 1755

b)

23rd July 1764

c)

23rd June 1757

d)

26th July 1857

10.

What is the meaning of 'Diwani' rights?

a)

a royal order

b)

peace treaty

c)

revenue collection

d)

customs duty

11.

Who dismissed court officials who favoured the British?

a)

Aurangzeb

b)

Mir Jafar

c)

Mir Qasim

d)

Shuja-ud-Daulah

12.

Who provided relief to the people when a famine struck Bengal in 1770?

a)

Nawab of Bengal

b)

Warren Hastings

c)

Robert Clive

d)

None of the above

13.

Who acquired territories through Subsidiary Alliance?

a)

Lord Dalhousie

b)

Lord Wellesley

c)

Lord Cornwallis

d)

None of the above

14.

A British officer called the __________ would be stationed at the ruler's court and interfere in internal politics.

a)

Sepoy

b)

Resident

c)

Maharaja

d)

Zamindar

15.

The Subsidiary Treaty was first signed with __________.

a)

Nizam of Hyderabad

b)

Nawab of Bengal

c)

Nawab of Awadh

d)

Ruler of Mysore

16.

Identify the personality who devised the Doctrine of Lapse policy.

a)

Lord Mountbatten

b)

Lord Hastings

c)

Lord Bentinck

d)

Lord Dalhousie

17.

Who was accused of misrule that led to the annexation of Awadh?

a)

Nawab Muhammad Ali

b)

Nawab Bahadur Shah Jafar

c)

Nawab Shuja-ud-Din

d)

Nawab Wajid Ali Shah

18.

When did the Dual system of governance end in Bengal?

a)

1757

b)

1764

c)

1770

d)

1772

19.

Which of the kingdoms did Dalhousie not annex?

a)

Satara

b)

Jhansi

c)

Baroda

d)

Nagpur

20.

The British applied the __________ policy in India.

a)

divide and rule

b)

national

c)

liberty, equality, fraternity

d)

efficient governance