22. Women’s Movements in India (History Quiz)

22. Women’s Movements in India (History Quiz) Questions

• 11

  Identify the person from given hints
  i. Started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta
  ii. Critic of conservative ideas, arguing that religious leaders of every faith accorded an inferior place to women.
  A. Mumtaz Ali
  B. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
  C. Pandita Ramabai
  D. Begum of Bhopal

  Answer - B

  Solution

  Points to Know-
  Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain – started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta
  She was a fearless critic of conservative ideas, arguing that religious leaders of every faith accorded an inferior place to women.

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• 12

  Who published a book, Stripurushtulna, (A Comparison between Women and Men), criticising the social differences between men and women.
  A. Mumtaz Ali
  B. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
  C. Pandita Ramabai
  D. Tarabai Shinde

  Answer - D

  Solution

  Points to know-
  Tarabai Shinde, a woman educated at home at Poona, published a book, Stripurushtulna, (A Comparison between Women and Men), criticising the social differences between men and women.

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• 13

  Identify the person from the given points-
  i. A great scholar of Sanskrit
  ii. Founded a widows’ home at Poona to provide shelter to widows
  A. Rashsundari Debi
  B. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
  C. Pandita Ramabai
  D. Tarabai Shinde

  Answer - C

  Solution

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  Pandita Ramabai, great scholar of Sanskrit
  She founded a widows’ home at Poona to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husbands’ relatives. Here women were trained so that they could support themselves economically.

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• 14

  What changes were seen in females in early 20th century?
  i. They formed political pressure groups to push through laws for female suffrage
  ii. Some of them joined various kinds of nationalist and socialist movements
  A. Only i
  B. Only ii
  C. Both i and ii
  D. None of the above

  Answer - C

  Solution

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  From the early twentieth century, they formed political pressure groups to push through laws for female suffrage (the right to vote) and better health care and education for women.
  Some of them joined various kinds of nationalist and socialist movements from the 1920s.

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• 15

  Child marriage restraint Act was passed in-
  A. 1920
  B. 1929
  C. 1930
  D. 1939

  Answer - B

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• 16

  What is true regarding Child marriage restraint Act,1929?
  i. The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed with bitter debates and struggles
  ii. According to this, no man below the age of 21 and woman below the age of 20 could marry.
  A. Only i
  B. Only ii
  C. Both i and ii
  D. None of the above

  Answer - D

  Solution

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  In 1929 the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed without the kind of bitter debates and struggles that earlier laws had seen. According to the Act no man below the age of 18 and woman below the age of 16 could marry. Subsequently these limits were raised to 21 for men and 18 for women.

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• 17

  In the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency, Veerasalingam Pantulu formed an association for which reason
  A. Against child marriage
  B. Against Sati
  C. For widow remarriage
  D. For women’s education

  Answer - C

  Solution

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  In the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency, Veerasalingam Pantulu formed an association for widow remarriage

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• 18

  In which year Sati was banned?
  A. 1829
  B. 1856
  C. 1890
  D. 1903

  Answer - A

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• 19

  Which Muslim women played a notable role in promoting education among women and founded a primary school for girls at Aligarh?
  A. Mumtaz Ali
  B. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
  C. Pandita Ramabai
  D. Begum of Bhopal

  Answer - D

  Solution

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  Begum of Bhopal – promoted women education and founded a primary school in Aligarh for girls

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• 20

  Who was the founder of Arya Samaj?
  A. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
  B. Raja Rammohun Roy
  C. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  D. Swami Vivekananda

  Answer - C

  Solution

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  In the north, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founded the reform association called Arya Samaj. He also supported widow remarriage.

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