Students of class 12 English should refer to MCQs Class 12 English Indigo (Louis Fischer) with answers provided here which is an important chapter in Class 12 English NCERT textbook. These Multiple Choice Questions have been prepared based on the latest CBSE and NCERT syllabus for Class 12 English. The following MCQs can help you to practice and get better marks in the upcoming class 12 english examination

Question. Why was Motihari back with peasants? (Knowledge)
A) Because of people’s rights
B) Because of the oppression of the British
C) Because their champion was in trouble
D) None

Question. Who is the author of Indigo?
A) Louis Fischer
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dicken

Question. What is the message conveyed in the lesson Indigo?
A) Efficient lawyers
B) Speak aloud
C) Wise and courageous leadership can resolve any problem.
D) None

Question. Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at Annual Congress party session? (Knowledge)
A) To be rich
B) To be famous
C) To fight and get money
D) To complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar

Question. Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur? (Knowledge)
A) Government officers
B) Politicians
C) Farmers
D) Lawyers

Question. Where was Champaran? (Knowledge)
A) In Lucknow
B) In Delhi
C) In Uttar Pradesh
D) A district of Bihar in British India

Question. Why is Champaran famous? (Knowledge)
A) For fighting
B) For Indigo
C) Because Gandhiji visited
D) For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917

Question. What was the condition of the Sharecroppers? (Knowledge)
A) Were forced to give 10% of land for Indigo plantation
B) Were forced to give 20% of land for Indigo plantation
C) Were forced to give 15% of land for Indigo plantation
D) Were forced to give 5% of land for Indigo plantation

Question. Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter’s offer of 25% refund to the farmers? (Knowledge)
A) Because of money
B) Because of fear of loss
C) Because of fear of power
D) Because more than money, prestige of farmers was important

Question. What does Gandhi’s fight in Champaran signify?(Knowledge)
A) The power of effective leadership
B) The power of lawyers
C) The power of farmers
D) The power of money

Question. Why was the government baffled?
A) Because of lawyer’s power
B) Because of farmers
C) Because of sharecroppers
D) of the success of Satyagrah movement by peasants.

Question. Why was Satyagrah Movement launched in Champaran?
A) For Gandhiji’s upliftment
B) For raising fund
C) For getting business
D) For the upliftment of the farmers

Question. How many peasants disposed the evidence?
A) 100
B) 1000
C) 10,000
D) 100,000

Question. What would be the impact of synthetic indigo?
A) prices of natural indigo would go down.
B) share croppers would lose their lanD)
C) British landlords would trouble them further
D) demand for natural indigo would increase

Question. Why was Gandhi protesting at Motihari court house?
A) To be famous
B) To show his power
C) To humiliate Britishers
D) To protest against the delay of his trial

Question. What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?
A) To get money
B) To be popular
C) To instigate the people
D) To encourage people to participate in the freedom movement

Question. What would be your stand if you were one of the lawyers at Champaran?
A) support lieutenant Governor
B) support sharecropping
C) charge no fee
D) appeal in high court

Question. How the Champaran episode was a turning point in Gandhiji’s life?
A) He taught peasants a lesson of self-reliance
B) It was Gandhi’s final triumph
C) It gave a spark to Civil Disobedience movement
D) It gave a start to Quit India Movement

Question. “Morning found the town of Motihari black with peasants.” Here ‘black’ means
A) colour
B) shade
C) crowded
D) blank

Question. What would be your reaction if you are treated as an untouchable like Gandhiji?
A) I would wait for Rajendra Prasad
B) I would introduce myself as Gandhi
C) I would draw water and drink
D) I would fight to eradicate untouchability

Question. Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?
A) Men and Politics
B) Life of Louis Fischer
C) The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
D) None

Question. How did Gandhiji help peasants of Champaran?
A) By fighting and securing justice for them
B) By hiring lawyers for them
C) By educating them
D) By teaching them cleanliness

Question. Why did Gandhi vehemently oppose taking help of Charles Freer Andrews?
A) he was an African
B) he was going on a tour of duty to the Fiji Islands
C) he believed it would be an equal fight
D) he wanted the lawyers to be self- reliant

Question. Why did Gandhiji agree to a settlement of 25% refund to the farmers?
A) in order to appease the British
B) in order to break the deadlock between the landlords and tenants
C) in order to appease the landlords
D) in order to break the deadlock between the landlords and the Britishers.

Question. Which option best describes attitude of an average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of home rule?
1. Welcoming
2. Courageous
3. Pleasing
4. Fearful
5. Sympathetic
6 Indifferent
A) All except 1, 2, 3 and 5
B) All except 1, 2, 3 and 6
C) All except 1, 3, 4 and 5
D) All except 1, 3, 4 and 6

Question. Gandhiji opposed his friend Charles’ help because
A) he did not believe Charles.
B) he wanted to mould a new free Indian who was not self-reliant.
C) he did not want to trouble Charles
D) he wanted to mould a new free India which was self-reliant.

Question. Which of the following statements is/are NOT TRUE with respect to Indigo?
1. Louis Fischer first met Gandhi in 1942 at his Ashram in Sevagram.
2. Louis Fischer was born in the USA)
3. Louis Fischer first met Gandhi in 1916 at annual convention of INC party in Lucknow.
4. Louis Fischer wrote ‘The Life of Mahatma Gandhi’ biography.
A) Only 1
B) Both 2 and 3
C) Only 3
D) Only 4

Question. Gandhi was not permitted by the servant of Rajendra Prasad to draw water from the well. Which option shows the best possible thought of the servant about Gandhi at that time?
A) “He is but a small peasant. He must not be allowed to draw water from our master’s well.”
B) “I must not allow such a person to draw water from the well. What if the few drops from the bucket he touched pollute the entire source?”
C) “Master is not at home. He is the only one who can allow such a person to draw water from the well.”
D) “I don’t know who he is. He might be a poor yeoman. Without master here, I must not allow anyone to even go near the well.”

Question. Without thinking about his comfort, Gandhiji fought for the farmers’ cause. Choose the option that shows some of his traits in light of this statement.
1. Sincere
2. Curious
3. Enterprising
4. Respectful
5. Persistent
6. Congenial
A) 3 and 4
B) 1 and 5
C) 3 and 5
D) 1 and 6

Question. What was the result of Gandhi’s meeting with the Lt Governor?
A) It resulted in an official commission to be appointed for the enquiry of the conflict.
B) It resulted in an unofficial commission to be appointed for the enquiry of the conflict.
C) It resulted in an official commission for the forced settlement of the conflict.
D) It resulted in an unofficial commission for the forced settlement of the conflict.

True False Questions:

Question. Rajkumar Shukla came to meet Gandhi at the December 1916 Congress Session in Kolkata………..

Question. Rajkumar Shukla- was a poor sharecropper from Champaran wishing to meet Gandhiji.

Question. Gandhiji supported Muzzafarpur lawyer for taking high Fee………………

Question. Champaran district was divided into estate owned by English people, Indians only tenant farmers………

Question. Gandhiji agreed to 25% refund by the landowners, it symbolized the surrender of the prestige………..

Question. The Champaran episode made the peasants self-reliant………

Question. Indians afraid to show sympathy to the supporters of home rule…………

Question. The British landlords compelled the peasants to plant 15% of the land with indigo and to surrender the entire harvest as rent…………

Question. France had developed synthetic indigo…………

Question. Gandhiji taught a lesson of self-reliance by not seeking help of an English man Mr. Edward………….

Question. Gandhi told the secretary of British landlord’s association that he was an outsider.

Question. Gandhi was vehemently opposed Andrew’s stay in Champaran.

Question. Rajendra Prasad and other lawyers decided to follow Gandhi into jail.

Question. According to Gandhi the amount of the refund was less important than the fact that the landlords had been obliged to surrender part of the money and, with it, part of their prestige.

Question. Gandhi was not impressed by sharecropper’s tenacity and story.

Question. In Champaran Gandhi taught a lesson in self-reliance.

Question. The peasants of Motihari knew the record of Gandhi in South Africa.

Question. Shukla was a poor yeoman but resolute.

Question. Gandhi said “an Englishman on our side shows the weakness of your heart.”

Question. Indigo was a cash crop to the peasants of Champaran.