EVALUATION ASSESSMENT PAPER

Class 8th NCERT History — Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory

Student Name: Roll No: Marks: / 20

General Instructions: Time Allowed: 40 Minutes | Total Marks: 20

All questions are objective-type and carry 1 mark each. Carefully read each question and write the correct option letter (A, B, C, or D) inside the
designated answer box on the right.

Q1. Following Aurangzeb's death in 1707, many Mughal Q11. Company officials who returned to Britain with massive
governors asserted power. What were they called? fortunes and flaunted wealth were mockingly called:
A) Subahdars B) Mansabdars A) Rajas B) Nabobs
C) Mir Bakshis D) Kotwals C) Barons D) Oligarchs

Q2. Who was the English sea captain who first arrived at Surat Q12. Under a Subsidiary Alliance, what happened if an Indian
port in 1608 aboard the ship Hector? ruler failed to make required payments?
A) Robert Clive B) Captain Hawkins A) The ruler was sent to prison in London
C) Thomas Roe D) Warren Hastings B) Part of his territory was ceded as penalty
C) The French army intervened to rescue him
Q3. Which European power had already established its
D) The entire state was converted to a democracy
presence in western India before the British arrived?
A) The French B) The Dutch Q13. Mysore controlled profitable trade of which items on the
C) The Portuguese D) The Danes Malabar coast under Tipu Sultan?
A) Cotton and Silk B) Pepper and Cardamom
Q4. The East India Company built a fort around its first Bengal
C) Indigo and Opium D) Sugar and Tea
settlement. What was this fort named?
A) Fort William B) Fort St. George Q14. In which battle was Tipu Sultan ultimately killed
C) Fort David D) Fort St. Angelo defending his capital city?
A) Battle of Seringapatam (1799)
Q5. Which Mughal Emperor issued the farman granting the
B) Battle of Porto Novo (1781)
Company the right to trade duty-free in Bengal?
C) Battle of Pollilur (1780)
A) Shah Jahan B) Bahadur Shah I
D) Battle of Plassey (1757)
C) Aurangzeb D) Farrukhsiyar
Q15. The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819) resulted in
Q6. Which sequence correctly tracks the early Nawabs of
crushing Maratha power. Where was the Peshwa sent?
Bengal from earliest to last?
A) Pune (Poona) B) Bithur near Kanpur
A) Murshid Quli Khan → Alivardi Khan → Sirajuddaulah
C) Satara D) Gwalior Fortress
B) Alivardi Khan → Mir Jafar → Sirajuddaulah
C) Sirajuddaulah → Mir Qasim → Alivardi Khan Q16. Who initiated the aggressive policy of 'Paramountcy',
D) Murshid Quli Khan → Mir Jafar → Mir Qasim claiming Company authority was supreme over Indian states?

Q7. What major issue led directly to conflicts between A) Lord Hastings B) Lord Dalhousie
Sirajuddaulah and the East India Company? C) Lord Wellesley D) Lord William Bentinck
A) Company's refusal to pay trade revenues
Q17. Name the brave queen of Kittur who led an armed anti-
B) Fortification of Calcutta without permission
British resistance movement against Paramountcy:
C) Misuse of trade trade concessions (dastaks)
D) All of the above reasons combined A) Rani Lakshmi Bai B) Rani Channamma
C) Hazrat Mahal D) Rani Avantibai
Q8. Who led the British military forces during the iconic Battle
of Plassey in 1757? Q18. Which principle did Lord Dalhousie apply to annex states
whose rulers died without a natural male heir?
A) Lord Cornwallis B) Robert Clive
C) Hector Munro D) Warren Hastings A) Subsidiary Alliance B) Policy of Paramountcy
C) Doctrine of Lapse D) Divide and Rule
Q9. Following defeat at Plassey, Sirajuddaulah was
assassinated and who was installed as puppet Nawab? Q19. On what specific grounds did Lord Dalhousie annex the
wealthy state of Awadh in 1856?
A) Mir Qasim B) Murshid Quli II
C) Mir Jafar D) Shujauddaulah A) Lack of a natural heir B) Alleged misgovernment
C) Armed rebellion D) Signing a French alliance
Q10. Who led the English army against the combined forces of
Mir Qasim, Shujauddaulah, and Shah Alam II at Buxar? Q20. Under the judicial administrative reforms of 1772, a Hindu
pandit or Muslim 'Mufti' served what purpose?
A) Major Hector Munro B) Robert Clive
C) Lord Wellesley D) John Shore A) Operating as chief intelligence spies
B) Interpreting traditional laws for European collectors
C) Collecting land tax from rural districts
D) Recruiting native sepoys into the army infantry

Total Questions Correct Answers Final Percentage

20 %

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